I edited together some footage from a recent test/practice flight.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvtxxTb1d1Q[/youtube]
Not a really exciting video, but the quick glimpse of the birds flying past the P2V is pretty cool.
I made the video to see how well Adobe Premiere's Warp Stabilizer works with the Rotorpixel footage and to learn what settings to use. I discovered that you can get rid of much of the "yaw-twitch" by setting the filter to use a lower "Smoothness" value and a simpler method than the default "Subspace Warp" option. This works without introducing the strange jello look that I was getting sometimes when using the "Subspace Warp" option to stabilize the original Vision video. I still see a little oddness in the video, but I was playing with different settings throughout the video, so it's probably avoidable.
In some of the scenes used in the video, especially when the 'copter is right in front of me, I was rolling the P2V back and forth quickly watching the gimbal as it kept the camera level. The Warp Stabilizer was able to remove most of the slight yawing that occurred while I was doing that so it looks as if the 'copter was just hovering. That's pretty cool!
During this test flight, I paid attention to the performance of the 'copter because I had read the reports here of diminished performance with the new gimbal. The Phantom did fly slower, but I didn't have any problem with it maintaining altitude when hovering even with the battery running down under 25%.
Before getting the Rotorpixel gimbal, I usually took video only when the 'copter was hovering in place. After watching the footage above, I think I'll start using more footage captured while the Vision is flying. The two-axis gimbal makes a huge difference!
-- Roger