I shared most of this in another thread but since it was hyperlapse specific I figured I should create my own thread to talk about it some more.
I've only been able to fly one battery in my M2P thus far and I focused on the new hyperlapse feature. I was surprised to see that you can't use hyperlapse unless you enable the vision sensors. I typically fly with these disabled. You have the option to save the individual still the DJI stitched to make the hyperlapse and if you do so, it will save them as DNG files. Hooray!
Once you enable the hyperlapse mode, you can select how long you want the hyperlapse to be and how much time you want to wait between photos. I used 2 seconds between photos and set it to generate a 3 second clip. Once activated, you control the camera pitch, yaw, and horizontal/vertical velocity. Once you have a heading you like, you can hit C1/C2 and it will lock in those settings and continue flying in that manner. Tapping C1/C2 again will disable this course lock feature.
I compared the DJI hyperlapse video file (which is surprisingly small) to the image sequence loaded into Premiere CC 2018. The DJI hyperlapse file is 1080p/25fps and the image appears to be cropped about 15% when compared to the DNGs. I don't know if this will vary based on how stable your footage is or not. They also add some image stabilization which worked well for my shot. I edited their hyperlapse into a boomerang which you can see it here:
The world's biggest drone photo and video sharing platform | SkyPixel.com
Next I took one of the DNG files that was saved separately and edited this quickly to my liking in Photoshop. Overall I'm very pleased with the camera and the quality of the images it captured. I can't wait to see what else this thing can do!
f2.8, 1/30sec, ISO-160
I've only been able to fly one battery in my M2P thus far and I focused on the new hyperlapse feature. I was surprised to see that you can't use hyperlapse unless you enable the vision sensors. I typically fly with these disabled. You have the option to save the individual still the DJI stitched to make the hyperlapse and if you do so, it will save them as DNG files. Hooray!
Once you enable the hyperlapse mode, you can select how long you want the hyperlapse to be and how much time you want to wait between photos. I used 2 seconds between photos and set it to generate a 3 second clip. Once activated, you control the camera pitch, yaw, and horizontal/vertical velocity. Once you have a heading you like, you can hit C1/C2 and it will lock in those settings and continue flying in that manner. Tapping C1/C2 again will disable this course lock feature.
I compared the DJI hyperlapse video file (which is surprisingly small) to the image sequence loaded into Premiere CC 2018. The DJI hyperlapse file is 1080p/25fps and the image appears to be cropped about 15% when compared to the DNGs. I don't know if this will vary based on how stable your footage is or not. They also add some image stabilization which worked well for my shot. I edited their hyperlapse into a boomerang which you can see it here:
The world's biggest drone photo and video sharing platform | SkyPixel.com
Next I took one of the DNG files that was saved separately and edited this quickly to my liking in Photoshop. Overall I'm very pleased with the camera and the quality of the images it captured. I can't wait to see what else this thing can do!
f2.8, 1/30sec, ISO-160
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