Video on a Canon 550d

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Hi,

I bought my Canon 550d a few months ago as an upgrade from my Canon 1000d. I have experimented with the photo aspect of the camera a lot and today whilst watching a motorsport event decided to delve into the video side of the camera. All went well whilst using it on the event, however I encountered a problem when I tried viewing the video clips on my laptop afterwards.

On the camera, the video quality was superb and crystal clear, however on the laptop it was jumpy, massively pixelated in places (small blocks of the picture was missing in different places as the video played on...replaced by green, blue, black, red etc bits in the picture).

I am at a loss as to what this could be. So far I have thought it may be the memory card I am using (Sandisk Ultra II 8GB 15mb/ s) which is the same one I used with the 1000d. Would I need to upgrade to a Video HD memory card or is there something else that i can do to sort this?:thinking: Help!:shrug:

p.s. not sure if it makes a difference but I use the built-in SD card reader on my laptop to upload media from the camera.
 
what software are you trying to play it in?

how good/bad is your computer? If it's just a netbook type laptop or whatever, it won't be able to cope with 1080p playback.
 
I tried it in Windows Media Player.

Its a really good Dell studio laptop with a 17" screen...high memory/ resolution etc with Windows 7.
 
mmmm I also tried my 550d in video and had the same results I have a high end HD Acer lappy and used a SanDisc extreme HD Video 20mb/s with the 18-55 kit lens.

I have no answer either, I tried mine at a roller rink not lit very well if that makes a difference?

Windows media player was bad
Nero9 played OK
Try VLC player its free and it looked best
 
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Download splayer for free and use it to open the original .mov files. If your laptop is running anything less than 2gig ram then it will struggle with the large files that the 550d throws out.

hope this helps......
 
Just checking but.. you copied the video to the hard disk right? And not playing it straight from the SD card?

And don't use Windows Media Player.. would recommend VLC or even quicktime for h.264 video..
 
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