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Apologies if this is in the wrong forum but does anyone know how you convert "Quick Time Motion JPEG" into something usable by Windows Movie Maker also, why would a card reader that I had no trouble with suddenly fail to recognize the new SDHC card that I have just bought & is there a remedy?

Kind regards Kristifercolumnbus.
 
Hi

You could try this program it´s called "Mpeg Streamclip" It should be able to convert to WMM.
Try different export option and you will probably find the right one that works with Movie maker

http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-win.html

You must have QT installed on your PC, if you don´t have that then go to Microsoft and download the codec

Are you sure it is your card reader and not the card itself,
Always make sure that you format the card in the camera and ONLY use quality card,
I only use Sandisk

Hope this helps

Cheers

Hans
 
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card readers and editing

card readers are horribly unreliable - I have had three go on me -

buy a cheap dongle that reads cards and plugs into a usb port

ebuyer is the cheapest place - about £3

if you can't wait for the the delivery then you can buy one at a high street store for about £10

then when it goes west chuck it away and buy another one

sorry - but for some reason the little springs that hold the contacts in place get old very quickly

as for changing file formats

there is a thing called total video converter

$20 download

never found a format that it won't cope with

yours

the video support desk at keep turning left
 
small lens

the xacti has a tiny lens - less light coming in

and trying to film at night in a poorly lit cabin is asking a lot of a camer designed for filming outdoors

simple physics

my big camera has a lens the size of a saucer - and a series of four filters - the densest of which will only allow 1/64th of the light through to the capture chip.

The answer is to not record in the cabin - the xacti is waterproof and designed for using outdoors

like every bit of kit cameras are compromises.

the big one is big, not waterproof and costs £3,000 and is heavy on battery power

the xacti is small, tough, waterproof and does a great job of the sound - and the batteries last for ages.

If you want to record in the cabin you should buy another camera - not waterproof but with a bigger lens

yours

Kevin Mcfarlane

camera support department

keep turning left project
 
dylanwinter said:
the xacti has a tiny lens - less light coming in
my big camera has a lens the size of a saucer - and a series of four filters - the densest of which will only allow 1/64th of the light through to the capture chip.
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Also the sensor is quite small, so the physical area of each of the pixels is tiny - the amount of light falling per pixel is small leading to lots of video noise.
 
dylanwinter said:
I tested this - it leaves a watermark across the middle of the screen unless you stump up $39

however, it does do an excellent job and says it can handle anything

total video converter is $20

yours

Arthur Dennis

Video conversion software analyst

keepturningleft project
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Surely there must be an FFMPEG windows GUI variant that could transcode to an edit codec? Even if you go to DNxHD (EDIT: I've just read what windows Movie Maker does - low bitrate MPEG1 editing) Use Clesh instead.
 
HBL said:
Hi

You could try this program it´s called "Mpeg Streamclip" It should be able to convert to WMM.
Try different export option and you will probably find the right one that works with Movie maker

http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-win.html

You must have QT installed on your PC, if you don´t have that then go to Microsoft and download the codec

Are you sure it is your card reader and not the card itself,
Always make sure that you format the card in the camera and ONLY use quality card,
I only use Sandisk

Hope this helps

Cheers

Hans
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Thanks Hans the link you have provided sounds like an excellent lead & I shall give it a whirl.
My new card is a Sandisk extreme so I would'nt have thought that I should get any problems (it's ok with several other normal SD makers cards).:confused:
 
dylanwinter said:
card readers are horribly unreliable - I have had three go on me -

buy a cheap dongle that reads cards and plugs into a usb port

ebuyer is the cheapest place - about £3

if you can't wait for the the delivery then you can buy one at a high street store for about £10

then when it goes west chuck it away and buy another one

sorry - but for some reason the little springs that hold the contacts in place get old very quickly

as for changing file formats

there is a thing called total video converter

$20 download

never found a format that it won't cope with

yours

the video support desk at keep turning left
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Thankyou "video support desk at keep turning left":).......actually Dylan It's no problem connecting it up with the USB lead only takes about ten seconds longer.......I am sort of miffed at the idea of paying however much for conversion software when Panasonic (the maker of my camera) start out by saying that it records in motion JPEG which they assert is an industry standard & it is only later that you find that it is this specialized Quicktime version.It all seems a bit underhand to me & add this to the incomprehensible instructions & I think I will tread much more carefully in the future.:rolleyes:
 
dylanwinter said:
the xacti has a tiny lens - less light coming in

and trying to film at night in a poorly lit cabin is asking a lot of a camer designed for filming outdoors

simple physics

my big camera has a lens the size of a saucer - and a series of four filters - the densest of which will only allow 1/64th of the light through to the capture chip.

The answer is to not record in the cabin - the xacti is waterproof and designed for using outdoors

like every bit of kit cameras are compromises.

the big one is big, not waterproof and costs £3,000 and is heavy on battery power

the xacti is small, tough, waterproof and does a great job of the sound - and the batteries last for ages.

If you want to record in the cabin you should buy another camera - not waterproof but with a bigger lens

yours

Kevin Mcfarlane

camera support department

keep turning left project
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Got to say that the Panasonic camera I bought makes a wonderful job of low light photo's & that is one of the reasons I went for it.(good review in one of the mags I read).......no wonder you are having to charge to watch your video's now Dylan with all the people you seem to employ;)
 
kristifercolumnbus said:
Thankyou "video support desk at keep turning left":).......actually Dylan It's no problem connecting it up with the USB lead only takes about ten seconds longer.......I am sort of miffed at the idea of paying however much for conversion software when Panasonic (the maker of my camera) start out by saying that it records in motion JPEG which they assert is an industry standard & it is only later that you find that it is this specialized Quicktime version.It all seems a bit underhand to me & add this to the incomprehensible instructions & I think I will tread much more carefully in the future.:rolleyes:
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I had the same problem with my Panasonic camera. Could watch in their software but nothing else. I downloaded a package called Prism from NCH software and paid a small fee, they work fine now in Windows Media although conversion is an extra step I could have done without.
 
kristifercolumnbus said:
Thankyou "video support desk at keep turning left":).......actually Dylan It's no problem connecting it up with the USB lead only takes about ten seconds longer.......I am sort of miffed at the idea of paying however much for conversion software when Panasonic (the maker of my camera) start out by saying that it records in motion JPEG which they assert is an industry standard & it is only later that you find that it is this specialized Quicktime version.It all seems a bit underhand to me & add this to the incomprehensible instructions & I think I will tread much more carefully in the future.:rolleyes:
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MJPEG and QT Mov are both standards - which Microsoft ignore.
 
kristifercolumnbus said:
What the hell does all this mean?:(
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Your camera uses some non-standard proprietary codec and format combination (A), you want to edit for some reason using Micro$oft software which uses a different non-standard proprietary codec and format combination(B). You therefore need some software to transcode from foramt A to format B.

FFMPEG and associated software is the best known open-source video encoder/transcoder. Normally this is used on the command line - without a user interface. However, Handbrake or VirtualDub give you a User Interface to this software.
 
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