Working with digital images

[Steven Cohen]

I bought a Kodak LS 753 digital camera for picture taking and movie clips. I can burn the the digital images onto CDs/DVDs and view pictures on my home DVD player (Panasonic S27) as they are in JPEG format. However my DVD player won't recognise the Kodak MOV format. I've emailed Kodak and they say many DVD players will play their MOV files but are unable to recommend any. Panasonic say that their DVD players will only play DVDs recorded on Pansonic DVD recording players.
Do you know of any DVD players that will play the Kodak MOV files once they have been burnt onto DVD? Or is their any software that will convert the Kodak MOV files into a format my DVD player can read?
I look forward to your reply

[Deb]

Hi Steven and welcome to the Q&A Board!

Wow, that's a frustrating problem. Have you tried taking your DVD to a local electronics store and "test driving" their demo DVD players?

(I've put in a support request to Kodak. If I hear anything different than what you were told, I'll let you know.)

[ShutterbugGail]

Or is their any software that will convert the Kodak MOV files into a format my DVD player can read?

Though many digital cameras have video modes, unfortunately we do not cover that aspect of them. As a result, our responses may not fully address your issue and we apologize. But we still try our best.  

Your DVD manual should explain the video formats it accepts (usually MPEG). It may also provide instructions about how to burn and save them onto a DVD disk, which may include a process known as finalizing the disk. MPEG is the required format for creating VCD, SVCD, and DVDs.

My Nikon camera also saves video in the MOV format. I ended up buying Apple QuickTime Pro to edit and save them to other video formats such as AVI, MPEG-4.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/pro/

There are many other programs that let you convert video; I decided to buy Apple's product because it was rather inexpensive compared to full-fledged video programs. Video editing is something I don't do very much. Many amateur photographers use Adobe Premier Elements for video editing.

http://www.adobe.com/products/premiereel/main.html

By the way, I believe the MOV format is not Kodak's, but Apple's. Kodak and other companies license the format from Apple to use in their digital cameras.

[Dr John Costella]

There are problems with Kodak's .mov files which means that QuickTime Pro may be the only option. I recently wrote up my experiences on my web site,

http://www.assassinationscience.com/johncostella/kodak

Kodak doesn't really want to know about it.

Disappointing.

JPC

[Peter Lescano]

I'm on the same boat....Can you confirm that quicktime PRO will convert .MOV to MPEG (DVD)

[ShutterbugGail]

I'm on the same boat....Can you confirm that quicktime PRO will convert .MOV to MPEG (DVD)

Hi Peter,

Welcome to the Q& A Board!

My Nikon camera creates .MOV videos and I'm playing around with it now to answer your quetion.

QuickTime Pro, which I have, does export to MPEG-4 (ISMA Profile 1). There are a variety of export options relating to video, audio, streaming and compatibility.

Hope this is the information you're looking for.

[mabbent]

I don't think the Kodak PhotoCD standard was ever meant to play Video's.  If your DVD player recognized a Kodak PhotoCD it will only display image files.

I use ULEAD Visual Studio 8 to burn VCD's and SVCD's.  The program first converts (mpeg4 convert very fast), then when there written to the disc there are *.DAT files.  

Also a sequence of photos can be saved as a video, you can set the duration that each photo is displayed and use pause/play on the DVD remote.