D800E Dropping frames in video

 

 

<p>Hi everybody,<br />When shooting video with D800E, unfortunately it is dropping frames or skipping frames most of the time.<br>

It is not a slow card issue or a slow computer issue since i use the fastest and different brands and I have a fast MacBook Pro.<br>

Who has experienced this issue and is there any solution for this?</p>

<p>Thank you all.</p>

 

 

 

 

<p>Have you burned a DVD and played it back on a DVD player to verify that there are really skipped frames?</p>

<p>How are you viewing the the video to notice the dropped frames?</p>

<p>Title of your post blames D800E caamera. Is it really justified ?</p>

<p>Are you sure D800E drops frames when playing back from the camera, via the HDMI connector ? - before the card was removed, and possibly corrupted outside.</p>

<p>You may need to remove or stop some processes from your Apple, to allow your video presentation run faster. Load your video to a fast disc and do not run it from a memory card in a slow serial port reader. Though USB 2.0, 3.0, Fire Wire, all have sufficient throughput, if the bandwidth is not shared and processor uses sufficient portions of time slices..</p>

<p>Observe the video and make notes where you have video gaps, then inspect the video frame by frame using a movie editor, observing timing, to see if you really have missing frames, or your playback is slow.<br>

Are the video stops repeatable in about the same place or do they appear randomly?</p>

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<p>Frank, they appear randomly.<br>

Dan, I review on quicktime after downloading the file to my laptop.<br>

Elliot, I didn't burn a dvd. I dont think it is related to that though.<br>

I had Canon 5D mark II before I switched to NikonD800E and it had the same problem also. </p>

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<p>Two different brand cameras with the same problem? I would not be looking at the camera as the problem I would be looking at the computers hardware. Video takes lots of resourses</p>

<blockquote>I had Canon 5D mark II before I switched to NikonD800E and it had the same problem also.</blockquote>

 

<p>The camera they used to film an episode of House dropped frames? Respectfully, that sounds like your computer's not keeping up. For what it's worth, I've had problems with occasional video playback glitches on a Mac in the past - I'm sure they wouldn't be used so much for content creation if this couldn't be fixed by configuring it properly, but it may be quite easy to get them to glitch. (That's from a sample of one, so please don't take that as an anti-Mac flame: I actually quite like Mac OS X.) To clarify: is it always missing the same frame when the same video is being played, or does "randomly" only apply between different videos? Put another way, if you step through the video one frame at a time, are they all there?<br />

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Sorry if this is an over-simplistic question, but I find it hard to believe that two video-friendly cameras would behave like this. Not that I have either a D800 or a Mac...</p>

<p>Tony, you need to determine if the problem is with the camera or your computer. Burn a DVD and play it back with a DVD player. If the DVD is good, you will know the problem is with your computer, which it likely is given you had the same issue with the 5DMKII.</p>

<p>Elliot - I'm assuming that Tony's problem is with HD video. He could burn a Blu-ray, but I'd like to think that single-stepping through the video near the point where there's an apparent frame skip would be good enough. If the computer can't get at a frame even if there's no time constraint on it doing so, I'd worry - although it's still possible that the codec is refusing to handle some frames.</p>

<p>I have uploaded the video, Please take a look at it, let me know your thoughts..<br>

<strong>arslansukan.tumblr.com</strong><br>

actually it doesnt show the dropping frames properly since tumblr downsize the video. But in hi res it is clearly seen.<br>

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<p>Tony - is Tumblr's frame rate the same as your original (just lower resolution)? If so, if it's now not dropping frames, they must all have been there in the original clip. If it's changed the frame rate as well, I guess all bets are off, although it would be lucky not to judder.<br />

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Even this version stutters badly for me, but then so does typing into this page. Might be something to do with having 900 firefox tabs and a virtual Windows terminal open...</p>

<p>It is not very smooth but I did not see dropped frames. I still don't think it is a camera problem</p>

<p>What is your shutter speed at?</p>

<p>It's possible whatever memory card you're using just can't keep up. Were you using the same card on both cameras? Can you get another one that's super fast and made for video?</p>

<p>What I mean to say is... perhaps the thing you have eliminated as the issue is, in fact, the issue...</p>

<p>"Quicktime"? That same bit of overblown playbackware that Apple have been trying to get right for the past 20 years? That same Quicktime that acts like a virus if loaded onto Windows? THAT Quicktime? You'd trust it to measure video quality?</p>

<p>If the downsized video isn't dropping frames, then the frames MUST be there to start with. Ergo the camera and card captured the frames, but whatever you're viewing the full-size video on isn't capable of keeping up. Problem therefore not in camera or card, but in Macbook.</p>

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<p>"Quicktime"? That same bit of overblown playbackware that Apple have been trying to get right for the past 20 years? That same Quicktime that acts like a virus if loaded onto Windows? THAT Quicktime? You'd trust it to measure video quality?</p>

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<p>user is on a Mac. Quicktime is how Macs do video... and on Macs... it RAWKS!</p>

<p>Tony - any resolution to this? While I suspect it's not a camera problem, it would be nice to be sure.</p>

<p>Tony, try VLC to play your video. Also make sure your settings in your camera are right. You may have something set wrong.</p>

<p>http://download.cnet.com/VLC-Media-Player/3000-2139_4-10210434.html</p>