Yesterday I was covering the prep of a golf course for a big local amateur event and when I got home I found I'd lost a bunch of my footage. This is the second time I've had this happen and my only explanation is that I must've powered down the craft before I stopped recording. I'm pretty diligent though and so can't believe I didn't stop for the first half of my clips but did for the second.
When looking at the filenames the last clip I recorded was saved as 001, 2nd to last as 002 etc which is completely backwards! I've been able to recover 29mins of missing footage from the DJI go app (unfortunately only in 720p but better than nothing I guess) but no joy getting it off the SD card as those filenames now point to other files.
I'm hoping this setting will increase my chances of recovering a file should it happen again, although I'd hope that by now I'll remember to ensure I stop recording before powering down.
It does seem CRAZY to me though that DJI haven't fixed this via an update. This is a flying camera for crying out loud yet it can't handle finishing writing a file before powering down?! My Fatshark Dominators manage to finish writing a file to disk even when you yank the power cable out of them, let alone go through a shutdown procedure such as the Phantom does with it's off button.
Here's some logic DJI should feel free to use to fix the issue!
function userHasPressedOffButton(){
if(recording){
stopRecording()
turnOff()
} else {
turnOff()
}
}