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  1. BeeSevenThree

    Mavic Air 2 - Disappointing Video Quality During Panning

    Thanks, NightFlightAlright, appreciate the great information and background from a professional cinematographer/videographer. As for myself, I'm a professional pilot with 30 years in the airlines, so I like to think I'm competent with the flying; but I'm definitely a rank amateur when it comes...
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    Mavic Air 2 - Disappointing Video Quality During Panning

    So after a lot more testing, and in case it may help someone, sometime... I recorded around 30 passes of the same scene using different frame rates and shutter speeds; frame rates from 24fps to 60fps, and shutter speeds from 1 x frame rate to 4 x frame rate. To cut a very long story short, I...
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    Mavic Air 2 - Disappointing Video Quality During Panning

    Thanks for all the thoughts. I've generally stuck with 25fps recording matched to a 25fps editing timeline for PAL delivery in Europe, but over the months I've tried other frame rates up to and including 4K 60fps - this didn't seem to make much difference in terms of perceived stutter during yaw...
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    Mavic Air 2 - Disappointing Video Quality During Panning

    Thanks very much for the responses, FLDave and Lister. Yes, the online file was uploaded direct to Dropbox, with no compression applied. The ND filter was used on this occasion in order to stop down the exposure enough to use a shutter speed of 1/50th sec, which I understand is the optimum...
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    Mavic Air 2 - Disappointing Video Quality During Panning

    Thanks, Crash, for the comparison notes on the Mini 2 and the Phantom 3A - interesting. And thanks, Marc, for the thoughts on the clip and the very helpful link to the Red website - I'm taking a look at this. I guess you're right - trying to make a convincing 30 second pan with this level of...
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    Mavic Air 2 - Disappointing Video Quality During Panning

    Dear Forum Members, I've been using my Mavic Air 2 for about a year now, and while I find the still image quality that it produces fantastic, the video quality seems to be very unstable in pan shots, dolly shots or anything involving lateral (I mean left/right) movement of the camera across a...