What causes choppy playback on a 5DII?

[col4bin]

Is it my memory card is not fast enough to record HD videos (it is a 30mb/s card)?

[beezwax]

choppy playback on the camera or on the computer?

[col4bin]

on my computer. I think I may have figured it out. I have 2 other applications that are accessing the HD so I think that is the cause.

[davidfig]

Full HD requires lots of horse power.

[canadianbacon52]

Yea, it might just be your processor can't keep up. What is it?

[danskim]

Yeah, most likely your computer can't handle it.

[beezwax]

are you playing it directly from the card or are you copying it to your harddrive and playing it?

[col4bin]

I pretty sure I had too many things running at once. It is fine now that I have shut down some applications.

My computer is a MacBook Pro 15.4" 2.33 GHz Intel C2D w/4 GB RAM so I think it is powerful enough. Playback is now smooth so all is good.

[YONG JIA LIN]

Good to you~~

[fred maurer]

Very glad to hear this. Thin king about a 5DII!

[KoolaGirl]

I am having the same problem with movies that I film with my 5DII. They look great on the camera, but once I play them on my computer they are very choppy.

[BrantG]

I am having the same problem with movies that I film with my 5DII. They look great on the camera, but once I play them on my computer they are very choppy.

If you have Adobe Premiere, you could try this guy's settings which work great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hllo1LMdh3w&annotation_id=annotation_433604&feature=iv

There is also a free utility called MPEG Stream Clip which these settings may also apply.

[KoolaGirl]

If you have Adobe Premiere, you could try this guy's settings which work great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hllo1LMdh3w&annotation_id=annotation_433604&feature=iv

There is also a free utility called MPEG Stream Clip which these settings may also apply.

What about Final Cut Express?

[BrantG]

Possible. I don't have a Mac, So I can't answer that one. I'm sure they should be pretty close.

[col4bin]

What about Final Cut Express?

There are books that among other things, will tell you the optimal settings for FCE and where files should be stored. Fast external drives connected via fire wire help.

[tekkie]

I just tried those settings in premiere elements 7 and it was way faster than the stock options I was using :)

these darn videos use a ton of power I have a pretty beefy machine and its still choppy even watching the raw video from a 4 disk Raid 5 ESATA system on a quad core 8GB computer

[osv]

all of those things are very lossy, the picture quality will take a serious nosedive... that quicktime h.264 encoder, in particular, is really bad... there are better h.264 encoding alternatives for the mac platform, at least one of which is now in the public domain.

i would question that the video from the canon 5dII is really that hard to play back on a computer, because if you look at the specs, it's not nearly as compressed as avchd is... we covered this in another thread, it has a higher bitrate, which is easier for the cpu to decode.

none of those things require a raid system, this is strictly a cpu decoding situation.

If you have Adobe Premiere, you could try this guy's settings which work great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hllo1LMdh3w&annotation_id=annotation_433604&feature=iv

There is also a free utility called MPEG Stream Clip which these settings may also apply.

[BrantG]

all of those things are very lossy, the picture quality will take a serious nosedive... that quicktime h.264 encoder, in particular, is really bad... there are better h.264 encoding alternatives for the mac platform, at least one of which is now in the public domain.

i would question that the video from the canon 5dII is really that hard to play back on a computer, because if you look at the specs, it's not nearly as compressed as avchd is... we covered this in another thread, it has a higher bitrate, which is easier for the cpu to decode.

none of those things require a raid system, this is strictly a cpu decoding situation.

Well if your purpose is to export them for viewing on the web, it really isn't that big of an issue. I would agree these settings aren't for extra processing but a final result for web.

Also, I don't have a Mac, so I have to work with what I have.

[osv]

be glad that you don't have a mac ;-) whoops, did i say that, lol

i think that it's handbrake that encodes h.264 for the mac?

[PAFC2004]

I'm having problems with a Q6600 and 4Gb of RAM.. Very choppy playback.... any suggestions?