From the course: HitFilm Express: Creating a Presentation Video

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Transferring from camera to computer

Transferring from camera to computer

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Transferring from camera to computer

- By now you've hopefully felt confident enough to go out and actually shoot some video. This means you've probably got loads of video clips sitting around waiting to be turned into an actual project, so let's talk about how you get that stuff from your camera onto your computer. So if you've been shooting on a DSLR like this, it will have been recording onto one of these, an SD card. Now, although you can plug most cameras directly into the computer with a USB cable, it's actually a lot easier and quicker to take the SD card and plug that in directly. If you've got a laptop, you can probably plug it straight into the SD card slot. Otherwise, you can buy SD readers which you can plug into any computer. And the benefit here is that you can be copying off an old card while putting a new card into the camera so you can keep filming. If you're shooting a smartphone, exactly how you take the files off will depend on the type of phone. Sometimes you'll plug it in with a USB cable and copy…

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