I bought this camera about a month ago - and I use it to capture video of cloud movement and plant growth. It's easy to use (after fiddling with the settings), the battery lasts a long time, and my friends enjoy watching my videos. Camera version): First, the manual should have more explanations about the ideal time interval and frame rate settings for different scenes. To be fair, there's a table at the end of the guide that gives a general summary of these numbers, but I usually google which settings to use. Second, the processed file is in AVI format, which my Mac doesn't support. read. I downloaded a program called Adapter that allows me to convert AVI files to MP4 files, but this usually means a loss of original quality and some pixelation.