Adding video clips

Michelle75 wrote on 11/23/2006, 12:05 PM
I am having trouble adding video to my movie. I recorded my best friends delivery and I have all the pictures so i'm trying to compose video and pictures to my movie. When I add my video I get the sound but not the video. I'm still new to this whole thing i've got the whole picture thing down pat done made some movies but not been able to add video. The recording was done on my digital and i've put it in a folder with the pictures. Any help or suggestions would be great. Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

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ScottW wrote on 11/23/2006, 2:41 PM
by "on my digital" is it safe to assume you did this on your digital camera? If so, the movie clips are probably in MJPEG format and unless you have codec installed that will decode MJPEG, you aren't going to be able to access the video in VMS.

I know this used to work, but not sure if it still does - if you go to the MainConcept web site and download their MJPEG stuff, the decoder will work without puchase, even though the encoded will watermark things - but since you don't want to encode with MJPEG anyway, that should be fine.

--Scott
Michelle75 wrote on 11/23/2006, 3:13 PM
yea I recorded on my camera. The file is a THM.. So i'm probablly not going to be able to add it to the movie? I'm the only one who has the birth recorded is there anyway to get it onto a cd or dvd for them to have?
MSmart wrote on 11/23/2006, 4:51 PM
Mihcelle, what type/model camera did you use? If you go into the menu, can you see what the settings are for video. Let us know.

More than likely, what you have is an AVI type-1 file. It will need to be converted to AVI type-2.

Do a "convert avi type 1" Search to see some threads discussing the issue.
Michelle75 wrote on 11/23/2006, 5:42 PM
well when i click on properties it says its a thm file so i don't know where else to look to see if its a avi i tried to get it to open with real player and it made another copy of it right next to mine and it says its a sfk file but it also says mvi_1675.avi.. so i'm not sure.
IanG wrote on 11/24/2006, 1:55 AM
I haven't been able to find detailed instructions for getting your video on to the PC from the camera, but it it looks like there are 2 files involved - the thm that you've already got and the "real" video. Appearently you need the thm file as some sort of index. Can you describe how you're trying to capture the video, please - it might give us a better idea of where things are going wrong.

Ian G.
Chienworks wrote on 11/24/2006, 5:12 AM
I am almost absolutely certain that the .THM file is not the file you want. It's merely a tiny thumbnail version of the video. There should be another file on the camera somewhere with the same name .AVI as the extension. This is the file you will want to use. According to the manual this file uses the MJPEG codec, so you'll have to download and install MJPEG on your computer.
MSmart wrote on 11/24/2006, 9:10 AM
"mvi_1675.avi."

That's the file you want. I have a Powershot A80 cam and recently shot some video with it. I was able to drag the AVI file into VMS 6 and 7 and got sound.

Try that and it should work.

btw, the way I got the file onto the computer is the same way I download pictures. I use Canon's ZoomBrowser > Camera Window after placing the CF card in my PCs 5-in-1 reader.
Chienworks wrote on 11/25/2006, 12:46 PM
My primary requirement for a digital camera is that it act as an external drive when i connect it to a USB port. With both my cameras, i plug it into USB, turn it on, and Drive F: shows up in explorer showing all the pictures as .jpg files ready to be dragged to my hard drive.

I never even unsealed the envelope containing the CD of software that came with the cameras. Direct filesystem transfer is far far better, simpler, faster, easier.