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Is my Sony camera bugged? I can't do H265 at 30p?

Started Feb 19, 2022 | Questions thread
Entropy512 Veteran Member • Posts: 6,016
Re: Is my Sony camera bugged? I can't do H265 at 30p?

nomnomnom wrote:

Neon Birding wrote:

nomnomnom wrote:

I have the sony a1 but from what I can tell it's the same for other sony models. When I switch to h265 codecs, I can only do 24p, 60, 120. Please help?

I don't have a sony, But what I do know from other cameras is, these frame rates at full resolution will create huge files for the Sony A1.

You know H.265 is a high compression format like HEVC H.265. This allows for smaller recorded files for streaming. And, I suspect your A1 has these framerates for 10bit subsampling while using UHD or DCI 4:2:2.

Nevertheless, I wouldn't record in those high compression formats unless I needed to upload and send the video to publications ASAP. I'd rather shoot in a archiveable format and render to H.265.

Another time you may want to use the High Compression H.265 is when you burst shoot wildlife and want a fast clearing buffer if the memory cards are high rate like CF or V90.
Anyway, hope this helps.

What are you talking about? The HEVC codec will record at the same bitrate as 264 (let’s say 100M) and so it has more data retained given the high compression.
‘You always want to record 265 if you can, the only downside is harder to edit.

Well, ProRes is even better, but that requires an external recorder.

H.265 is the highest quality in-camera option that is available.

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