Video choppy on Macbook from Mini 3

enginecompany52 · Aug 22, 2022

New to the drone world. When I try to play my downloaded videos on QuickTime it is choppy. Video plays fine on my iPhone as well as on YouTube. Anyone else have this issue?

obistevekenobi · Aug 23, 2022

What model/spec is your MacBook? Have you tried a different player (e.g. VLC)?

akdrone · Aug 23, 2022

enginecompany52 said:
New to the drone world. When I try to play my downloaded videos on QuickTime it is choppy. Video plays fine on my iPhone as well as on YouTube. Anyone else have this issue?

YouTube may not be playing the original. Your iPhone may have a faster processor than your MacBook.

MavicAir2Marc · Aug 23, 2022

Your phone is probably showing the lo res version on it's smaller screen. YouTube uses it's own compression algorithms to display after it's processed. If it is filmed in the H.265 Codec, then you will have issues on playback with most machines, (not including M1 Macs, they seem to run H.265 better).

akdrone · Aug 23, 2022

MavicAir2Marc makes a good point. Neither YouTube or your phone should be compared to your computer. Many folks have trouble with H265. Details on what form (mp4/mov or dlog/normal etc) you shot the video would help folks but the bottom line is simply that ”yes”, plenty of people will see not-smooth playback in some of the video that our drones can shoot. There are free and paid programs out there that will allow you to convert footage. Try shooting mp4-normal and importing that from the card to your computer. Hopefully that will play well, and if so, you will know it’s just a computer issue. It’s always fun to buy a new computer! I am in that position as I am tired of creating proxies of my H265 dlog 4K footage so a new M1 Macbook Pro is in the pipeline.