Cannon FS200 Extremely Slow Import Speeds: Anybody have some thoughts on how to trouble shoot or speed up video file transfers off the camera to the computer?
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There are mentions elsewhere that the speed of the SD chip may determine download speeds. It should have a number (1-8?) on the chip. 4+ is supposed to be good.
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There are several options in the video output stream to let you see the video on a very slow connection. You can adjust the frames per second and the video dimensions. Making fps and the dimensions smaller do the trick. The higher the fps and dimensions, the better the quality. I've accessed these webcams on dial up (19.2kbps) and been able to see the output, but you pay the price in that it is choppy and small.
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Thanks for all the answers. Actually, I googled this and found out I could just drop and drag files using the Computer screen and that it working great to transfer the photos.Thanks again.
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On the HF200 I have found that the Cinema mode with 24 fps is showing excellet quality and clarity. The video is fantastic. There are a couple of HD settings with FXP 17 Mbps or MXP 24 Mbps. The FXP is great for most scenes and MXP would only allow 3 hrs of video recording on a 32GB memory card. An additional note: AVCHD video recorded in MXP mode cannot be used with the otpional DW-100 DVD Burner by Canon to create DVD discs. You must use FXP mode if planning to use this optional burner.
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I've done it the other way around. I shot something using a canon XAH! in SD mode using 24fps.I went into Premiere and created a new project using settings with 24fps. Captured the footage off the camera. Then I brought the video clip into the timeline. I then exported the workspace to media file,avi, with the setting 30fps. Came out good.
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Shutter lag seems minimal. But no Digital camera made so far can be as fast as my old Nikon F film camera simply because it takes a finite time to write the image to the SDHC card. With film recording the image on the film was instantaneous.
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Try turning off the LCD and changing the drive mode to continuous. I did this and the flash recycle time is about 4 sec.
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it is pretty fast in Program mode, but incredibly slow in the mode that takes a 4 second video before taking the still picture. Avoid that mode like the plague.
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My Mac is OS X 10.5.8 with iMovie 8. I received a FS300 for Christmas and just found a post re:uploading to a Mac (I will try it tomorrow after buying a SDHC card - a CLASS 10 speed card was also recommended) Hope this works!!! Getting This To Work With A Mac, November 25, 2010 By Occasional Reviewer "79o3wq48y7h" (Santa Barbara CA) - See all my reviews This review is for: Canon FS300 Flash Memory Camcorder w/41x Advanced Zoom (Silver) (Electronics) It is not obvious how to get video from the camcorder to a Mac: if you read the manual and try to install the software, you will reach the conclusion that it only works in a Windows environment. An email from Canon helped clarify things: just plug the camcorder into your Mac and you will be able to drag and drop the files. The .MOD files will be the ones you want. They need to write their manual more clearly, and make it crystal clear how to get the camcorder to interact with a Mac. Would have saved me 60 minutes, which cost me about as much as the camcorder itself.
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Same problem i have faced... the higher resolution video is jerky (stutters) while being played on a very fast computer. I tried copying it to my hard drive so that SD-Memory card reading lag time is been reduced, but to no benefit.
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The sound and focus on the video is very good. The sound and video are very clear. My biggest problem with this camera is taking pictures! The shutter speed is so slow. it takes a long time before you can take another picture. I don't know why this camera operate so slow? I've called Tech Support and they recommended that I reset the settings to default and use a fast SD disk. That solutions corrects the problem just a little. Instead of 18-20 second to take a picture it takes about 8-13 seconds.
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L. Davis - Are you sure VP8 solves the 2gb per clip issue that most people are having with this camera? That would be great and it would only stand to reason that the other software companies utilize the fix. Let me know.
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I use a D 70 and I have not seen any problem with transfer speed, even at seven fps. The only lag times I experience are when the camera is doing some calculating before it "cards" the data. That would be when I'm shooting a four shot burst for night photography or when I'm doing a bracketed exposure, but this would have to do with the cameras electronics and not the transfer speed. I personally don't know of a card that is any faster than this one, so my guess would be that it will handle your picture transfers noticeably faster.
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Sounds like a USB 2.0 speed. I get that same score on my USB 2.0 port on my Dell Monitor. When I use my Sony All in One USB 3.0 I get very fast speeds that copy 4 HD movies to a 32gb drive in about 4 minutes. It used to take 70 minutes.
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I never hooked up my fs100 to my computer, I just take the sd card out of the fs100 and put it into the card reader thats hooked up to the usb. then transfer via windows explorer, drag and drop or copy/cut and paste. it's very simple and fast this way.
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I cannot get files from the camera connected to the computer.However, using a usb card reader works perfectly. It only cost me a couple of dollars as well.
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From reading several other forums, make sure that you have the latest software (upper left apple > software update) for iMovie 08 or 09. I have not yet purchased the camera (waiting for the FS200 due out in April), but I also want to make sure that it will be compatible. Also iMovie HD has been superseded by iMovie 09.