Video transfer from camcorder to PC

[tony_baruti]

I transfered the video from my Canon Vixia 100 to my PC. I had a full 32G card, but transfer took only 5G space in hard drive.
Any ideas why that happened?

[olyteddy]

Have you played the video on the computer to see if it's all there?

[tony_baruti]

yes all the content seems to be in HDD..im using the software that came with the camcorder (Pixela) to transfer the video..im worried maybe somehow the software lowers the bitrate/video quality during transfer

[MOVIEGEEK]

Did you use firewire to transfer?
It sounds like it converted to MPEG-2.

[tony_baruti]

no I used theSB cable/port. Transfered file are .mts files

[MOVIEGEEK]

I looked up your camera and it's an HD camera, you should get a SD card reader and drag the file from My Computer.
Once you have it on your PC then use multiAVCHD,tsmuxer,etc.

[tony_baruti]

i solved the mystery today after looking carefully at the SD card..its only a 8 G card although the camera was advertised to come with 32G..no wonder why they were selling it for $200 less then everybody else