RawClip Footage Report: how much action-camera footage people really shoot
How much raw action-camera and drone footage people bring to RawClip, how long their highlights end up, which cameras they film on and in which formats. Medians over real, finished orders.
Data as of · period: July 2026 to October 2026
Key findings
- The median RawClip order contains 7 min 10 s of raw footage across 5 video files (July 2026 to October 2026).
- A finished RawClip highlight keeps a median of 20% of the raw footage, about one minute of video for every 5 minutes filmed, and runs 1 min 20 s (median, July 2026 to October 2026).
- Cameras split long recordings into chapters: the median source video file uploaded to RawClip is 20 s long (July 2026 to October 2026).
- DJI is the main camera in 20% of RawClip orders, the most common brand detected from file metadata and file names (July 2026 to October 2026).
- 62% of the footage uploaded to RawClip is 4K or higher, and 52% is encoded in HEVC (H.265) (share of footage time, July 2026 to October 2026).
- The clips in a median RawClip order were filmed over 2 h 23 min, and 38% of orders cover more than 24 hours of shooting (July 2026 to October 2026).
Raw footage per order
How much raw footage one order brings: the total length of every video file, the number of files and their size on disk. Action cameras split long recordings into chaptered video files, so one ride or dive often arrives as several files.
| Metric | Value | Statistic |
|---|---|---|
| Raw footage per order | 7 min 10 s | median |
| Raw footage per order, lower quartile | 2 min 50 s | 25th percentile |
| Raw footage per order, upper quartile | 21 min | 75th percentile |
| Video files per order | 5 | median |
| Length of one source file | 20 s | median |
| Raw footage size per order | 1.6 GB | median |
| Storage per hour of footage | 12 GB | median |
July 2026 to October 2026. Sizes in decimal gigabytes.
Highlight length vs raw footage
The target duration the customer picked, the length of the finished highlight reel and the footage-to-highlight ratio between them. Candidate moments are the scenes the analysis scored before the cut.
| Metric | Value | Statistic |
|---|---|---|
| Highlight length chosen | 1 min 20 s | median |
| Finished highlight length | 1 min 20 s | median |
| Share of the raw footage kept in the highlight | 20% | median |
| Minutes of raw footage per minute of highlight | 1 : 5 | median |
| Candidate moments found per order | 23 | median |
| Share of candidate moments used in the highlight | 29% | median |
| Highlights with background music | 81% | share of orders |
| Orders re-cut at least once | 15% | share of orders |
July 2026 to October 2026. Shares are computed per order, then the median is taken.
How long a shoot lasts
The time between the recording start of the first and the last clip in an order, read from the shooting time the camera writes into each file.
| Metric | Value | Statistic |
|---|---|---|
| Time between the first and the last clip of an order | 2 h 23 min | median |
| Orders filmed over more than 24 hours | 38% | share of orders |
July 2026 to October 2026. Orders with at least two clips that carry a shooting time.
By camera brand
The main camera of an order is the brand that recorded most of its footage time, detected from file metadata and file names. Brands that are too rare to report reliably are left out.
| Main camera | Share of orders | Raw footage (median) | Files (median) | File length (median) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DJI | 20% | 6 min 50 s | 6 | 10 s |
| Other or not detected | 52% | 6 min 10 s | 3 | 20 s |
July 2026 to October 2026.
Resolution, frame rate and codec
What the uploaded files are, read from their video stream: how much of the footage time is 4K video or higher, which frame rates people film at, and how much is encoded in HEVC (H.265).
| Resolution | Share |
|---|---|
| 5K and above | 1% |
| 4K | 61% |
| 2.7K / 1440p | 8% |
| 1080p | 26% |
| Below 1080p | 4% |
| Frame rate | Share |
|---|---|
| Up to 30 fps | 81% |
| 50-60 fps | 16% |
| Above 60 fps | 3% |
| Codec | Share |
|---|---|
| HEVC (H.265) | 52% |
| H.264 (AVC) | 48% |
July 2026 to October 2026. Shares of footage time, over files uploaded through the browser since the format started being recorded.
Questions and answers
How much footage do people shoot on an action camera?
In RawClip orders the median is 7 min 10 s of raw footage per trip or session; half of all orders fall between 2 min 50 s and 21 min (July 2026 to October 2026).
How long should a highlight video be compared to the raw footage?
Finished RawClip highlights run 1 min 20 s at the median, about one minute of highlight for every 5 minutes of raw footage (July 2026 to October 2026).
Why is my action camera footage split into many files?
Cameras cut long recordings into chapters to stay under file-size limits. The median source file uploaded to RawClip is 20 s long, and a median order arrives as 5 files (July 2026 to October 2026).
How much storage does an hour of action camera footage take?
About 12 GB per hour at the median across RawClip uploads; higher resolutions and frame rates take more (July 2026 to October 2026).
Which camera brand do most people film action footage with?
DJI: it is the main camera in 20% of RawClip orders, detected from file metadata and file names (July 2026 to October 2026).
Methodology
- What is counted. Finished RawClip orders, free trial orders included: footage that was uploaded, analyzed and rendered into a highlight. Each order is one customer's footage for one highlight.
- What is excluded. Failed and unfinished orders, staff and test accounts and deleted accounts.
- Sample size. A figure is published only when the group behind it is large enough to be reliable. Smaller groups, such as a rarely used camera brand, are left out instead of being shown with a shaky number.
- Statistics. Lengths and counts are medians, so a few very large orders do not move them; the raw footage table also gives the lower and upper quartile. Shares are rounded to whole percent, durations to the minute (short durations to ten seconds).
- Camera brand. Detected from file metadata (the make, encoder or handler name the camera writes) and from the file naming scheme of each camera family (for example GX010001.MP4 for GoPro or DJI_0001.MP4 for DJI). A renamed or re-exported file counts as "Other or not detected".
- Resolution, frame rate and codec. Read from the video stream of each uploaded file; the shares are of footage time, not of files.
- Privacy. Only aggregates are published: no single order, customer, file name or location.
- Updates. Recomputed automatically every night. These figures were computed on .
How to cite
The figures are free to quote and reuse under CC BY 4.0, with a link to this page.
RawClip Footage Report (October 2026), https://rawclip.online/stats
Machine-readable copies of the same figures: stats.json and stats.csv.
Related
Terms used in this report: raw footage, hours of footage, chaptered video files, footage-to-highlight ratio, highlight reel, target duration, HEVC (H.265), 4K video
Highlights from your camera: Action cameras, GoPro, DJI Osmo, Insta360, Drone footage