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Putting video back on card
Put images back on a memory card
The easiest way to upload videos back onto a memory card is to use a USB card reader. You can access your card reader from the “My Computer” menu.
Card readers are usually labelled “Removable Disk”. Simply drag and drop or Copy the video files on the memory card. If you Move the files, they will be removed from your computer.
If your camera acts as a card reader (most, but not all, do), proceed as if you had a dedicated card reader and Copy the files to the memory card. If your camera does not act as a card reader, there is no way to use it to copy videos back on the memory card.
THM files
Some cameras, mainly those who write their movies in the AVI file format, also create a THM file with the same name as the movie itself. Those files include a thumbnail of the first frame of the movie and can also include EXIF data related to the movie.
THM files may be “hidden," so you will not see them unless you set your operating system to show hidden files. In general, cameras that record their movies as MOV files do not create THM files.
Video playback from a memory card
In some cases, videos removed from a memory card and then put back cannot be played back on the camera that was used to record them. This is true even if the video file was not edited in any way.
For cameras that do allow you to play movies after putting the files back on a card. the unedited movie will have to be put back in the same folder where the camera originally recorded it. If the camera created a THM file, you will have to copy it also.
The files must still have their original names. Even after doing this, some cameras still won’t play movies that were removed from the memory card.
Other devices
Some devices such as digital picture frames, PDAs and computers can play most video files without problems. Other devices that accept memory cards, such as a Wii console or a Playstation Portable, will not play back movies, or will only play them if they were converted to a specific, and often proprietary, format.
