Hi.
How can I get an recorded sequence wireless from Pan V3 and to my laptop ?
there is a certain piece of footage I need to use. A recording of 12 minutes
As far as I know, there isn’t a way to do that via any sort of direct connection.
If you’re recording continuously to microSD, then the best way to get the highest-quality video is probably going to be to pull the card from the camera, insert it into the laptop, copy the 1-minute video file segments you want, and concatenate those into a single 12-minute video using third-party software.
You could also use the Record feature in the app while viewing the Cam Pan v3’s playback and then transfer the 12-minute recording to your PC by a number of means. Again, in this scenario, I’m imaginging that you’re doing continuous recording to microSD.
If the 12 minutes of video you’re discussing are on Wyze’s servers, then perhaps someone who uses a subscription can provide additional advice.
Considering that you are accessing the video at the desired interval from the playback/SD Card using your phone, you just need to activate the “Record” button when the interesting part starts and click “stop” at the end of the 12 minutes. At this point the video sample you recorded will be available in your photo/video album on your phone. Then you just need to transfer it to your computer.
The record button may look different depending on the camera model.
I’d highly recommend not doing that, just pull the SD card, put it in your laptop, and use one of the many video stitching programs to join them together (there will be 12-14 files to cover the 12 minutes).
Not only will a 12 minute video capture to your phone be huge (your phone essentially fills in the highly compressed video from the cam with extra unusable data and severely increases the size) and possibly too big to fit on your phone, but the quality of taking the video direct from SD card without your phone compressing it a second time is better.
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As a follow-up—and, again, as @dave27 and I have previously said, I recommend pulling the microSD card if at all possible (though I recognize that this can be difficult depending on the camera’s location and how it’s mounted)—I wanted to mention an online tool that Forum Maven @IEatBeans created specifically for this purpose. Getting the 12-14 files, as @dave27 noted, and then joining them once you have the card in hand should be fairly trivial.
Edit: The other thing I forgot to mention earlier is that if you’re using the app’s Record feature during playback, then you have to do that real-time, meaning that the video is playing back from the camera to the phone in real time while the phone app captures that and saves it in a video file. If you just need a minute or so of footage and don’t want the highest video quality, then this might be a reasonable method, but pulling the microSD card is a much better solution overall, especially if you require longer video segments.
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