can you download video to a flash drive: Does anyone know if I can download video to a flashdrive so I don't have to take laptop on vacation to free up memory?
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You will still need a Laptop to accomplish this. A flashdrive is not self powered, nor an external hard-drive. This is why you need to hook up the Flip Video Camera to the Laptop, hook up the flashdrive, or external hard-drive then go to "My Computer" click and open the Flip Video Camera, dive into the folder containing your video files then open up your flashdrive/external hard-drive folder and drag and drop the files. The software makes it easier, within the Flip Software select all the files you want to save then choose "export" or "save as" and choose a destination ex. flashdrive/external hard-drive.
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Hi Flo, No, unfortunately this would not work for you. You must have at least a net book that can attach to a dvd drive. As it does take up memory, I would advise using only with a laptop or desktop. If you have a tablet Amazon and Google Play both have lots of great free games I have found. It makes a great substitute when traveling light. ;) Good Luck!
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I didn't. But I guess that depends on how often and for what purpose you intend to use it. I've used it for simple short videos and then I download them to my computer and delete them off the camera. If you needed the additional storage I guess you should.
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Yes pretty much anything USB or SD will work. However I tried hooking up my external hard drive and it took so long to load I gave up. Although my HD is like 400gb so that's most likely why. But I've never had issues putting like 20 movies on a flash drive and playing them. Watch out for the file type tho, MKV files won't work
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We bought the Poloraid MP3 player for music at our church; therefore that is all we use it for. Being only 4GB, not too much video could be downloaded. However I can't really say whether or not it would download video.
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if you have a USB port but I tried to use it with pictures, music and videos of different formats but nothing appears on the laptop, does not reflect any changes by entering the usb to laptop, please someone who help me with this issue.
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I think the.usb is only for backing up or downloading videos. It requires an internal hard drive
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Simple answer: Does this rumor apply to your typical USB flash drive? No. Same thing goes for the SSD.Don't go defragging the SSD, though. First, you don't need it because there are no moving parts and secondly, there is miniscule degradation with each (re)write. I do mean tiny, too. You'll be buying a new computer before you replace an SSD, unless you go around defragging every couple of days.
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When I installed my sketch tablet on my computer, I downloaded the files onto a flash drive then transferred the files to my computer. Maybe try the same thing?
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For something like a camera's memory card, no, not that I see. But couldn't you do that by connecting the camera to the computer via USB and transferring pics from camera to computer? Or if you wanted to go the other way, put a memory stick into the laptop to store pics on the memory stick (cruzer/flashdrive).**I stand corrected now that I see the answer given 2 below. Thank you for pointing this out, I totally missed it James. I apologize Dina, for any confusion created by my initial response.
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Thanks, I'll look into how that is done. Also, can a flashdrive handle a program this large or only just files?
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Hi i think the easiest way would be connecting the camera to a pc or mac downloading the pictures and then plugging your flash drive and then move them to it, justo don't know a simple way...hope it helps, greetings
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What is your usage? If just to back up the content of your SD card - it is great tool, I can recommend it. I was quite happy to make back-ups of my videos during holiday, taken by car-security camera. Easy to use and reliable. But do not expect to play video files on this device.
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What have you tried for transfering the photos? I've never had a problem loading pictures with my USB, as well as by simply loading my memory stick into an sd converter. I'm really not sure I'll be able to answer if those two options do not work.
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The camera acts like a flash drive when you connect it to the computer, and you can go into the folders and copy all the pictures and videos. They should all be there and copy easily. If you use the software for downloading there is a video option to download into that tool. I do it using drag using Windows Explorer and drop to MY PICTURES in the folder I like.
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I think that you have to format it which will delete the files get your videos off to a flash drive or computer and try formating it
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I don't think there's a way to replace the memory on the USB device without cracking it open. I believe the idea was just to have a convenient last ditch storage device for a Powerpoint or whatever without having to carry around an extra thumb drive.