Thanks. I managed to avoid the trees by simply stopping the drone before it got there. What the camera sees is a narrowed field of view and things seem to appear closer than they actually are.
I do continue filming beyond what you see in the clips. I position the drone, start the recording, then start moving the drone through the shot I want, stop the drone, then stop the recording. So, at the beginning of the clip, there is a period of time where there is no motion, or a little motion getting setup. Same at the end. There's the stopping motion and stopping the recording.
These bits are edited out. I fade into the motion of the drone and fade out before the stopping motion. Sometimes I only use a tiny portion of the original clip, work in bits of other clips, then use another part of that original clip....and so on and so on. This is "weaving a story" and putting together multiple parts of many clips. Makes for a better video.
Including the whole clip, start to finish, wouldn't look very good. That's not how you make a good video. You setup the shot, start recording, get the shot, stop recording. Nip off the bits at the beginning and end so you end up with "the shot" you wanted. I do this even when creating a "quickie" like the one I posted.
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