Win 10, the quality is poor. the video is 2.7K at 30fps

[jagraphics]

I will double quote you because I find it interesting or humorous:

"they discovered that on small screens (anything less than 70 inches)"

Now screens nearly 70 inches are considered SMALL. Incredible. My BIG screen is only about 55 inches and that is large by my standard.

But I take your or their point. Selling specs is much more important than the reality of the situation. Thanks for the info.

In a domestic, residential setting 70inches is rather large. In short what Sony was saying was that for any consumer use 4K is pointless.
Unless you and most of your friends have +70 inch screens at home?

I agree that for Cinemas and other commercial stuff 70inch screens are small but how many people on here are using DJI Mavic's for processional video that is destined for large commercial screens? At the BCS event this year ( Home - bscexpo ) there were dornes there but they were for lifting Arri's and Reds. the people in that market won't be using DJI cameras.

 

[Aaron24]

On my old computer a short video took an hour or more. Same video on the new one is 4 minutes. It will allow batch loading so I just loaded them all before I went to bed or out for the day and let her chug. The output was spectacular on all machines at 1080p and it allowed me to keep the originals at high res should I want to use them that way in the future.

Your PC must be a beast, mine is not half bad but a 5 min 4K 30 frames per second video straight of the SD card from my Zoom took 28 minutes to transcode.

4 minutes is exceptional.

 

[jagraphics]

Your PC must be a beast, mine is not half bad but a 5 min 4K 30 frames per second video straight of the SD card from my Zoom took 28 minutes to transcode.4 minutes is exceptional.

That or the old one was a clunker.. but 4 mins for 5 min 4K 30 frames per second seems a bit rapid.

 

[Capt KO]

That or the old one was a clunker.. but 4 mins for 5 min 4K 30 frames per second seems a bit rapid.

My new ‘Beast’ can do it that fast too. Purchased a gaming/video PC just for this purpose. For Drone vids but still learning.

 

[Dave Maine]

Depends a lot o which delivery codec is chosen. H.265 is known for slow encoding on older machines. H.264 is far faster without PC hardware acceleration.

 

[jagraphics]

My new ‘Beast’ can do it that fast too. Purchased a gaming/video PC just for this purpose. For Drone vids but still learning.

Gaming PC's are for gaming. Video editing PC's are subtly different. It depends on the NLE you are using as to the best configuration guide. The Configuration guide for DV Resolve is about 60 pages.

 

[Matt M PA]

I'm a bit late to this party, but I've worked in video production all my adult life.

If the camera allows, we shoot in 4K. The program is edited and submitted for air in 1080. The reason we use 4K is that it gives us some latitude when editing.

As I learn the MM, I'm using 2.7K as it gives the ability to zoom in closer in post production. Not as much as if it were 4K, but still a help. I could see upgrading to a 4K Mavic when I start using it for work.

In the end, I have always shot in the best possible quality as it gives much more flexibility later.