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Posted by Anthony Susa on 12/06/05 07:23
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 18:16:01 -0000, Martin wrote:
> Have you succeeded yet?
> I had an idea - analyse the videos produced by your Canon with say AVIcodec.
> Then do your best to convert the Nikon video to the same format that the
> Canon produces and of course - plays back....
> http://avicodec.duby.info/
Hi Martin,
Thank you for your caring, concern, and advice. You are not like the many
others who have nothing to say and even less to offer (yet they blabber
about nonetheless).
Yes, I succeeded. Thanks to you. Within the alotted time frame too! Again,
thanks to none other than you. First, necessity being the mother of
workarounds, I simply played the AVI on the IBM laptop and recorded that
session with the Canon PowerShot set on a tripod facing the laptop.
Obviously quality suffers but the end result was good enough for a 4th
grade presentation. But, even though I was successful in solving the
immediate problem, I was unhappy with having to resort to a healthy dose of
duct-tape ingenuity.
So, taking a lesson from the fact that IrfanView lossless-rotated JPEG
files were unusable in the Canon camera yet the original files were just
fine ... I converted the original AVI to a variety of formats and then back
to AVI. After saving a dozen or more of these converted files, I slid them
all onto the compact flash card, taking care to name each one sequentially
and taking care not to have any conflicting prefix names even though there
were no corresponding suffix names.
For example, if there was an OOO1 JPEG, then the next file was an 0002 AVI
even though there was no conflicting 0001 AVI on the compact flash card.
The good news is that of the dozen or so converted AVI files written to the
compact flash card, a good handful worked just fine! Whatever loss of
quality resulted was not discernable by me at the time. Once the Canon
camea recognized the foreign (multiply converted) AVI file, the rest was a
cinch.
I just played out the Canon camera AV analog port into the analog VHS RCA
inputs (mono + video).
Thank you again, Martin, for stepping above the rabble to provide not only
help and advice, but encouragement. It's so easy for those who provide
nothing to banter aimlessly in a charade of contribution - but it's a true
master technologist who provides the key that unlocks the technological
solution.
Thank you Martin for rising above the rabble!
Tony Susa
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