Exporting pictures and video

[hefty]

Hey everybody,

Can someone please explain to me how I can take the photo's and video's off my camera and send them directly to my external hard drive rather than the internal hard drive?

I did do a search, but I just can't seem to find a simple solution.

Thanks!

 

[hefty]

155 views and not a single response....hummmm

Must be a common issue.

 

[comatory]

You expect an answer with such a vague question?

1. Connect camera to your Mac, it should mount in Finder. Copy the photos/videos from the camera (SD card or whatever) to your external drive.

2. If you use iPhoto for importing images and video, you must move the whole iPhoto library to the external drive. It is not possible to have one iPhoto library on two places (unless you want to use two libraries on different locations). Look here

3. If you are using Premiere/iMovie/Final Cut to import video, you must configure the location of new files in capture dialogs. Every application has specific settings for this that you will find in help file/manual of that application.

But seriously, you can just use Finder to copy files around, that's the application's purpose.