STICKY: What more do I need to make 5DII videos work???

Hey everyone...
I have been having a hard time with my 1080P videos!

System:
Intel Core 2 Duo
4gb ram
XP Pro
ATI 512mb HD card (4800 series that recognizes 1080P)
Lots of fast hard drives
System is optimized for graphics and is not used for anything else
(all drivers up to date as far as I know)

I run CS4 suite, I have Sony Vegas, ans well as Adobe Premiere Elements.

Basically the standard files from the 5DII work fine. The 1080P files either skip, ALOT, or do not play correctly. However they play fine in camera, and play fine if I send them out to a TV.

I updated to the latest version of Quicktime, and now quick time crashes every time I try to play the videos. I fully uninstalled and reinstalled quicktime twice and still nothing.

VLC won't even play the 5DII videos at all. Same issue inside any of the video editing programs.

What could possibly be preventing this from running??? Even short clips won't play. In the mean time I work with massive 1gb panoramic files and edit and render effects, etc... on them very quickly! Thanks!

There are many things that could be the problem. I would recommend a re-install of Windows as the cheapest and easiest option. Spyware and general pc crap can cause a pc to slow down enough to stop 1080P movies from working properly.

Your next option is to upgrade to a 64 bit operating system. This will enhance your video "bottleneck" and will also utilise your 4gb Ram. I would also make your working directory in the C drive; and then transfer the files off that to the other drives once they are done.

Hope that helps a bit.

I have no spyware and all that stuff as this computer is strictly graphics. It doesn't "browse the web." I don't run general PC programs or have extras running. Only graphics.

My C: drive is operating system only.
Programs run from a separate dedicated drive.
All files are stored on separate internal drives.
All drives are 7200rpm SATA.

Everything is kept clean, fully defraged every couple days.

I will be building a 64 bit machine either late this year or next. Right now I have the 3G command line enabled so I can use 3gb. If I go 64 I will be using a lot more than 4gb!

I also have a dedicated machine for audio production, and "two general use." None of these machines will play back a file. I figured the normal ones because I have all my internet protection stuff on them, etc... But a dedicated machine?!

Could this really be a windows issue?

From what I've been reading, these MOV files are extremely processor intensive due to the high bandwidth (around 40mb/sec) that the files are encoded at. I had a dual core laptop with dedicated video card and I had choppy playback of the videos.

I recently built a new machine using the i7 processor, 12GB of memory and a nVidia 260 graphics card. The videos now play extremely smooth. However when trying to edit them in Adobe Premier CS4, the videos start to play back choppy.

I've seen it thrown around that Adobe has some issues with their products, Quicktime isn't designed to run as well on a PC..etc. I'm not sure who is right. While I believe h264 was the best codec to use, I'm wondering if they went overboard on using 40mb/s. Most Blu-rays don't even come close to that.

It's unfortunate that the speed of video technology is moving faster than home PC's.

You need something crazy to be able to edit a movie of large size.

That's amazing. I have been around audio for years. Now we are streaming huge multisample libraries through RAM and eat through hard drives for lunch! Mandatory defrags daily! Multitrack audio at insane bit rates...constant data write, playback, erase, edit, etc... all happening at once!

I am amazed that I can do all that stuff on machines I thought were under-equipped, yet still gave professional results. No problem.

This video stuff is insane! I can't justify building a system for video since I don't really have use for it at the moment. We'll see...

the 5D clips play fine on my machine using Zoom Player. I currently have a GTX 260 SSC in my machine. Sending it in to get a GTX 285.

buy a macbook pro sorry - but it works fine on my machine.

Jesse Webb wrote in post #7408695
buy a macbook pro sorry - but it works fine on my machine.

Same on my iMac.

I guess it may be something simple such as you're on NTSC drop frame or PAL or something that is causing a mismatch. Could be that you have audio at 48k etc etc....

Final Cut 6 recognizes a new format being plonked on the time line and asks if you'd like to have it set itself for that. I don't know if Vegas makes it that simple?

Are you streaming the video from a USB drive? That will cause issues if it's not reading fast enough. In my old Windows video editing days the swapfile used to be an issue. Is video writing/reading from the system disk? Etc etc etc...

Even Mac's aren't perfect but I'm finding very few hassles compared to the Hell I had to put up with Bill Gates' system.

echo wrote in post #7416983
Same on my iMac.

I guess it may be something simple such as you're on NTSC drop frame or PAL or something that is causing a mismatch. Could be that you have audio at 48k etc etc....

Final Cut 6 recognizes a new format being plonked on the time line and asks if you'd like to have it set itself for that. I don't know if Vegas makes it that simple?

Are you streaming the video from a USB drive? That will cause issues if it's not reading fast enough. In my old Windows video editing days the swapfile used to be an issue. Is video writing/reading from the system disk? Etc etc etc...

Even Mac's aren't perfect but I'm finding very few hassles compared to the Hell I had to put up with Bill Gates' system.

Don't blame Bill Gates. He isn't the one responsible. PC are much more powerful in terms of hardware than Macs. I believe the responsibility falls on the programs not utilizing hardware or problems with the h264 codec used and not being correctly understood on the PC. Which would mean a software problem(not windows) in both senses.

part of the problem is working with a mac format(.mov) on a windows pc... apple did a less than perfect job of cross-compatibility, google up "quicktime gamma shift" for more info.

the smartest thing that pc users can do is to bail out on the mac format b.s., and transcode the 5d footage to a lossless intermediate codec that can be played back easily... cineform neo scene is only $129, you can take a look at it for free with the trial evaluation... the "crushed blacks" that he is referring to is the qt gamma shift garbage, it was incredibly stupid of canon to record the video in the .mov format:
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We have uploaded a new release of Neo Scene today that handles the camera's dynamic range in a much or convenient way, avoiding those crush blacks and clipped highlights. We have extended the trial another 7-days for those who have tried the tool before.

Neo Scene
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Don't be so quick to reinstall Windows!

The solution is right here:

http://www.snappertalk​.com …-video-playback-with-vlc/

BINGO!

Instant FIX! Now my videos don't even take more than a second to load up and play perfectly!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Before this, the videos would take forever to load as well. I figured it was due to the 300+ mb size. Now with the VLC option set, videos open and play instantly!

Now its time to get an editor reinstalled on here and start making some music videos!

mellowd wrote in post #7431268
Don't be so quick to reinstall Windows!

The solution is right here:

http://www.snappertalk​.com …-video-playback-with-vlc/

Blue S2 wrote in post #7431556
BINGO!

Instant FIX! Now my videos don't even take more than a second to load up and play perfectly!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Before this, the videos would take forever to load as well. I figured it was due to the 300+ mb size. Now with the VLC option set, videos open and play instantly!

Now its time to get an editor reinstalled on here and start making some music videos!

Glad it worked. This should really be a sticky somewhere...

OMG, fixed it for me. It works fine on my main computer, but everything else didn't work good, now they all do. Thanks!