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My boyfriend got a bit carried away with filming my horse riding lesson, and the total file size is about 2.5GB, time 36 minutes.
I have an Intel Core Duo iMac, 2GHz, on 10.5.6 operating system. I have the standard iLife that came with it...Not the newest one, the one before. The camera is a Nikon S700 with a Sandisk memory card.
Usually I connect my camera to my computer and iPhoto launches and shortly afterwards my photos/videos are uploaded. However, this time it would stay on half completed and the ever spinning beachball. It actually ran out the battery on the camera from a full charge as I wanted to check it didn't just need more time.
I've searched around and found out iPhoto doesn't like large files - I didn't realise this and didn't know my boyfriend wasn't going to film in chunks, but anyway, not his fault.
I have tried connecting my camera and a external hard drive to my boyfriend's windows laptop. It recognises the camera as a removable disk and the files come up. I tried to copy and paste the video to my external and it said I didn't have enough room. Not likely on a 500GB hard drive! Then the stupid laptop crashed!
The trouble is I have no way to access the files directly on my computer when the camera is connected, so I can't try copy and pasting on my machine. I tried image capture but it froze again.
If I connect my Nikon D50 it comes up as a removable drive which is handy, pity my S700 doesn't.
I tried the memory card in the D50 but it didn't like the card!
Please help if you can and apologies if this is in the wrong forum!
I have an Intel Core Duo iMac, 2GHz, on 10.5.6 operating system. I have the standard iLife that came with it...Not the newest one, the one before. The camera is a Nikon S700 with a Sandisk memory card.
Usually I connect my camera to my computer and iPhoto launches and shortly afterwards my photos/videos are uploaded. However, this time it would stay on half completed and the ever spinning beachball. It actually ran out the battery on the camera from a full charge as I wanted to check it didn't just need more time.
I've searched around and found out iPhoto doesn't like large files - I didn't realise this and didn't know my boyfriend wasn't going to film in chunks, but anyway, not his fault.
I have tried connecting my camera and a external hard drive to my boyfriend's windows laptop. It recognises the camera as a removable disk and the files come up. I tried to copy and paste the video to my external and it said I didn't have enough room. Not likely on a 500GB hard drive! Then the stupid laptop crashed!
The trouble is I have no way to access the files directly on my computer when the camera is connected, so I can't try copy and pasting on my machine. I tried image capture but it froze again.
If I connect my Nikon D50 it comes up as a removable drive which is handy, pity my S700 doesn't.
I tried the memory card in the D50 but it didn't like the card!
Please help if you can and apologies if this is in the wrong forum!
