2. Wow thanks for your detailed reply/critique. A lot of these comments are hitting the same themes so, over some time I'm going to rework the footage into separately theme videos, with less 'attempted effects.
-Water theme, -The house, -church, -water tower and broken architecture ,-graveyard
3. I've never done anything with sound before so this was all knew to me - getting the sound of the locks to appear more distant in distant shots etc. Audio was worked as an afterthought to the video, BUT i think im hearing you say it should be considered while cutting the video. T
hat's something that didn't dawn on me. Thanks!
4 Overwhelming advice seems to be i need to do away with the transitions or make them much much more subtle Im going to do this .
5. Y
ou couldn't be more correct, I have a literal shitload of footage, I drove 2 hours at before dawn on 3 separate occaisions running through a total of 11 batteries on the drone. Probably close to 160 mins of flight time, all of that either setting up a shot and filming. There was something cool to film every where i looked. I also attempted doing ground level cut scenes with a go pro but couldn't get the footage to match the Mavic Air. This isn't at all wasted footage or bad though, the cold/snowy season will be coming soon where i wont be flying and id like to have a bunch of footage stock piled to work with, re-work and learn from. It's a long winter.
Im basically a hack trying my best to learn off off the davinci resolve online books, this forum and youtube. Drones are pretty new to me although i've done some video stuff with Gopro's. I don't ever expect to be a great film maker but id like to get to the point where i can make something and its all around good with no obvious/ glaring weak areas.
Settings:
I used Mavic Air filmed at 25fps (mistakenly set timeline settings to 24fps), filmed in 4k although I rendered in 1080P as i don't have a 4k monitor yet. I used a polarized ND4 filter for the water scenes to take glare reflection off water/ rising sun. I'm open to sharing whatever even footage, I'm just not sure exactly what settings would be interesting/helpful to share.
Learning curves,
As far a shot selection and angles there was an amazing video on Namibia posted by
@rikk08. that I want to dissect and really study how he used different angles and cutting into the sound. I think i can learn alot. I find it fascinating how your brain doesn't even realize these subtleties unless you really really focus on each aspect of what your eyes are seeing (angle, framing, directional movement, relation to sound etc).
The one major thing i learned was footage looks
drastically different (colouring) depending on time of day, especially in the rising sun even if only shot 4 or 5 mins apart.
I know i don't know enough about colour space settings, and how that effects input and output in Davinci, I also tried using LUTS, in an attempt to make it easier to match up colouring as the sun rose the colouring of the footage was getting too distinct and didnt match, and that was a disaster.
Thanks again for taking the time!