How can I transfer full size videos using Canon Camera Connect?

[joesolari]

In January, 2018, I bought a Canon G7X mark II. I noticed that every time I transfer video files from G7X to my Android smartfone or my IPad, using Canon Camera Connect, the video is cropped. Every time.

I set my camera to not resize, but it works only for pictures, not for videos. To get the full videos I am obligated to connect my camera to my computer. But I wish that my small devices receive the full size videos.

I did not find any option for resizing in Camera Connect, only in the G7X.

Those portable devices are so powerful these days, so I would like to use the full size videos in my phone and IPad, not the cropped ones.

Can you help, please.

Thanks in advance.

Eduardo Medeiros

[egzi]

I just found out that I can't import full size movies to my phone. To some posts above I would ask different question. Why would anyone want to download reduced size of anything to their phone?

I want to import originals to my phone on the photoshoot site, so I can share, backup, send to cloud services or whatever else. And it is nobodies business how much time I want to spend on doing the imports. If it takes too much time then I'll consider "buying a computer and usb cable". Nowadays the 720p looks bad even on phones, so the forced restrictions are purely stupid.

The other annoying thing is that import is interrupted when shutter/focus button is touched (at least on the G9X i own) which is really easy to do by accident. The import status is not saved and you have to investigate which images were imported before and the selection of other images has to be done manually. Otherwise it creates duplicates if you use "select all" option.

If I knew about all of this I would consider buying other product.

[egzi]

On the G9x m2 there is an option to enable sending movies to image.cannon under settings / Wireless settings / wifi settings / image sync

[rts]

Thank you !

I can confirm the USB SD card reader method works (if you have phone with USB OTG support) and you can post process the transferred movies in full original resolution (1920x1080x50) on the phone (e.g in Google Photos app). What a difference (compared to 1280x720x25) !

My setup: Canon G7X Mk2, Huawei P10, USB reader AXAGON CRE-SAC.

[Narnian]

Replying from the future (2024) - why couldn't Canon think the future either see improvements - isn't predicting the future and anticipating advancements part of Canon DNA? I don't need the camera to make silly decisions about what storage I can cope with - either when the camera was new or now!