Editing Sanyo Xacti CA65 Files

September 27, 2007 2:06 AM

I got myself a Sanyo Xacti CA65, which is awesome and I love using it, but editing the files it produces are a real pain in the ass.

I prefer to use Ulead Video Studio 11 Plus to edit my video (it's nice, friendly, easy to use), but if I try and import and play a file shot on my Sanyo it freezes up. If I skip into the video 1 frame and then play the clip it works fine. Also, If I have lots of clips in my timeline it refuses to preview smoothly no matter what my settings.

I have 2gb of memory in my Dell XPS 600, so I would expect better performance.

It's like there is something in the first frame of the video that causes it to not play normally (playing in Quicktime is perfect however), and makes Ulead struggle to preview.

Here is a raw file from the camera. Any ideas what's wrong or what software I could use instead (the bundled Adobe Premier Elements 3 isn't much better).

Using a slightly lower quality setting seems to help, but I would rather shoot in the highest quality obviously. Here is a sample of a lower quality raw file.

Thanks for your help!

posted by lemonfridge to computers & internet (3 comments total)

I'm no expert on video editing whatsoever, but the fact that it plays fine after the first frame makes me wonder if there is some kind of metadata included at the beginning of the file? Kinda like an ID3 tag in an mp3.
posted by Solomon at 3:37 AM on September 27, 2007

That was my thinking too Soloman. I uploaded a clip to YouTube, and the first second is sort of grey and corrupted.
posted by lemonfridge at 4:04 AM on September 27, 2007

I have the same camera, and the same problem with the mp4 files off the camera on YouTube.

No help on the PC side, but on the Mac, iMovie/iDVD seems to handle them fine - I made a DVD of some of them with and they didn't have this problem.
posted by Caviar at 7:47 AM on September 27, 2007