Canon Vixia HF200 - Grainy Video Quality?

I just received my Canon Vixia HF200 today and have been testing it out. Granted I've only had it for a few hours and have just shot some footage indoors, at night (with quite a few lights on), and have been very disappointed with the quality. It's extremely grainy - white flecks all over the screen, especially if I zoom in on dark areas like our leather couches. I've tested playback and live recording through HDMI and Component cables on my 50" plasma HDTV as well as uploading the footage to my PC and playing through Pixela. Same problem each time.

I am using MXP/60i, so the quality should be great. I've viewed plenty of sample HF200 footage on YouTube and other places, and what I'm getting looks like garbage next to it.

I know this is pretty broad... but does anyone have suggestions?

I just received my Canon Vixia HF200 today and have been testing it out. Granted I've only had it for a few hours and have just shot some footage indoors, at night (with quite a few lights on), and have been very disappointed with the quality. It's extremely grainy - white flecks all over the screen, especially if I zoom in on dark areas like our leather couches. I've tested playback and live recording through HDMI and Component cables on my 50" plasma HDTV as well as uploading the footage to my PC and playing through Pixela. Same problem each time.

I am using MXP/60i, so the quality should be great. I've viewed plenty of sample HF200 footage on YouTube and other places, and what I'm getting looks like garbage next to it.

I know this is pretty broad... but does anyone have suggestions?

No suggestions but I've experienced the same thing. White flecks in darker areas. I understand that low light is going to be grainy but these artifacts stand out from the normal mush and I find them really distracting. I plan to open a ticket with Canon to see if it's truly a defect or if they consider this acceptable. I certainly do not.

Hi guys,

Did you tried the Cinema mode? The auto settings is the worse one with low lightning.... The cinema is a little darker, but the quality is far superior, with very little grainy... honestly is the best one. And then you can select the 'Low Sharpening' setting as well, it gets even better.

AleX