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Post by cynsylv on Aug 26, 2006 16:25:44 GMT -5
I am having difficulty joining all the MPEG4 video clips I have taken on the Xacti C6. I tried the software given with the camera but it was not suitable and am trying a trial version of Ulead VideoStudio 10 Plus which makes an excellent movie on the computer and burns it to DVD successfully but when it plays on the TV using a DVD Player, the video is quite jerky and not smooth like when I play the files directly from the Camera onto the TV. Can anyone help please.
Cyril, e-mail, cyril@sylvialevy.co.uk
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Post by Lee Smith on Aug 26, 2006 16:44:04 GMT -5
Cyril we have all experienced what you have described above and the only way around it is to use a wee application called MP4Cam2AVI More details on this application and other programs on this thread xacti.proboards3.com/index.cgi?board=xactichat&action=display&n=1&thread=3The software given with the camera is next to useless! I use a video editing app called Magix Movie Maker and can be picked up off Ebay for around £20. It can do everything you would want to do and more! Really easy to pick up and can output 16:9 high def video if you are using the new HD1 model. Your video is jerky probably because the camera recorded at 30 frames per second whereas your dvd is encoded at 25 fps causing jerkiness. To get around this you can output your final files as 'NTSC' which is 30 fps encoding and should reduce that jerkiness. You also have to make sure that your dvd player (and/or) tv are NTSC compatible and switched to this mode if available. Hope all this helps? Lee www.xacti.co.uk |
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Post by Cyril Levy on Sept 3, 2006 8:47:17 GMT -5
I don't know if you will get this message as we are finding it quite difficult to negotiate this forum. Thought you would like to know that you really helped solve the problem. I downloaded MP4Cam2AVI and converted all the files. I was then able to use a program called Power Producer Gold (which was given to me when I purchased my LG USB DVD recorder last week). I produced a perfect video but it has to be on NTSC as the frame rate is too slow on Pal. The only disadvantage is that it would seem DVDs in NTSC format cannot be copied. I think it is unacceptable that Sanyo sell a camera without adequate software to merge the video files and without your help I was going to sell the camera!
Regards
Cyril
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Post by Lee Smith on Sept 4, 2006 7:04:15 GMT -5
Sorry to hear you are having problems neogotiating the forum! Anymore details on what is going wrong - is it being logged out everytime you click on a new thread or something? I have never heard of a problem of not being able to copy NTSC dvd video. Maybe its just a setting on the application. Sanyo sell this camera capable of producing PAL and NTSC video but I agree that the software that is bundled with the camera is totally useless and not even worth bothering with. Stick with us and we will try and guide you through anymore problems you are having! Lee www.xacti.co.uk |
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