Video on 7D question

[Rainyday]

I tried shooting video on my 7D but it came out very choppy. I was set on Apeture, wide open. Lousy lighting-indoor sports. How do I get rid of the choppiness, or was it just because of the poor lighting and fast action?

Thanks!

[00dahc]

Research the 180 Degree Rule and it should teach you most of what you need.

This isn't a camcorder, you have to follow some rules to get correct video :)

[Trey T]

what was your exposure setting?

was the choppy play-back viewed on the camera or your computer?

[basroil]

what was your exposure setting?

was the choppy play-back viewed on the camera or your computer?

+1, unless your computer is a core 2 duo 2gh or faster, or has windows vista/7 with DXVA, you will have dropped frames in fast moving scenes due to compression requirements of the video

[Rainyday]

Thanks guys! I played it again on the TV and it worked fine. So, the computer is at fault. ;)

[rondo221]

Research the 180 Degree Rule and it should teach you most of what you need.

This isn't a camcorder, you have to follow some rules to get correct video :)
LOL-this has absolutely nothing to do with choppy video.. wow. Have you researched the 180 degree rule? Unless there some new ruling Ive never heard of. Sorry but this made me burst out my coffee as I read it. :D

[Trey T]

^it's alright Rondo. Be mature about it, though. no need to bust someone's balls. Just think of it as a general tip for everyone for exposure setting and it's a good tip.

[rondo221]

mia culpa. no harm meant.. just posting my amusement.
my apologies.

[Bruce Foreman]

Thanks guys! I played it again on the TV and it worked fine. So, the computer is at fault. ;)

A lot of computers can't handle the 7D's H.264 files. Especially at 1920x1080.

It will take at least a fast dual core processor, even quad core machines can have some trouble. For simple viewing download a free player called VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html).

For editing you may need to convert the .MOV files to something else.

[basroil]

It will take at least a fast dual core processor, even quad core machines can have some trouble. For simple viewing download a free player called VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html).
Unless you are running a two way dual opteron from 2005, any quad core system can software decode h264.

And VLC is great, except for playing h264 used in 5d and 7d. Use Media Player - Home Cinema Edition instead, it supports DXVA decoding so your GPU does the work instead of the CPU. If you are one of those unlucky souls who have an ati HD 2600 and a crappy dual core pentium, then you can still play 1080p just fine (though just barely, likely at 100% cpu and a few dropped frames, but not a large enough number to call it choppy.)

[00dahc]

LOL-this has absolutely nothing to do with choppy video.. wow. Have you researched the 180 degree rule? Unless there some new ruling Ive never heard of. Sorry but this made me burst out my coffee as I read it. :D

I read the question wrong. Chill.

[Fahad79]

OP: what's your computer specs?

[nzvegan]

Probably need to upgrade your computer hardware. If they can't handle the small compressed files, then once you transcode and the files multiply in size many times over...your computer definitely won't handle these...

[LSV]

Probably need to upgrade your computer hardware. If they can't handle the small compressed files, then once you transcode and the files multiply in size many times over...your computer definitely won't handle these...

Or use something other than quicktime. My desktop is ridiculously fast (eight 5dmkii videos playing all at the same time and still have <50% cpu use), and it skips all the time if I let quicktime do anything

[nzvegan]

Or use something other than quicktime. My desktop is ridiculously fast (eight 5dmkii videos playing all at the same time and still have <50% cpu use), and it skips all the time if I let quicktime do anything

This is true, QT is definitely an application built for mac :) . .But I have a mac (and a PC), and find it invaluable (QT Pro) and makes it way into the workflow quite often.