Video and stills in waypoint?

[photoshop67]

Can we record video and still shoot stills without interrupting video during waypoint flights. Rc2 mini 4 pro.

 

[Dale D]

Can we record video and still shoot stills without interrupting video during waypoint flights. Rc2 mini 4 pro.

There is an option in the programming to take pictures at pre-set sites I believe

 

[Galopin]

Yes

 

[Droning on and on...]

No, you can not capture a still under automation while video is recording.

The best you can do is a frame-grab post process in your editor, but that will be rather low resolution UHD, 3840×2160. The sensor is capable of 8064×6048 in 48MP mode, 4032x3024 in 12MP mode for stills.

 

[photoshop67]

No, you can not capture a still under automation while video is recording.

The best you can do is a frame-grab post process in your editor, but that will be rather low resolution UHD, 3840×2160. The sensor is capable of 8064×6048 in 48MP mode, 4032x3024 in 12MP mode for stills.

Thanks, and that confirms what I've experienced. I think a frame grab will suffice, and I can always upscale an image in post.

 

[Droning on and on...]

And the reason why is hardware... The image sensor can be configured to read out a variety of configurations which then get sent through the image processing pipeline, a different SoC.

So, when you're recording video, the sensor is reading out a cropped 16:9 area in the middle, not even sending the data from the pixels cropped out. Right there the still is compromised.

Then, with video, frame readouts are coming at the image pipeline as fast as 120 per second, and the imaging processor is performing compression in real time on that. It's very busy.

So, in order to truly capture stills, the sensor would have to be generating a full frame, 48MP or ~150MB per frame, in order to save away the image when you request a still.

4K raw video (8-bit RGB triples per pixel) only requires 25MB per frame.

So, while there are image sensors and image processing SoCs that can do all this, they're rather expensive, and would add something like $100 to the cost of the drone for a feature most customers don't care about.