My first drone vid

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George Smiley

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5,048 posts

80 months

Monday 7th May 2018
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Bought my first drone a few weeks back but only just got to use it this weekend.

First attempt at flying and making a little video.

Mavic Air

https://youtu.be/R-vBvs9Pvco


Edited by George Smiley on Monday 7th May 01:20

DIW35

4,145 posts

199 months

Monday 7th May 2018
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I was thinking of getting an Air to replace my Phantom, but I'm not so sure now having seen the quality of the footage on your vid. What settings did you shoot at, and what quality did you upload to Youtube at if you son't mind me asking?

The other point is that some of the panning shots in the early part of the video looked a bit juddery, but again I am wondering if this is down purely to the resolution that you uploaded at. If I don't go for an AIr I may stretch to a Pro. The principal reason for change is the sheer portability of either Mavic model compared to the Phantom, but I'd still like to get decent quality video from whichever I choose.

George Smiley

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Monday 7th May 2018
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Panning is down to the user and possibly the editor adding jumps.

Resolution was 4k / 30 but quick converts to 1080/60

justin220

5,331 posts

203 months

Wednesday 9th May 2018
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I think to help with the judder you need to get an ND filter on, if you are going to shoot in such bright conditions. The shutter speed must be pretty high, causing the jerks.

I was between the Pro and the Air and went for the Pro purely for the connectivity. The wifi connection of the Air put me off. How do you find it?

It was awful on my P3S.

George Smiley

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Thursday 10th May 2018
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justin220 said:
I think to help with the judder you need to get an ND filter on, if you are going to shoot in such bright conditions. The shutter speed must be pretty high, causing the jerks.

I was between the Pro and the Air and went for the Pro purely for the connectivity. The wifi connection of the Air put me off. How do you find it?

It was awful on my P3S.
I think the judder you notice is due mainly to the video being the streamed version to the phone not the one directly recorded to the device so if there is any interference or lag it gets replayed (I only edited the video on the phone using Quik for a test).


This was my first flight with it so I cannot comment much on the Wi-Fi, I did get lost contact well within the advertised range but my friend was also flying his drone (A pro) and whenever he was nearby it killed the signal it seemed. I am hopefully going to go take some more footage this weekend and see how the distance works.

George Smiley

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Friday 11th May 2018
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Just to update questions above...

Turns out the judder is due to me being lazy and using the video captured in the app... this also accounts for the lower image quality too!!

Quik is a great little editing app but go pro offer a much better one called stitch from memory both for android and iOS.

Damian-lwr6a

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70 months

Friday 11th May 2018
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I have a mavic and on my laptop running a Intel graphics chip, I have judder on playback. On my work laptop featuring a GTX chip, no judder. I was testing it last night and I think it is to do with 4K playback. Once I down scaled it to 1080, no issue. When I ran the 4k video through after Effects it was munching Ram like nobody's business. So much so it gave me a RAM indicator in After Effects.

Oxygen2k10

332 posts

169 months

Friday 11th May 2018
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I grabbed an Air few weeks back as well. First drone but loving it so far. It's a brilliant piece of kit.

Best way to grab the video off the thing is to just pop the SD card out the back smile

WiFi seems fine for me but then i don't really have a frame of reference as it's my first one. The bravest I've been is 1000ft away and 300ft up and it was absolutely fine, no jitters or drop outs etc. That was really pushing the line of sight rule so I wouldn't want to go any further than that.

I've a few vids on the youtube. Nothing too special as still getting to grips with it but here's a full 4K one at 24fps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxwvsoe5M-k&t=...

and the rest...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTmY-LBmbLugkJ0ry...



Edited by Oxygen2k10 on Friday 11th May 13:45