I'm frustrated by my video creating options. Here's our situation:
1. Our digital camera takes videos and they look decent (although not great) when we view them on the computer but they don't upload to the Internet well at all. I can't upload them to blogger directly so I end up using Youtube and they don't look as nice on youtube as before they are uploaded. Should I try a different website? Or is the problem the quality of video that our camera takes?
2. We also have a mini-dvd video camera. It does not have a usb port to connect it directly to a computer. Our computer's dvd drive is broken so we can't view dvd's on the computer. Since I can't figure out how to edit and, most importantly, share movies that we take on this device we don't use it very often, which seems like a shame and a waste. Anyone have advice here? Do we fix the DVD drive on the computer? Will it be able to view mini-dvds? Do we sell this camera and purchase one that connects with a USB cable? (I've seen the Flip Video cameras which seem quite affordable and simple BUT...how do I know what kind of quality videos I'll be getting with different devices?)
3. I don't know how to edit videos very well...Any advice here?
Maybe I should take these questions to Best Buy. But hopefully someone who's not trying to sell my anything will answer my questions here first, so I can go into Best Buy a little more prepared. Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.
Hey Kristin,
ReplyDeleteWe had problems loading videos directly to Blogger, too. When we lowered the setting on our camera to make sure the videos are less than 100MB we can upload now (Blogger won't accept more than that). Could this be part of your Blogger problem? By the way, awesome video of Cora swimming!!:)
Kristin,
ReplyDeleteHere's a couple thoughts.
First Youtube doesn't let you upload too high of quality videos so your dig camera most likely isn't taking the highest quality videos to begin with.
Our video camera connects to our computer with a "fire wire" cable and the port looks different then a USB port. Maybe yours has the same thing. I would have to see it though.
Dave says that a DVD drive on a computer would play the mini DVDs but he said that you should just buy a new drive rather then trying to fix a broken one cause it'll cost you the same or more just to fix the broken one.
Once we get home Dave can take a look at your camera and see if there is an easy fix to your problem rather then you buying a new one.
Hope this helps a bit. Talk to you soon, Kam
As far as editing and uploading made easy--I use eyespot.com
ReplyDeletea little annoying because there is an add running on the bottom-but it is free.
Hey Brad and Kris,
ReplyDeleteSomething you may want to be aware of when using You tube,it is completely public. So anyone anywhere can watch your private home videos. Just a little heads up :)from a friend.