Top 10 FAQ about Canon Video and Canon Camera

This article will help you solve 10 FAQ about Canon Video and Canon Camera.

Q1: “Is there a way to make it so everything is in focus, becuase the shallow depth of field annoys me sometimes, I am using Canon 550d dslr.”

Solution: Decrease your aperture, such as use f/11.

Q2: “I have a canon 60D that i recently bought with a class 4 16gb sandisk sd card and while trying to start a project everything was fine, but when i tried seeing the videos afterwards they wouldn’t show up. Now i can only see pictures and the vids are no where to be found.”

Solution: (only some suggestion)may be the card isn’t nearly fast enough for video, you can use a class 10 card – the fastest currently available. You can try a usb card reader. They’re not expensive, though we will not be surprised if something in the card is corrupted, it’s certainly worth a try.

Q3: “I recently bought a Canon EOS 600D (Rebel T3i), along with a 16GB Kingston Class 10 SD card.. Now I’m trying to shoot a 5-10 minute video on it right now. However, it frequently stops between 1-3 minutes saying “video recording has stopped automatically”, I was once able to shoot a 20 minute video. Any help would be appreciated!”

Solution: First, make sure you have formated the card first before making a video.if not, try formatting the card. Then, if the camera itself has limit on how much you can record. You can put together the pieces in a Mac video editor .


Tips:You cannot format a memory card on a computer, the camera you are using is the only place to format memory cards.

Q4: “See, the video was recorded with my Canon HD Vixia HG20 Camcorder. I recorded the video as 1080i, and it was 1920×1080. The video exports as MTS files, now I want to upload the video to Youtube, what should I do?

Solution: First, Youtube supports FLV well, you can convert Canon HG20 mts files to FLV, then upload to Youtube for sharing directly by following steps:
1:Click the Upload link at the top of any YouTube page.
2:Click the Upload video button to browse for the video file and select the file you want to upload and click Open.
3:As the video file is uploading, enter as much information about your video as possible in the relevant fields (including Title, Description, Tags, and Category). You’re not required to provide specific information, but the more information you include, the easier it is for users to find your video!
4:Click the Save changes button to save the updates you’ve made to the video file.

Q5: “Actually I have problem that my Canon HFR16 HD camcorder video can`t play on my simple monitor. please suggest me some HD video player for my normal monitor. please help me!”

Solution: VLC, ALLPlayer, MPlayer, Gom Player all can play HD video, if you are a Mac user, you can convert the HD video to MOV, DV, MP4 etc with Mac Canon Video Converter, then imported to Quicktime etc for playing.

Q6: “Is there a cheaper camera with similar video and photo quality to a Canon D7? And Video quality would be my top priority but I also need to take a lot of photos, since I am building a portfolio.”

Solution: You can choose Canon 600D/T3i or Nikon D5100. Video quality probably will not be an issue since no video uses more than 2 mp of the sensor (Full HD, 1080p) and less than 1 mp (HD, 720p). Canon t1i, t2i or t3i also good, the 60D is an amazing camera that will be totally up to what you want and need and then some, but it does not live up to the standards of the older 50D camera , however, the 50D does not have video, so it’s also not an option for you.

Q7: “How do I turn my video light for the canon vixia hg21. I purchased a Canon vixia HG21, and I cant figure out how to turn on flash/video light.”

Solution: (only some suggestion)Try searching the button on the top of your camcoder. Of course, it’s usually not a button but a setting in your camera. Probably you have to set the camera to “photo” and then in the settings find menu that let you choose from : auto – always flash -never flash or something like that.
Tips: The pictogram for flashing is a lighting-bolt, if you don’t see one in your display it means the flash function is disabled.

Q8: “what video formats of Canon camera, and how can I import the Canon video to imovie 11, Final Cut Pro x etc to Mac?”

Solution: In fact, video from Canon camera is always in MOV, MOD, AVCHD etc HD formats Which can not be widely accepted by Mac software or device, however, we can convert these Canon video to MOV, DV, MP4, then import Canon video to iMovie 11, Final Cut Pro X, Mac Lion etc easily.

Q9: “I got a canon t3i, but I cant open t3i video with windows movie maker. is there a way i can change the format so it can work? what program works with .mov files?”

Solution: You can convertt3i MOV files to Window Media WMV etc to Windows Movie Maker.

Q10: “All 1080p looks the same? For example, the Sony Bloggie MHS CM5 video in 1080p 30fps. Will this video look as good as like a Canon 7D or some expensive video camera? Can you label videos with MegaPixels, like 1080p 15 Megapixels?”

Solution:
In fact, not all 1080p is created equally. 1080p is roughly 2 Megapixels, however, that only measure a single field/frame of video.
There are two main factors when considering video quality resolution and data rate. The data rate tells how much data is contained in each second of video. Blu-ray quality video is about 4.5 Gbps making a standard 1080p movie about 30Gb (not including all the extra features)
Most Consumer level HD camcorders record 1080p at a data rate of about 20Mbps about 1/220th of Blu-ray quality. Yes the video is the same size, but major sacrifices are being made to achieve a high resolution at a low quality.
The Sony Bloggie MHS CM5 record 1080p at about 13Mbps which is about 1/350th of Blu-ray quality. While the Canon 7D shoots 1080p video at about 50Mbps which is about 4 times as high a quality as the Sony Blogger.
I usually shoot 1080 video at 280Mbps. So, no all 1080p video is not the same, and no the sony blogger will not do video anywhere near the quality of the Canon 7D.
Full HD on consumer/prosumer cameras works out around 2 Mega pixels, the Mega pixels count is for stills, although “Red” cameras will workout at 5120 (h) x 2700 (v) giving you roughly 14MP, but that camera starts at 25k.
So, its not the standards or media that determines the quality of the images.