XCR1250 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Anyone know how/what to do to e-mail video from a dash cam? When I tried it was over 500MB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Skidooski Posted October 26, 2016 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted October 26, 2016 Upload it to a image hosting site then email the link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCR1250 Posted October 26, 2016 Author Share Posted October 26, 2016 2 minutes ago, Skidooski said: Upload it to a image hosting site then email the link Thanks. Do you know of hosting sites? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticCrusher Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 1 minute ago, XCR1250 said: Thanks. Do you know of hosting sites? You can use Dropbox or Google Drive etc with a share link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCR1250 Posted October 26, 2016 Author Share Posted October 26, 2016 13 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said: You can use Dropbox or Google Drive etc with a share link. I'm trying a site right now, taking forever to download a 4 minute video from the Cam. Not real computer savvy..LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticCrusher Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 8 minutes ago, XCR1250 said: I'm trying a site right now, taking forever to download a 4 minute video from the Cam. Not real computer savvy..LOL Give it to a 13 year old. Lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Skidooski Posted October 26, 2016 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted October 26, 2016 7 minutes ago, XCR1250 said: I'm trying a site right now, taking forever to download a 4 minute video from the Cam. Not real computer savvy..LOL Me neither....wish I could help more. Using a hosting site or cloud based, if that's correct terminology, seems like it would be best. At work we use FTP types set ups a with our large files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCR1250 Posted October 26, 2016 Author Share Posted October 26, 2016 1 minute ago, ArcticCrusher said: Give it to a 13 year old. Lol. I know exactly what you mean, kids are great with this stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
02sled Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 (edited) If you're dash cam has an SD card some laptops have a slot to insert the SD card into. Then open Windows Explorer and look for the SD card. Find the file and do a save as to your hard drive. Select the format you want to save it in. Typically there is one that is compatible in Windows Media Player. Once on the hard drive attach it to your email. Edited October 26, 2016 by 02sled Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticCrusher Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 11 minutes ago, 02sled said: If you're dash cam has an SD card some laptops have a slot to insert the SD card into. Then open Windows Explorer and look for the SD card. Find the file and do a save as to your hard drive. Select the format you want to save it in. Typically there is one that is compatible in Windows Media Player. Once on the hard drive attach it to your email. Its 500MB, you can't attach it to your Email. You need to put it into a cloud and create a download link and give someone shared access to it. Also most cameras will let you access them as a drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
02sled Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 (edited) 8 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said: Its 500MB, you can't attach it to your Email. You need to put it into a cloud and create a download link and give someone shared access to it. Also most cameras will let you access them as a drive. You may be able to access the camera as a drive when connected through a cable but I would want to do a Save As and try changing the format then try to zip it first. You may be able to compress it enough. I haven't done much in the way of sending email attachments outside of the corporate email systems I have worked on and we didn't have a limit on the size or if we did it was so large I never encountered a problem. The format you choose as a Save As may well change the bit count. Edited October 26, 2016 by 02sled Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticCrusher Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 4 minutes ago, 02sled said: You may be able to access the camera as a drive when connected through a cable but I would want to do a Save As and try changing the format then try to zip it first. You may be able to compress it enough. I haven't done much in the way of sending email attachments outside of the corporate email systems I have worked on and we didn't have a limit on the size or if we did it was so large I never encountered a problem. The format you choose as a Save As may well change the byte count. You can't do a SaveAs to convert say a .MOV format file to .MP4, you need to go through a Video Converter. That is not necessary as you just obtain the Codec and your good to go. Most Email systems won't let you attach more than 20meg and video is already compressed. Here is a link to using DropBox/GoogleDrive/OneDrive to generate a link. Dropbox makes it the easiest. http://www.syncwithtech.org/2014/09/direct-download-link.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polarissledder Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 upload to youtube and set to private... share the link 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1trailmaker Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 2 hours ago, ArcticCrusher said: You can't do a SaveAs to convert say a .MOV format file to .MP4, you need to go through a Video Converter. That is not necessary as you just obtain the Codec and your good to go. Most Email systems won't let you attach more than 20meg and video is already compressed. Here is a link to using DropBox/GoogleDrive/OneDrive to generate a link. Dropbox makes it the easiest. http://www.syncwithtech.org/2014/09/direct-download-link.html and he claims to be top in his field of IT' 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momorider Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 11 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said: and he claims to be top in his field of IT' Like you know anything about it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev144 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 23 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said: and he claims to be top in his field of IT' Yeah I've never been able to save as and convert a video format. I'm not sure what 02 is going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCR1250 Posted October 26, 2016 Author Share Posted October 26, 2016 2 hours ago, Polarissledder said: upload to youtube and set to private... share the link Hmmm, I downloaded it to you tube and it's 376mb. How to make it smaller? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev144 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 5 minutes ago, XCR1250 said: Hmmm, I downloaded it to you tube and it's 376mb. How to make it smaller? Why? Share thr link instead of the file and good to go. Email the link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCR1250 Posted October 26, 2016 Author Share Posted October 26, 2016 7 minutes ago, Kev144 said: Why? Share thr link instead of the file and good to go. Email the link Link on you tube? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCR1250 Posted October 26, 2016 Author Share Posted October 26, 2016 Don't see "share the link" anywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev144 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 If you open. Your video there should e a share button. Copy link will be an option Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polarissledder Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Youtube is very user friendly. ... it even says when it's done, and offers the link.... you may need a young persons help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCR1250 Posted October 27, 2016 Author Share Posted October 27, 2016 1 hour ago, Polarissledder said: Youtube is very user friendly. ... it even says when it's done, and offers the link.... you may need a young persons help. Found everything you said, but no link.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polarissledder Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 Go to "My channel" in youtube, click on video manager, click on edit of the video you want to share, click share arrow on top right corner of video, then either right click url and copy/save/share... or choose facebook, twitter, or more.... more will open video with share link highlighted.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCR1250 Posted October 27, 2016 Author Share Posted October 27, 2016 (edited) 4 hours ago, Polarissledder said: Go to "My channel" in youtube, click on video manager, click on edit of the video you want to share, click share arrow on top right corner of video, then either right click url and copy/save/share... or choose facebook, twitter, or more.... more will open video with share link highlighted.... Ok, thanks, I'll try that, Took 1 hour 12 minutes to download a 5 minute video to You Tube, know any faster way? Edited October 27, 2016 by XCR1250 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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