Peaceful Morning 2

Montreal_Mavic · Nov 10, 2016

Just love to take the Mavic out before work, it,s so tiny and easy to carry.

Here's a video i made this morning!

Peel · Nov 10, 2016

Beautiful, very smooth footage. I really like the opening scene where you're basically at eye level on land, then head out over the water. If this wasn't posted to a drone site, I might have thought you were walking with a steady cam until the departure over the water. I'm amazed that the ducks don't mind you flying so close to them.

My one suggestion is to turn off auto exposure. In the scenes where you do a slow gimbal up, as more sky enters the image, the ground goes dark, and does so in distinct bands. This is distracting, especially as the ground remains your focal point, so everyone is looking at it as it gets darker until you can't make out detail. Set the exposure before you begin, and keep it consistent.

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YorkshirePaul · Nov 10, 2016

Stunning - love it

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dam · Nov 10, 2016

Montreal_Mavic said:
Just love to take the Mavic out before work, it,s so tiny and easy to carry.

Here's a video i made this morning!

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Excellent cinematic style... u have a knack for this ... surprised that the ducks didn't seem bothered by you flying over them so close...

Montreal_Mavic · Nov 11, 2016

Peel said:
Beautiful, very smooth footage. I really like the opening scene where you're basically at eye level on land, then head out over the water. If this wasn't posted to a drone site, I might have thought you were walking with a steady cam until the departure over the water. I'm amazed that the ducks don't mind you flying so close to them.

My one suggestion is to turn off auto exposure. In the scenes where you do a slow gimbal up, as more sky enters the image, the ground goes dark, and does so in distinct bands. This is distracting, especially as the ground remains your focal point, so everyone is looking at it as it gets darker until you can't make out detail. Set the exposure before you begin, and keep it consistent.

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Thanks Peel! About the auto exposure you are right, it's always off usually but i did the firmware update before the flight and it did a reset on it and forgot to turn it off -_- will do for next time!

dsd317 · Nov 11, 2016

Yes...I'm also shocked to see how calm those ducks were with the Mavic flying that close to them.

Raptorman · Nov 11, 2016

Agree about the ducks not being too upset with the drone -- this is good news for folks wanting to capture wildlife but not wantling to disturb them.

There's a weird compression thing going on about midway witht he grass and trees blocking up. But, as the drone flys higher the problem seems to go away. That blockiness is worisome to me.

Brian

Peel · Nov 11, 2016

@Raptorman, do you have a time mark for the blockiness? The blocking that I see I'm attributing to the autoexposure as it jumps from setting to setting. This can cause blockiness in compressed video as the B-frames are updated from different values.

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