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connecting the camera
You can copy your recorded video footage and photos to a PC or Mac computer by
using the included USB cable.
A CONNECTING THE CAMERA TO A COMPUTER
Connecting to a Windows PC
1. Connect the camera to your PC using the USB cable. The camera LED will turn blue
and the camera will display a black screen.
2. Your operating system may be set up to show a le window automatically.
Otherwise, double-click on the My Computer icon.
3. Your computer should recognize your camera as a Removable Disk. Look for the
DRIFT Removable Disk and double click on it to open it.
4. Double-click on the ‘DCIM’ folder to open it.
5. Inside the ‘DCIM’ folder you will nd a folder called '100DRIFT' which contains all
photos and videos recorded on the micro SD card. If there are a large number of
les, there will be multiple folders - 100DRIFT, 101DRIFT, etc.
6. Copy the desired video and photo les to your PC.
Connecting to a Mac
1. Connect the camera to your Mac by using the USB cable. The camera LED will turn
blue and the camera will display a black screen.
2. Your operating system may be set up to show a le window automatically.
Otherwise, open the Finder.
3. Your computer should recognize your camera as an external device called DRIFT.
Click on it to open it.
4. Click on the ‘DCIM’ folder to open it.
5. Inside, the ‘DCIM’ folder you will nd a folder called ‘100DRIFT’, which contains all
photos and videos recorded on the Micro SD card. If there are a large number of
les, there will be multiple folders – 100DRIFT, 101DRIFT, etc.
6. Copy the desired video and photo les to your Mac.
Note: The battery does not need not be inserted or charged to copy les to a
computer.
Note: You can also copy data from the memory card by using a USB card reader (not
included). Your computer may also have an Micro SD card reader built into it, which
you can use to transfer your files.
B PLAYING THE VIDEO FOOTAGE ON A COMPUTER
1. Some computers may not have the correct codecs required for video playback and
editing.
2. If your experience diculties playing video recorded with your camera, you can
download VLC media player for free from http://www.videolan.org/
3. If you are experiencing diculties editing video or do not wish to use VLC player for
playback, you will need to download and install a codec pack. The FFDshow codec
pack can be downloaded from http://www.free-codecs.com/FFDshow_download.htm
4. Do not forget that to play HD video les on your computer you require a powerful
computer, with a modern video card and plenty of RAM.
C CONNECTING THE CAMERA TO A TV
1. While the camera is turned o, connect it to your TV using a Micro HDMI cable (not
included).
2. Switch the camera on.
3. Once booted up, the image usually displayed on the camera’s LCD screen will
instead be displayed directly on your TV, and the sound will come out of the TV
speakers.
4. All other camera functions and the camera buttons work as normal.
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