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victormeldrew · Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 1282

My computer is a bit on the old side. Last week i copied a 30 min video onto it but could not burn it to disc as i didn't have enough space to open the burning programme.
Can any one tell me if putting a extra external hard drive, for video transfer purposes would do the trick? I have about fifty vids to do, so it would be too expensive to have them commercially transferred.

Also, if copying home vids, the sound goes out of synch a bit and i have to copy in short batches which is a pain. Any ideas?
Going to get a new comp next year but was hpoing for a short term solution.

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garfield · Joined: 06 Jan 2007 Posts: 524

You could get an external drive, and copy all your personal documents/pictures and everything onto that, its not ideal to have programs on them though, just for storage mainly, so yeah, copy all your stuff onto something like this

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Which is a mini external, or a full size external

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As for the lip synch problem, what is the source format and what format are you saving it as?

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Raven · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:51 pm Post subject:

vic thats what i did , got an external hard drive , and put all my music and phots on it , clears up a lot of space on the main hard drive

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victormeldrew · Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 1282

Will get one in the next few weeks. Its the video synching thats the problem. Thanks for your help.

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My computer is a bit on the old side. Last week i copied a 30 min video onto it but could not burn it to disc as i didn't have enough space to open the burning programme.
Can any one tell me if putting a extra external hard drive, for video transfer purposes would do the trick? I have about fifty vids to do, so it would be too expensive to have them commercially transferred.

Also, if copying home vids, the sound goes out of synch a bit and i have to copy in short batches which is a pain. Any ideas?
Going to get a new comp next year but was hpoing for a short term solution.

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hi victor... try using a program called "winavi", you can convert your video files to dvd format and burn them using nero. You wont loose any quality and the sound will remain in sync.

Coastie · Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 5830 Location: Holyhead

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They seem quite cheap.

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Raven · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:38 am Post subject:

victor this is where i got mine from ,,, no problems with it jus plug and play

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