I have had the Mavic 2 Pro for a week now and I’m really struggling get the amazing quality 4k footage that everyone is going on about…what am I doing wrong?
I’ve tried many youtube’s “best settings” but its not working…I use to own a Mavic Air and so far I think the Mavic Air has better quality footage. Now I know this is wrong…so I’m after your “best Settings” recommendation? because as of now…my GoPro hero 7 black creates MUCH clearer/sharper a crisper footage over my Mavic 2 pro. All the trees etc seem too mushy and it looks more like 1080p footage rather than 4k.
Don’t worry too much about that for now to get the sharpness. I’d knock your aperture up to 4 and leave it there. Get in the air and tap focus on something a good distance away, then set it to manual focus and leave it. You should see the focus bar is just under the second line down from the top. This is pretty close to an infinity focus and should be fine on all your future flights. If you change aperture for any reason then you may need to re-focus.
The FOV mode will be a little softer around the edges, but you should still be getting good results.
Now, this all changes again if you go full-on H.265 as you’ll introduce some barrel distortion that you’ll need software to correct. I’d stick at H.264 for now until you’re happy that your images are sharp enough and that your focus is right each time.
I had crappy footage for weeks after changing from the MA to the M2P- it happens!
If you power up the MP and connect phone or tablet to the controller you can open up the DJI app to see video, in the very top left corner you will see an arrow, click on it and it’ll give a series of options, one is to download direct from SD to tablet etc. This will download the 4K footage.
If you look at my screen grab you will see identical shots except that one will say original across the top…that is the 4K version, the other is the lower resolution version, guess which one I save or use!!
I forget which one I use, I’m sat in my car at the moment, in the rain, so can’t answer that one straight away. It’s probably adobe or light room. Tho I have several others which I sometimes use.
Hi @Shaun2019 and welcome to Grey Arrows from a sunny sodding wet Wigan
Shaun, if you could upload one of your example videos to Vimeo.com (or Youtube) and share a link, we’d be able to see what’s going on and might have some more insight to offer
