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willall · Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 5:22 am

Hey guys, I was just wondering if anyone knows what the video compression is like on the D800? I have a D7000 and while I love the camera the video is quite heavily compressed, and so it would be nice to have a HQ setting even if it shortened the recording time. Is this an option on the D800, or is it the same as the D7000? Thanks.

royster · Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 299 Location: England/Greece

The best thing to do is to go to the Nikon website and have a look at the D800.I know it does HD video

jeffbanke · Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 9:34 pm

Standard HD video is 1920x1080, HUGELY compressed from the number of pixels available.

willall · Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 7:55 am

OK thanks, but does anyone know what the actual compression bitrate is? The website does not mention this. The D7000 is about 20mbits, I think I heard somewhere that the D800 is 24mbits. Can anyone confirm? Or has anyone seen a difference between the D7000 and D800 in terms of quality? Thanks.

jeffbanke · Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 11:14 am

D 800 video compression = H.264/MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding
Movie File Format = MOV
Movie
HD 1,920x1,080 / 30 fps
HD 1,920x1,080 / 24 fps
HD 1,280x720 / 30 fps
HD 1,280x720 / 24 fps
HD 1,280x720 / 60 fps

D7000
Movie
HD 1,920x1,080 / 24 fps
HD 1,280x720 / 30 fps
HD 1,280x720 / 24 fps
VGA 640x424 / 30 fps

They seem not have all the information on the Nikon site, leaving out the format of the movie and the style of compression for the 7000, so I don't think you are going to have any luck finding out.
However doing the math 1920x1080 is the same size Mb file not matter what

rinder99 · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:10 pm

D800 has uncompressed Output via HDMI.I had the D7000 for a month or so. Video was nice But a little funky with WB Flicker. The d800 is full broadcast ready. spectacular video.The Marshall monitor I sold ya is perfect for it.