For better quality ballast yes. Every start (so after power was OFF) the ballast spend programmed amount of time only preheating cathodes (with no or safely insufficient lamp voltage to trigger the arc during this time), only after this time elapses, the ballast apply high voltage for lamp ignition. The time is designed, with margin, to allow cathodes to attain temperature necessary for electron emission with low voltage drop. So it is ensured, then the discharge would never happen on cold electrodes, as this is their main start-related wear. Heating electrodes for longer time then necessary (e.g. when they didn't cool down yet due to very short power OFF duration, as in your video) is way less damaging, so ballasts are designed so, then even momentary power drop cause complete reset of the circuit, so new, complete, starting sequence is triggered, including preheat section.
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