Lea Murphy wrote: > Has anyone encountered video smear (a stripe or break in the video > frames) with a Canon D-10 underwater point and shoot? If so, what did > you do about it? > > Thanks. > > Lea Is the smear apparent when viewing the sequence in-camera or on the computer or both? If it's only apparent on the computer, try looking at it on another computer - old, damaged video drivers or CPU intensive codecs can cause or display faults in videos when they're viewed. Updating the video drivers or using a less demanding video viewer (or fresh, updated codecs) can fix this. If it's visible in-camera then I could only guess at there being interference (unlikely), a compression fault (possible but unlikely*) or a faulty camera. Compression faults are possible but I've not heard of any in modern cameras, they would be as a result of too much data (busy video stream, rapid transitions etc) overloading the codec to the point the video breaks down or drops frames. You can see this effect when 'grabbing' hi def video on the fly into a too-slow computer when trying to capture too large a format video using certain codecs - others compensate 'better' by just dropping frames.. Is there any chance you could post a still frame from the video for us to view? karl
