5dmk II Video playback on pc

[korys_ins]

<p >Just got my new 5dmkII camera when I tried to watch a recorded video on my pc with 1080dpi the movie is jerky and not in sink I copied the file to my hardrive still the same problem I’m using window media 11 and also tried QuickTime same problem my machine running is Intel p4 3.2 and 2 gig ram video card is ATI radon 640 mb all in wonder DDR . I wonder if there is a plug-in or Codex that i need also I tried to burn it as a DVD Movie using nero but nero wont recognize the video format any feedback will be appreciated . the movie play fine using the camera .</p>

[richie_boone]

<p>you need a fast machine the play the full hd files.<br>

not sure about imovie, but to work with the native codec in final cut pro i convert the files to apple pro res 422. the is a free program you can get called mpeg stream clip.</p>

[angel_bocanegra]

<p>If you search for previous post you will learn that even with the fastest PC available today, you will not be able to view the movie with windows media or quicktime. If you have a mac no problem. Serch google for the freeware called VLC, that progam plays the movie files smoothly but you need to configure it first. Or just buy a mac like I did. Good Luck.</p>

[PuppyDigs]

<p>Not sure what an "Intel p4 3.2" is but my 5DII movies are smooth as silk on both my Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66Ghz (8GB RAM) and Core Duo 2.2Ghz (4GB RAM) Macs.</p>

 

[korys_ins]

<p>Puppy Face what program are you using to run the movie</p>

 

[angel_bocanegra]

<p>John, puppy has a mac. 5d mkii movie files are native to mac, quictime will play fine just to view and fcp pro or imovie will edit flawlessly. with a pc(windows op) you need to convert the file to another format first before you can edit.</p>

[elliot1]

<p>The VLC media player will solve your problem. My computer is a couple of years old and plays back the video perfectly with this program.</p>

<p>Download the latest from videolan.org and do the following:</p>

<p>H.264 codecs are pretty CPU intensive and VLC can't use multi-cores to decode it yet.<br />1. Open Tools/ Preferences<br />2. Click Show settings = All<br />3. Go to "Input/Codecs<br />4. Go to "Other codecs/ FFmpeg" subcategory<br />5. Set "Skip the loop filter for H.264 decoding" to ALL<br />6. Restart VLC</p>

 

[markonestudios]

Good to know. I have VLC and for sure it sorts out all my out-of-sync movies when I come across them :)

[model mayhem gallery]

<p>Hello John<br>

I had the same problem on my Dell laptop. I found the problem to be my hard drive not being fast enough. I resolved this by purchasing a Seagate Free Agent 1.5 TB ESATA external hard drive. This drive is fast enough that I can now play my files copied from the camera to HD using Quicktime no problems. My editing tool of coice which works well on the PC is Sony Vegas Platinum Pro. I am also able to play files through that with no problems. I tried a MAC for the first time and did not like it at all. IMovie was very hard to export back out to other programs. Video is not so much about the OS as the resources. Any machine with the most memeory, Fastest Hard drive, and Fastest CPU will be the best. I.E, A 64 bit Dell with an ESATA hard drive will be faster than a MAC book pro with internal Hard Drive.</p>

[steve_wagner1]

<p>"fcp pro or imovie will edit flawlessly. with a pc(windows op) you need to convert the file to another format first before you can edit."<br>

<br /> Nonsense, I'm editing 5d2 movs on a PC with Vegas as we speak. Typical Mac BS</p>

[PuppyDigs]

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<p>Nonsense, I'm editing 5d2 movs on a PC with Vegas as we speak. Typical Mac BS</p>

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<p>Sounds like you're on the defensive and have resorted to stereotyping and negativity. Cool, you got it goin' on baby!</p>

[philip_wilson]

<p>It may be a RAM problem you need at least 3GB RAM according to Canon. I have not have great sucess on laptops but I only use very small (physical size) ones</p>