Hi everyone. I'm new to this forum and new to flying! I got into flying first with the blade MQX to get the hang of flying a quadcopter. Then last week I made my first flights with my new Phantom 2 Vision.
From what I can tell so far with having no incidents (knock on wood), it's important to really take your time setting up, plan what you're going to do in the air before you do it, and make sure you get a good connection to satellites prior to lift off. And for the record, I have not yet updated firmware.
I did a few aerial shots of my parents new home that was just built. I shot using 720P 60fps. I converted my footage using GoPro cineform app (which I realize now is not totally necessary for the P2V .MP4 files). Then I used basic cross dissolves between my best looking clips, and applied the SmoothCam filter within Final Cut Pro 6. I'm pretty happy with the result. It certainly doesn't beat the smoothness of a gimbal, but it seems to work pretty well. Because the FCP SmoothCam filter zooms in slightly resulting in some loss of quality, I'm interested to see if shooting in 1080p, applying SmoothCam, and then exporting in 720p helps preserve some of the resolution. Exporting 720p is standard for me since I only use a basic vimeo account. Let me know what you guys think of my video! And of course, I'm glad to finally be a part of this action! - Curt
http://vimeo.com/80634121
From what I can tell so far with having no incidents (knock on wood), it's important to really take your time setting up, plan what you're going to do in the air before you do it, and make sure you get a good connection to satellites prior to lift off. And for the record, I have not yet updated firmware.
I did a few aerial shots of my parents new home that was just built. I shot using 720P 60fps. I converted my footage using GoPro cineform app (which I realize now is not totally necessary for the P2V .MP4 files). Then I used basic cross dissolves between my best looking clips, and applied the SmoothCam filter within Final Cut Pro 6. I'm pretty happy with the result. It certainly doesn't beat the smoothness of a gimbal, but it seems to work pretty well. Because the FCP SmoothCam filter zooms in slightly resulting in some loss of quality, I'm interested to see if shooting in 1080p, applying SmoothCam, and then exporting in 720p helps preserve some of the resolution. Exporting 720p is standard for me since I only use a basic vimeo account. Let me know what you guys think of my video! And of course, I'm glad to finally be a part of this action! - Curt
http://vimeo.com/80634121