> I've just been comparing my new SX10's video with that from my previous device, a Fuji S2000HD.
The SX10 video is good quality for 640 x 480, but with H264 enclosed in Apple's *.mov container, is a rather large filesize per minute.
That is, 1 minute of video from the SX10 is about 84MB. But 1 minute of the Fuji's video at 640 x 480 is about 22MB. Yes, the Canon's video is rather better quality than the Fuji's - but hardly "4 times the filesize" better.
Converted to Standard MPEG4 the Canon video is under 30MB per minute.
An interesting comparison is that 15-min of the Fuji's 1280 x 720 HD-Lo video is 1,015MB (it stops below the 1,024MB for a VOB file.)
But 15-min of the SX10's 640 x 480 is just over 1.1GB.
There has to be a reason why Canon has quadrupled the filesize of the much more efficient H264 by putting it into the *.mov container - but it certainly isn't to "save space on HD-cards", or to make it easier to handle.
Canon does put a "MOV Decoder" device on the SX10's Software CD, but I don't see how that installs or works, using it on XP-Pro SP3.
If somebody can explain this - and the reason for using the *.mov container, I'd be most grateful.
Regards, Dave.
