4k 100Mbps vs 200Mbps

[Project95]

I’m a photographer starting to dabble in some video and I recently bought the Fuji X-S10 for a fun family camera. How much difference would I notice in 4k video with setting 100Mbps vs 200Mbps?

 

[yayatosorus]

I’m a photographer starting to dabble in some video and I recently bought the Fuji X-S10 for a fun family camera. How much difference would I notice in 4k video with setting 100Mbps vs 200Mbps?

High. It depends what you're shooting. I'd suggest to do a quick test and judge for yourself is 100mbps is acceptable. If it is then stick with that. You'll also save some card space.

 

[Justin Cider]

Bit rate only really matters if you're shooting something with a lot of movement or complicated fine detail. I pretty much always use 200 unless it's a talking head scene. That said I rarely shoot at 400. For me I'd rather always use 200 since external drive storage is so cheap these days. I likely could get by with 100 but I also would be very irritated if I shot something and then found artifacts in the footage because the bit rate was too low.

 

[yayatosorus]

Here are stills from two clips shot at 100mbps and 200mbps


100mbps


200mbps



You can see a slight increase in details at 100%, but it's barely noticeable. Unless you're shooting moving objects, you'll have a hard time noticing the difference. That said, I generally use 200mbps.