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Posted by Anthona Susa on 12/05/05 10:16
> 1. Format a spare compact flash card in the Canon point and shoot
> 2. Put the formatted compact flash card in the laptop PCMCIA slot
> 3. Slide the 18 MB 1-minute AVI file onto the compact flash card
> 4. Place that compact flash card into the Canon PowerShot camera
> 5. Hook the analog A/V output from the PowerShot to the VCR input
> 6. Play (need to figure how) the AVI file on the Canon camera
> 7. Press the RECORD button on the VCR to create a 1-minute VHS
Well, I'm almost there; but I must've done something not right yet.
a. I formatted the CF card in the Canon PowerShot A95.
b. I snapped a junk photo & a junk 3-second video.
c. I next put that CF card into the PCMCIA CF adapter.
d. In WinXP, I could see the following file structure:
----> H:\CANON_DC\DCIM\100CANON\MVI0001.AVI
----> H:\CANON_DC\DCIM\100CANON\MVI0001.THM
----> H:\CANON_DC\DCIM\100CANON\IMG_0002.JPG
h. I copied over my AVI file onto that CF card.
i. I wasn't sure what to name it so I named it:
----> H:\CANON_DC\DCIM\100CANON\MVI0002.AVI
j. I wasn't sure what to do about the binary THM file.
k. I don't even know what a THM file is :(
k. So, I copied the first THM file and called it:
----> H:\CANON_DC\DCIM\100CANON\MVI0002.THM
m. I popped this CF card back into the Canon camera
n. I hooked the Canon NTSC AV output to the VCR RCA input
o. I turned on the VCR & TV & Canon Camera
p. I put the Canon Poweshot A95 in display mode
I have two problems to be solved:
1. The one test photo show up fine on the TV
2. But the 3-second test video just shows a single frame on the TV
3. The 60-second AVI clip I copied to the CF doesn't show up.
So, I now am left with only these two problems, the first of which I am
feverishly looking in the PowerShot A95 User Guide for the solution to; and
the second of which is a perplexing (to me) techical detail which doesn't
seem to be in the manual (I guess they didn't expect us to be moving files
from one camera to the hard disk to the PowerShot A95 for playing so we can
output from the A95 to a VCR for recording onto VHS tape).
Here are my current problems to resolve:
P1: How do we play an AVI video clip on the Canon PowerShot A95?
P2: How do we get the A95 to recognize an AVI copied over from the PC?
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