Hi, I have a new Canon Powershot IS3 camera. One of its features is it takes high-quality videos like a video camera. I am thrilled by this feature and have shot many videos with it, but when I play them back on my computer they are choppy, cut in and out, and just don’t play right. The sound usually goes ok while the picture is frozen at first and then the sound starts to cut in and out too, and the video moves a little then freezes and it goes on like that. I am hoping that it is just wrong settings on my computer and is something that just needs tweaking. I don’t really have much choice in how to shoot the videos except the fps setting and size. I am shooting in NTSC mode, and my computer is an American Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop with windows XP. The movies have been opening with Windows Mediaplayer, but there isn’t any menu bar to look at settings on the movie window. If anyone can help me solve this problem I would be very happy! Thank you. (My photos of course are fine)
Is this the camera you are talking about?
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/compare_post.asp?method=sidebyside&cameras=canon_s3is&show=all
If it is, then the video is not any different than most other compact digital cameras except for the stereo sound feature.
640h x 480v at 15/30 fps with stereo audio, unlimited
High quality video is more like 1080 lines horizontal resolution at 60 fps
If the video is jumpy it may be because you are shooting at 15 fps
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I would try getting a high-speed memory card, like the SanDisk Ultra or SanDisk Extreme line of cards. If you are shooting video, a high-speed card is a must. This will lessen the likelihood of the camera’s buffer being filled and disrupting the process of recording to the card. When a slow card is used, there is more info being taken in than the camera can write to the card. Some data will be lost, resulting in choppy audio or video. It’s like plugging up a toilet. With a high-speed card, data can be written to the card as soon as the camera records it. The card is able to keep up with the flow of data (audio and video) entering the camera.
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