Stop filename display in videos - PowerShot SX60 HS

[johnrose1]

Hello, I have a Canon PowerShot SX60 HS. I would like to eliminate the filename that shows for a few seconds at the beginning of videos. I have tried to search the manual and also the web but no easy results. I am sure that there must be a parameter to change, could someone please help?

Thanks so much, John

[rs-eos]

Are you playing the videos back in the camera? I think that may just be what the camera would do as a hint of what clip you're playing.

If transferring the videos to a computer, it shouldn't include the file names on top the video.

[johnrose1 · Accepted solution]

Hi rs-eos, I am only an occasional photographer and have rarely taken videos but would like to do more. I am transferring them to a computer, but have a lot of problems reading them there - several packages have refused saying that there is a format error. But I can read them with VLC and get the file name in big white characters at the bottom-center for about 3 seconds. I see now that this is not happening when I read in the camera or the Haruna reader, so it would seem (thanks for leading me to this) that the filename presentation is generated by VLC. I am normally working under Ubuntu, and this might limit compatibility, but I would like to take the highest-quality video possible and then sometimes be able to generate best-try lower-quality videos to share, for example on WhatsApp, but am running into a lot of problems transforming to the right format(s). Any advice that you could provide in this context would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again, John