Originally posted by kadajawi I don't think it's that easy with the amount of processing. It has more data to compress... lower bitrates usually go faster on my computer, I suppose because it just throws out all the data up front, and has to compress less data in the end. The higher the quality setting/bitrate, the slower my computer encodes.
I'd say that's more an issue with your NLE / PC combo - I know mine sure works the other way - Exports to Canopus HQX (Equivalent to ProResHQ 444) that take seconds, take several minutes when compressing to h.264.
The less compression used, the less math is being crunched, and the faster the output happens, so long as your system can shift the data.
Originally posted by Steve.Ledger They added focus peaking to the K-01 in a firmware upgrade.
Focus Peaking before Recording was always and option.
What they changed was the auto-ISO ramping in 'M' under video - before the ISO would ramp up and down to compensate for the lack of light or extremes of available light, which was a right P.I.T.A. if you wanted to have a section of a shot dark, and especially is you wanted to keep a shot free of the high-ISO noise.
After the change, M meant M - ISO, Aperture and Speed were all locked down so they would not change without user input - which is how they always should have been.
If you want the ISO to behave as it did originally, use the P or Av settings under the Video Settings menu.
I also think there was some sort of dithering algorithm applied to the noise as well around same time. Not sure now if that was the 1.03 or 1.04 update.
And we're almost up to 12 months since the last K-01 / K-30 / K-500 / K-50 / K-5 / K-5II / K-5IIs K-7 / K-r firmware update on 2014.03.06,... which makes a mockery of the reported commitment to update the firmware every six months.
If we're lucky, the main four updates will be taken care of ( Focus Peaking during recording / Sensor Shift SR in Video / Clean Feed HDMI output during recording / Decent CoDec options ) in any future updates, but I'm expecting Shodan's efforts will be our only real hope.
If anyone from Pentax is reading this, I'd suggest those changes MUST be in ALL new models, I'd hope for firmware fixes for at least those changes in the K-01 and K-3, and if not, then Pentax-Ricoh should consider releasing unencrypted editions of the K-5, K-01 and K-3 firmware so the user base can get to work creating what the users want.