Uploading images *to* coolpix?

[Fraser Stephens]

I'd like to be able to upload stills/movies to my coolpix 4500 so that I can play them back as a slide show at a presentation. A friend mentioned this was possible, if the formats used are correct, but after various experiments I still have not managed to get even stills to display correctly.

Has anyone had more success?

F.

 

[RonA]

I'd like to be able to upload stills/movies to my coolpix 4500 so
that I can play them back as a slide show at a presentation. A
friend mentioned this was possible, if the formats used are
correct, but after various experiments I still have not managed to
get even stills to display correctly.

Has anyone had more success?

F.

Very easy. Copy the jpeg files back to the compact flash card.
The 995 has a slide show feature in the menu, not sure if 4500 has that.
RonA CP995

 

[David Taylor]

I'd like to be able to upload stills/movies to my coolpix 4500 so
that I can play them back as a slide show at a presentation. A
friend mentioned this was possible, if the formats used are
correct, but after various experiments I still have not managed to
get even stills to display correctly.

If you have a CF Reader, my TVwriter program will likely do this for you. It corrects the image content so that it displays correctly on the camera. It's been tested on most of the CoolPix range, but not the 4500 as far as I know. There's a link here:

http://bermangraphics.com/coolpix/tvwriter.htm

You can make slide-shows for display on your TV from CoolPix and other sources, so you can add captions or other images.....

Cheers,
David

 

[Fraser Stephens]

I'd like to be able to upload stills/movies to my coolpix 4500 so
that I can play them back as a slide show at a presentation. A
friend mentioned this was possible, if the formats used are
correct, but after various experiments I still have not managed to
get even stills to display correctly.

Has anyone had more success?

F.

Very easy. Copy the jpeg files back to the compact flash card.
The 995 has a slide show feature in the menu, not sure if 4500 has
that.
RonA CP995

Not so very easy actually - you can copy back files taken on the CP, but can't upload screenshots of, say, powerpoint slides - or rather no without getting the format right. Ditto QT movies - I made one with identical compression rates and still it didn't work :-(

F.

 

[Jeff Peterman]

I did this by mistake. I put the CF card from my Canon S200 into the Nikon, forgetting it still had images. When I was checking the Nikon images I could also see the Canon ones, even though there were is the Canon directory/folder.

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Jeff Peterman

 

[Fraser Stephens]

I'd like to be able to upload stills/movies to my coolpix 4500 so
that I can play them back as a slide show at a presentation. A
friend mentioned this was possible, if the formats used are
correct, but after various experiments I still have not managed to
get even stills to display correctly.

If you have a CF Reader, my TVwriter program will likely do this
for you. It corrects the image content so that it displays
correctly on the camera. It's been tested on most of the CoolPix
range, but not the 4500 as far as I know. There's a link here:

http://bermangraphics.com/coolpix/tvwriter.htm

You can make slide-shows for display on your TV from CoolPix and
other sources, so you can add captions or other images.....

From the website it looks exactly the sort of thing - I mainly use a mac, but I'll find a PC and give it a go. I presume I could build the images using photoshop or such like, if I get the compression/naming/tags set correctly. I presume you know these - could you explain what they need to be?

It would also be nice to run movies out this way too. Have you tried this?

Thanks,

F.

 

[David Taylor]

From the website it looks exactly the sort of thing - I mainly use
a mac, but I'll find a PC and give it a go. I presume I could build
the images using photoshop or such like, if I get the
compression/naming/tags set correctly. I presume you know these -
could you explain what they need to be?

It doesn't matter - the program can read any standard JPEGs from Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro and convert them to the Nikon format. Images from the Mac should work just as well. If you make the image you produce exactly 640 x 480 pixels you can bypass the resampling part of the program, and just get a Nikon format result. The naming is taken care of by the program, you simply drag-and-drop one or more images, or even a folder full of images, onto the program to get them converted.

It would also be nice to run movies out this way too. Have you
tried this?

No, I haven't.

Cheers,
David

 

[Fraser Stephens]

From the website it looks exactly the sort of thing - I mainly use
a mac, but I'll find a PC and give it a go. I presume I could build
the images using photoshop or such like, if I get the
compression/naming/tags set correctly. I presume you know these -
could you explain what they need to be?

It doesn't matter - the program can read any standard JPEGs from
Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro and convert them to the Nikon format.
Images from the Mac should work just as well. If you make the
image you produce exactly 640 x 480 pixels you can bypass the
resampling part of the program, and just get a Nikon format result.
The naming is taken care of by the program, you simply
drag-and-drop one or more images, or even a folder full of images,
onto the program to get them converted.

As expected it works fine - but the CP4500 has up to 6x zoom when viewing images, so I would rather like to be able to upload larger than 640x480 pictures (and I'm in the UK, so PAL res would be nice).

Should thumbnails (the 2x2 or 3x3 views) work? They don't at the moment.

It would also be nice to run movies out this way too. Have you
tried this?

No, I haven't.

I guess I'll have to do some more experiments.

F.

 

[Ruffian]

I'd like to be able to upload stills/movies to my coolpix 4500 so
that I can play them back as a slide show at a presentation. A
friend mentioned this was possible, if the formats used are
correct, but after various experiments I still have not managed to
get even stills to display correctly.

I guess people still don't know why they need a card reader and a fast CD burner.
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http://printerboyweb.net/G2

 

[David Taylor]

As expected it works fine - but the CP4500 has up to 6x zoom when
viewing images, so I would rather like to be able to upload larger
than 640x480 pictures (and I'm in the UK, so PAL res would be nice).

Most cameras have the NTSC 640 x 480 rather than our 768 x 576 pixels! Does your 4500? I know what you say about the zoom - maybe for the next version?

Should thumbnails (the 2x2 or 3x3 views) work? They don't at the
moment.

That's something I would like to add, given the time. At the moment they are black.

The intention is that you build a slide-show ready to go using whatever tool you like, and then copy the show to CF card for display only. Navigating with the thumbnails isn't something I imagine most people wanting to do in front of an audience!

Cheers,
David

 

[Fraser Stephens]

I'd like to be able to upload stills/movies to my coolpix 4500 so
that I can play them back as a slide show at a presentation. A
friend mentioned this was possible, if the formats used are
correct, but after various experiments I still have not managed to
get even stills to display correctly.

I guess people still don't know why they need a card reader and a
fast CD burner.

Errr? What has this got to do with the price of butter?

F.

 

[Fraser Stephens]

Just to answer my own question, I've found a solution that works: I format the images to the correct aspect ratio (using graphic converter on the mac this can be done quickly as a batch job) then re-save them as exif-jpeg using olympus's Camedia utility (again can be batched using quickeys). It looks like my CP4500 is happy to accept the almost-empty exif tags that s/w adds.

Now all I have to do is crack the method of getting generic quicktime movies to play and I'll be totally happy!

F.