Problems with footage from Canon T2i

ArmidiloX wrote on 4/10/2011, 5:28 PM

I really want to start using my EOS T2i (dSLR) for some projects. I usually use it for photography obviously but it's also the best I have for cinematography. (I'm trying Movie Studio HD Platinum 10 for editing)

Today I recorded a little project with some friends with it and I'm trying to piece it all together but it is constantly having problems. It black outs and turns red randomly during a shot. Sometimes it doesn't have video. Sometimes the whole program crashes.

I'm not sure what to do but I really wanna use this camera for a fairly big project in the future but I can't have these constant problems. If anyone could help that'd be great.

Additional Info:
Video type is .mov and I the codec is a .h624
I'm running windows vista home premium with 4 gigs of ram (doubt that matters)
I shot on 1080p (24fps).

Comments

Eugenia wrote on 4/10/2011, 8:17 PM

Please download and install in parallel the latest Vegas Pro 10 TRIAL version. Don't worry, your Platinum installation won't get ruined. Now, try to edit on Pro 10. If it works great on Pro 10, then there are decoding bugs on Platinum 10 (which uses an older version of the Vegas engine compared to Pro 10), and there's nothing you can do about it apart from either upgrading to Pro 10, waiting for a free update for Platinum 10, or a possible future Platinum 11 paid upgrade. In the meantime, you can freely use Pro 10 TRIAL for 30 days.

dennisWAP wrote on 4/11/2011, 5:57 AM

I'm new here but did figure out what my problems from reading the help and a lot of the postings here. I might be giving you bad advice, but this is what I did. The problem is you need to match your project to the settings you shot your video in. And you need to resize your still shots to the same frame size your timeline project is. DO THIS BEFORE YOU DROP VIDEO or STILL SHOTS ONTO THE TIMELINE. Sounds like a pain but that's what I did and have no problem with Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 10. I shoot with a Canon 5D Mark II BTW. Also did the 30 day trial of Vegas Pro. Produced 2 movies 50 minutes long and burned to DVD in the highest setting allowable with Pro 10 before the program expired. That is the dream program to have, but the VMSP 10 works just as good as is more than sufficient for new user starting out. How do I know it works? I have done 3 movies burned to disc between 35- 50 minutes edited in VMSP 10. Maybe my projects worked because I shoot in 1080p at 30 FPS camera setting.

Also close MS Office programs especially Outlook before using VMSP 10. I always have Canon DPP and Photoshop CS5 running while using VMSP 10 and it doesn't seem to bother my editing, but then I have a lot of horse power in my PC.

Post your computer specs in your profile.

Good luck it works great for me.

ArmidiloX wrote on 4/11/2011, 5:43 PM

Alright I'll try out Pro 10.
Thanks for the advice.