Creative Vado Onboard Software

Having had the Vado for a few days i am still working out the software that is in the Vado hard drive.
The good points are that it is so easy to upload to Youtube
You can use it anywhere you happen to be
And the clips are already in the software application

The Downside is that editing is very basic indeed, and i dont know if its just me but you only seem to be able to have 1 bit of music.Which means if you have a long movie you have to create 1 single track with all the music combined.

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Permalink Reply by RayDvD on March 20, 2009 at 6:00am: Having made a small movie using 3 clips the Vado software added Titles at the start and finish and also music.
This was auotmatticaly encoded to WMV

I then uploaded the clip to youtube and is availabe as normal or HQ only, the quality looks pretty average with quite a bit of blurring especially with high pixel content.

Will have to lok for alternative methods of editing me thinks !!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ron Knights on March 25, 2009 at 7:19pm: So is this primarily a Windows device?

I prefer to use my Macintosh for most of my work.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by RayDvD on March 26, 2009 at 1:19am: Macintosh uses imovie for editing movies is that correct ron ?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ron Knights on March 26, 2009 at 7:12am: Ray, iMovie is available to people who get the iLife suite.

But my question relates to this particular camera.

It appeared people were saying the Vado uses wmv files? Those are Windows files.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by RayDvD on March 26, 2009 at 7:22am: "So is this primarily a Windows device?"

No dont thinks so Ron but here might be issues with the software, i,ll do some checking for you

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The Vado uses H.264 AVI Codec but when you make a film in the onboard editing software it renders to WMV.

So this wouldn,t render in a Mac ?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ron Knights on March 26, 2009 at 7:25am: WMV is a Windows standard. We don't want those on a Mac.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by RayDvD on March 27, 2009 at 2:55am: MOV rules huh :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ron Knights on March 27, 2009 at 7:48am: Well, for me, the Mac rules.. that means MOV.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by RayDvD on March 30, 2009 at 7:05am: Ron found this on flicker ,worth a look i think

http://www.flickr.com/photos/psilver/3366075633/

"Testing the Creative Vado HD which arrived today. Minor setback for Mac users. The .avi files are not directly compatible. Download Perian to play various types of files on your Mac. To use .avi files on iMovie, install MPEG Streamclip to your Mac to batch convert the files to MP4 before importing to iMovie.

Otherwise, .avi will upload to Flickr directly with no extra steps."

I use MPEG Streamclip to convert back to H.264 and it reduces the file size to about a half with no loss of quality.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ron Knights on March 30, 2009 at 9:03am: Thanks. I have Perian already.

I just need to get MPEG Sreamclip.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by RayDvD on March 30, 2009 at 9:32am: cool i have settings for mpeg stream clip which work well
i shall post them later m8; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ron Knights on March 30, 2009 at 9:40am: Great. I downloaded stream clip.. haven't installed it yet.

I don't even have the camera yet.; ▶ Reply to This