Thanks for the responses. I'll try to post a clip or frame tomorrow.
The offending camera belongs to a friend who bought hers because she
loved mine.
I really appreciate the help on this as does my friend.
Lea
life is short. photograph it.
On Jan 26, 2010, at 1:09 PM, karl shah-jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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
