Canon elph 310, the .mov format and VideoStudio 5

[texasmaverick13]

I've got vacation photos in 1080HD from my Canon elph 310. I transfer the .mov files to my computer. Edit my video footage. Since a DVD player will only output at 480p or whatever, and the original files are 1080, I was thinking I could output the videostudio file at 1080 on the camera's memory card and have my camera connect to my TV since it will show movies at 1080 on the original movies on the memory cards. But it seems like I can't find the right setting in Videostudio so that the camera will recognize it. Or am I trying to do something that can't be done? I guess I could hook up my computer to my TV and maybe output my project in some sort of 1080HD format, but was thinking it would cool to show them from my camera. It's almost like when i move a .mov from the memory card and back to memory card, the cam doesn't recognize it. Has anyone run into this at all? What settings would I use to get a canon camera to recognize a movie outputted from videostudio at full 1080hd?

[BrianCee]

It's not just a case of putting a .mov file back on the camera memory card - it has to be put back into the correct folder in the correct folder structure or else the camera will not recognise it.

Have a look at the folder structure on the memory card in Windows Explorer on which you filmed the original footage - before we start looking for all sorts of setting or conversion errors can you confirm that when you put the edited video back on your memory card that it is inside EXACTLY the same folder structure as the original from your camera.

[Ken Berry]

Welcome to the forums!

Unfortunately, I cannot answer your specific question about the Canon, essentially because not all cameras are created equal. Nor are HDTVs... First off, I am not sure how many HDTVs can recognise the .mov format natively, and if yours can't and your camera only records in .mov format, then I guess that is your answer.

Can I also ask here which version of VS you are using. You say is is Video Studio 5, but if so, it is an ancient program more than 10 years old and incapable of "seeing" hd footage in any format. I suspect you may be using X5 -- that is Roman X for 10 plus 5, which in Corel speak is version 15...

Next, have you loaded Quicktime on your computer? QT is the program which installs the .mov codec but is no longer installed as part of Video Studio. That started in fact with X5 and was continued in the latest X6. Or did you install any software which came with your camera? That too is likely to have installed the relevant codec which in turn might be what is required to output video to your camera in the correct .mov format acceptable to the camera.

Do you have any kind of Blu-Ray player, including a PlayStation 3 (or recent XBox)? Again, though, I am not sure how many are rated to play .mov videos natively, though some might have a transcoder which can convert that video on the fly for screening on your HDTV.

Failing all that, and if you don't have a Blu-Ray burner but do have a Blu-Ray player, then you could always create what is called a hybrid or AVCHD disc in VS (Share > Create Disc > AVCHD). I would do my editing of the .mov, then first output to a new AVCHD file (Share > Create Video File > AVCHD), then use that new file to burn the disc. A hybrid disc has the advantage of being burned to a standard definition DVD using an ordinary DVD burner. But the downsides are that, since it burns the disc using the Blu-Ray BDMV folder structure, it can only be played back on a Blu-Ray player rated to play such discs. And if you burn using the highest permissible bitrate for AVCHD on such discs, which is 18,000 kbps, then you will only be able to fit around 20 minutes of AVCHD on a single layer DVD. But the quality is excellent and DVDs are cheap these days.

And failing even that, you could always edit and convert your .mov to high def AVCHD. Then depending on your HDTV, you could store the new file on a USB thumb drive and plug that directly into the USB port on your HDTV if it is rated to play video. (Recent models are usually rated to play AVCHD directly like this.) Or again if you have a Blu-Ray player connected to your TV, you could plug the drive into it and play the AVCHD that way if the TV does not accept it directly.

[texasmaverick13]

It's X5.

I learned more in that post than I could have ever imagined. Some good ideas there. Thanks!!!!!

[canuck]

I just did a quick test on my Samsung HDTV using a couple of mov files one of which was a 1920x1080 HD mov video file. I copied the two files to a USB stick, inserted the stick in the USB slot on the TV and both videos played fine.

[Ken Berry]

That's good to know. Thanks Canuck! As I said, I really had no idea and couldn't test it as my HDTV is just a bit too old to play videos directly. I wonder how many others have no trouble with .mov files...?