How to capture digital camera photos and videos
Digital camera is the great widget to capture important events, such as wedding (wedding slideshow), anniversary, baby shower, travel, holidays, etc. Then what have you done with camera photos and video? Import to computer and let it be till some day delete by mistake? Burn to data dvd (OK, this is a dull way)? I usually make dvd slideshow with music form digital camera photos(and even video). What you need is only the digital camera DVD software. This article talks about how to capture camera photos and videos to your computer.
How to Capture Camera Photos and Videos
a. 1394 FireWire cable or USB cable
Many cameras use the IEEE 1394 FireWire for importing camera photos and video. Before importing, check out the camera battery status and connect your digital camera to computer with 1394 FireWire. Then switch Power button on. The windows computer will automatically detect your camera device. First, appropriate drivers would be installed if required. Next, the AutoPlay dialog will prompt up. Finally, select the task and follow on-screen instruction to complete importing camera photo to computer. Generally, you could find the connected camera in your Windows Explorer.
b. Camera Memory Card
There are also many camera, which saves shoot camera photos and video to camera memory card (SD, CF, Mini SD, Micro SD, etc). Therefore, by using a universal camera memory card reader, you can easy read and save camera photos and videos to computer. To do so, plug camera memory card into card slot on memory card reader, similarly to cable connection mothod, the appropriate drivers will be installed by windows system. Subsequently, you can operate files on memory card like usual files on your system.
Tips
1. After imported digital camera photos to your computer, turn off your camera and remove the connection cable from your PC.
For burning digital camera photos and videos to DVD, read this article:
How to burn video camera to DVD with Windows DVD movie maker
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