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Downloading back onto my Kodak ZI8

Dec 21, 2010 2:43AM PST

My hope is to edit videos caught with the ZI8 and then copy them back onto the ZI8 so that I can play them on my HD TV.

I have tried saving movies back into Quicktime .mov format, but when they are copied onto the ZI8 they don't even show up.

I know that a couple of people on this forum claim to have solved this problem but they have not shared the info'.

Does anyone know how to achieve this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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If you research this.
Dec 21, 2010 3:34AM PST

All you find is failures for said content to play on the Zi8. You can put files back but the encoding and how to get it to play is not documented. I have yet to see any success here.
Bob

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Putting videos back on zi8
Apr 7, 2011 10:56AM PDT

I just had this problem and solved it. Actually reading further you said you edited the videos.... I did not edit the videos, just took them off, and later put them on. The camera did not see then when I put them on. So I took a short video and that showed up like normal in playback mode. I went back to my computer and plugged the camera back in. I noticed it created a folder and the new video I took was in that folder. I took all the videos I tried to reload onto the computer, and loaded them into that folder it just put the new video I took in. Now all the videos will play on the camera, and hooking it up to my hdtv, they look good.

My problem is trying to get good quality when burning it to a DVD. Still searching for options. The quality is horrible when using the Arcsoft program it came with. For some reason I can't burn them in Nero or Dvd Shrink which are two programs I normally use. Any help?

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About quality.
Apr 7, 2011 11:01AM PDT

A VIDEO DVD will knock the quality to 480i or if you're lucky 480p.

If you have a better DVD player or even better some BR player you should try mpeg or other files it supports to get 720 or 1080 displays.

All this depends on your player.
Bob

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Quality of DVD
Apr 7, 2011 12:09PM PDT

I have a blue ray player but only have a DVD burner. What is the max quality I can get from my dvd burner?

The software it comes with knocks the quality down. The files I was burning were about 2.5 gb and when it went to burn it it said the disc would only be 2.0 gb. So that already worried me quality wise.

Also it looks like a lot of programs are forcing to ntsc mode which only is 30fps to my understanding, and I am doing all my videos at 720p 60 fps because I like it more that 1080p 30 fps which in my opinion is a bit blurry.

Any tips?

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That will do.
Apr 7, 2011 1:02PM PDT

But I can't write more since I see no make or model (or I missed it.)

Tossing avi, mpeg onto a DVD and slipping that into a Bluray player is well discussed. Sorry but without details, I must stop.
Bob

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Good solution
Apr 7, 2011 3:20PM PDT

I was able to find a pretty good solution. The main problem is the software that comes with the zi8 (arc media impressions) is really bad at making a quality dvd. Like I said it shrunk the size of the files, very pixely picture, and made it like super widescreen with blacks bars on top and beneath, which atually made everyone look short and fat so this was really bad. I found a free product called free studio from download.com. It made the picture A LOT better. It actually made the file size a little bigger than it is on my computer. It is in full 16x9 and it can record in ntsc high quality 9mbit 30fps 720x480 or Pal high quality 9mbit 25fps 720x576. I think both of these are good choices. Picture looks MUCH better, not as good coming off the camera, but a lot closer. Think its good enough that I dont need to buy a blu ray burner for the time being.