Digital camera video = memory card

What is the best kind of memory card for videos ( making a video on a digital camera) & how many GBs should i consider on getting?

Hi TechGirl,
There is no specific type of memory card that works best for video, but I can suggest getting a memory card that has a higher storage capacity like a 4-8GB card with a high write speed. I hope this helps!
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Why is the memory capacity of a digital camera's memory card relevant?

Hi All,
I'm new to all this . I have a question "Why is the memory capcity of a digital camera's memory card relevant?"
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Why is the memory capcity of a digital camera's memory card relevant?
It is not to Photoshop.
But to the photographer it is extremely relevant. It determines how many images (influenced by "quality") your camera can hold before running out of room to store pictures. A larger memory capacity for your camera will allow you to take and store more and/or higher quality images.
("Quality" in this case is determined by image size- the number of pixels making up the image in your camera and image "compression" - how much JPG formatting will effect your image.)
(attempted analogy coming... watch out!)
Think of the camera memory card as a linen closet to store down pillows. A small closet you can store 10 pillows on a shelf. Double the size of the closet and you can store 20 down pillows.
You also have the choice to stuff the down pillows in small sacks, allowing you to store even more pillows in the closet. The problem is after cramming the down pillows into the small container, they come out battered and not as nice as they were before storage.
Linen Closet = Memory Card
Down Pillows = images
Small sacks to stuff pillows into = JPG compression.
(and to add this this questionable analogy... the better down pillows have more feathers, and take up more room in the linen closet)
Feathers = pixels

How to get photos from camera or memory card into new macbook?

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And to diversify the use of that port, you could get this specialized adapter:
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how can i transfer my digital camera video to the ipod? i can transfer the pictures, but the digital video says it does not support, what can i do?

Hi Ellen,
On the Apple website here there are software downloads...look under iPod and you will find one called MoviesForMyPod which i use to convert movie files from my Sony camera. It's free and works a treat.
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Transferring photos from camera or memory card causes iPhoto to hang up with the spinning beach ball - why

Transferring photos from camera or memory card causes iPhoto to hang up with the spinning beach ball - why? This happens only on a 5 year old iMac running 10.6.8. It is a recent developmemt. All other machines have no problen with the same card.

I click on the send feedback everytime it pops up with the force quit, so they'er getting it.
That sends a crash report. Its doubtful that these are ever seen by a human being, but more likely datamined. Sending feedback reaches an actual person.
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Setting for V-Mate Video Memory Card Recorder to v...

Hi,
Have just sent the enquiry reproduced below to Sandisk so that I can record video content with the correct settings for my N 95.
Can anyone advise?
Also, what compatible format provides the best quality? Should I select Mp4 or is there a better option. Thanks, Barry
Hi,
I have just purchased a V-Mate Video Memory Card Recorder (serial: VA060917127W) and want to use this to record video for viewing on a Nokia N 95 cell phone.
The N 95 model is not yet included in the list of standard RECORDING FORMAT SETTINGS.
Grateful if you could advise whether the settings can be done manually and - if so what the optimum settings are for recording and viewing video content for this device.
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Hello Nello,
For Voip i´m using the native bundle phone, and it works well, if your account is SIP. Actually the only problem for me is the Codec priority order, it start in G.711, and if takes around 85K, that takes some sensibility on band avaibility on tour network , special if you have an ADSL with with an upload close to 128K as me.
I have a note on this discution, but till now i dont have any clue to change this priotity!,
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I don't use any of them as my organizer but that's what Zoombrowser is so unless you have something else that you've used before (for photos from a Point & shoot maybe) download them to Zoombrowser.
EOS Utility is for talking to your camera to make setting changes or for tethered shooting as well as downloading to your computer.
DPP is for rpocessing RAW files & saving your work in jpg files. It doesn't convert the RAW (CR2) file but instead creates a new file using the work you've done. You can re edit the CR2 over & over creating as many jpg's as you want with many different variables to suit your preferances. To the best of my knowledge it doesn't process jpg's.
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Importing digital camera video to iPhoto

I have a Canon DiMAGE X50 digital camera I dearly love. It works very well with my iMac 10.4.4.
However, iPhoto won't accept any video I've recorded that's longer than maybe 60 seconds.
I can record up to 30 minutes on my Canon. I've got a great 3 minute clip of the Seahawks NFC championship game that won't transfer to iPhoto.
Is there some extra trick I need to do?
Thanks for any help.

Hi Arniviking,
the trick is to use Image Capture.
When iPhoto 5 first came out I really think it was programmed to import the smaller 30 sec video clips that cameras were taking at the time. Since then, digital cameras, at least my Canon S2 can take clips as large as your memory card can hold. The first time I tried to download my images and movie clips with my new camera, iPhoto stalled at the movie clips. I wasn't going to take any chances messing up my iPhoto Library so I started using Image Capture to download all my images and Movie clips. I actually like doing it this way a lot better. My movie clips are downloaded into my Movies folder where I then put them in a dated folder.
My photos are downloaded into my Pictures folder, where I then put them in a dated folder. I import the dated folder into iPhoto. I also keep all dated folders from photo downloads in the Pictures folder till I get enough Movie folders and Photo folders to fill a DVD. I burn them and then delete them from the hard drive.
This way I have the photos in iPhoto and I also have just the photos backed up to DVD.
The Movies I keep on the hard drive in their dated folders until I use all the clips for my iMovie projects for the Year. I then make sure they are all burned to DVD, then I delete those from my hard drive.
Using Image Capture to download images and video clips:
Open up Image Capture which is found in the Applications folder.
When it is opened, go to Image Capture/Preferences
Under the General button choose
Camera: When a camera is connected, open Image Capture.
The next time you connect your camera Image Capture will open.
In the window that opens you will see an Options button. Click on that button to set your options.
To find out more about Image Capture (it can do a lot more) Click on Help in the menu bar when Image Capture is open.
iPhoto: How to Change the "Open Automatically" Preference
If you find you can't change any of Image Captures preferences or can't access any drop down menus or they are greyed out, check to make sure Image Capture is loose in the Applications folder and not within a sub folder.

Camcorder vs. Digital Camera Video Mode

Hi,
I'm a newbie and I'm hoping this forum can help me. I have a Canon ZR45 Camcorder (18x Optical Zoom/ 360X Digital Zoom) (Yes, it's about 4yrs old) and a Canon SD750 that takes 30 fps VGA with a max 640x480 size.
I took a video of my new baby just playing around using both. In my mind, I would have thought the camcorder would have had better quality when played back in iMovie but when I looked at the clips side by side, the video from the Digital Camera looked much better and crisper. The camcorder video was pretty blurry. I cannot make sense of comparing the 18x optical zoom info of the camcorder as that is all i have to go by with it to anything more specific in terms of fps or resolution size.
Has the digital video gotten that much better over the years? I'm all for carrying as little as possible. Any comparison to newer camcorders in terms of overall quality?
Sorry for the long story, but thanks so much in advance!
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Digital camera's video feature has improved considerably. If you simply compare the video on the codec level many of today's digi-cams have better quality than aging DV format. But that is only part of the story.
TV vs Computer - If you shoot video for TV playback on mind, DV would probably yield better result because it is designed for TV and not computer displays, which is why they look bad on computers than on TV. Two have very different color and gamma characteristics. Conversely, to make digicam videos good on TV proper color correction should be done, or they tend to look too contrasty and harsh.
Motion rendering - Most digi cam videos shoot 30 progressive frames per second while DVs shoot 30 interlaced frames (or 60 fields) per second, so the motion rendering is smoother on DV.
Maunal control - Digital cameras have few if at all manual control for exposure or shutter speed of your video.
Zoom - Most DV cams at least have 10x optical zoom, while digital cameras olny have 3~5x optical zoom.
Audio - From built in microphone's quality to audio recording format, DV's audio is superior to digicam's mono low quality audio.
Accessorizing - Camorders have common threads (43mm, 72mm, etc) where you can screw in various filters or conversion/wide angle lens.
Portability and quick snap-ablity - pocket digital cams truly shine for this and maybe it's all needed. With your camera in the pocket you will have much better chance of capturing the moment of your baby's first step. Just make sure you have large memory card in it.
Perhaps camera like Sanyo's xacti HD700 would be a good hybrid. It is a digital camera with the stress on movie function than still image.
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Digital camera video importing as photos :(

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Info shows that all photos are jpeg. I double click and see a photo with out the opportunity to play/pause.
I did a test here are home:
1. Recorded 10 minutes of video in the panasonic digital camera
1a. Viewed the video in the camera and it is indeed video
2. Moved the card to the Canon camera (because I have the cable to import with that camera; lost cable for panasonic)
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3. Viewed in iphoto
4. Image is a jpeg still not avi video
Good advice not to delete the images on the card from iphoto, but I had success for years.
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Front Row Photos won't play digital camera videos

Hi,
Firstly, I'm pretty new to Macs but have been finding my feet with most of my new toy's functionality. I've encountered one problem that I can't seem to find an answer to and was hoping someone here would be able to help.
I've used iPhoto to import all of my old photos/videos from my digital camera and have arranged these into a mixture of events and smart-folders. When viewing these via the Photos menu in Front Row, the automatic slideshows play back all my photos just fine, but any videos that were taken at the same time are just shown as a black screen. When I say videos, I mean little video clips that were taken using the digital-camera (640x480 and 30fps).
A few other bits of info that may help with this;
- The videos play fine in iPhoto.
- The black screen appears for the same duration that photos are shown, rather than the length of the video.
- I created a Movies smart-folder, if I hover the selection over this item within Front Row, I'm shown a slideshow of the initial frame of the videos contained within.
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Am I trying to do something silly? Should the Photos section of Front Row not be used for video playback? Its a shame if that is the case, as they're memories of that event.
However, the fact that Front Row shows the black screen where the video should be gives me the impression that it is attempting to play it. Otherwise I would expect it to ignore all non-image file formats.
Any help with this would be hugely appreciated.
Cheers,
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Hi,
With a bit of additional searching I seem to have found an answer to my question. Unfortunately it's not the answer I wanted and this seems to be a known issue. The post I found that describes this is here;
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1380562&tstart=0
I'll be raising it in the feedback form.
Cheers,
Ian
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Sound with mgp digital camera video clips

I cannot get the sound onto my ipod, the Video clips from my digital camera are fine and play fine, but no sound

Hi bj1,
First off, are these video clips in a compatible format for your iPod? They will have to be in either one of these formats:
M4V, MP4, or MOV
If it is in one of those formats, then let's proceed onto resetting your iPod. To reset an iPod:
First, toggle your iPod's "Hold" switch back and forth a couple of times (make sure that you leave it on the white side of the switch, which is "Off")
Then, press and hold the Menu and Select (center) buttons together for 5-10 seconds.
You might need to try this several times before it ever ends up working for you.
For more effect when you reset an iPod, you could try connecting your iPod to a power source, like a wall charger or your computer's USB, while you reset the iPod.
If resetting doesn't seem to do anything, then I would suggest that you try reconverting these video files using a third-party program.
For example, you could use MPEG Streamclip, which I have heard is good, and not buggy software.
After you've converted those video files, delete the old ones off your iPod, and reload the video clips (the newly converted ones) onto your iPod again.
Does it work now after trying that?
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Invalid public movie atom with digital camera videos?

I've shot videos with my digital camera, uploaded through iPhoto and edited on iMovie HD before
but a couple weeks ago I have not been able to upload on IPhoto:
Open on Quicktime:
Or edit on iMovie HD:
My least concern right now is being able to watch these videos because I can view them on the VLC player.
I urgently need to edit them on iMovie HD for class projects and want to know why this "Invalid public movie atom" came out from nowhere.
Can it be fixed? I am desperate for help with some videos I shot today in class because I need to edit them for Tuesday
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I'm afraid I can't be of much help, except to tell you what the error means...
It means that at a very low level, something is messed up in your movie.
A QuickTime movie is made up of a heirarchy of containers, called "atoms". Atoms come in two varieties: atoms may contain other atoms, or they may contain data. The first four bytes of the atom give tthe length of the atom in bytes, the next four give the name of the atom, and the rest of the bytes are the data carried by that atom: either raw data or more atoms. The error is telling you that the structure of the movie is wrong, that the actual file does not match its description.
If you are truly lucky, then the problem is an invalid length specification for the top level "moov" atom. Normally, the first four bytes of a QuickTime movie give the length of the moov atom, which is equal to the total length of the file. Try making a copy of the movie and opening the copy with a hex editor. If the first four bytes are not the same as the length of the file, try fixing them and see if that repairs the movie. If not, then the problem is deeper and/or more complicated.
WARNING: Perform surgery ONLY on COPIES of your movies!
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Using high quailty digital camera video?

Hi everyone.
I just got a new digital camera, the Casio EX-S500 and it is a really great camera. The one thing that I am amazed at is how great the video is! I can't tell the difference between a a video camera's footage and my digital cameras footage. When I first got the camera, I had to download a little plug-in thing for Quicktime so that it would play the movie files. I did that... no problems. But when I import the videos into Final Cut Express HD, (the video files are AVI by the way), it will play fine in the Viewer, but when I put it on my timeline, it plays in the canvas the way it did before I got the plug in (A mostly black screen. You can't really make out anything thats happening in the video.) Any suggestions of how I will be able to edit with this?
Thanks a lot.
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The box of the camera does say that it uses MPEG-4 video, but look at the get info screenshot of one of the files: http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88/bballerdean/avi.jpg
I understand the whole process of getting MPEG video into Final Cut Express. I have MPEG Streamclip and use it all the time. The problem isn't the audio. It's the image. The audio is fine. Final Cut Express does not use the plug-in that I downloaded for Quicktime.
Here's what I'm talking about.
(In Quicktime)
Without the plug-in: http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88/bballerdean/2222222222.jpg
With the plug-in: http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88/bballerdean/4thattempt.jpg
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