New pilot in tasmania

[scott5689]

Hi guys just thought id say hi bought a mavic pro 3 days ago have been having fun with it using my s8+ with latest firmware and software with no issues so far still have alot of learning to do have tried settings from YouTube but have no nd filters yet and videos/photos look pretty average on the pc look good on phone i was filming in dlog tho so could be part of my issue as i dont have any way of grading them to me some of it seems very blury here is a few examples the really blue ones were true colour the res in dlog

 

[scott5689]

 

[lannes]

I'd use exposure compensation and drop it down 0.5 of a stop for the dam photos

You can also increase the saturation in the camera settings or apply the "landscape" setting

On a bright day you can get away with setting the aperture around f8 to f11, this would improve the depth of field

You can also adjust focus by tapping the screen on where you want to focus

 

[MAvic_South_Oz]

Welcome the the forum, beaut part of Australia you have to explore from the air.

 

[dirkclod]

Welcome to Mavic Pilots .
I hope you will find our site helpful and look forward to any input , photo's/video's you might post .
Don't be shy and ask anything if you can't find it by searching .

 

[scott5689]

I'd use exposure compensation and drop it down 0.5 of a stop for the dam photos

You can also increase the saturation in the camera settings or apply the "landscape" setting

On a bright day you can get away with setting the aperture around f8 to f11, this would improve the depth of field

You can also adjust focus by tapping the screen on where you want to focus

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Wow that looks alot better then original i havent messed around with editing anything yet as i dont have the software to and am still just trying to work out the drone its my first ever drone watching the vids on my pc they look blurry but that could be the drone moving to quick as i havent messed with gimble settings or anything

 

[Bunny Too]

Hi guys just thought id say hi bought a mavic pro 3 days ago have been having fun with it using my s8+ with latest firmware and software with no issues so far still have alot of learning to do have tried settings from YouTube but have no nd filters yet and videos/photos look pretty average on the pc look good on phone i was filming in dlog tho so could be part of my issue as i dont have any way of grading them to me some of it seems very blury here is a few examples the really blue ones were true colour the res in dlog

Howdy from Wyoming @scott5689, welcome to the community, plenty of fine folk and excellent information here.

 

[scott5689]

Here is a video edited on the dji app from what it saved to my phone so not the 4k it saved to the sd card 3rd test flight without gimbal dome | SkyPixel.com

 

[scott5689]

Was my first real recording flight in dlog

 

[MAvic_South_Oz]

Cool Scott, slow all your settings down, I found this particularly good for yaw (to min 50), and gimbal to about 1/4 it's range.
I don't have as much issue controlling altitude, pitch and roll.

There is a great flight mode called Tripod, very good for slow controlled flight when close to your subject, but too slow when at distance like that of your video.

No doubt the manual and looking through settings and playing around with these is a good way to learn, combining that with reading here, looking at others videos (5 - 10 sec clips), and youtube is chockers with tutorials for filming and editing.

You probably should move your topic from here on to the photo / video part of the forum, here on intros many will miss your posts as above.

 

[msinger]

Welcome to Mavic Pilots!

 

[scott5689]

Cool Scott, slow all your settings down, I found this particularly good for yaw (to min 50), and gimbal to about 1/4 it's range.
I don't have as much issue controlling altitude, pitch and roll.

There is a great flight mode called Tripod, very good for slow controlled flight when close to your subject, but too slow when at distance like that of your video.

No doubt the manual and looking through settings and playing around with these is a good way to learn, combining that with reading here, looking at others videos (5 - 10 sec clips), and youtube is chockers with tutorials for filming and editing.

You probably should move your topic from here on to the photo / video part of the forum, here on intros many will miss your posts as above.

Thanks mavic_south_oz yeh will mess around with all that next day i can get out that video was virtually the first thing i recorded as a test run its not to bad looks pretty crap from the sd card in 4k that was what it saved to my phone so not in 4k but i guess thats alot to do with settings and stuff bit windy here today or id be out flying

 

[lannes]

Was my first real recording flight in dlog

Rotating is always a bit jerky, try to fly a curve instead to pan around , forward on the right stick and then straight left or right on the left stick

You don't have to moving very fast when doing this

 

[MAvic_South_Oz]

Thanks mavic_south_oz yeh will mess around with all that next day i can get out that video was virtually the first thing i recorded as a test run its not to bad looks pretty crap from the sd card in 4k that was what it saved to my phone so not in 4k but i guess thats alot to do with settings and stuff bit windy here today or id be out flying

I'm finding 4k is probably not needed for video, at least not yet.
You have to have the right video / graphics stuff on board your computer to edit it too, and not that many screens actually play back in 4k.
I seemed to be ending up wiht very large files of 4k, and can't work with them as yet.

I am mostly using 1080 now, as 2.7 seems to be something the DJI and iMovie editors don't like.
Once I get a decent editor, I might play more with better other res settings.

 

[lannes]

Wow that looks alot better then original i havent messed around with editing anything yet as i dont have the software to and am still just trying to work out the drone its my first ever drone watching the vids on my pc they look blurry but that could be the drone moving to quick as i havent messed with gimble settings or anything

always shoot in raw for stills, as you can do a lot post editing, or shoot a bracket and combine in hdr later

 

[Wayno1]

Welcome from another newbie in Sydney

 

[LuvMyTJ]

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