Tools:
A mobile phone Anyone that can receive phone calls or SMS will do.
Whatsapp This app runs on iPhones, Android and Windows phone. Use it to transfer files from one phone to another or to a PC pretending to be a phone. More on this later.
Bluestacks This runs under Win 7/8 and creates a virtual machine that emulates Android. Once it's running you can run Whatsapp in it. It requires authentication to an actual phone via SMS hence the need for some sort of phone. Enter the authentication code into your virtual phone running on the PC.
There is a Whatsapp installer available for the PC that also installs Bluestacks. I had no luck installing Whatsapp from the Google Store and getting it to run on my PC, I highly recommend getting this package.
Quickpic The problem with Bluestacks is it'll save everything into a single file on your PC that's unreadable. With Quickpic you can select a photo or video and then you can Send It To Windows.
All of the above is pretty flaky, don't give up though, it does work, eventually. All of the above is free. There's much better ways of course but when you're faced with a client who has all the footage on a Windows 7 phone with a dodgy USB port, as a last resort it will work. In my journey I found "heaps of helpful tips" on the web that just didn't or couldn't work and wasted a lot of time.
Bob.
A mobile phone Anyone that can receive phone calls or SMS will do.
Whatsapp This app runs on iPhones, Android and Windows phone. Use it to transfer files from one phone to another or to a PC pretending to be a phone. More on this later.
Bluestacks This runs under Win 7/8 and creates a virtual machine that emulates Android. Once it's running you can run Whatsapp in it. It requires authentication to an actual phone via SMS hence the need for some sort of phone. Enter the authentication code into your virtual phone running on the PC.
There is a Whatsapp installer available for the PC that also installs Bluestacks. I had no luck installing Whatsapp from the Google Store and getting it to run on my PC, I highly recommend getting this package.
Quickpic The problem with Bluestacks is it'll save everything into a single file on your PC that's unreadable. With Quickpic you can select a photo or video and then you can Send It To Windows.
All of the above is pretty flaky, don't give up though, it does work, eventually. All of the above is free. There's much better ways of course but when you're faced with a client who has all the footage on a Windows 7 phone with a dodgy USB port, as a last resort it will work. In my journey I found "heaps of helpful tips" on the web that just didn't or couldn't work and wasted a lot of time.
Bob.