• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

4K Camcorders

At the highest quality setting (XAVC S 4K 100Mbps 30p setting) a 128 gig SD card will shoot 2hrs and 41 minutes according to the reviews ... looks like I will need two of them.
 
Just make sure you have a "near super-computer" with access to huge hard disk(s) to store all the raw video files. Just viewing 4K is extremely demanding of CPU and GPU, never mind editing. The new h.265 codec that we're heading to reduces file size but increases GPU/CPU requirements to encode/decode and this is especially true for 4K.

I shot some 4k footage with my newer Samsung NX1 mirrorless and I have mixed emotions about it. My 1 year old Mac can barely deal with the 4K and I would have to invest in some serious USB3 or thunderbolt external drives. But it captures native h.265 (HEVC) which is just barely being accepted by major video players and editors today but by the end of 2015 will be pretty much the go-to codec for both 1080 and 4k. If you're buying a 4k camera, it would be nice if it would do either h.265 or h.264 encoding so you could move when the time was right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding
 
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