So, as you all know, I’ve been doing more with video since I’ve been in Japan. I try to take interesting videos and post them up here, and I also have tried making some compilations and such. Well, I took a 20+ minute video of the Asimo robot while I was at the National Museum of Nature and Science. It ended up being a 1.9 gigabyte file, and every time I tried to move it from my camera to my computer, one or the other crapped out and the file wouldn’t transfer. I even tried using Image Capture instead of iPhoto. Maybe if I had my Canon software installed, I could have gotten around it. Either way, it wasn’t working. So, needing DVD-RWs anyway (because I need to start backing these massive files up so that my hard drive doesn’t fill up), I headed to the Togoshi-Ginza shopping street near my apartment after class and looked for an SD reader. I found one in a technology/office supplies/stationary shop. It’s was a neat little place. They only had a reader that reads 15 different formats. It was only 2940 yen, so like $27, and it even reads micro SD, so I can get a micro SD card for my Casio cell phone. That’s good news, because my Mac doesn’t read my Casio cell phone, but with the micro SD reader, I can just save photos to a micro SD card and get them off my camera using the reader. Problem solved!
Now I just need to start burning movie projects to DVD. I already got the older family movie projects onto one disk. Josh and Melissa’s wedding video will take up a whole other disk, and hopefully, I can fit the Kamakura and Sumo iMovie projects on one disk together. I guess I could have just bought a huge external hard drive, but this is probably an easier solution for now. I will invest in an external hard drive when I get back to the states probably (if I intend to keep making movies, which I might).
Anyway, I should probably do some reading for class while all of this burning is going on. I didn’t really do much so far this week, so nothing interesting to report. I will get the photos/videos of the robots and other nature stuff up as soon as possible.
Well, ja mata!