Hello! Been playing around some doing Hyperlapses on MA... this one came out "ok", but I still couldn't get rid of all the "shake" by using free software, but it's close. If anyone wants to know the steps I did to do this (not hard), I can list them.
Hyperlapse "attempt" on Mavic Air
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To kill the shake, just record a video and speed it up:
Yes you have more editing control with individual interval pictures stitched into a video.
But I prefer this method of making a hyperlapse.
Yes you have more editing control with individual interval pictures stitched into a video.
But I prefer this method of making a hyperlapse.
The pmshop video of a speeded up video differs from the way I have learned to do hyperlapse. I take the images at the shortest interval that my drone battery (Mavic Air-21 minutes) allows which at a frame every 2 seconds usually gives me the following;
at a frame (photo) every 2 seconds (JPG) I get 30 frames a minute, and at 15 minutes of shooting time (need time to set parameters first), equals 15 min x 30 frames/minute=450 frames. I then take this into LRTimelapse software for processing using Lightroom.
my first hyperlapse and. Snowmass hyperlapse.
at a frame (photo) every 2 seconds (JPG) I get 30 frames a minute, and at 15 minutes of shooting time (need time to set parameters first), equals 15 min x 30 frames/minute=450 frames. I then take this into LRTimelapse software for processing using Lightroom.
my first hyperlapse and. Snowmass hyperlapse.
I would bet that just doing a video at 30 frames per sec and then using software to "speed it up" will not yield the same result as what Dale says. I say that, but I've never tried it. I will try it and see.... but I doubt it would all seem as smooth as what I posted. Again, I could be wrong...
Steps: (keep in mind, right now I only have a crappy computer so Lightroom, After effects, etc, is not an option so I rely on light-weight free software).
1. Take a fully charged battery up in the air with your Mavic Air (or any DJI drone).
2. Put manual exposure on...you don't want auto exposure to brighten and damped your pics - you want consistent exposure throughout.
3. Go into photo settings and choose Timed Shot, choose 2s (2 seconds).
4. Go into the intelligent flight modes and choose TapFly.
5. Point in the direction you want Drone to go and tap the GO on the screen. Keep it at the slowest speed.
6. Now press the white shutter button to start taking pictures, it will do one every 2 seconds.
7. The drone will SLOWLY fly forward and keep taking pics.
8. Once drone gets down to around 20% (or whatever you want), cancel TapFly and turn off timed shot by touching the white button.
9. Land.
10. Download Virtual Dub (super small and simple!) and the XVID Video Codec (search for it)
11. Put all your timed pictures in ONE directory on your computer.
12. Open Virtual Dub and File -> Open and grab the first pic in the folder (they are named sequentially: DJI_047, DJI_048, etc, etc).
12. Go to Video->Frame Rate and enter 24 frames per second and click OK.
13. Choose Video->Filters, then click Add button choose "resize" and click OK.
14. Click the Letter Box/ Crop radio button and enter 1920 x 1080 as dimensions.
15. Choose Absolute Pixels and enter 1920 in the first box, don't change the second one.
16. Click OK.
17. Choose Video->Compression and choose XVid and click Ok.
18. Last, File -> Save as Avi, give it a name and click OK.
19. When done, watch it!!!!
If you have excessive shake, no worries! Try this:
1. Download (free) "Video DeShake".
2. Open Video DeShake.
3. File -> Load File and open your .avi you just made.
4. (optional) Choose the convert check box in lower right and choose .mp4 (for youtube).
5. Click DeShake button and wait about 20-30 seconds and then watch your shake-free (hopefully) video!
This looks like a lot but I swear it is NOT. I've done 3 or 4 with this and now it takes about 3-5 minutes to do the steps above to stitch the photos. It's been SOOO much fun. This will work with any DJI Go 4 drone (Spark, MA, MP, Phantom 4, etc).
If you do this, PLEASE share...I love hyperlapses!
Steps: (keep in mind, right now I only have a crappy computer so Lightroom, After effects, etc, is not an option so I rely on light-weight free software).
1. Take a fully charged battery up in the air with your Mavic Air (or any DJI drone).
2. Put manual exposure on...you don't want auto exposure to brighten and damped your pics - you want consistent exposure throughout.
3. Go into photo settings and choose Timed Shot, choose 2s (2 seconds).
4. Go into the intelligent flight modes and choose TapFly.
5. Point in the direction you want Drone to go and tap the GO on the screen. Keep it at the slowest speed.
6. Now press the white shutter button to start taking pictures, it will do one every 2 seconds.
7. The drone will SLOWLY fly forward and keep taking pics.
8. Once drone gets down to around 20% (or whatever you want), cancel TapFly and turn off timed shot by touching the white button.
9. Land.
10. Download Virtual Dub (super small and simple!) and the XVID Video Codec (search for it)
11. Put all your timed pictures in ONE directory on your computer.
12. Open Virtual Dub and File -> Open and grab the first pic in the folder (they are named sequentially: DJI_047, DJI_048, etc, etc).
12. Go to Video->Frame Rate and enter 24 frames per second and click OK.
13. Choose Video->Filters, then click Add button choose "resize" and click OK.
14. Click the Letter Box/ Crop radio button and enter 1920 x 1080 as dimensions.
15. Choose Absolute Pixels and enter 1920 in the first box, don't change the second one.
16. Click OK.
17. Choose Video->Compression and choose XVid and click Ok.
18. Last, File -> Save as Avi, give it a name and click OK.
19. When done, watch it!!!!
If you have excessive shake, no worries! Try this:
1. Download (free) "Video DeShake".
2. Open Video DeShake.
3. File -> Load File and open your .avi you just made.
4. (optional) Choose the convert check box in lower right and choose .mp4 (for youtube).
5. Click DeShake button and wait about 20-30 seconds and then watch your shake-free (hopefully) video!
This looks like a lot but I swear it is NOT. I've done 3 or 4 with this and now it takes about 3-5 minutes to do the steps above to stitch the photos. It's been SOOO much fun. This will work with any DJI Go 4 drone (Spark, MA, MP, Phantom 4, etc).
If you do this, PLEASE share...I love hyperlapses!
re: Hyperlapse.
Addendum- for those of you out there who are interested in HYPERLAPSE- all you need to do is spend some time watching YouTube videos after searching the term, " Hyperlapse Tutorial." Here is a recent one that I found helpful, but I found many of these differ slightly. The main point of doing hyperlapse (which is a speeded up timelapse with movement), is to accumulate enough individual frames to achieve your desired frame rate (such as 24 fps or frames per second). This is not easy with the drone because of the time limit on the battery. On my Mavic Air, it is supposedly 21 minutes but by the time I get through with all of my adjustments, I usually have only about 15 minutes of exposures. So 15 minutes x taking one picture every 2 seconds! That is 60 seconds per minute divided by 2= 30 frames per minute. Then, 15 minutes of drone shooting time x 30=gives you about 450 frames. 450 divided by 24 fps=18.85 seconds of video. Processing can vary depending on the software. It would be idea to shoot in RAW but the MAvic will only do this for 5 second intervals which gives me far fewer frames to work with so I am forced to do drone hyper lapses at the 2 second interval setting.
Addendum- for those of you out there who are interested in HYPERLAPSE- all you need to do is spend some time watching YouTube videos after searching the term, " Hyperlapse Tutorial." Here is a recent one that I found helpful, but I found many of these differ slightly. The main point of doing hyperlapse (which is a speeded up timelapse with movement), is to accumulate enough individual frames to achieve your desired frame rate (such as 24 fps or frames per second). This is not easy with the drone because of the time limit on the battery. On my Mavic Air, it is supposedly 21 minutes but by the time I get through with all of my adjustments, I usually have only about 15 minutes of exposures. So 15 minutes x taking one picture every 2 seconds! That is 60 seconds per minute divided by 2= 30 frames per minute. Then, 15 minutes of drone shooting time x 30=gives you about 450 frames. 450 divided by 24 fps=18.85 seconds of video. Processing can vary depending on the software. It would be idea to shoot in RAW but the MAvic will only do this for 5 second intervals which gives me far fewer frames to work with so I am forced to do drone hyper lapses at the 2 second interval setting.
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