Air 2s please help with reviews

[bmoore1118]

I am working on getting into video on my Air 2s and need some help with some reviews (good or bad) of my 2 new projects. Both are different short edits of 8 videos I shot last weekend camping in MT. Everything was shot in 30fps 4k D-Log at about 8 am with an ND filter. I used the same color recovery filter for all eight clips before making the two videos. Please let me know if I should do something different. The sky does look somewhat bland to me. It was sunrise and summer fire smoke season in the northwest, so there was some of that in the air. Thank you for the help!

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[Dale D]

I know of no way to edit high dynamic range images in video, such as bright sky with normal or dark foreground. I can easily do it with Photoshop by masking tools but this has not yet become available in Adobe Premier. I try to fly on evenly lit days, and expose maybe a stop under to get some detail in the sky (clouds). Of course, still images are easy to edit with masking tools by selecting "SKY." Hopefully, one day, Adobe will fix this.

 

[Nanny Ogg]

If you could adjust the contrast a bit, it would be better, but I don't know how to do that with video. The smoke doesn't help.

 

[Harro]

In Davinci Resolve Studio you may be able to use the tracking feature and so adjust the sky more to your liking. Agree that a contrast adjustment would be a good adjustment. Again easily done in Resolve.

 

[PunaPhantom]

Couple of things...
When I was starting out I wanted the sky to be BLUE the clouds White and impressive. If you begin to notice in commercial videos and movies, the sky is often "washed out"... That being said you could mask the sky in a Node & track it (DaVinci Resolve) and apply correction. A couple of other techniques could also apply (depth map and colour and in DaVinci you also have a mask tool that selects the sky)...

The other comment I have is the timing with the cuts is off... zoom in on your timeline where the cuts are and slip the cut back/forward to the actual beat on the music track

Finally try using a polarizing filter when you see this much haze... or in post use a haze SE

Not a bad start, looks better than my first videos (12 years ago)

Just my 2¢

Aloha

 

[bmoore1118]

Couple of things...
When I was starting out I wanted the sky to be BLUE the clouds White and impressive. If you begin to notice in commercial videos and movies, the sky is often "washed out"... That being said you could mask the sky in a Node & track it (DaVinci Resolve) and apply correction. A couple of other techniques could also apply (depth map and colour and in DaVinci you also have a mask tool that selects the sky)...

The other comment I have is the timing with the cuts is off... zoom in on your timeline where the cuts are and slip the cut back/forward to the actual beat on the music track

Finally try using a polarizing filter when you see this much haze... or in post use a haze SE

Not a bad start, looks better than my first videos (12 years ago)

Just my 2¢

Aloha

Thank you. I have the circular polarizer filter, but it was hard because I had to use an ND 16 to get it low enough for good exposure. I couldn’t have both on there.