My digital camera......?

-My "digital camera" has a video player on it and I would like to know if anyone knows hows to transfer(upload) those videos on to my computer.
Remember it's a "digital camera" not a "digital video camera".I know it's for pictures,but it has a video camera on it and I should be able to upload it somehow.

*and yes I read the manual,nothing about this in there*



-I don't know if it makes a difference but my camera is a "Nikon Coolpix"


-I use the cable thing...when I plug my camera into the computer then it tells do I want to transfer..I say yes.....it show me the video but won't play it in the program"Picture Project" and I can't open it in my files ither.

So you are able to download it but cannot play it? Then your challenge is to find a player that plays that type of file. You should look at the handbook to see if you can determine the file type. Many are MPEG video format and a good player for those might be DiVx. It's not the easiest program to install if you aren't hugely experienced with computers and software but it's a stable program with just about all the codecs (compression/decompression) you need as well as a player to play them. This will likely change your default media player to the DiVx player, so when you click on a file, the player will open automatically and play the selected file. To find Divx, go to divx.com and download the free file

The same way you upload your pictures. You will just have to use a different program to open it most likely. windows media player should work.

There are two ways to get the movies from your camera, the first is that your camera might have come with cables that connect your camera to you pc or the easiest is that your camera has a card that contains you photos / usually in your case a SD card. Take the card out after use & buy a reader from a store & that should enable you to view all contents of your card including playing video.

Normally, these files are recorded in a compressed AVI format....since you can edit that but not Longop Mpeg. I frame Mpeg would take too much space.

I own a Nikon D40 and a Fuji A820, both of which do video, but have just imported the videos along with the picturres using Picasa.

Once the files have been imported, you can open them with Windows Movie Maker....it could be that the Picture Project doesn't recgonize the AVI's as a format...

AVI is historically the standard used in the TV industry for video file interchange between edit systems, so it's not a Johnny come lately. It's been around for perhaps, 20 years? maybe longer?

The other possibility is that the camera is recording in Mjpg or motion Jpeg, another less common format, but also been around for a long time.

Next time you connect the camera, open the folder with Windows Explorer and click on View and Details to get the file extension.