I checked the format of my sd card and it is fat32 - it's my original 64gb card that came with my gopro - bigger means better - my MP came with only a 16gb card I beleive. I am still looking for a long video of higher than 4gb will let you know
You probably meant MP4 (MP3 is the audio format).Do you prefer MP3 over mov?
Senior moment lolYou probably meant MP4 (MP3 is the audio format).
MP4 and MOV are containers for the video. The actual video (from a Mavic 2) is encoded using either the h.264 or h.265 codec (Coder/Decoder). Then, once encoded, the video and audio is put into a container (also called a wrapper) that is either MP4 or MOV. There are utilities which can unwrap from one and re-wrap into the other without affecting the contents.
The choice on whether to use the MP4 or MOV container is almost entirely based on what sort of computer you expect to use for editing. MOV is mostly used on Apple systems, and MP4 is for everything else (Windows, Linux, etc.).
I edit on Vegas which is a Windows NLE (Non-Linear Editor), so I use MP4.
As for encoding, while there are some pretty nifty features the Hasselblad in my Pro can only provide by using the h.265 codec, I choose to use the older h.264 because the post production workflow would be too slow and cumbersome with h.265, especially when shooting in 4K. Almost no computer can keep up with the demands of this very complicated codec.
YA that’s was my dad making the drills in our garden on our 115 acre woodlot - the 70 on the star was a marker for his place as they live at 70 second street lol. Love flying around there as there is no interference - went out to 5km once along the edge of the lake and back and still had 30 percent battery.Did you know the old guy tending his garden and realizing he could hear something before finally looking up.
Was curious about the star with 70 on it.
Here goes:
1. Remove card from drone. Insert card in computer reader. Copy all MP4 files for the flight to the computer.
2. Drag all files to the Vegas timeline (most other editors let you do the same thing).
3. Use any of the timeline playback or scrubbing tools to go rapidly through the footage. The easiest is to do what you can do in YouTube: just grab the playback "head" (the thing that shows what point in the video is being played) and drag it to scrub rapidly through the video. Doing this you can go through even a one hour video in five seconds. All you are doing is looking for, approximately, the start of each section of video you want to keep.
4. Use more precise playback controls to further adjust each cut point. It makes no sense to obsess about precision. If you are within ten seconds, that's probably close enough.
5. Cut the video at this point. In most NLEs, and certainly in Vegas, there are literally several dozen ways to create a cut, but the simplest in Vegas is to press the "S" key (for "Split"). The video to the left of the cursor is now a separate entity (Vegas calls them "events") from the video on the right.
6. Select the video to the left of the cut and, once selected, press the delete key to remove it.
7. Repeat steps 3-6 for the rest of the video until you have all the flotsam cut out.
8. Export the video timeline as a text-based "Edit Decision List" (EDL). This is simply a text file that has all the in/out points for the edit you just did. It is in CSV format and so can easily be imported into Excel or other apps, if you wish.
9. I wrote a small macro in Excel which opens this EDL and then feeds all the cut information to "ffmpeg" which is a batch cutting tool that can losslessly cut MP4 files, without and re-encoding or re-rendering. If your NLE supports "smart rendering" (i.e., the ability to do cuts-only edits without re-encoding the video) then you don't need to go through this extra step, and simply save the new, much shorter video. The output of this macro is a batch file. I just double-click on the batch file and the multiple calls to ffmpeg are executed and I am left with the cut version of my video in the same folder where I put the original, unedited video.
As I said previously, I can take a one hour video and cut out all the garbage in less than 30 seconds. Once ffmpeg has finished if the new files are only a few GB, it only takes about 20-30 seconds to save that file.
Currently I don't bother to recombine the cut files into a single file.
Later, when I am finished with the project and I archive and backup, I usually delete the original video from the memory card. For me, memory cards are a way to acquire the video and get it onto a computer but they are most definitely not a media on which I would ever archive something for long term storage. The technology used is not likely to reliably keep the data for long periods of time.
I run Vegas on a 10-year-old 3.2 GHz i7 running Windows 7 and 16 GB RAM. I have zero stability problems.Hey @johnmeyer can you tell me what you think minimum system requirements are for running Vegas on Win 10? Ive got a 3.2hz i7 running w10 w 16gb ram. Vegas keeps freezing up.