Too bad. It's already been established that 15mbps AVC (or 30mbps MPEG2; pick your poison) is not good enough. It doesn't look too shabby when we're talking about 24fps, multipass-encoded, cleaned-up movie footage, but those are not luxuries camcorders have.
It's really saddening that the last time a digital camcorder video standard with reasonably adequate bandwidth was introduced was the day the first Digital8 DV camcorder hit the scene.
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15 hours on 40GB and 22 hours on 60GB? That's 6mbps. What kind of compression is this.. MPEG7 circa 2015?
I was hoping that at least one of these camcorders enabled at least 25mbps AVC, but with the average bitrate at 6mbps, there's no point in asking.
H.264/MPEG-4
those are on the low quality settings.
as i remember the SR1 on high quality was around a 15 Mbps setup.
Too bad. It's already been established that 15mbps AVC (or 30mbps MPEG2; pick your poison) is not good enough. It doesn't look too shabby when we're talking about 24fps, multipass-encoded, cleaned-up movie footage, but those are not luxuries camcorders have.
It's really saddening that the last time a digital camcorder video standard with reasonably adequate bandwidth was introduced was the day the first Digital8 DV camcorder hit the scene.