User:Bjordan/1CC Camera

The 1CC video camera is a Canon FS100 A. A few well thought-out reviews

Quote from reviews:

Too bad because shallow lens setting makes it susceptible to glare.

The Mac, with iMovie '08 running, Will Import your files - but Only If:
* Only if the camera is plugged in and charging (Genius, Canon! Genius. Binding us to a power-supply. Genius, thoughtful, pure, pure genius.)
* Only if you turn the camera to the "video Play" mode, once attached via USB umbilical to the computer...
* And then, Only if you select the correct "output" source - You'll be asked - on the camera's fold-out viewer,
to choose the "output" source: DVD or Printer/PC. 

I noticed some serious light glare when we were at MNN, using their studio lights. I physically moved/angled the camera until there were no glaring lights causing vertical lines on the picture. TODO: make glare reducing ring around camera's lens.

Positives: Small, records onto SD (which the XO has a slot for), and has a USB port that makes the camera act as an SD card reader

Negatives: Camera wants you to use its proprietary (Windows) movie editor, naming its video files .MOD.

Instructions on using these .MOD files on a Mac are available here. This suggests using ffmpegX

Steps for Scripting

# Step 1 - get DarwinPorts 
sudo su
port install ffmpeg
# Crap, encountered DarwinPorts Bug 14960
# Old version of ffmpeg?
port -d sync
port clean ffmpeg
port install ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i MOV001.MOD -target ntsc-dv video.dv
$ ls -alh
-rwxr-xr-x    1 olpcgues  olpcgues       100M Jun 16 20:49 MOV001.MOD # Original mpeg2
-rw-r--r--    1 olpcgues  olpcgues       386M Jun 16 20:49 video.dv # Converted to RAW
# RAW Tested as playable in OS X Finder preview, Quicktime, iMovie

# Recorded ~20 minute long clip... was placed in only one .MOD file (GOOD!)
cp /Volumes/NO\ NAME/SD_VIDEO/PRG001/*.MOD . # About 45 seconds to copy w/ card reader
ffmpeg -i MOV001.MOD -target ntsc-dv clip.dv # Started at 9:16 PM
# 9:24 PM... done (but missed end)
ls -alh
-rwxr-xr-x   1 olpcgues  olpcgues        503M Jun 16 21:16 MOV001.MOD # Note: small because image was static
-rw-r--r--   1 olpcgues  olpcgues          3G Jun 16 21:24 clip.dv # .dv is huge

MOD file analysis

.MOD file console output (via mplayer):

MPlayer dev-SVN-r21482-4.0.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU            5150  @ 2.66GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
Terminal type `unknown' is not defined.
Playing /Users/olpcguest/Movies/2008 Summer/SD_VIDEO/PRG001/MOV001.MOD.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 2)  29.970 fps  9600.0 kbps (1200.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
O pening video filter: [scale]
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 256.0 kbit/16.67% (ratio: 32000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
AO: [macosx] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [macosx] 720x480 => 720x540 Packed YUY2 
  =====  PAUSE  =====

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