Okay, I'm not worried about the extra file size or difficulty in editing. Let's say you had an opportunity to take your drone to Africa and film animals out in the bush. It's a bucket list trip. Would you suggest shooting 60p for slow moving maneuvers from above?
It depends entirely on what I was trying to do and convey with the shot, what the end use is, and of course the capabilities of the drone itself. For example, if I'm releasing in 1080p, and I have an
Air 2S, I could shoot 120fps, then I'd have all kinds of options. If I'm releasing in 4K the available frame rates are different, but I still might do a shot in 120fps 1080, if there was a point to it. Maybe my
Mini 3 can shoot 4K/60. That might be fine, but if I miss a shot because I loaded my card, or I get bogged down in post, it's hardly worth having all that extra data.
Remember, most projects end up with a rather shocking use ratio, like 10:1 is doing really, really well (one shot used for every 10 takes), and most are way higher ratios than that.
What you're looking for is a single firm answer to a question with too many variables. Figure out first what the end video is to be in terms of format and usage, and back into the other settings with influence from the specific shot and the need for a specific image quality. Nothing is ever completely off the table.
Maybe my drone can shoot 4K/60. I might decide that my end formate is 4K/30, and I might shoot some shots in 60fps, but probably not all. I would pay more attention to color settings and exposure control (manual vs auto), and the correct codec for my enditing software. These choices will bite your entire shoot in post. You have to decide how much fiddling you want to do in post vs assemble the shots, lay in some music and transitions and make it watchable.
And, importantly, shoot some tests, and run them though the entire workflow including editing. That will tell you a lot about what to choose.
I did a very small, but very fast shoot a few years ago and had the option to shoot in 4K, finish/release in 1080p. I figured, heck, that'll give me lots of resolution to play with in post. But I had to shoot, edit, and show the finished video the same day. I couldn't run the footage back to the editor so clips could start rendering until the entire shoot was done. So I shot some tests, and saved my bacon by realizing that if I had to wait for all those clips to render to 1080 from 4K, I'd totally blow my time frame. Even if I cut in 4K, I still had to render just the project, and there was simply no time. I shot it in 1080p/30 and spent my time in post making more and better edit decisions.
Don't minimize what you have to do in post, it could be a deal breaker. Shooting in D-log means either putting up with someone's idea of a LUT, or grading every shot, sometimes changing mid-shot (because just using a LUT is only a starting point, and someone's opinion). Shooting in 60fps but working in a 30fps project means everything has to be rendered, like it or not. Shooting at 60fps, working in a 60fps project, then bumping some shots down to half-rate might be a better choice, but you have to think at least a little about where the project is going, and what the display chain might do to it. For example, 1080p/30, rec 709, always goes right through everything perfectly. 4K/60 rec 2020, not everything (actually, not much), and in a display chain the entire chain is adjusted to the lowest denominator thanks to EDID, so a 4K TV fed from an AVR that's not fully compliant will get the video flavor the AVR likes.
My "bucket list" trip to Africa gear would probably include at least two drones and controllers, and as many memory cards and batteries as I could afford and carry. I prefer more, smaller cards so damage or loss has less impact. I would also include the controllers with the brightest screens (because to me, that's THE big usage problem), and pack drones and stuff in separate bags so the complete loss of one bag wouldn't take me out of action. I'd also probably bring along a means to copy cards, and store the originals and backups in two different safe bags and locations reducing the chance of footage loss. I would most likely shoot in 4K30, with some 4K60, and test some higher rates at 1080p so I knew what to expect.
When do we leave?
