Ah - and a quick look shows that auto exposure is at play, too. Can see the same cloud changing brightness/darkness.
Yeah did wonder that actually 
hard to pick out the Avata/DJI FPV, think the avata footage looked dirty!
last minute from the Vista Wasp looks loads better!
So disable that, so easier to modify post? Maybe just working out how to setup the camera to film in the first place is a better place to start!
Yes/No/Possibly.
FPV footage (which I’ve only watched, never done myself) can have everything ground one second, and everything sky the next. IF you can get a fixed exposure that works for both, then yes, it will be a load easier.
Also - in the chase type video, you (or “I” [subjectivity again]) ideally want the plane being chased to look the same all the times … rather than light (it’s real colour) against the darker ground and black against the light cloud. A fixed exposure will do this … BUT …
Chances are the cameras aren’t the most sophisticated, so you could easily have the white clouds totally blown out. (A blue sky would be better.)
Also, a more sophisticated camera that records log would help since they are better at retaining detail in highlights and shadows.
Assuming the cameras aren’t that sophisticated, it would be a case of trying to seeing what works the best.
At a guess, were I to try it, fixed exposure with the ground a little dark would be my starting point. In normal camera footage it’s easier to correct and recover detail in the shadows than highlights … and where the highlights are blown out there’s no chance of recovery.
Cheers. Will have a play there…
I screen-grabbed the wrong wheels, earlier (they were the log wheels), and the ones you should be seeing are these …
… where “Lift” relates to “Shadows”, “Gamma” relates to “Midtones”, and “Gain” relates to “Highlights”.
I have always found this guy to be able to explain the more complex stuff in DR very well (AlexTech).
This is a recent video he posted, but there are hundreds!
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He’s great for tips - followed him (and Darren) for some years…But, as you say for “the more complex stuff” - and for a total newbie each vid tends to leap about from one set of features to another. Great for people that know the fundamentals and want to progress.
Casey (who I’ve followed for as long) has done a lot more tutorial style videos on the basics (as well as many on more complex features), and has many playlists that help guide you in to the relevant stuff.
eg.
- Basics in 5 Min - an intro vid on each of the main tabs - Cut, Edit, Colour (and a very basic into to Fusion).
- Resolve Basics - what it says,
… and plenty more.
Out of the three, it was definitely Casey that I found the better when I was new to DR wanting real simple and fundamental starter info.
Someone I follow(ed) did a brilliant “How to do a very basic edit and colour correct in DR using the absolute minimum of tabs/features.” - and I spent a while last evening trying to find it - without success.
I watch this guy for my Davinci Resolve tips. Lots of quick solutions.
Worth noting if you’re trying to match footage from different drones/cameras or even the same drone on different days, Resolve has a built in colour match one click job and its often pretty good for that.
So grad the first clip as you want and then match the others. Then its fine tuning.
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@GunjaFPV just key frame your highlights/shadows to your vid. Simple.
I have around 500 photos I took for a timelapse yesterday, despite the fact there was barely any wind the pics are all over the place to the drone moving about. It’s quite bad in places and nore really useable as it is. Is there a way to stabilise it better? I have clicked the stabiilise button in resolve but it doesn’t seem to be doing anything. Any hints or pointers?
Were these taken with the drone fundamentally stationary? … or is this a hyperlapse scenario?
Did you import into DR as individual images, or as an image sequence? It needs to be (or, at least, I’ve found much better to be) the latter - and will appear in the Media Pool as a single icon with the range of image numbers (rather than all 500 separate images) …
If it’s not as an image sequence, you’d need to go to the Media tab, click on the 3 dots at the top-right of the media area, and select Frame Display Mode, then ensure Sequence is selected …
… and then drag the 500 images into the media area.
Assuming stationary … your best bet is probably these settings (on the Edit tab) …
… and then click the Stabilize button.
If there’s still some jitter - drag an Adjustment Clip …
… into the layer above the video clip …
… and then, with that Adjustment Clip selected, stabilize with the same settings.
Depending on the actual content of the images, the Stabilisation within the Colour tab may be better (but less easy to explain 
), or even the stabilisation within Fusion (using trackers) … that’s way less easy to explain.
YouTube is probably your best guide for these two options.
Thanks for that Dave I will give it another shot. Yes it was a timelapse as opposed to hyperlapse, I wish I had used the Air2 as its more stable but the wind was really light, below 10mph. I also dragged all the files over in one go as an image sequence
I’ve had sequences that have taken me several times/methods/approaches/settings, and trying all three routes before I’ve got the result I want.
With some time-lapses, particularly where the camera has been put in position for each daily pic … and hence every image shows significant movement … I’ve usually used Photoshop to align them all, exported at TIFF, and used those images.
But unless you have a dog’s bollox computer (I don’t!), for 500 images that can take ages and can crash PS.
I’ve yet to find a reliable way to use PS to align them in batches … it’s one of the many things on my languishing to-do list.
I certainly don’t!!! 7th Gen i7 6700, AMD Radeon HD 7800, 32Gb RAM. It does most of what I need in PS and lightroom. And until I get round to making videos or regular timelapses it won’t be getting upgraded any time soon.
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There are some standalone alignment progs … but the best are usually biased toward very nerdy astro-photographers and the interfaces take me ages to get to grips with (command prompt style), and I’ve usually forgotten everything before I need the next time. 
hehehe, I think I just clicked a wrong button, Resolve just shat itself and crashed my pc!!! I’ll have another go later, my brain hurts right now
Yikes! Noise Reduction has crashed DR a few times - but never Windows.