Stitch and movies info lost in copy

[suemccartin]

Just got my G2, haven't had a lot of time to play with it yet however I do seem to detect that stitch and movie files must be read directly off the cf card either through a reader or via the camera or the stitch and movie info is lost in the copy to a hard drive.

Seems kind of silly that this info isn't encoded into the file header but it's apparently not. If you copy files off the card yourself to your hard drive, the stitch and movie info seem to be lost. I'm concerned about this because I'm trying to get a digital wallet, fotoshow, something along those lines and I'm going to use stitch and movie mode alot I think. I want to be able to back up those files, clean off the card and shoot more without worrying about losing those shots. Anyone figure this out? I see that extra folder on the card, does that have anything to do with the stitch or movie files?

[Mind Socket]

What stitch or movie info?

[suemccartin]

There's some kind of extra file in the folder with the pictures I think (or there seems to be anyway). Anyhow, if I copy the files off the card to a directory on the hard drive I don't get the stitch options and the canon software doesn't offer to make the avi movies out of the movie shots anymore, I have to read straight off the card first.

[Mind Socket]

What software are you using to:
a) copy the files?
b) work with them?

For b) I'm guessing zoombrowser and photostitch?

[suemccartin]

Well, when I copy them, I'm just using windows xp to do a "select all," "copy" then I "paste" them into a folder on my desktop so I can find them. Then I use canon's software to work with them. When i copy this way, the photos all come up ok but I don't get the little green stitches across the tops of the photos inside the zoom browser like I do when I read directly off the card. And the software also doesn't automatically produce the .avi file off the shots made in movie mode.

What prompted all this is that all I used to have was the card reader built into my hp p1000 printer (usb 1 reader) and it is annoyingly slooooowwwww on those big picture files. Now I've got a firewire CF card reader (god what a difference, pricey-but worth it) so it's not so slow anymore but I still want to get either a fotoshow or a digital wallet to empty my cards onto when I go on a trip and i don't want to have to worry that my stitch shots and my movie shots aren't going to come out because they were dumped off the card and not processed by the canon software directly.

I hope I've explained it a little better now.

[ken-w]

suemccartin wrote:
Well, when I copy them, I'm just using windows xp to do a "select all," "copy" then I "paste" them into a folder on my desktop so I can find them

I don't have Windows XP (so I could well be wrong :D ) - but the problem might relate to the process you are using of copy and paste. This seems to indicate you are copying to Window's buffer and this could well change the files. Why don't you just drag the files into the folder you want (i.e. a direct file copy - not a copy & paste).

I have a G1 and Windows ME and taking files from a card reader doesn't loose any info (although I'm not sure what you mean by the marks on the stich photos - with the G1, the camera names the stich photos as STA, STB, STC, etc. to indicate the sequence). AVIs come out as AVIs.

[Claytonian]

I think I understand what you're talking about here.

When using Zoombrowser and the camera interface to download your images, if you hover over a series of stitch images, the images are connected with a "squiggly" line. This tells you they are a series and gives you an option to go right to Stitch Assist. I was also concerned about this when I went on vacation last month. I thought I would have to transfer the images from my Image Tank back to the camera CF just to get them to show up as a stitch series. You do not have to do this. All I had to do was simply download the images from my Image Tank to my PC. Then you open the Stitch Assist program directly and browse for the series of pictures (easy, since they are named with the STA, STB, etc.). Choose all the pictures you want to stitch together and it works the same way as usual.

This is kind of long winded, but I think it is what you are wanting to know. Hope it helps!