anzacjsack-
Thanks for the workflow notes. I'll try your suggestions...all of them to see if I can make this video even that much better. I use Hit Film Express (free). Ever heard of it? It's pretty powerful and has lots of instructional videos on youtube. I use it for video editing, not photo editing. It has all the post production tools that you mention, I just need to jump in sand try!
lillewis and marcbyron- Correct, the Mavic does not do Hyperlapse....like the
Mavic 2 Pro does. Why Dji GO 4, when used on a
Mavic 2, has built in Hyperlapse but NOT on the Mavic Air is beyond my comprehension ! So, you do this:
1. Set the camera to take "timed shot" and set it for
2s (once every 2 seconds it takes a picture).
2. Enter into Tap Fly. You point it to a location far away and tell it to start flying towards that.
3. Once Tap Fly is going, you tap the shutter button in Go 4, and as it slowly flies towards the horizon, it'll take a picture every 2 seconds.
4. Pull all the photos off the SD card onto a single folder on your computer (like c:\hyperlapse).
5. Use software to import the photos and stitch them together into a 24 frames per sec video.
That's it! One thing you HAVE to do is set the exposure to manual so you get consistent exposure….else your Hyperlapse will come out BAD. Also, keep in mind for a 12 second video, as shown above, you need a LOT of pictures to make a video.
I did not use all the battery - that was going from 83% charge remaining down to 22%. If I immediately would have launched it up in the air and did the hyper laps all the way from 95% down to, say, 15%, I could have gotten close to 20 seconds of video.
This is my favorite thing to do (Hyperlapse). I sorta wish I had a
Mavic 2 Pro, because it's built in to Go 4 to do Hyperlapse with that drone.