Dancing shadows in mavic footage

mynameisevans · Oct 19, 2017

Hi guys, I just got my mavic about a week ago. Have taken it out for about 6 flights now. I came from a P4P and comparing footage side by side, have found the mavic footage abit lacking. I fully understand though, that there is a tradeoff for the smaller form factor of the Mavic.

My main gripes so far are:
1) very obvious grain at sharpness 0 and above.
2) places with fine detail (grass / trees etc) tends to have dark artifacts.
3) Lots of moire (i guess due to software sharpening?)

All that, i still can live with. However, when I reviewed the footage that I took yesterday at an empty field, I experienced for the first time, dancing footage around the shadow or darker areas (in this case the grass area). It is very obvious and I don't suppose this is normal? I have attached the video below. Straight out of camera, no editing has been done. The footage is quite horrendous by any measure. Is this normal and is there anything that I'm not doing right? Help much appreciated.

Settings were:
ISO - 100
4K - 24FPS
Shutter 1/50
Profile: D-Cinelike 0/-1/-1
ND16 filter
SD Card: Stock SD card that came with the drone.

Ping^Spike · Oct 19, 2017

I can't advise, but just to add to your woes, that footage is stuttering quite a lot too?

Hotelone · Oct 19, 2017

Try +1/-1/-1 for the most limited compression.

mynameisevans · Oct 19, 2017

just contacted DJI for help. The support guy told me to use DJI assistant 2 to refresh my firmware. I just did that.
Will go fly again tmr or the day after and see if there is any improvement.

4wd · Oct 19, 2017

It's a bit underexposed which Mavic does not like.
Forget manual and stuff about shutter speed/FPS - for most scenes use auto exposure between 0.0 and +1.0
2.7K with +1, -1, 0 is my favourite setting, d-log if you can grade, cinelike for less work afterwards.
A light gaussian blur or better neat image will immensely improve the artefacts.