SimplePanda
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This has been discussed quite a bit. There doesn't seem to be any way DJI can improve the encoder bitrate via a software update due to limitations in the SoC they've chosen. Nobody using the A9 SoC is doing higher bitrates with it either, as far as I know. Doesn't prove anything but if it was just a matter of shipping a firmware update with a modified encoder configuration, they would have done it already.
But...
Really, the bitrate isn't an issue. Would it be nice to have higher rates, especially for 4K? Sure! But way more so than birate, it's the in-camera processing where the X3 and X5 both seem to fall down. Case in point, DJI is up running 45Mpbs recording at 1080p/24 now (IIRC). I have 24Mbps AVCHD cameras that utterly demolish the DJI X5 in terms of image quality using similar glass. This is also 420/8-Bit video, so no advantages to the other cameras there. Less bit rate but better internal image processing = better image, every time.
So if you understand that you can get really great 1080p images at a lowly 24Mbps you put the real issues of the X3/X5 down to the capture and processing chain. Those seem like something DJI could in fact do something to address but the fact that this has been an oft discussed, well known issue with the Inspire 1 cameras (both X3 and X5) it seems maybe they either can't or are choosing not to.
Sadly, after more than a year of flying an Inspire 1 it seems the X3 is what it is and the newer X5 is what it is. Nothing is really going to improve substantially, I think. Don't get me wrong - you can get some nice images out of the X3 and X5 but you really have to find their sweet spot settings wise (exposure settings and method, sharp/sat/contrast) and give them a good bit of love in post for them to real deliver.
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