Image download software for Lumix cameras

wfages wrote:

Hi Albert,

The PF must have been set accidentally and I only discovered it after downloading on my computer. There were 2414 photos and a good 30% are one second videos. They did go straight on the cloud, but even so. It was the first thing I really did on my new computer, plus a few applications to manage other stuff I do but in a matter of 2 days took all my hard drive memory as I could not edit and organise without downloading to Google photos (I only took a weeks worth, 90% are Post focused, they are heavy files.) The PF photos seem altogether impossible to edit, yet I can't get anywhere unless I convert each one to JPG. That's my objective. You're saying that would be at least possible on my camera 😳. I hope it's not necessary! I would surely go nuts attempting it on a tiny screen with the limited instruction.

Goodness.

I do not use Google Photo, but doubt it can handle Post Focus output because PF indeed is a 1 to few seconds length of 4K video @30fps. i.e., a 1" footage has 30 frames in it.

To edit PF output indeed need a video editor, not a photo editor.

To edit each frame of the footage you can extract frames into JPG then handle them like ordinary photo. You might consider the "Free Video to JPG Converter" to do the extraction.

Or use the in-camera Focus Stacking feature of your camera, do automatic merging into 1 JPG ( which won't take much time to do it), then do further editing on your computer like any ordinary JPG. You will face 2K photos rather than 2K x 30 or more photos of these PF footage.