Florida Project: back up the camera

When we have a family outing, I like to take a camera and/or video camera. Most of what I video ends up on one of my Internet TV stations. So far I have filled my camera once on this trip already.

The video camera holds 45GB. Every time I fill the camera, I have a somewhat ridiculous routine I follow. I copy the camera to my laptop. Then burn two DVD's: one goes to our safe and one goes to Linda's desk draw at her work. Then I upload the video to my 400GB google drive. Only then may I delete it from the camera.

Next, I convert the video from MPEG 4 to WMV on my laptop. Only then can I delete the original video files from my laptop.

I burn the WMV. Then edit them into short movies. I upload the short movies to my Internet TV stations, and put backups of the short movies on my google drive. Only then can I delete the WMV versions and the short movies from my laptop.

And that is the process I use for backing up my video camera!