The power cabling is similar, but if you used the HK4 to power the A229 Duo, you need to make sure you have the updated HK4 (produced in mid 2023 or later) and it will need to show "20AWG+24AWG" on the USB cable which indicates it has the thicker power wire (20AWG).
The older HK4 and HK3-C hardwire kits used a smaller wire gauge (24 AWG) for the 5V constant battery power sent to the dash camera, while the newer units will have a 20 AWG wire for the constant battery power. The first dash camera that required the thicker wire gauge was the A139 Pro 3CH. Any issue I've reported to VIOFO with the A229 Pro / A229 Plus, they stated I must use the "optimized" HK4 hardwire kit to make sure there are no power starvation issues. The 5-volt side of the hardwire kit still has a listed 5V/2A rating which is the same as the earlier HK4/HK3-C hardwire kits. There may be other optimizations, but none have been publicly disclosed (unless I've missed a post on DCT that lists that info). The optimized HK4/HK3-C have been available for the past several months.
Hi, could anyone kindly confirm if this is the newer hk4? This is the picture provided by online retailer from China and they claimed it’s the new one. Not sure how true is it but I do not wish to end up with something else.
No that is not a picture of the optimized HK4. In the picture you provided, it has only one wire gauge listed of "24AWG" and that is what the older versions showed on the USB cable insulation. The optimized HK4 will have "20AWG+24AWG" on the USB cable insulation.
Thanks for confirming! Guess I won’t proceed with the purchase then.
I put that black bed sheet in the parcel shelf area about 18 months ago.
It takes me about 30 minutes to download the video files from my Friday driving trips using my Windows batch scripts to my NAS disk. It took about 2.5 hours to create the combined video file. This is actually one of the easier videos to put together. It only requires syncing the video (first by audio sync tool in Adobe Premiere Pro and then I fine tune it by doing a visual comparison frame-by-frame at the start of the first video for each group). After that, it's just a few simple math calculations for the center of each camera's video and the percentage of the edge to crop off on the right side to allow the videos to the right of that video to be visible. My review videos take forever! They can take 30 to 50 hours to create any supporting documents, gather screenshots, unboxing pics and then the editing of the final video.
The A229 Pro is still going through some tests with a few different firmware versions. The A139 Pro front footage has looked like that for some time. I can't recall exactly what version firmware it was when it started looking like that.
Took me similar even though it was only two cameras for me in Premiere Pro. Even with saved templates it still takes a bit for the Crop percentages to figure out cos of the varying resolutions. Export is pretty speedy.
These two cameras come with a CPL and thus should have been colour calibrated with the CPL fitted. Should really have been tested with the CPL on if you want the colours "correct".
@rcg530
That was my issue going in, with Resolve. Absolute turd basket for me, and the second I tweeted about Resolve being a piece of crap (for me), the fanboys came crawling out of the cracks
