How do I get videos off my cell phone and onto my computer?
Cell phones are amazing devices. They are becoming so complex, so technologically advanced. When cell phones were first invented the only thing they could do was send and receive calls. Today a cell phone does everything. It not only sends and receives calls but it also has a calendar, an alarm clock, instant messaging, internet, text messaging, an mp3 player, a camera, a video player, games etc. There are so many things phones can do.
More and more people own cell phones. When they were first invented the numbers of those who actually had cell phones were few. Now you cannot walk into a store, or even a school, without seeing a majority of the people holding cell phones. Even in junior high or younger kids are carrying cell phones. You see kids listening to their music on their cell phones. You see kids texting constantly on their cell phones. As you walk through the store you walk past numbers of people who are talking on their phones. Everyone has a cell phone and they use it constantly.
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One of the newest features of cell phones is their ability to record and play videos. This really is an incredible feature. It is true that the quality of the videos is not yet refined, but the mere fact that they have the ability is something that is very neat. If you are on an outing and you see something that you want to take a picture of, go ahead, there's a camera on your phone. If you are with friends and someone is doing something funny, you can take out your phone and video tape it.
When the video recording feature first came out you could only play the videos on your phone. If you got a great clip recorded and you wanted to show people, you could only show them if they were there to look at your phone or if they had a phone you could send it to. If you wanted to put that video on your computer and save it or even edit it, you didn't have that option. This would be a bummer if you recorded something that you really wanted to save and remember because it would always be stuck on your phone. However, times have changed, so how do you get videos off your cell phone and on to your computer so you can edit them and share them more easily?
The main way to get your videos off you phone and onto your computer are to send them to yourself. You can include the videos as a part of a text message and you can send them to your email address. Most phones these days have the option to send multimedia messages to another phone or to an email address. If you select to send them to an email address you can send them to yourself and then open them and save them to your computer. Sometimes people have troubles opening videos on their computer but it is not often. If you do have troubles they are not very hard to fix.
Once the video is on your computer you are free to do whatever you want with it. You could even burn it onto a DVD and make it so that anyone can see it. You could also save it onto your computer and then choose to edit it if you have proper editing equipment. Because of technology there are so many things you can do today that you could not have done one hundred years ago.
