Well after flight anxiety, video editing learning curve and then showing it to the class anxiety I thought I’d share my first edited video.
Its of Worcester Chatherdral in my home city. I used the Air 3 as the grounds are a no fly zone so I had to stay over the River Severn.
Bit of a crash course (no pun intended) into Davinci Resolve afterwards, though colour grading was somewhat like my experience with still photography theory whgich helped.
Any feedback/advice on my flying, editing, cg etc happily accepted!
Nice job.
My only comment (not that I could do better) would be at the end of the first shot, it stops panning really suddenly. I don’t know if this is a setting in the controller (gimbal and expo setting??) or if it’s editing?
I liked the speed ramping
Nice footage @Harlequin, just a little suggestion for your next flight: Kindly see if you can tilt your drone’s camera a little slowly whiles revealing the catheradral.
They can control / restrict take off and landing from their grounds but as much as they may like to, they do not control the airspace above the cathedral.
If the CAA do not show it as a restricted zone, you are free to fly there.
While I agree with you that that’s technically the case I just preferred to follow the cathedral’s wishes and not run the risk of annoyance or bad will.
Cheers, I’ll give them a go, got a few to try as it seems several of the drone YouTubers have different ones.
I’m finding that the “after release slow down” is making me miss where I wanted to be so I guess I need to learn I need to stop moving X degrees before the position I want to compensate.
I am a raw beginner and bought Mini 3 Pro a couple of weeks ago. I really enjoyed your clear and relaxing music and video and would love to start editing videos like this, but where do you actually start? Are there editing programmes for drone flights out there?
The reason I bought my drone is because I wanted to get images and video I couldnt achieve with my SLR, so I approached the results with tta sort of view. I already have Lightroom so I was sorted for stills, especially with RAW.
I basically googled free alternatives to Adobe Premiere and picked Davinci Resolve out of the list as it seemed a good fit for me.
It was then looking into a load of youtube videos about DR to find out how to do the things I wanted to do, e.g. the speed ups with what are called “speed ramps” before and after them.
You will also want to have a look at colour grading if you are shooting in anything other than “normal mode” and perhaps even so. This is how you make the footage look like it did when you took it rather than the much flatter version the othe rmodes will record.
You will come across lots of people trying to sell you magic LUTs which are basically a preset you can apply to your videos that change various settings, especially the colour grading. In my humble opinion I would keep your cash and learn how to do them yourself. For the Air 3 and the Mini 4 there are basic LUTs available from DJI for free and a quick google has found some free Mini 3 pros about if you want to try out a preset for quicker results.
Music wise, I came across Pixabay which sofar has been excellent, free to use on Youtube, though its good manners to quote the artist on your publish. Again theres a lot of people out the sponsored by xyz music providers that want you to pay a subs but I havent felt the need on my browse through Pixabay.
Anyway, I hope that helps as a starter for 10. Enjoy!
Hi,
Thank you so much, Harlequin, for your brilliant advice and help. It’s justabout getting started as I am a complete newby to all this but am so keen to improve. Really appreciate all your help and advice especially about LUTs. I will explore all your points raised and try to put them into practice. Many, many thanks for coming back to me on this.
Robin
