Help please

Todd Gessner · Jul 4, 2016

relatively new pilot of Pro 3! All of my video plays jerky (almost as fast series of stills) any ideas for correcting?

flyboy73 · Jul 4, 2016

Can you post an example? Is your computer fast enough to handle the high data rate?

t2adze · Jul 4, 2016

Device/PC you watching them on is not fast enough.
Either the SD card you used is not CLASS 10. But i doubt that to be the case

Numone · Jul 4, 2016

And also check the frame rate you're using. I discovered the reason for for the jerky video on our old PC was because the graphics card couldnt handle 60fps. I dropped to 25 and no problem. Our HD Samsung TV's also can't handle higher framrates either..

Meta4 · Jul 4, 2016

Todd Gessner said:
relatively new pilot of Pro 3! All of my video plays jerky (almost as fast series of stills) any ideas for correcting?

1. Copy your video to your computer's hard drive rather than viewing straight from the card.
2. Try using VLC media player
If it is still a problem, your computer is the problem and isn't up to handling 4K video.
Try shooting 1080p and see how that works out.

Sagebrush · Jul 4, 2016

Shoot at 480 and see how that plays on your computer. Two-bits says it's not the actual video, but the device you are trying to play it on.

SB

fred_lefevre · Jul 4, 2016

Editing your video and then rendering it back out will also fix the issue.

DownUnder · Jul 4, 2016

Download Handbrake software for your PC and re-encode it to H264. Your video files are probably gigabytes in size.
It'll turn a 5gig file into a 100meg file with very little loss in quality and you PC will handle it fine.
Handbrake is free.
HandBrake: Open Source Video Transcoder

Todd Gessner · Jul 7, 2016

Numone said:
And also check the frame rate you're using. I discovered the reason for for the jerky video on our old PC was because the graphics card couldnt handle 60fps. I dropped to 25 and no problem. Our HD Samsung TV's also can't handle higher framrates either..

Thanks so much! It definitely is the computer! Works perfectly when played on my iPad. I have not tried switching from 60 to 25fps yet (Darn rain)! Does the slower fps affect the quality?

Numone · Jul 7, 2016

Todd Gessner said:
Thanks so much! It definitely is the computer! Works perfectly when played on my iPad. I have not tried switching from 60 to 25fps yet (Darn rain)! Does the slower fps affect the quality?

Errr, I dunno, cos as I said, I can't play back any vids with high fps!?

All I know is that videos shot at 1080p/25fps are outstanding....