Will I be able to import & edit?

[leszektrojanowski]

Hi there,

I currently have a copy of Corel Video Studio Prox2 that runs on my Windows XP. I'm planning to purchase a mini camcorder (KODAK Zi8 Pocket Video Camera) which, according to the specs, has video formats as: H.264 (MOV), AAC LC.

Will I be able to import and edit my recordings from the camera?

I don't want to convert mov files into different formats so the quality remains the same.

Regards,

Leszek

[Ron P.]

First you need to consider how much horsepower your PC has? Could you please go to your User Control Panel for the web board, then the Profile tab, and complete as much information about your system as possible?

To edit highly compressed video files, an enormous strain is placed on computer resources. For example AVCHD, which to date is the most compressed, and most demanding on resources to edit. It takes a minimum of a Quad-Core system to edit or play it back smoothly. While this camera does not record to that, (I think), it still uses a fairly high compression.

VS does not use the h.264 codec inside the MOV wrapper, instead it places it inside the MP4. You should be able to drop your MOV clips into the timeline, and edit them. One thing that VS is rather picky on, is the version of QuickTime you have installed. It seems that it errors on the most recent version. Most of the time reverting to a version around 7.6 should work though.

[immerjan]

I'm facing the same problem: How do I get the best quality out of my Kodak PlaySport?
X3 does not offer the same format for me to output the file, and I have tried with .mts and a very high bitrate, but the quality is always a lot lower than on the original files.
With the Kodak came a software from ArcSoft which seems to have the exact codec that Kodak uses, so the quality is ok (but of course the tool does not have the power of X3).
Is it possible to tell X3 that there IS a fitting codec on my pc and to use it?

Thanks in advance

[Ron P.]

VS generally will see and use the codecs that it finds on your PC. AFAIK there's no way to force VS to use certain codecs. What it is capable of using is found in the drop-down menu when setting up the attributes for creating your video file.

Have you tried using the QT (mov) format? I don't know what the quality will be like as I don't have any High-Def clips to test this out on..

1. Go to the Share>Create Video file, choose Custom.
2. In the Save as file type select QuickTime movie files.
3. Click on the Options button.
4. Go to the Compression tab, select MPEG-4 Visual.
5. Slide the Quality slider to the right to around 90-100%.
6. Go to the General tab, and select the radial beside User Defined, type in the sizes of your video clip, say 1920 x 1080.
7. Set the Frame rate, could be 30fps. The Frame type will only allow Frame Based.
8. Click OK, which returns you to the Create Video File dialog. Provide a name and location to save your video file.
9. Click Save, and render your video file.

You might also try a different setting for the audio, like 64bit Floating point.