Help, footage looks terrible!

jimmyc95 · Mar 2, 2019

Hello, I'm after some advice.

My Mavic's quality seems to have gone terrible. It used to be great, even with factory settings but now it has excessive noise/grain and looks asthought its filmed with an old camera phone!

Not quite sure how to solve this issue. I have tried factory resetting the drone and updating/downgrading to different firmware but still no joy. With my settings (D-Cinelike, 1/-1/-1 100ISO 24fps) it looks blooming awful and with factory settings much the same. The footage I have posted up is from the SD card.

Just can't understand why it looks so bad when it used to be fine.

Cheers

brett8883 · Mar 2, 2019

Is this footage downloaded from the drone or from the sd card? What resolution are you shooting in?

jimmyc95 · Mar 2, 2019

brett8883 said:
Is this footage downloaded from the drone or from the sd card? What resolution are you shooting in?

From the SD card, shot in 4K at 24fps.

brett8883 · Mar 2, 2019

jimmyc95 said:
From the SD card, shot in 4K at 24fps.

Does it look like this when you view it on your computer or just youtube?

4wd · Mar 2, 2019

The main problem with that snippet is low light and a bit underexposed.
Mavic Pro never was too good in poor light.
The grain is mostly sharpening artefacts
+1/0/0 is usually not a good choice recording at 2.7K but at 4K try all on zero.

jimmyc95 · Mar 2, 2019

brett8883 said:
Does it look like this when you view it on your computer or just youtube?

Looks like this on the computer.

jimmyc95 · Mar 2, 2019

4wd said:
The main problem with that snippet is low light and a bit underexposed.
Mavic Pro never was too good in poor light.
The grain is mostly sharpening artefacts
+1/0/0 is usually not a good choice recording at 2.7K but at 4K try all on zero.

Cheers, I’ll give it a go when the sun comes up!

brett8883 · Mar 2, 2019

4wd said:
The main problem with that snippet is low light and a bit underexposed.
Mavic Pro never was too good in poor light.
The grain is mostly sharpening artefacts
+1/0/0 is usually not a good choice recording at 2.7K but at 4K try all on zero.

I also was going to say try it without the sharpening but @jimmyc95 is correct, look at the pathway at the bottom of the frame. You can see artifacts going nuts almost like a live video feed that has poor reception. Did you have any damage to the gimbal Jimmy? I might have to guess there is some damage to your gimbal ribbon cable disrupting the feed from the gimbal to the drone.

Hey @Thunderdrones im sure you’ve seen your fair share of bad ribbon cables, what do you think?

jimmyc95 · Mar 2, 2019

brett8883 said:
I also was going to say try it without the sharpening but @jimmyc95 is correct, look at the pathway at the bottom of the frame. You can see artifacts going nuts almost like a live video feed that has poor reception. Did you have any damage to the gimbal Jimmy? I might have to guess there is some damage to your gimbal ribbon cable disrupting the feed from the gimbal to the drone.

Hey @Thunderdrones im sure you’ve seen your fair share of bad ribbon cables, what do you think?

I think you may be on to something, I’ve had a fight with a tree that didn’t cause any visable damage but could defiantly have knocked the gimbal. I actually looked at the ribbon cable earlier but couldn’t see any visable damage.

If 4wd’s suggestion doesn’t work it may be a job for the insurance.