My first drone vid

[George Smiley]

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

[George Smiley]

Panning is down to the user and possibly the editor adding jumps.

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

[George Smiley]

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]

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.