I Ordered an Axis Communications Axis Q1808-LE Camera

thestubbornrock said:
That's the exact camera I'm looking at. Did you try it with the Camstreamer/Timelapse 30 day trial first? For the stream to youtube, I wonder what settings are available. Mostly, will it stream 4K60p at 40Mb/s? The reason I'm curious about the settings is because that resolution at that bitrate is pretty taxing on a desktop computer to maintain, so I have my doubts that a camera can do it.
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Yeah, I'm currently using the Timelapse 30 day free trial. I'm not sure what settings are available to stream to YouTube as I imagine that would be configured within the Camstreamer app. The P1468-LE uses variable bitrate and has technology to keep the bitrate low while maintaining image quality. My P1468-LE uses between 1.5-16Mb/s depending on how busy the scene is and time of day. I could increase the bitrate to go beyond 40Mb/s by turning off Zipstream and compression but I don't see a huge benefit to that as the image is pretty good with it on.
 
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smiticans said:
Yeah, I'm currently using the Timelapse 30 day free trial. I'm not sure what settings are available to stream to YouTube as I imagine that would be configured within the Camstreamer app. The P1468-LE uses variable bitrate and has technology to keep the bitrate low while maintaining image quality. My P1468-LE uses between 1.5-16Mb/s depending on how busy the scene is and time of day. I could increase the bitrate to go beyond 40Mb/s by turning off Zipstream and compression but I don't see a huge benefit to that as the image is pretty good with it on.
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Cool. I'm kind of a pixel snob. I hate it when the sky gets blocky and pixelated because it thinks it's all the same color with no movement (when there is high compression). I understand that reducing compression makes the file sizes HUGE, but I have terabytes and terabytes of storage and am looking for really good video quality. It's really the only reason I'm willing to look at a $1200 camera.
 
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thestubbornrock said:
Cool. I'm kind of a pixel snob. I hate it when the sky gets blocky and pixelated because it thinks it's all the same color with no movement (when there is high compression). I understand that reducing compression makes the file sizes HUGE, but I have terabytes and terabytes of storage and am looking for really good video quality. It's really the only reason I'm willing to look at a $1200 camera.
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I don't think that should be an issue but then again the sky is not in my cameras FOV. Just remember, these cameras are surveillance cameras, not broadcast cameras. Axis does have a line of broadcast cameras if you're interested in them.

I've gotten the bitrate on my cameras to exceed 40 to 50 Mb/s by turning off zipstream and compression so I don't think you should have an issue.
 
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