What do with 1,000 photos and video clips

[TUS373]

In my recent post I was asking for recommendations for an APS-C camera. I went for a Sony A6700 and feel I made a good choice for me. I have come back after 2 weeks travelling with photos as RAW and JPEG and 4K video clips. Now, what to do with them?

I was thinking of a photobook and saw Saal as one of many recommended. Having a quick play, it easily imports JPEGs. I assume that to make use of RAW files, they need processing and saving as JPEGs. I can have a play, but my JPEGs already look nice to me.

Video clips...I have no idea how to string this together. Being 4K, I also assume that the power of my i7 laptop with its 25Gb of RAM may be put to the test.

Any advice from those with experience on how to turn my images into something I can share with my family?

[singlecoil]

As far as the still images are concerned I see no particular reason why you would need special software to deal with them. You could quite easily place them into a variety of appropriate folders, then save those folders onto a memory stick and plug that into your TV (most TVs from the last decade or so have a USB socket).

Then you could use the remote to pay through them at whatever speed you wished.

For the video clips you could download the utterly free and amazingly powerful Davinci Resolve. Masses of starter tutorials on YouTube.

[TUS373]

Ok..
Thanks for the tip about Davinci Resolve. I will check that out.

On the photos, yes I can play back straight from camera, but I would love to publish them into a kind of coffee table book.

[singlecoil]

TUS373 said:

On the photos, yes I can play back straight from camera, but I would love to publish them into a kind of coffee table book.

Photobox (and I daresay many others) is what you need then, you can upload your photos and vary the layout etc as you wish. I expect they would have a limit as to how many photos you could get in one book.

[TUS373]

Thanks. I will check both out.

[alock]

No one other than you is interested in looking at 1000 photos of your two week trip.

Select the best 20-30 and have then professionally printed in a coffee-table photo book. The skill in photography is discarding 99% of perfectly acceptable photos.

[TUS373]

alock said:

No one other than you is interested in looking at 1000 photos of your two week trip.

Select the best 20-30 and have then professionally printed in a coffee-table photo book. The skill in photography is discarding 99% of perfectly acceptable photos.

Yup. Precisely what I want to do. I do not want 1,000 to look at either. I maybe took 20 of the same thing, different angles and settings, that gives me the opportunity to pick out the photos that look just right.

[Derek Smith]

singlecoil said:

For the video clips you could download the utterly free and amazingly powerful Davinci Resolve. Masses of starter tutorials on YouTube.

I have Resolve. I agree, it is amazingly powerful. However, if you only want to string some of your clips together, elminating the rubbish, it is overkill. It takes a while to learn all eight pages. Go for one of the simpler software offerings. There's lots that are free. I have no particular knowledge of what's currently on offer.

If you believe you want to take up video editing, and it is addictive, then Resolve Free is recommended by many, including me. There's a paid for version, Resolve Studio, that's very cheap compared to, say, Adobe's alternative. It's a one-off fee, for life, but 95% of video editors don't need it. I say this as a Studio owner and one of the 95%.