I get the same result by lowering the camera angle for the ‘filming’ shot. Run a test( where is an unobstructed safe height camera at 0 deg relative). Drop camera degrees by whatever floats your boat and fly the shot, knowing what you see is not where you’re heading. Works great for treetops/grass/water running underneath. Mini3 pro makes this really easy, though not crash proof(sigh). You can add the ‘rise/reveal’ by returning the camera back to 0 deg. as a transition back to ‘level’ flight.
Gavin! You're awesome dude! And I love your hair!!! Great video and wonderful tips as always to make us all look like we really know what we're doing!!! Cheers!
Hey! What a great idea, Gavin! Works great for me on AviDemux with its crop filter just to "zoom in" and in perception, fly at a height a mini2 dare not go!
Hey guys! Anyone had following issue? Cannot change resolution and fps. Field where normally you choose resolution is blank, empty in all modes: video, photo, quicks. Happened to me today on DJI 1.7.5 and turning off and on again doesn't solve the problem. Greets!
Everything Gavin is saying here is, spot on! This is how you do it! It is so nice now, having 4K! As, back in the day… When we had only, 260 to, 525 lines of resolution. With very early iterations of, video editing software. And over 25 years ago. I was requested to do a project. That, unless I can come up with some newer modus operandi. This video shoot, will look abysmal at best. Because I can't position any camera guys. It all has to be from, preset lockdown shots. And I'm the only camera guy running,, 4 cameras. Without any remote control systems. So I had to damn well figure out, how to make this production look, acceptable. I only need acceptable. But I need to make it look like I had, 4 camera guys. So, thanks to, key framing. I can now, Pan, tilt, zoom.. My fixed locked down cameras. And make them all move in software. And of course working with, such low resolution, analog video. Anytime I tried to zoom in. From a low-resolution source like that. You're going to get terrible, pixelated garbage. Until I got another piece of software. That had just been upgraded from a, multitrack audio production software. To now include video. From a piece of software. From a very reputable company. Originally intended for, audio production. Now ported over to video and called, Vegas. Originally a release by Sony. Recently sold to, MAGIX. This is Vegas software I found remarkable. Compared to the Adobe product at the time. Able to run on a Windows computer. As opposed to Apple only by Avid. And where I discovered, oh wow! This is Vegas is a game changer! So as I was able to zoom in. On a, 525 line or less, video. I found methods of software manipulation. Within Vegas. That was beyond remarkable! Some scenes so highly zoomed in on. You would expect it to be, unreviewable. Au contraire! I was looking at resolution. The software somehow was able to, discern, enhance, bring out. Without it looking extremely, pixelated. In fact there was none! I wondered how this was possible? Great algorithms in this software no doubt! They got it down! So it really didn't take me long to walk away from the Adobe Premier editing product. Beyond that of other, entry-level clueless beginner, toylike, software. Multiple versions available. From the most simple. To those deepest complex of capabilities. With multiple tiers of availability. Starting at less than three figures to, over three figures. And a version for any budget! So while I had also gotten training on the, Avid, Media Composer, software. I found the (then Sony) Vegas product. To have the most bang for the buck. To be compatible on any Windows platform while being quick and easy and very intuitive, to use. So when I delivered the product to the client. They were shocked. They told me they did not remember, any of the other camera guys? I said yeah. Because there were none! And they wandered. How all the cameras could be moving? If nobody was operating them? And never once were they able to understand this concept of, video production. In the not yet new millennium. So early on. Obtaining reality from Envisionmeant RemyRAD
@@GAVINHR no worries. I've upload it to send to Ken Heron Drone Crash compilation. The error on this video was that I should have studied the environment before and planed the ahot according too it.
Indeed! I’ll credit your channel in the comments :) we all make mistakes, I’ve also make a few in my time even when I think I’m being safe so it happens !
Again an awesome video, Gavin, thanks for your tutorial! I was wondering how you get that background in your studio, that really looks fantastic. Is it a green screen with added background? Looking for something similar, since my "studio" looks like a 2 penny junk yard 🤣
Then you will get a slightly upscaled video and it will look absolutely fine, for reference even though I’m working in 1080p for what I’m showing you THIS video you watched was a 4K timeline and well, you can see it looks fine :)
Hitting a little close to home as I almost bit it flying my air2s this weekend. About a mile out I flew between a couple power lines that I didn't even see until I was right upon them. Had to have been less than 2 ft apart. Still makes my heart race watching the footage. In short, practice practice practice when you boost your confidence level practice some more. I'll probably upload my close call footage after combining the clips and adding some music.
Hello from Norway again ! I noticed that in your editing program the frame rate is on 29,97 ... the same is standard in my program too ( Movavi Video Editor 2021 )... but I always shoot in 4K 30fps. Then I want to know if there is any big difference with 29,97 / 30 fps when the videofiles are in 30 fps ? One of my first videos I was shooting in 24 fps and the videos where edited in 29,97 fps and it turned out a bit stuttering ... It could have been to high shutterspeed too in a bright day...
Hi Olav! Yes that will be caused by the mismatch in frame rate between the 24 and the 29,97 in your case. In fact especially with DJI products even if you select 30fps if you look at the recorded file properties you will likely find the file says it’s 29,97 so it’s actually the same. Hope this helps
Great video foe such an overlooked technique. I'm heading out right now to get some sunset shots with my Mini 3 Pro and I'm going to give this a shot. Cheers!
Hi Gavin. Great video as always and really good, clear advice and well explained! This is a trick I use a fair bit but I still like to test myself to the limit, probably why my drone is so dented!😉 Filmora is an excellent piece of software, as soon as I started editing on it I noticed the improvement in my videos. Like you say, it is easy enough to navigate and use but really quite powerful. Thanks again and Cheers! Suffolk Air Adventures.
watching the comparison i liked the light pole and the barrier one but apart from that it wasn't as good as i thought it would be. IMO shots that are super close down to the ground i would rather do it in manual mode for the real footage feel
Hi Gavin Would you be able to do a short video on MOBILE editing software please ? I'm relatively new to all this video editing malarkey so I have no idea what's available and what's not . Which is easiest or best for a beginner. Not drone related directly I know . But surely there must be more than me struggling with this LOL Thanks Fattrucker
i did a similar thing by using the 2x zoom on the camera, this gave the effect of it looking much closer to the kiddies on a bouncy castle, but allowed a much more safety distance from them, but here's where my problem began, i then did a lovely slow side curved pan to the left, that's when the tree attacked, yes it looked as if i were much closer to the subject being filmed, it gave me a false sense of distance, meaning i was further back than it looked on my screen. my perspective was way out, if i had kept a eye on the drone instead it might not have happened, but i was trying to keep the bouncy castle centred in view. and my observer got distracted also. lesion, dont become too focused on the screen.
Ah one quick thing while your about / online , the gimbal wheel on the controller and trying to not get any jerkiness in video tilting gimbal up and down , best tips would be awesome , or how to get rid of them in post ! Cheers gavin
Can I be totally honest with you? The past 6 years i have had 3 laptops and none of them were brilliant when it came to video editing, having never been a fan of apple I held off but I have to confess December last year I got a MacBook Air and I don’t think I’d ever go back to a PC again. If the funds allow I’d get the 2020 MacBook Air or better
@@GAVINHR well my daughters boyfriend uses that and he loves it but I've never really used apple but was looking at the pro version might even go for that thanks gavin will keep you informed on my choice 😁
Filmora is not free, unless you want a watermark advertisement on your work! So, good to use for pratice...maybe? Black Magic et. al. is the way to go..
Nice one Gavin! I have often 'zoomed' in post processing, but, mainly to change focus; however, I will have to give this a go, next time I return from a trip. Ian :-)
Hi Gav, in my DJI mini SE After changing the channel to manual the drone lost connection with the remote control. It is flashing yellow. An aircraft not found error appears, and no satellite or wi-fi connection appears. I tried other phones with android and ios but without success. I did the procedures that DJI asked and it didn't work. I downgraded firmware in app and it didn't work.
What was it DJI asked you to do? You need to turn the controller on the. Press and hold until the lights start flashing then do the exact same on the drone, turn it on and press and hold
Always the $79 lifetime option? I bought filmora 3 years ago and it’s just been updated and upgraded at no extra cost. Effects are extra but you still get a decent number without any subscription plus you can always load ones you have already
2:30 "4k is double 1080P..." err, no it's 4x. it's 2x on EACH axis, but you wouldn't say it's "double 1080P" because that would either give you a tall vertical screen, or a super ultra-wide similar to Samsung's G9 super-ultra-wide 3840 X 1080 www.samsung.com/au/monitors/gaming/qled-gaming-monitor-with-32-9-super-ultra-wide-screen-49-inch-lc49hg90dmexxy/ 4K is literally 4x 1080p screens to make a new rectangle with the same ratio (one for each "corner") 1920x1080 = 2,073,600 pixels 3840×2160 (AKA 4k) = 8,294,400 pixels which is 4x the first number Here is a visual representation: i.imgur.com/DXRxyWq.png
This was the big attraction to the a2s, no one watches in 5.7 but cropping in without loss is the benefit
exactly!
Great tips!!! Thanks for the examples
You are so welcome!
Great tip! I'll be giving it a try on my next video.
Let me know how you get on!
Great examples to illustrate your tip. Thanks and cheers from Wisconsin.
Thanks for watching!
absolutely fantastic awesome video really appreciate it you should do some more like this. Simply brilliant.
Glad you enjoyed it
Man, thanks. I'll give that a try tomorrow. I appreciate this.
You're very welcome! let me know how you get on
I get the same result by lowering the camera angle for the ‘filming’ shot. Run a test( where is an unobstructed safe height camera at 0 deg relative). Drop camera degrees by whatever floats your boat and fly the shot, knowing what you see is not where you’re heading. Works great for treetops/grass/water running underneath. Mini3 pro makes this really easy, though not crash proof(sigh). You can add the ‘rise/reveal’ by returning the camera back to 0 deg. as a transition back to ‘level’ flight.
thx for the tip gavin ille give it a try sometime 👍
No problem 👍
Dude you're pretty good at these tips and tricks ideas 💡..
I appreciate that!
i really apreciate your help with dowloanding this software
Ima download it thanks for sharing!!
Just what I need, cheers Gavin. But now I have to figure out where in the menus the settings are.
Just double click the file in the timeline David and it will come up with the screen i showed :)
Great workaround for newbies like myself while I'm cautiously building up my piloting skills. Thanks!
Gavin! You're awesome dude! And I love your hair!!! Great video and wonderful tips as always to make us all look like we really know what we're doing!!! Cheers!
Always try to help my friend! Thank you very much
Hi Gavin great video, wonderful trick.
Got to try it! Thanks
Hey! What a great idea, Gavin! Works great for me on AviDemux with its crop filter just to "zoom in" and in perception, fly at a height a mini2 dare not go!
100% watched 100% liked spot on mate well explained and what a fantastic tip.
Thank you for the kind words as always ! been with me from the beginning and I really appreciate that
Hey guys! Anyone had following issue? Cannot change resolution and fps. Field where normally you choose resolution is blank, empty in all modes: video, photo, quicks. Happened to me today on DJI 1.7.5 and turning off and on again doesn't solve the problem. Greets!
Love your channel! Lots of research, and a handsome face as well!
very nicely done. thanks for the tips and all your videos. newbee flyer here and learning alot.
Thanks for watching!
Everything Gavin is saying here is, spot on! This is how you do it!
It is so nice now, having 4K! As, back in the day… When we had only, 260 to, 525 lines of resolution. With very early iterations of, video editing software. And over 25 years ago. I was requested to do a project. That, unless I can come up with some newer modus operandi. This video shoot, will look abysmal at best. Because I can't position any camera guys. It all has to be from, preset lockdown shots. And I'm the only camera guy running,, 4 cameras. Without any remote control systems.
So I had to damn well figure out, how to make this production look, acceptable. I only need acceptable. But I need to make it look like I had, 4 camera guys.
So, thanks to, key framing. I can now, Pan, tilt, zoom.. My fixed locked down cameras. And make them all move in software. And of course working with, such low resolution, analog video. Anytime I tried to zoom in. From a low-resolution source like that. You're going to get terrible, pixelated garbage. Until I got another piece of software. That had just been upgraded from a, multitrack audio production software. To now include video. From a piece of software. From a very reputable company. Originally intended for, audio production. Now ported over to video and called, Vegas. Originally a release by Sony. Recently sold to, MAGIX.
This is Vegas software I found remarkable. Compared to the Adobe product at the time. Able to run on a Windows computer. As opposed to Apple only by Avid.
And where I discovered, oh wow! This is Vegas is a game changer! So as I was able to zoom in. On a, 525 line or less, video. I found methods of software manipulation. Within Vegas. That was beyond remarkable! Some scenes so highly zoomed in on. You would expect it to be, unreviewable. Au contraire! I was looking at resolution. The software somehow was able to, discern, enhance, bring out. Without it looking extremely, pixelated. In fact there was none! I wondered how this was possible? Great algorithms in this software no doubt! They got it down!
So it really didn't take me long to walk away from the Adobe Premier editing product. Beyond that of other, entry-level clueless beginner, toylike, software. Multiple versions available. From the most simple. To those deepest complex of capabilities. With multiple tiers of availability. Starting at less than three figures to, over three figures. And a version for any budget!
So while I had also gotten training on the, Avid, Media Composer, software. I found the (then Sony) Vegas product. To have the most bang for the buck. To be compatible on any Windows platform while being quick and easy and very intuitive, to use.
So when I delivered the product to the client. They were shocked. They told me they did not remember, any of the other camera guys? I said yeah. Because there were none! And they wandered. How all the cameras could be moving? If nobody was operating them? And never once were they able to understand this concept of, video production. In the not yet new millennium. So early on.
Obtaining reality from Envisionmeant
RemyRAD
Great tip that Gav, thank you
Thanks for your comment and watching! glad you liked it!
would like to see more of the fillmore app.
thanks
I will take a look into that and see if I can produce something its really quite good!
Excellent tip !!!!
Thank you kindly!
Hey Gavin, thanks for the great tip, and I going to try it with my Mini 2.
Let me know how you get on!
YO THANK YOU SO MUCH
Excellent as per usual Gavin, please share the link to that editor with us. I must say, your background in studio looking quite professional 👌
Thank you its newly revamped! here you go! : filmora.wondershare.net/video-editor/
Absolutely epic mate👍🏻
Thanks man! Hope you’re well
Worked , thanks a lot!
Glad to hear
Thank you for using my video as an example of "what not to do" :D
I've learn from the worse way and now I'll give your trick a try.
Deeply sorry I just found the image somebody had posted somewhere! It’s great as a guide of course this way just makes it a bit more controllable :)
@@GAVINHR no worries. I've upload it to send to Ken Heron Drone Crash compilation. The error on this video was that I should have studied the environment before and planed the ahot according too it.
Indeed! I’ll credit your channel in the comments :) we all make mistakes, I’ve also make a few in my time even when I think I’m being safe so it happens !
Again an awesome video, Gavin, thanks for your tutorial! I was wondering how you get that background in your studio, that really looks fantastic. Is it a green screen with added background? Looking for something similar, since my "studio" looks like a 2 penny junk yard 🤣
Hi there, it’s actually a full wall piece actually it’s acoustic foam with some leds, it was actually newly revamped for this video :)
Gavin,
If you have multiple clips and you change one clip to 1080p and leave the rest in 4k, what happens if you export the video in 4K
Then you will get a slightly upscaled video and it will look absolutely fine, for reference even though I’m working in 1080p for what I’m showing you THIS video you watched was a 4K timeline and well, you can see it looks fine :)
... Very good... I also use Filmora... But this Tricks i don't know... Thank you... Greetings and Blessings from South Germany...
Thank you kindly for watching and your comment 👌
Hitting a little close to home as I almost bit it flying my air2s this weekend. About a mile out I flew between a couple power lines that I didn't even see until I was right upon them. Had to have been less than 2 ft apart. Still makes my heart race watching the footage.
In short, practice practice practice when you boost your confidence level practice some more.
I'll probably upload my close call footage after combining the clips and adding some music.
Geez that’s simple! We use Filmora too so I’m gonna give this a try. Don’t give away all your secrets though. Lol.
Yep so easy eh! hope you're doing well!
Brilliant. There's fun to be had in the edit!
Thanks Gavin 👍
Absolutely! Thanks for your support as always
Hello from Norway again ! I noticed that in your editing program the frame rate is on 29,97 ... the same is standard in my program too ( Movavi Video Editor 2021 )... but I always shoot in 4K 30fps. Then I want to know if there is any big difference with 29,97 / 30 fps when the videofiles are in 30 fps ? One of my first videos I was shooting in 24 fps and the videos where edited in 29,97 fps and it turned out a bit stuttering ... It could have been to high shutterspeed too in a bright day...
Hi Olav! Yes that will be caused by the mismatch in frame rate between the 24 and the 29,97 in your case. In fact especially with DJI products even if you select 30fps if you look at the recorded file properties you will likely find the file says it’s 29,97 so it’s actually the same. Hope this helps
@@GAVINHR Thx Gavin ... Then it is no problem when the program is editing my 30fps videos in 29,97 I guess ...
That is correct 👍
I really like your tutorials. Keep up the good work!
Thanks a lot!
Also make sure not to make micro adjustments. The footage is going to appear a bit more cinematic that way.
Great video foe such an overlooked technique. I'm heading out right now to get some sunset shots with my Mini 3 Pro and I'm going to give this a shot. Cheers!
Hi Gavin. Great video as always and really good, clear advice and well explained! This is a trick I use a fair bit but I still like to test myself to the limit, probably why my drone is so dented!😉 Filmora is an excellent piece of software, as soon as I started editing on it I noticed the improvement in my videos. Like you say, it is easy enough to navigate and use but really quite powerful. Thanks again and Cheers! Suffolk Air Adventures.
Thanks for the comment! couldn't agree more!
watching the comparison i liked the light pole and the barrier one but apart from that it wasn't as good as i thought it would be.
IMO shots that are super close down to the ground i would rather do it in manual mode for the real footage feel
Thanks for the feedback, they were simply examples for dramatic effect of course you’re free to use the top creatively as you see fit 😊
@@GAVINHR :) stay awesome Gav !!!
Fantastic 👊👊👊👊
Thank you! Cheers!
Hi Gavin
Would you be able to do a short video on MOBILE editing software please ? I'm relatively new to all this video editing malarkey so I have no idea what's available and what's not . Which is easiest or best for a beginner. Not drone related directly I know . But surely there must be more than me struggling with this LOL
Thanks
Fattrucker
Hi there yes I can look into it, VN seems to be a good one but I’ll look into some and see if I can put something together
@@GAVINHR Thank you sir . That would be very much appreciated. From me at the very least . Loving the content as always .
Fattrucker
i did a similar thing by using the 2x zoom on the camera, this gave the effect of it looking much closer to the kiddies on a bouncy castle, but allowed a much more safety distance from them, but here's where my problem began, i then did a lovely slow side curved pan to the left, that's when the tree attacked, yes it looked as if i were much closer to the subject being filmed, it gave me a false sense of distance, meaning i was further back than it looked on my screen. my perspective was way out, if i had kept a eye on the drone instead it might not have happened, but i was trying to keep the bouncy castle centred in view. and my observer got distracted also. lesion, dont become too focused on the screen.
Yes these things happen! I won't disclose what I once NEARLY did but it would of caused a fair few issues when I once got caught screen watching!
Great tip well done!!!
Thank you kindly my friend!
Yep
Brill I need to try that , many thanks
Still not tried my cine sticks yet !
I’ll keep you posted , cheers gavin
Hope you get to try them soon!
Ah one quick thing while your about / online , the gimbal wheel on the controller and trying to not get any jerkiness in video tilting gimbal up and down , best tips would be awesome , or how to get rid of them in post !
Cheers gavin
If you pop in to the advanced gimbal settings in the fly app and increase the gimbal pitch smoothness that will do the trick
@@GAVINHR yep I’ve played around with all that gav , can any sudden jerk be ironed out in post ? Any personal preference ? Many thanks mate
Great video gavin can you recommend a good laptop for editing as I'm looking to buy one but I'm not to clued up on these things lol 😁👍👌 🇬🇧
Can I be totally honest with you? The past 6 years i have had 3 laptops and none of them were brilliant when it came to video editing, having never been a fan of apple I held off but I have to confess December last year I got a MacBook Air and I don’t think I’d ever go back to a PC again. If the funds allow I’d get the 2020 MacBook Air or better
@@GAVINHR well my daughters boyfriend uses that and he loves it but I've never really used apple but was looking at the pro version might even go for that thanks gavin will keep you informed on my choice 😁
Interesting editing.....🤔😳😏🇬🇧
Filmora is not free, unless you want a watermark advertisement on your work! So, good to use for pratice...maybe? Black Magic et. al. is the way to go..
could of course buy the software to remove the watermark, its pretty powerful for the price
Don’t forget you can use the zoom lens at 2x. You can get exciting parallax and you can stay out of the way of action
Zoom also works but tends to kill the quality, this is why zooming in 4k in a 1080p timeline keeps the quality :)
Thanks for that Gavin. When I get confident enough to fly within 200' of anything I'll give it a go 🤣
Might give this one a try. Thanks Gavin 👍
Really easy to get that dramatic shot eh! Tag me if you use it and upload a video
@@GAVINHR Will do
Nice one Gavin! I have often 'zoomed' in post processing, but, mainly to change focus; however, I will have to give this a go, next time I return from a trip. Ian :-)
Go for it!
But remember any slight movement will also be more visible .. keep it smooth :D
always smooth on the sticks Chris ;)
Hi Gav, in my DJI mini SE After changing the channel to manual the drone lost connection with the remote control. It is flashing yellow. An aircraft not found error appears, and no satellite or wi-fi connection appears. I tried other phones with android and ios but without success. I did the procedures that DJI asked and it didn't work. I downgraded firmware in app and it didn't work.
What was it DJI asked you to do? You need to turn the controller on the. Press and hold until the lights start flashing then do the exact same on the drone, turn it on and press and hold
@@GAVINHR Dji tell do this, but dont work. and my phe dont show the conecton wifi when i torn on the RC
Just try to it with no phone connected at all you can fly the drone with no phone
@@GAVINHR try too dont work. try in android dont work too
@@wagnerpeixoto8844 does it just keep beeping?
I can't wait to see a DJI Mini x Pro with 8K video, so we'll be able to crop to 4K 😀
That will be nice!
Great tip👍
Thank you kindly Nobby!
Gavin this is a fantastic video, I have just started using Filmora myself and these tips and tricks will help me tremendously 👍👍
Happy to help!
Never mind the electric wire, look out for the Nuclear Reactors! LOL
please can you give us a link to the software you are talking about . thanks
There you go! : filmora.wondershare.com/video-editor-t0.html
@@GAVINHR seems expensive if you use effects and plugins, 50 a year plus 20 a month
Always the $79 lifetime option? I bought filmora 3 years ago and it’s just been updated and upgraded at no extra cost. Effects are extra but you still get a decent number without any subscription plus you can always load ones you have already
@@GAVINHR great , fantastic thanks for let me know 👍👍
@@GAVINHR hello, how does it compared to free version of DaVinci?
It looks like much more dramatic prop imbalance
... and then change the footage to double speed and be even more dramatic.
I did nearly include that in the video actually but often it looks looks a bit unnatural but a great suggestion
Fake it if you can't make it.
summary: crop in. smh
Keep shaking that head Bob 😚
TBH it dosent look better.
IT’s excellent that you’re happy with your current footage 👏
Just fly fpv.. Problem solved
Gavin do you have a email address ? Wanted to send you a problem I am having with mini 2
2:30 "4k is double 1080P..."
err, no it's 4x.
it's 2x on EACH axis, but you wouldn't say it's "double 1080P" because that would either give you a tall vertical screen, or a super ultra-wide similar to Samsung's G9 super-ultra-wide 3840 X 1080
www.samsung.com/au/monitors/gaming/qled-gaming-monitor-with-32-9-super-ultra-wide-screen-49-inch-lc49hg90dmexxy/
4K is literally 4x 1080p screens to make a new rectangle with the same ratio (one for each "corner")
1920x1080 = 2,073,600 pixels
3840×2160 (AKA 4k) = 8,294,400 pixels which is 4x the first number
Here is a visual representation: i.imgur.com/DXRxyWq.png