Comments on: Why I Hate Video

By: Jonah

Jonah — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:11:01 +0000

The Canon 5d Mark II records in .mov format, which is a pain in the ass if you’re on a windows machine and want to edit the movie.
You will first have to convert to .avi or some other format which you can edit in, for example, Moviemaker.

I can’t understand why Canon won’t give the buyers of this expensive camere the right to choose a standard Windows format instead of just a standard Mac format.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:51:00 +0000

Install Windows Movie Maker on your Vista machine. Plug your mini DV camera into the Fire Wire port on your Media Center PC. Hopefully, your camera has a FireWire port.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/movie-maker.aspx

Can’t get much easier than that.

By: Michael Cummings

Michael Cummings — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:11:00 +0000

I have been waiting on buying video equipment for a year now because I had a feeling that the new 5D was going to support this. It seems that the formats should be excellent as well. I cant wait to play around with it…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:41:00 +0000

I agree. These HD Hard drive cameras are a pain. Great video quality, but a pain to manage.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:44:00 +0000

Thomas – Terry White just did a post on his video workflow – sounds like he has it figured out:
http://terrywhite.com/techblog/?p=1065

By: TranceMist

TranceMist — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:05:00 +0000

You have a miniDV camera and a MacBook Pro.

All you needed was a $30 FireWire cable and iMovie (which you already have).

You could then export or transcode the raw footage into any format you want.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:26:00 +0000

Try installing ffdshow (http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/). It is essentially a codec that includes support for most formats, including a number of MPEG-4 ones. I’m not sure if it natively supports TOD files, but it has the most complete support of any other codec that I have found.

By: Marina

Marina — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:18:00 +0000

Hi Thomas
I have the JVC Everio (not the HD but wide format) and it makes MOD files. Theses are now completely compatible with YouTube as well as Google Video.

My video camera is the easiest thing to operate and uploading to both the computer and online is a breeze. I love this video camera!

I haven't done any editing but it comes with software that I assume will enable you to edit the recording and I presume save in the same format before uploading to YouTube/Google Video.

Perhaps this would be a more workable solution?

By: Taras

Taras — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:53:00 +0000

just got into the video scene for a event that happened in town. I used what was available to me. A canon video camera and iMovie. Record, Import, and Export. not to mention the simple editing that can be done with transitions, titles, and cutting out useless video. just my $.02.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:42:00 +0000

Thomas,

Don’t know about TOD, but you can convert the VOB to mpg easily with VOB2MPG. It’ll be an mpg when finished, and should be playable with your media center. Hope this helps.

Find it here:
http://www.svcd2dvd.com/downloads.aspx

-Brian