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I use many of DJI's products including Mavic 2 Pro, Mavic Zoom, Phantom 4 Pro and Osmo Pocket. In all of these products I mainly take video, preferably 4k at the highest frame rate. However I believe the DJI video codec is very inefficient when compared to Sony and Panasonic 4 k codecs.
My computer, a recent build windows 10 machine, will easily play back and edit 4k video clips at very high bitrates from the Panasonic GH5 and Sony A7 3. However even lower bit rate DJI video clips from any of my DJI machines cause my machine to stutter when playing on the timeline. I use Edius Pro 9 and Sony Vegas. All other 4K video clips play smoothly except DJI clips.
Curiously the dji 4K clips play ok when playing on video players like VLC and Microsoft Media but not once on a timeline in any editing software.
Of course you can create proxy files to speed things up but this should not be needed when other 4K codecs are more efficient.
I would like to suggest we canvas DJI to improve their codec. I also remember when DJI video clips missed a few frames when recording long video shots. The clips were split after the 4gb limit was reached and a file started.
Eventually DJI fixed this problem which other manufacturers had long since solved. Now is the time to fix the codec.
My computer, a recent build windows 10 machine, will easily play back and edit 4k video clips at very high bitrates from the Panasonic GH5 and Sony A7 3. However even lower bit rate DJI video clips from any of my DJI machines cause my machine to stutter when playing on the timeline. I use Edius Pro 9 and Sony Vegas. All other 4K video clips play smoothly except DJI clips.
Curiously the dji 4K clips play ok when playing on video players like VLC and Microsoft Media but not once on a timeline in any editing software.
Of course you can create proxy files to speed things up but this should not be needed when other 4K codecs are more efficient.
I would like to suggest we canvas DJI to improve their codec. I also remember when DJI video clips missed a few frames when recording long video shots. The clips were split after the 4gb limit was reached and a file started.
Eventually DJI fixed this problem which other manufacturers had long since solved. Now is the time to fix the codec.