News for the ‘pics’ Category

Too Many Clouds

Ugh. Over the past few years, when we go on trips/vacations/flight/road trips, I carry my case of GoPros with all the attachments, media, slew of batteries, etc. I’ve been more into taking videos with the ambitions of creating epic home videos. I’ve got a lot of great footage. I also take vids from the DashCam to show the drives. Even hired a narrator for some of the vids. Seriously.

But my issues have been around backing up while on the road. One such recent trip was through White Sands and Carlsbad. The drive was, in total, about 8ish hours. So on the first night after White Sands and before Carlsbad, I worked to clear off the media card from the DashCam and all the GoPro vids I had taken – as well as phone pics/vids.

The problem I ran into was file-size limits on uploads to the various clouds I use – OneDrive, Amazon Photos, Dropbox, etc. I sat in the hotel uploading – and ran into limits. So had to split the clouds. Limited while traveling using my company laptop, VPN issues stood in the way and the security features on it prevented me from using flash drives.

Then – when I got home, it was picking the files from each cloud and trying to combine into one folder I could start to work with in Premiere. Did I miss any? Ugh.

Question then – why not just have multiple cards and not upload? Why are you doing this, Dave? I don’t have a good answer. I have dozens of cards. I think I’m just paranoid of losing the data or the cards during the trip, which I’ve never done …

I think I’ve solved by using a script I found on our NAS to allow remote access on my laptop – I can now upload pretty much anything of any size using the 80tbs of storage on the NAS – from any computer or phone anywhere in the world. But it has really made me realize just how fragmented all of my media is currently. Using all these work-arounds and various clouds has made it pretty frustrating.

I use Amazon Photos for all photos from all devices which is unlimited in storage with no degradation/reduction of quality/size – all devices backing up to it, with all family members able to access. But my end-all with all video is to have everything backed up to the NAS, and THAT uploaded to remote storage, with only a desktop that has ‘open projects’. Still working on killing my YouTube account (can’t stand ads and restrictions) and host on the NAS, access via PLEX.

Working on all this. It’s a lot of work.

And I still have over 20 old HHDs sitting in the closet with a lot of data to archive …

Posted: July 14th, 2023
Categories: GoPro, pics, site update, tech, video
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Lightning Tonight

Had some lightning in the area – got my GoPro and set to time-lapse, every 1 second. Out of about 1,000 photos … got 2. I suppose I’ll keep trying when we get the rare but appreciated thunderstorm …
DCIM100GOPRO

DCIM100GOPRO

 

Posted: August 10th, 2014
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Brilliant GoPro Battery Solution

So I’ve dabbling around quite a bit with my GoPros … the biggest irritation by far is the battery life. Saw the below tweak, and thought I’d share for those readers with a GoPro …

Posted: August 4th, 2014
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Fireworks via Drone

I’ve been eyeing the Phantom Drone for a few months now … really would be awesome with the GoPro. Came across the below video the other day, which shows you just how much this beast can change the game of photography.

Posted: July 5th, 2014
Categories: holidays, pics, products, tech
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Pass On or Die

Posted: August 26th, 2012
Categories: computers, pics, www
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Jerry is Jones’n

Please know that this is one of my new, all-time favorite pics …

Posted: January 8th, 2012
Categories: pics, sports
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Oh Wow

Posted: December 6th, 2011
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Okay. But How’d You Make The Sign?

Posted: December 5th, 2011
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Too Soon?

Posted: October 20th, 2011
Categories: news, pics, politics
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Seems Legit

Posted: October 17th, 2011
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Stop. Hammertime.


Posted: September 11th, 2011
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Seal

Posted: September 1st, 2011
Categories: animals, music, pics
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It was a Short Fight

Posted: July 30th, 2011
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SLR Cheat Sheets

Where I found these, I saw various insulting comments around the need of such files if you do own one of these cameras. I have owned one for almost 5 years, and have taken over 5,000 photos. I have tried and captured a multitude of favorite settings; yet, I have always searched for such documents as a quick reference …

Here you go!

Posted: July 29th, 2011
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Happy Father’s Day. Nice Job, Wal-Mart.

Great Dads are Great Grammar Nazis.

 

Posted: June 19th, 2011
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Pin of Irony

Posted: May 7th, 2011
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True

Posted: April 30th, 2011
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For More Great Zombie Headshots …

Click Here!

Posted: November 10th, 2010
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2nd Fword Post of the Day … But Worth It.

Posted: September 4th, 2010
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WTF

Posted: September 3rd, 2010
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A Strange Pic for Which I Have No Comment For

Posted: September 3rd, 2010
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I’m Going to Hell for This

Posted: September 1st, 2010
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