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DJI drone movies

PostMon Sep 11, 2023 7:48 am

The DJI drone generates several partial film pieces for a flight session. Example: A session lasts 10 minutes, which results in 4 movie parts.
Let's assume I fly 10 such sessions, so I have 40 parts.
I am now looking for a solution how the individual film segments are AUTOMATICALLY put together to ONE film, so that there is exactly one film per session.
Does anyone have a good idea'

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Re: DJI drone movies

PostWed Sep 13, 2023 7:02 pm

kthch01 wrote:The DJI drone generates several partial film pieces for a flight session. Example: A session lasts 10 minutes, which results in 4 movie parts.
Let's assume I fly 10 such sessions, so I have 40 parts.
I am now looking for a solution how the individual film segments are AUTOMATICALLY put together to ONE film, so that there is exactly one film per session.
Does anyone have a good idea'

Best thanks and greetings

Thomy


Which drone does this? My puny Mini 2 doesn't, and I'd like to avoid any that behave like that when I upgrade.
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Re: DJI drone movies

PostThu Sep 14, 2023 4:31 am

You can use Resolve. In Resolve, you can create a smart bin with rules to order by filename, time, and sequence for example, and then drag all your DJI files in it.
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Re: DJI drone movies

PostThu Sep 14, 2023 9:19 am

All the DJI drones and all the GOPro cameras are splitting a session to parts of the whole film.
My DJI Mavic3 Classic splits a flight session to parts of 4 minutes 27 seconds....and so one...

For GoPro there is a special off-line-tool to connect this parts to one film.
I had the idea there is one for DJI?
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Re: DJI drone movies

PostMon Sep 18, 2023 8:36 am

kthch01 wrote:All the DJI drones and all the GOPro cameras are splitting a session to parts of the whole film.
My DJI Mavic3 Classic splits a flight session to parts of 4 minutes 27 seconds....and so one...

For GoPro there is a special off-line-tool to connect this parts to one film.
I had the idea there is one for DJI?



There is a pretty simple reason for that .. its limitations of using FAT/exFAT .. and the limit is 4GB (use different quality settings, and you will get different time limits for each segment). In other words, the problem is that the FAT32/exFAT file system prevents your DJI (or any other) device from storing a single file larger than 4GB .. there is no frame loss for as long as you have a continuous recording. So you will get a seamless playback if you add the complete playlist to a video player.

As for the solution, all you need to do is merge the files, whether you use DaVinci for it or any other tool ..
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Re: DJI drone movies

PostThu Sep 21, 2023 6:46 am

You are right about FAT32, but exFAT shouldn’t need that.
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Re: DJI drone movies

PostTue Oct 03, 2023 2:32 am

Orxion wrote:
kthch01 wrote:All the DJI drones and all the GOPro cameras are splitting a session to parts of the whole film.
My DJI Mavic3 Classic splits a flight session to parts of 4 minutes 27 seconds....and so one...

For GoPro there is a special off-line-tool to connect this parts to one film.
I had the idea there is one for DJI?



There is a pretty simple reason for that .. its limitations of using FAT/exFAT .. and the limit is 4GB (use different quality settings, and you will get different time limits for each segment). In other words, the problem is that the FAT32/exFAT file system prevents your DJI (or any other) device from storing a single file larger than 4GB .. there is no frame loss for as long as you have a continuous recording. So you will get a seamless playback if you add the complete playlist to a video player.

As for the solution, all you need to do is merge the files, whether you use DaVinci for it or any other tool ..


It's correct that FAT32's limit is 4GB. So yeah, you're probably correct that it's splitting things up into 4GB chunks.

exFAT's file size limit, on the other hand, is 128PB. Yes. Petabytes. Use exFAT and there shouldn't be any issue, assuming that's what was slicing the videos up in the first place.
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Re: DJI drone movies

PostTue Oct 03, 2023 8:13 am

But maybe the drone ignores that and always limits chunks to 4?
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