Thread: Making movies with a digital camera

Originally Posted by echnidna

What size image frames are needed to make a movie suitable for TV viewing.

Well, the answer is subjective. My camera comes with an AV cable so it can replay directly on a TV through AV inputs. The default movie mode frame size is 320 x 240. High quality movie mode is 640 x 480. We recently shot a short movie at a zoo park in the default 320 x 240 mode and I thought the playback quality on TV was quite acceptable. Considering that most of it was shot at high zoom factors and late in the afternoon, I was pleasantly surprised.

640 x 480 would obviously give better image quality but the frame rate would suffer as well as the available recording time for a given memory card size. In short, I think 320 x 240 is probably good enough.

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Coldamus

Thanks.
The grandkids made a coupla movie clips so I thought I'd play with them in windows movie maker but it doesn't handle .mov format

Originally Posted by echnidna

Thanks.
The grandkids made a coupla movie clips so I thought I'd play with them in windows movie maker but it doesn't handle .mov format

You need Quicktime installed to play them or

You can convert them to .avi then they will load into movie maker


For info see

http://www.videohelp.com/mov2avi.htm

Get Radtools here
http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm

You also need Quicktime installed
http://www.quicktime.com/