Picture Quality; Frame Size, Frame Rate, And Movie Quality - Nikon D850 Settings Manual

Workflow

Picture Quality

The settings covered in this section control movie picture quality.

Frame Size, Frame Rate, and Movie Quality

To choose a movie quality option and a frame size and rate for movie recording:
1
Select the desired item.
With the camera in movie mode, press
the i button to display the i-button
menu. Press
1
size/frame rate or Movie quality and
press to view options for the high-
2
lighted item.
2
Select the desired option.
Press or
1 3
option and press
and rate options are listed below; the
options available for Movie quality are
"high" and "normal"). Press the i button
to exit to the shooting display when set-
tings are complete.
Together, Frame size/frame rate and Movie quality determine the maximum bit rate and maximum
length, as shown in the following table.
Frame size/frame rate
3840 × 2160 (4K UHD); 30p
r
3840 × 2160 (4K UHD); 25p
s
3840 × 2160 (4K UHD); 24p
t
y/y 1920 × 1080; 60p
z/z 1920 × 1080; 50p
1/1 1920 × 1080; 30p
2/2 1920 × 1080; 25p
3/3 1920 × 1080; 24p
4/4 1280 × 720; 60p
5/5 1280 × 720; 50p
1920 × 1080; 30p ×4 (slow‑mo)
A
1920 × 1080; 25p ×4 (slow‑mo)
B
1920 × 1080; 24p ×5 (slow‑mo)
C
1. Actual frame rates for values listed as 60p, 30p, and 24p are respectively 59.94 fps, 29.97 fps, and 23.976 fps.
2. Movie quality fixed at "high".
3. Each movie will be recorded across up to 8 files of up to 4 GB each. The number of files and the length of each file vary with the options
selected for Frame size/frame rate and Movie quality.
4. Movie quality fixed at "normal".
12
Buttons and Icons Settings
to highlight Frame
or
3
to highlight the desired
to select (frame size
J
Movie quality: ★ high
1
Tips and Tricks
Maximum bit rate (Mbps)
Movie quality: normal
144 —
48 24
24 12
— 4 36
— 29
4
Viewing Movies Appendix
i-button menu
Movie-related controls —
Movie shooting menu
Maximum length
2
29 min. 59 s
Recording: 3 min.
Playback: 12 min.
Recording: 3 min.
Playback: 15 min.
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