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Hello
We bought six Osmo for a multi-camera TV show recording (cooking show)
After wasting hours preparing the edit, I'm very disappointed.
Even with freshly-formatted exFAT microSD cards, the clips still cuts at 4 GB, and there's footage lost between the two supposedly continuous files.
Based on my later test (filming a digital clock's for the whole 29 minutes, and putting the clips on an editing software's timeline) it's skipping a certain number of frame, between 69 and 77 frames in 1080p50. Yes, the number of missing frames is varying, so I can't even know for sure how long is the "gap" I have to fill with black to keep my cameras in sync.
Based on my tests, this issue doesn't change its behaviour wether the container is MOV or MP4 (makes me wonder why even letting the user choose between .MOV and .MP4, as the results and limitations are strictly equivalent).
Please don't say that it's an isolated issue, I've tested on two different Osmo (with different microSD cards) and have the same behaviour
Please don't say that it's because of the microSD cards : they are brand new, good Transcend 64 GB, exFAT formatted in the Osmo (via DJI Mobile app).
Please don't say that it's for historical reasons, for tax reasons or whatever : neither this 4GB clip (with losing footage) limitation nor the less-than-30-minutes recording limitations are to be found anywhere in the user guide or on DJI's website.
And just for the record, the GoPro have neither of those two issues : yes GoPro also cut clips at 4GB, but the clips can be merged (with ffmpeg for example) without lost footage in between. And GoPro can record for much more than 30 minutes without automatically stopping the recording.
Bottom line is : with the current state of the product and of the current firmware version, don't make the same mistake I made. Don't buy and use Osmo if you need to record continuously for more than 4 GB (duration depending on the bitrate, definition and framerate).
Especially not for multi-camera shooting (integrated microphone audio recording quality is so bad that even with an audio clap, PluralEyes gets confused).
That's a shame, some of the other Osmo features are great (stabilisation is really cool, hand and joystick, and the mobile app allows a lots of remote controls on the camera and on the gimbal). |
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