diff --git a/services/web-ui/public/screens-ingest.jsx b/services/web-ui/public/screens-ingest.jsx
index 04022d7..4d3ddc0 100644
--- a/services/web-ui/public/screens-ingest.jsx
+++ b/services/web-ui/public/screens-ingest.jsx
@@ -614,7 +614,10 @@ function RecorderConfigModal({ recorder, onClose, onSaved }) {
 
   const [label, setLabel]       = React.useState(recorder.label || '');
   const [codec, setCodec]       = React.useState(recorder.recording_codec || 'hevc_nvenc');
-  const [bitrate, setBitrate]   = React.useState((recorder.recording_video_bitrate || '25').replace(/M$/i, ''));
+  // Seed bitrate from the stored value; fall back to a mode-appropriate default
+  // (50 Mbps for growing XDCAM HD422, 25 Mbps for a GPU master).
+  const _seedBitrate = (recorder.recording_video_bitrate || (recorder.growing_enabled === true ? '50' : '25')).replace(/M$/i, '');
+  const [bitrate, setBitrate]   = React.useState(_seedBitrate);
   const [growing, setGrowing]   = React.useState(recorder.growing_enabled === true);
   const [projectId, setProjectId] = React.useState(recorder.project_id || PROJECTS[0]?.id || '');
   const [saving, setSaving]     = React.useState(false);
@@ -708,8 +711,10 @@ function RecorderConfigModal({ recorder, onClose, onSaved }) {
             </div>
           </div>
 
-          {/* Codec + bitrate only apply to Standard mode (growing is fixed XDCAM). */}
-          {!growing && (
+          {/* Standard mode: GPU codec + bitrate. Growing mode: bitrate only
+              (codec is fixed to XDCAM HD422 MXF, but the target bitrate of the
+              growing essence is still operator-tunable). */}
+          {!growing ? (
             <div className="rec-cfg-grid">
               <div className="field">
                 <label className="field-label">Video codec</label>
@@ -729,6 +734,16 @@ function RecorderConfigModal({ recorder, onClose, onSaved }) {
                 </div>
               )}
             </div>
+          ) : (
+            <div className="field">
+              <label className="field-label">XDCAM HD422 bitrate (Mbps)</label>
+              <input className="field-input" type="number" min="1" max="400" step="1"
+                value={bitrate} disabled={isRec}
+                onChange={e => setBitrate(e.target.value)} />
+              <div className="mono" style={{ fontSize: 10.5, color: 'var(--text-3)', marginTop: 4 }}>
+                Target bitrate of the growing MXF essence. Broadcast XDCAM HD422 is 50 Mbps; raise for higher quality.
+              </div>
+            </div>
           )}
 
           <div className="field">