AVI vs Quicktime

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  • 07-06-2004, 07:03 AM
    calval50
    AVI vs Quicktime
    I am shopping for my first digital camera and was wondering if anyone would mind giving me some advice? I am looking at the Cannon A75 and the Kodax DX7440. The Cannon records video in AVI and the Kodak records in Quicktime. I borrowed a friends Cannon and took a bunch of short videos and put them all together using Movie Maker and Sonic MYDVD and it came out pretty good. So what I am wondering is, can anyone tell me which movie format is better AVI or Quicktime? Is one better quality then the other?
    Thanks, Val
  • 07-06-2004, 07:33 AM
    Sebastian
    It's totally irrelevent.

    Quicktime and AVI are both containers for all sorts of different CODECs. It's the quality of the CODECs that will dictate the quality of the video.

    No matter what, digicam video quality is abysmal, and should not be a consideration when purchasing a camera. If you need good video, then you should be purchasing a video camera. Otherwise, the still camera qualities should come before the video qualities.
  • 07-06-2004, 10:15 AM
    calval50
    It isn't irrelevnet to me. I realize the still qualities are more important than the video and I think both of these cameras have good video qualities even though the Kodak is 4MP and the Cannon is 3.2Mp. But I still would like to know more about the differance between the video qualities because I will also be using it for that and I don't care to buy a video camera.
    Thanks, Val
  • 07-06-2004, 11:05 AM
    Sebastian
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by calval50
    It isn't irrelevnet to me. I realize the still qualities are more important than the video and I think both of these cameras have good video qualities even though the Kodak is 4MP and the Cannon is 3.2Mp. But I still would like to know more about the differance between the video qualities because I will also be using it for that and I don't care to buy a video camera.
    Thanks, Val
    Sorry, should have made it more clear. My post is two sections, first, I was stating that comparing AVI to Quicktime is irrelevent, the two formats are not indicative of quality, they are just containers for different methods of storing the video. There are many different CODECs used for storing video, and they can be stored in either AVI or QT files. If you knew what CODECs were used by each camera, that would be a valid comparison. You can't just compare AVI to QT. (CODEC stand for enCOder/DECoder, pieces of software that encode and decode the video stream, all use different algorithms, some are better than others at different types of video)

    The second part was just my personal thoughts on the subject of video in still cameras.

    I should have been more careful to make that clear, I apologize for the confusion.