Issues with Mavic 3 after update (SRT files and slow playback on computer)

hifocused · Feb 5, 2023

About a month ago I updated my Mavic 3 and I noticed two changes. 1. I get an SRT file now with my clips, anyone know how to turn that off.
The other is the video clips don't seem to play nearly as smooth as they did before the update. Everything on my computer side is the same,
I have nearly fully specced Mac Studio just the playback on my clips can get choppy. It used to be completely smooth. Any ideas what changed?
Frame rate / Color / Resolution has remained the same as well. (50 FPS, D-LOG, 5.1K)

Phantomrain.org · Feb 5, 2023

Just to be sure, Post a video up and lets take a look .

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Gear to fly in the Rain. Land on the Water.

hifocused · Feb 5, 2023

Okay thank you!

DJI_0265.MP4

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Phantomrain.org · Feb 5, 2023

Running very smooth on my end, D log footage but look ok and I was running it on dropbox and it was still smooth. Down Loading the Actual footage as well .

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Gear to fly in the Rain.

hifocused · Feb 5, 2023

Hmmm it will play smooth on myside but not when scrubbing through the footage (I'm using Premiere).

MavicAir2Marc · Feb 6, 2023

Was it shot in the H.265 codec? That codec gives trouble to a lot of machines but a Mac Studio should handle it. Were you trying to play it from the card?

hifocused · Feb 6, 2023

It was actually shot h264. No playing it off the computer's SSD. I will try h265 as well.

SethB · Feb 6, 2023

A 5.1k h.264 is in the gray area where some manufacturers support it with hardware decoding, and some don’t. h.265 is well worth trying, it may play smoother on your Mac Studio. It’s possible your recording codec may have changed on the update.

I believe that if you turn off Video Captions (subtitles?) in your drone settings it will not create an SRT file. Not sure about this, because DJI is constantly changing how common settings actually work on particular drones, and I don’t have an M3.