Go Ultra night video (PureVideo setting) looks bad - help? (Example video+settings)
Hi all, I just bought a Go Ultra because of the tiny, discrete form factor and quality in example videos looked good. However I'm having a hard time getting the camera to perform well in night time city environments, specifically in Japan.
Firstly, despite what everything online, including posts in here say, Japan does not uniformly use 60Hz electricity; the west of the country does, but the east, including Tokyo, is 50Hz. A lot of earlier attempts I took with the Ultra had unusable flicker on lights until I set the frame rate to 25fps, which seems to have solved that problem. The auto light flicker setting seems to make no difference.
However, the quality still doesn't look great. Here's an example video I just took on Youtube for the best quality; I know it's not the original but believe me there is hardly any difference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMknWKaSHKw
Here's as much detail as I can possibly think of regarding settings:
* 4K resolution at 25fps
* H.265 encoding, high video bitrate
* Anti-flicker auto
* PureVideo mode (since it's a night scene, this is what I should use right?)
* Jitter blur reduction on
* Standard colour profile
* EV 0
* WB auto
* Face priority metering
* Medium sharpness
* Recorded attached to the magnetic pendant
* I didn't "export" the video through the app, just dragged the file off the SD card with no processing.
* If I've missed something let me know.
I don't think the video looks that good though; lots of noise, not very sharp, kind of blurry, etc. People on here have posted their own example videos saying they think they look bad and I think those examples look much better than this one. This doesn't look like a 4K video, it looks lower resolution due to the artefacting and blurring, especially around the edges.
Is this too difficult a scene for the camera? It's really not that dark, it's not Shinjuku or anything but people are talking about filming around campfires with this camera and this scene is much, much brighter than that kind of thing. Am I doing something wrong? I looked at a few videos of people's suggested settings and when I tried them they looked terrible on the whole, stupid white balance settings and so on, so I just defaulted everything back to auto or whatever the default setting is. If you have suggestions for settings, please let me know and I'll try them out.
Sorry if this is the wrong place for this kind of post. I know there's been many posts like this so sorry if this is tedious for the regulars here, but hey at least I've been detailed with settings!