I keep pronouncing this place something between “Pocahontas” and “Pokeman”.
As Annie relaxes at this resort to get rid of her cough, I’m trying to figure out the new toys I bought for this trip. I got them both a few days before we took off so I didn’t have time to read the manuals…. but on that point, I never read manuals unless I’m desperate.
When I input the pictures (from the iPhones) onto the laptop’s external hard drive I keep getting two files – one .JPG and the other .AAC (maybe it’s “AAE”?) I never had that issue before. At least I found a way to dump all the non-JPG files in two steps rather than individually.
I thought I could just take the memory card out of the camera to import the videos…. but iMovie doesn’t accept the video format this way and I have about 275 clips so far that I don’t want to deal with individually. I just found that I can connect the camera to the laptop with a USB connection and it seems to be loading everything into iMovie. After about 2 hrs of processing it crashed and I set it up a second time. This time it loaded about 225 clips before crashing, but I think these clips are loaded. After this step becomes “automatic” for me my next step will be dealing with iMovie. I loved the older version – it was intuitive and easy to use. I stayed away from the newer version for years because of the learning curve. However this newer laptop won’t work with the older version and I now need to learn this newer version. I can’t think of a nicer setting to work on this…. oops, more para-hang-gliders are coming down into the field of horses, cows, and goats outside our hotel window. gotta go. Maybe I’ll get to post videos in the next few days?