Post by SeaRat on Apr 26, 2016 17:47:46 GMT -8
I've had quite a week. It started out with a request from the attorney I'm working with at WaterWatch asking for a shorter video for the hearing. She wanted it at about 5 minutes, not the 14 minutes of my original YouTube video (see above). This I did without problems. Then she wanted it without the audio of me stating the salmon kill was from high water temperatures, as she wanted her fisheries biologist to say that, and I am just a diver (albeit one who has been diving Oregon rivers for 57 years now). So, okay, I did that (though I had to learn about the audio components of iMovie).
Then the WaterWatch attorney wanted the uncut video of the entire dive, as I may have artificially changed some realities, and the other side would state something to that effect. Well, that was a problem. First, I had suffered a computer disk problem, and had needed to change out that disk with the original files on it. Then, I put the original, damaged disk into an enclosure, but it was "locked" due to the problems that necessitated the change in the first place. Finally, I did not know where those files were located, as GoPro has its own file system, and all their files were "GoP..." So I needed to open each file (I have a few) to see whether that was the file. Finally, I figured out that I could get into iMovie, and possibly find it from there as it had a window that showed what the file looked like. And, I found them.
Finding them was only the first step though. I needed to get them (there were three files) into a movie that people could watch. So I imported them again into iMovie, and put together a 45 minute video. iMovie stated it was about 6.9 GB, so I used a 32 GB thumb drive to try to load it on to take this movie to their headquarters in Portland. It wouldn't load or copy these files. The computer stated that the file was too large. Thinking that the iMovie program had added "stuff" to these files, I went out to the store and bought a 128 GB thumb drive. Then I found that the file still would not load! Talk about frustration. So I tried to load it into Google Documents, and it froze after about a half hour of trying (saying it would take about 8 hours to do so). I tried the company's DropBox, and again it froze without loading.
My wife said I should give up and call for help, so I called my son, who is a Ph.D. in Robotics. He gave me this information about reformatting the files so they could be larger, as there is a 4 GB limit on any file for normal thumb drives (it's called a "FAT32 limitation").
kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/289/~/transferring-a-4gb-or-larger-file-to-a-usb-flash-drive-or-memory-card
So I reformatted the thumb drive, and put the files onto that drive. It worked well. I was pleased that this had worked, and drove into Portland with the thumb drive so they could make the transfer. I got there, met them, and we put the thumb drive into their Windows 7 computer. It wanted to reformat the thumb drive, which would erase the files. We did the same in a Windows 8 laptop, and it too asked to reformat the thumb drive. This is in spite of the fact that the website stated that Windows computers would recognize the formate. Oh well, that seemed to be it.
So I was thinking about that last evening, and decided to re-look at those GoPro files. This morning, I looked, and guess what? Those GoPro files are each 4 GB, which is the "Fat32" limit on these files. So I thought, maybe the I could take these GoPro files and load them. Well, they did load, and I learned from that, the GoPro files are set to record up to 4GB of video data, then start a new file. I had two of those files for that dive, plus a few minutes more (mostly my exit from the water). So after loading them up, I again drove on into downtown Portland and gave her the disk. It worked, and she was thrilled. She had been up until 10:00 PM trying to get my files from DropBox ( program she really doesn't like.
So we had a success, but then one of the other attorneys said it would be better to have the original file with all the audio on it. I again tried, but this time could not do that, and they submitted the videos this afternoon to make the deadline. So as you can see, this has need an interesting process for this septuagenarian diver.
John
Then the WaterWatch attorney wanted the uncut video of the entire dive, as I may have artificially changed some realities, and the other side would state something to that effect. Well, that was a problem. First, I had suffered a computer disk problem, and had needed to change out that disk with the original files on it. Then, I put the original, damaged disk into an enclosure, but it was "locked" due to the problems that necessitated the change in the first place. Finally, I did not know where those files were located, as GoPro has its own file system, and all their files were "GoP..." So I needed to open each file (I have a few) to see whether that was the file. Finally, I figured out that I could get into iMovie, and possibly find it from there as it had a window that showed what the file looked like. And, I found them.
Finding them was only the first step though. I needed to get them (there were three files) into a movie that people could watch. So I imported them again into iMovie, and put together a 45 minute video. iMovie stated it was about 6.9 GB, so I used a 32 GB thumb drive to try to load it on to take this movie to their headquarters in Portland. It wouldn't load or copy these files. The computer stated that the file was too large. Thinking that the iMovie program had added "stuff" to these files, I went out to the store and bought a 128 GB thumb drive. Then I found that the file still would not load! Talk about frustration. So I tried to load it into Google Documents, and it froze after about a half hour of trying (saying it would take about 8 hours to do so). I tried the company's DropBox, and again it froze without loading.
My wife said I should give up and call for help, so I called my son, who is a Ph.D. in Robotics. He gave me this information about reformatting the files so they could be larger, as there is a 4 GB limit on any file for normal thumb drives (it's called a "FAT32 limitation").
kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/289/~/transferring-a-4gb-or-larger-file-to-a-usb-flash-drive-or-memory-card
So I reformatted the thumb drive, and put the files onto that drive. It worked well. I was pleased that this had worked, and drove into Portland with the thumb drive so they could make the transfer. I got there, met them, and we put the thumb drive into their Windows 7 computer. It wanted to reformat the thumb drive, which would erase the files. We did the same in a Windows 8 laptop, and it too asked to reformat the thumb drive. This is in spite of the fact that the website stated that Windows computers would recognize the formate. Oh well, that seemed to be it.
So I was thinking about that last evening, and decided to re-look at those GoPro files. This morning, I looked, and guess what? Those GoPro files are each 4 GB, which is the "Fat32" limit on these files. So I thought, maybe the I could take these GoPro files and load them. Well, they did load, and I learned from that, the GoPro files are set to record up to 4GB of video data, then start a new file. I had two of those files for that dive, plus a few minutes more (mostly my exit from the water). So after loading them up, I again drove on into downtown Portland and gave her the disk. It worked, and she was thrilled. She had been up until 10:00 PM trying to get my files from DropBox ( program she really doesn't like.
So we had a success, but then one of the other attorneys said it would be better to have the original file with all the audio on it. I again tried, but this time could not do that, and they submitted the videos this afternoon to make the deadline. So as you can see, this has need an interesting process for this septuagenarian diver.
John