Did I get a bad P3S?

CE Visuals · May 23, 2017

I was out yesterday shooting for a client on a short documentary and after getting my footage ingested onto my editing workstation, I discovered my footage looks mushy - to the point of being unusable IMO...

I've only had the unit a little over a month and I'm stumped to figure out what's happened. First few flights I did my test footage looked pretty good. Now it looks like a steaming pile if you get my meaning... I did re-calibrate the IMU and Gimbel since shooting this yesterday.

Here's the footage in question. NO color grading, nothing other than uploading to Vimeo.

What should I do? If I have to send this back to DJI, I'm hosed on this project I'm currently in production on.

HarleyKen · May 23, 2017

Can't see any video

CE Visuals · May 23, 2017

HarleyKen said:
Can't see any video

You sure? I'm watching it in a private browser session without logging in and it plays for me

HarleyKen · May 23, 2017

CE Visuals · May 23, 2017

HarleyKen said:

Try now.. I think my privacy settings were set incorrectly

With The Birds · May 23, 2017

What video setting are you using. I would t be so much concerned by the apparent sharpness as I would be with trying to understand why the footage is so saturated, would be nightmare to grade.

CE Visuals · May 23, 2017

With The Birds said:
What video setting are you using. I would t be so much concerned by the apparent sharpness as I would be with trying to understand why the footage is so saturated, would be nightmare to grade.

Shooting 2.7K D-Log 30p with an ND32/CPL attached. I'm ot concerned about the Saturation at this point, I want to determine what's going on with the sharpness - or the lack thereof. I've also shot without any filter, and very similar lack of sharpness as well. Maybe it's a setting within the app itself? I"m no stranger to shooting/color grading as I've been a working photographer for over 30 years and shooting video for the past 10. Once I get the sharpness issue figured out, the rest is easy...

With The Birds · May 23, 2017

You could try sharpness, saturation and contrast at -2,-3 and -2 in D-log profile. Settings somewhere around there have worked for me and seemingly for others also. Whatever your prowess might be in the editing sweet crushed blacks and camera applied corrections will often limit your creative choices. The standard settings are more often than not less than optimum.

CE Visuals · May 23, 2017

With The Birds said:
You could try sharpness, saturation and contrast at -2,-3 and -2 in D-log profile. Settings somewhere around there have worked for me and seemingly for others also. Whatever your prowess might be in the editing sweet crushed blacks and camera applied corrections will often limit your creative choices. The standard settings are more often than not less than optimum.

Thanks for the advice... I'll check my settings and see where they are currently set.

kndll · May 24, 2017

change all video settings back to original/auto and see what the video looks like , then you will know if it's how you had your settings set .

skyacramer · May 25, 2017

I think the cpl is making it to saturated and your shutter speed might not be right with that crazy 32 filter

skyacramer · May 25, 2017

Try taking a video in auto and no filters

CE Visuals · May 25, 2017

Thanks to everyone who has responded. I'm working on determining if it's the filter or the drone camera...

FlashBuddy · May 25, 2017

Was there wind. Was the grass flowing in the wind?

CE Visuals · May 26, 2017

FlashBuddy said:
Was there wind. Was the grass flowing in the wind?

Yes on both accounts....

rausda27 · May 27, 2017

Whats wrong with the video, it looks fine to me. Its about what I would expect from a P3S.

WV. Rootman · May 27, 2017

CE Visuals said:
I was out yesterday shooting for a client on a short documentary and after getting my footage ingested onto my editing workstation, I discovered my footage looks mushy - to the point of being unusable IMO...

I've only had the unit a little over a month and I'm stumped to figure out what's happened. First few flights I did my test footage looked pretty good. Now it looks like a steaming pile if you get my meaning... I did re-calibrate the IMU and Gimbel since shooting this yesterday.

Here's the footage in question. NO color grading, nothing other than uploading to Vimeo.

What should I do? If I have to send this back to DJI, I'm hosed on this project I'm currently in production on.

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