KEJ
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Geebax Posted at 2018-5-17 16:29
First answer, the Phantom P4A does not record RAW video, none of the Phantom cameras do. Yes, you can take stills from a 4K video file, but they will be a compromise because usually the camera will be running at a slower frame rate and you may find movement blur in the shots. The P4 cameras allow you to take stills while shooting video, but all it does is take a single frame out of the video stream and save it as a JPEG file, not as RAW.
The only reason for allowing the camera to save MOV files is to cater for the Fruit market, so yes, if you use FCP to post-produce your material, set it to save in MOV format.
Thank you for the prompt reply.
Sorry I should have worded my question better, I was recording video at MP4 4K H265 24 fps and taking the odd raw pictures.
I initially assumed whilst recording video, you could take raw pictures as well, but judging from your answer, it looks like whilst recording video yes you can take pictures but these will be jpeg only and judging from my results lower resolution 1-2 meg jpeg.
So to summarise I can film/record video & take lower quality jpegs at the same time or stop the video and switch to camera mode to take high definition raw pictures.
And my more important question that you have kindly answered, is for Apple/IMac I need to use the MOV format and that should sort me out(I will try that later) and in the mean time potentially convert what I have if I really need to using handbrake or some third party software to make it compatible to FCP.
Brilliant and thank you for clarifying.
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