JPNola
Veteran
When playing back footage shot on my Fs7 the playback freezes momentarily at the end of each clip. This is an issue when I am "feeding" b-roll to a news channel via fiber optic and they would prefer that the footage be usable as received, without having to edit out the pauses at the end of each clip. As far as I can tell there is no means by which the Fs7 can play back the media seamlessly with only cuts between the clips, without the brief pause at the end of each clip.
An F55 owner I spoke to says that the F55 can playback media out of the camera without any pause between clips. He did not perform a test and was only going by memory. It could be that he is mistaken, that he never noticed the freeze frame at the end of each clip during playback. It is brief and could easily go unnoticed. But it is enough to foil immediate turnaround of the acquired footage and necessitate editing to remove the pauses between clips.
Do me a favor, if you would- fire up your Fs7, insert an XQD card containing some footage that you have shot, and see if the playback freezes the image momentarily at the end of each clip. To be honest I cannot recall if my Fs7 has always done this when playing back video or if I have activated something that is causing this. I performed a full reset and no change- the playback still briefly freezes at the end of each clip. I tried several different XQD cards, I tried playback of video recorded in different codecs, but no change. It still pauses and does not playback seamlessly with only a cut between the clips. The video was all in 59.94i. I did not perform a test of playback of frame rates other than 59.94i.
If it is in fact the case that the Fs7 cannot playback media without the freeze frame between clips, it could be a deal-breaker for certain types of jobs. It seems odd to me that the F55 would not do this but the Fs7 does. An online search yielded nothing regarding this issue. Surely I cannot be the first to have this be an issue.
An F55 owner I spoke to says that the F55 can playback media out of the camera without any pause between clips. He did not perform a test and was only going by memory. It could be that he is mistaken, that he never noticed the freeze frame at the end of each clip during playback. It is brief and could easily go unnoticed. But it is enough to foil immediate turnaround of the acquired footage and necessitate editing to remove the pauses between clips.
Do me a favor, if you would- fire up your Fs7, insert an XQD card containing some footage that you have shot, and see if the playback freezes the image momentarily at the end of each clip. To be honest I cannot recall if my Fs7 has always done this when playing back video or if I have activated something that is causing this. I performed a full reset and no change- the playback still briefly freezes at the end of each clip. I tried several different XQD cards, I tried playback of video recorded in different codecs, but no change. It still pauses and does not playback seamlessly with only a cut between the clips. The video was all in 59.94i. I did not perform a test of playback of frame rates other than 59.94i.
If it is in fact the case that the Fs7 cannot playback media without the freeze frame between clips, it could be a deal-breaker for certain types of jobs. It seems odd to me that the F55 would not do this but the Fs7 does. An online search yielded nothing regarding this issue. Surely I cannot be the first to have this be an issue.
