Please tell me what you would have done differently if anything, music, length, editing, color grading, or anything else!
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Very nice. Better than anything I've ever done. If you are truly looking for some feedback, maybe snip the first few seconds when the camera moves up and down. Review about the 47 sec mark where things get a bit dark before the cut. Also, where the forward or upward motion changes speed have the music tempo reflect that change. This from someone that knows notta. Still very nice.
Be careful what you wish for! I hope you get more people offering constructive criticism.
I will attempt to offer constructive suggestions. First, this is way better than I can do. I am not an expert, although I sometimes play one in my own mind, and offer my comments from a casual videographer point of view.
Too many of the shots are from a similar gliding perspective. I’ve seen some that I like that will show the same POI from straight on, then pull backs, then descending straight down from above, then cross pans, etc.
The colors seem very muted to my eye. I understand that winter colors are this way but a tiny more pop would look better.
It’s a little long. Unfortunately, attention spans seem to get shorter and shorter.
That’s my two cents, but probably worth slightly less.
Too many of the shots are from a similar gliding perspective. I’ve seen some that I like that will show the same POI from straight on, then pull backs, then descending straight down from above, then cross pans, etc.
The colors seem very muted to my eye. I understand that winter colors are this way but a tiny more pop would look better.
It’s a little long. Unfortunately, attention spans seem to get shorter and shorter.
That’s my two cents, but probably worth slightly less.
Thats a good point about attention spans. On Youtube, sometimes 5 minutes seems like an eternity.
My remedy for my senior citizen short attention span... use playback at 1.5x or 2x.
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I really enjoyed the video. i noticed the short sunny day parts made me feel much happier but the overcast day video was good too. I used to hike around the Hudson 30 years ago, but being from NJ I didn't go much further than Bear Mtn. Sorry I can't help more but I appreciate you sharing it!
Many of the moves are a bit jarring/snappy which is not completely in keeping with the soft music - consider using tripod mode to soften the pans (turns) and tilts. If you're really serious about getting really perfected shots, try waypoints so you can adjust turns to avoid a turn and then distracting minor corrections.
The Litchi app waypoints allow you to also control the gimbal and you can jump to your laptop or go home to your desktop and load the waypoints mission through Litchi Mission Hub and modify anything; waypoints, roundness of turns, POIs, gimbal angles and smoothness - everything.
Back out to the field, yours or any drone logged on to your Litchi Mission Hub online (password protected) and running the Litchi app on the controller can open and fly your saved missions.
Imagine your customer says 'it must be cut to 3 minutes with open and close titles/graphics'.
You now have to make a cut one half the length. Discard half the shots or cut all shots 50% or some of each.
Finally, watch a cut of your video with their eyes. Pretend to be an individual viewer from your target audience and react as they would. It's easier to do what I am doing now; harsh someone else's work that your own. Be your own worse critic and your next cut will be even better.
The Litchi app waypoints allow you to also control the gimbal and you can jump to your laptop or go home to your desktop and load the waypoints mission through Litchi Mission Hub and modify anything; waypoints, roundness of turns, POIs, gimbal angles and smoothness - everything.
Back out to the field, yours or any drone logged on to your Litchi Mission Hub online (password protected) and running the Litchi app on the controller can open and fly your saved missions.
Imagine your customer says 'it must be cut to 3 minutes with open and close titles/graphics'.
You now have to make a cut one half the length. Discard half the shots or cut all shots 50% or some of each.
Finally, watch a cut of your video with their eyes. Pretend to be an individual viewer from your target audience and react as they would. It's easier to do what I am doing now; harsh someone else's work that your own. Be your own worse critic and your next cut will be even better.
Thank you all for your suggestions please keep it up, then you can review my next video and after a while my quality will have gone up!
Did anyone notice that at about 4:58 I sped up the video and then slowed it down again, do you think that was a good idea? (I did it to make the shot not be so long, I didn't want to cut out the end of the shot either)
Just my 2 cents worth, I would try a minor transition between cuts. Keeping in touch with the peaceful music, something like a short cross fade of maybe one second. But remember of course, that's just my personal taste.
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This I noticed and would normally edit out.
There might be a way you can set exposure rather than auto, or manual adjustment on the controller wheel to quickly cope with changing light / direction, then edit short bits out.
Also noticed yaw movements at 0:30 and these are easily edited out, or you can at least slow down the offeneing frames where needed if it's good footage otherwise.
I have slowed both yaw and gimbal movement dramatically downwards in the settings, makes it easier to keep that slow and steady.
Otherwise, nice going, and a beautiful location.
Dissolve is great !
The scenes sort of merge, even just a cut with 0.5 second dissolve adds interest and breaks up a nice long shot.
When I get better at editing and putting footage to music, I will try this more to suit the music chosen.
The problem was that I wanted to fly down the at that angle and I didn't have any other shots like it.... Still, probably you are right...
I wanted to use transitions but I hadn't learned how yet in the new editor I am using... Now I found out how.... in the next video there will be many transitions
I am planning to make a summer version later, do any of you have any suggestions as to how I should do this?
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