{"id":939,"date":"2012-02-23T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/02\/23\/footage-from-sd-card-to-hard-drive-important\/"},"modified":"2012-02-23T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T21:37:00","slug":"footage-from-sd-card-to-hard-drive-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/02\/23\/footage-from-sd-card-to-hard-drive-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Footage from SD card to Hard Drive &#8211; IMPORTANT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tDownloading files from a SD card into final cut or onto your computer?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a few REALLY IMPORTANT steps to remember!<\/p>\n<p>First,  your card acts like a hard drive, so its important to first create a  back up. The first step is to make a disc image of your ENTIRE card.<\/p>\n<p>Open up disk utility on your mac.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-CHKV-V6kIp4\/T0ajwGPAZNI\/AAAAAAAAAEg\/Tv9er6zSz14\/s1600\/Screen%2Bshot%2B2012-02-23%2Bat%2B2.20.05%2BPM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 320px;height: 278px\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-CHKV-V6kIp4\/T0ajwGPAZNI\/AAAAAAAAAEg\/Tv9er6zSz14\/s320\/Screen%2Bshot%2B2012-02-23%2Bat%2B2.20.05%2BPM.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5712433224068654290\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Locate the Drive on the left hand side, and highlight it by selecting it ONCE.<\/p>\n<p>While highlighted, click on the icon, NEW IMAGE.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-r4irVHg9kJU\/T0ajwgr2SjI\/AAAAAAAAAEs\/YYlj24EgDDU\/s1600\/Screen%2Bshot%2B2012-02-23%2Bat%2B2.21.14%2BPM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 85px;height: 75px\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-r4irVHg9kJU\/T0ajwgr2SjI\/AAAAAAAAAEs\/YYlj24EgDDU\/s320\/Screen%2Bshot%2B2012-02-23%2Bat%2B2.21.14%2BPM.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5712433231168948786\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Give the new image a name (we HIGHLY suggest the name of your footage or card?)<\/p>\n<p>Select where you would like it saved to. (AGAIN &#8211; HIGHLY SUGGEST YOUR EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE!)<\/p>\n<p>This will create a new DMG file that can be used as an external hard drive, later.<\/p>\n<p><u><b>Later on&#8230;.<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Once you begin to edit, simply click on this DMG file, and the &#8220;hard drive&#8221; or card will mount on your computer.<\/p>\n<p>This will help your editing program to recognize the media.<\/p>\n<p>Begin transcoding!<\/p>\n<p>Come into the New Media Center for help with digitizing your footage:) <\/p>\n<div>\n<div role=\"button\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ajT\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/images\/cleardot.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downloading files from a SD card into final cut or onto your computer? There&#8217;s a few REALLY IMPORTANT steps to remember! First, your card acts like a hard drive, so its important to first create a back up. The first step is to make a disc image of your ENTIRE card. Open up disk utility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}