Canon A620 Video I uploaded to YOUTUBE (fight)

[greenlight]

Marina girl gets drink thrown in face (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ali7Q-RrAQ)

I was only able to get the last bit, but they were only arguing for a couple of minutes.

[bascom]

She took it rather well. I know a girl I'd like to throw a drink at.

[mark_personal2000]

hi,
Saw the video, its quite funny. By the way, if you could give me a suggestion: I am using SanDisk Extreme III 1GB SD card for recording short video clips, but the videos are very discontinuous, not smooth at all, kind of staggers while playing in the computer. Could you please give any advice? What kind of SD card specification would you advice?
Thanks.
Regards,
Mark.

[BowerR64]

How are you playing the video? are you playing right off the camera? have you uploaded it to your computer THEN play it or what?

The one thing i dont like about canon video is the video files are HUUUUGE like overly huge. AVI is not a good format poor IMO compaired to other types that are smaller and look fine for the size. I mean think about it, how good of quality do you need when uploading video to youtube? it already recompresses video files so even if you record somthing funny in stereo avi at 640X480 at 60FPS others wont see it at that quality.

There could be several reasons why the video is skipping on your machine. Video card, memory, hard drive speed, playing from the camera

[mark_personal2000]

Hi,
Thanks for your response. I have just noticed that if I play the video files with Quicktime, they are more or less smoother, specially the 320X240 clips. So it seems the problem has to do with the file format MJPEG, since only Quicktime can play, not Windows Media Player. But the higher resolution clips (640X480) still stagger a bit. Maybe this has to do something with my computer too. Confused totally..
As you mentioned I see that the files are huge in size. Very inconvenient. Will it be possible to convert to some friendly format?
Thanks once again!

[BowerR64]

There are better formats but some need new software. Windows ME and XP came with a program called windows movie maker. Every version of these 2 opperating systems have it. You can import the video into that program and rerip (recompress) the video into another format. Its easy to use.

You can take a 200 meg file down to about 5-10 using wmv video format.

Let me know if you need some more help trying this.

[mark_personal2000]

Hi,
I converted the AVI file to WMV by using windows movie maker and the video plays smoothly now. Thanks a lot!

[roofie]

:eek:

omg...at least use a program like vdub (http://www.virtualdub.org/) when reencoding. wmm isn't the best quality wise...

[ale_g]

Hi Just to point out that WMV is the microsoft patented codec that came from the standard MPEG4. The high definition quality WMV is compatible with High definition TV. It is very good although the problem is that there are a few DVD players that can play WMV files.
You can try TMPGENC (MPEG2 encoder free) in order to produce a video in MPEG2 format that could be read in any DVD player capable of reading files.:)