It feels like a camera which costs $240 with a lens (on sale) is not targeting the "professional" market... but even in the consumer market, recording limits tend to irk people.

@Vitialiy_Kisilev I could totally see that, but my point was just that they might not be looking for the advice of "professionals" for a camera which so clearly targets the consumer market (based on price, build quality, and its weird "how to take a photo" mode). :)

@Vitaliy_Kisilev Sure, even in its current form, I'd think it would be (mostly) usable for them. A lot of expo interviews don't seem to go longer than 7 1/2 minutes. One of the biggest drawbacks would be lack of an external mic jack and no firmware is going to help with that.

If the lighting at the expos is decent (hope so because the m1 isn't great in low light either), you could also consider giving them a pair of Osmo+. It costs a little more, but has a mic jack and an integrated gimbal which "just works" without any fuss. Combine it with a short monopod / selfie stick and it would be absolutely no problem to do 1:1 interviews with it at arm's length with minimal/no tripod setup.

Higher bitrates, better recording time and clean hdmi ouput would make me satisfied.

If you say so... You have better understanding on this area than i. But i still want a clean hdmi output and no recording limit.

@Vitaliy_Kisilev - From the thread in the m1 discussion group where someone asked where to send the feedback form - the yi people suggested sending it to sami.luo@xiaoyi.com - he might be a contact for you vs just their zendesk support account.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev

Do you think an improved encoder is viable for them? I mean.... would it be easy for them to change the actual encoder or it would demand a lot o effort for their team?

@eatstoomuchjam

Can you tell me limit in 1080p modes, as bitrate is lower in them, is it also around 4GB or same 7.5 minutes?

&24p. pls.

@Vitaliy_Kisilev - I just ran a test. 1080p30 stopped at 29:59 with a file size of 3239.58MB. That would seem to match the behavior I observed in 4K where a completely black/easily-compressed scene only came to 1GB, but still stopped recording at 7:30. It seems like their developers just hardcoded stops based on maximum expected bitrate. I took a snapshot with my phone (attached) - I started to wonder if I misremembered the 1GB 4K file and was kicking myself for not doing something similar.

@Vitaliy_Kisilev Also since you seem to have found a receptive listener, it would also be great to have an option to set the liveview displayed exposure to match the settings. Right now, it doesn't seem to and it's annoying to have to start recording to check lighting, etc.

1080p60 - weird result - stopped at 20:10, 3082MB.

It does - but 20:10 just seems like a weird number. :)