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| Thread ID: 92660 | 2008-08-18 00:07:00 | I might have bought the wrong thing | jcr1 (893) | Press F1 |
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| 698208 | 2008-08-18 00:07:00 | A few days ago, coming through Singapore, I bought a new digital video camera;a "xacti CA8". Nice & compact I thought. Also takes high res stills. All onto a 16gb sd card. Brilliant (I thought). But, it won't play video run through my media player device, to our TV. The video format is MP4, which according to the media gate handbook, is fine. I've since found out that MP4 played with "Quicktime", can be different to standard MP4 and needs to be converted to be able to be played in other devices. I have tried a free conversion program (Prism), but the output is disgusting, large square pixels on the TV screen. I'm also trying "Super", but it's giving trouble, keeps throwing up an error. Anyone got any ideas? |
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| 698209 | 2008-08-18 02:15:00 | Is it this camera? www.sanyo.com | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 698210 | 2008-08-18 03:22:00 | Yes, that's the one. I hope its going to live up to the hype:confused: |
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| 698211 | 2008-08-18 04:16:00 | Nothing wrong with editing in MP4 (Quicktime .mov) - you would be looking at Adobe Premier Elements www.adobe.com It is the more affordable version of Adobe Premier Pro which is at the top end. You might want to download and trial a demo version in case you outlay the cash and then find it doesn't work for you. |
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| 698212 | 2008-08-18 04:44:00 | I just checked the specs on the site and apparently it comes bundled with - ‘Digital Image Stabilizer’*6 senses camera revolution and photographic subject movement - Connect and cut movies directly from the camera with editing function*7 - Bundled with ‘Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0’ for movie editing and original DVD authoring - Option special floating strap available I see the camera does h.264 (Blueray) :thumbs: |
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| 698213 | 2008-08-20 00:01:00 | Nothing wrong with editing in MP4 (Quicktime .mov) - you would be looking at Adobe Premier Elements www.adobe.com It is the more affordable version of Adobe Premier Pro which is at the top end. You might want to download and trial a demo version in case you outlay the cash and then find it doesn't work for you. There's probably nothing at all wrong with editing in MP4, trouble is my Mediagate MG 350 HD, doesn't recognise this format (even though the hand book says it does) and I'll have to convert the video to AVI, or WMV etc. to watch the videos through my TV. I would imagine that Adobe Premier Elements would be superior to Windows Movie Maker ( which has done a pretty good job for me up to now). All I have to do is get to grips with it:eek: Generally snafu, you seem fairly positive about my purchase. Maybe I should just persevere. |
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| 698214 | 2008-08-20 02:29:00 | Does your TV not handle Quicktime files? I think .avi would be preferable to .wmv although it is a pity that you have to come down in quality from h.264 | snafu (14042) | ||
| 698215 | 2008-08-20 05:29:00 | Does your TV not handle Quicktime files? I think .avi would be preferable to .wmv although it is a pity that you have to come down in quality from h.264 I'm on a learning curve here. Snafu, is h.264 a part of MP4? I'm pretty sure the TV will handle the Quicktime files, if I run them straight through from the camera (must try that); but it's the media player that's the problem, as far as I can see. |
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