Mavic 2 Pro Footage
Annette Fazzari
Staff writer Alex Ventura is a professional photographer based out of the Houston area that specializes in automotive and glamour with the occasional adventures into other genres. He regularly covers automotive related events for Houston Streets & Spekture with some publications in the United States.
According to DJI, the camera on the new Mavis is inferior to the camera on the P4, in part because the sensor on the Mavis is smaller. DJI needs to improve the camera. I had ordered the Mavis, but this morning cancelled that order after reading about the inferior camera. Not for me.
I'm a bit puzzled by your choice to cancel your order. The difference in quality of image seems to be extremely small, especially when properly focused. Even if it was more noticeable, the portability of the Mavic means I'll be able to take it to places I would never consider hauling the Phantom or Inspire 1. This is a huge advantage in my book. Just curious why you feel the small difference in image quality is a deal breaker. Love to hear more of your thoughts.
Huh? They both share the same 1/2.3" Sony sensor, in fact, I won't be surprised if it's a generation better than P4. But I still insist that the problem lies in micro-blurs caused by the vibrations of the rotors. I am very interested to know your sources.
So, if you have to tap the screen to assign your focal point, does that mean any time you move the drone or pan your camera you have to reassign a focal point? If you are filming while flying somewhere do you constantly have to keep tapping the screen?? I feel like you would need to be constantly tapping your screen to keep everything sharp?? Same with doing a vertical takeoff with the gimbal pointed down. It would fall out of focus instantly. There's no autofocus that will allow it to keep focusing while you gain altitude??
No, you don't need to be constantly tapping, nor re-focusing.
You just need to pre-focus at infinity ( choose something that is contrasty and about 50m away from the camera, tap once, and you are set ).
I have a P4 and the Mavic footage I've seen so far seems to have a different saturation/contrast. It reminds me of vintage footage from the 1970s. Not sure if I like that aspect of it yet and what color grading might be able to do. I do love the small form factor. I'll wait to see how things continue with it. Can't beat the price/features. Very curious to see what is coming with the next version of the Inspire drone, they will really have to step that up in features to compete with the P4 & Mavic,
What would be the benefit of a vertical video? I only say this because of the annoying portrait videos that people upload with their iPhones. Which gets me to yell its 2016 know how to shoot your video horizontally.
I am currently working on a project for a friend that includes 4k & 2.7k drone footage from the Mavic 2. When I open the footage in VLC it looks great and smooth. However, whenever I import it into Adobe I start to skip a large amount of frames and I understand that this is normal. However, it also skips frames when I export the footage.
I am also having this issue and my computer is an absolute beast.. it is not the computer like people are saying.. something fishy is going on with premiere and these mavic clips.. The rest of my video I shot is running perfectly smooth otherwise.
H264/5 is never good for editing, but in all the time that I've been editing video, anything that comes from a DJI product has absolutely monstrous playback. And that's on any number of high end systems at half a dozen different production companies, my own computers, etc. DJI has some secret sauce to their h264/5 encoding. That being said, I'm surprised that the OP has had issues with Cineform proxies, and regardless of playback in Premiere the final product shouldn't inherit any of those issues.
I'm having the same issue. Plays fine within adobe but unable to export smoothly. I've never had these issues before on this same computer.....perhaps it's an issue with a recent update. I'm sure it has to do with the frame rate of the drone clip differing from the timeline. In my project I have a drone clip shot at 23.976 fps which renders fine but the drone clips at 29.97 do not. I've tried setting to 80%, using frame blending and optical flow as opposed to frame sampling....but to no avail.
I'm having the same issue as Noah and exporting via media encoder didn't work for me unfortunately. My project is a mixture of go pro clips, & 4k footage off the mavic 2 pro. The go pro footage is great, the mavic footage doesn't play even after export and render
I'm also experiencing the same issue. Footage was actually working fine earlier, and it's only been seen the last couple of updates of premiere that suddenly it's stopped functioning properly. Editing on a PC, but I have a Macbook as well, an old one, and oddly if I open the project on that, the drone footage plays and exports fine, even though it has worse specs.
Luvo, You saved my day! Thanks a ton!! I was working with proxy files and the playback was eventually lagging and dropping frames. I exported the sequence via Media Encorder. Worked beautifuly! I tried several other work arounds that worked temporarily in adobe, but after export, would go back to lagging and dropping frames. Your Media Encoder suggestion saved me so much stress! Thanks again!
This sounds like a frame rate issue between the clips and the sequence settings.
I suggest you use a 25fps sequence and film all your footage in 25fps to make sure the meta is consistant across all your footage and your sequence settings.
On that note, if you have an archive of footage filmed in different frame rates, you can always go the rout of "assume footage at 25fps". this should help close the gap between framerate variation.
Video plays smoothly while editing using proxies, but the export is so choppy. My project is a mix of DJI Mavic .MOV files, Go Pro and Sony a6000 .mp4 files.. Man I don't know what is happening withe DJI 4K frames..
It is all the problem of Premiere Pro because it doesn't happen in Avid or Resolve. It isn't a proxy thing or a drive speed thing. Again it is Premiere. Plays jittery in Premiere plays smooth as silk in original quicktime. Unadultrated clip and same as source sequence play jittery in Premiere. No transcoding in the world or proxifying will help. Might have something ot do with shooting at high frame rate on Drone but I doubt it. Premiere is at fault and your making us crazy. Fix it Adobe I pay a lot every month. I want use Premiere but ever so buggy in so many areas.
Nice to know. Thanks for the info. Regarding Premiere Pro, can you give us full details about your computer system to check your system requirements? Can we get complete details of the footage? Run it through MediaInfo in Tree View and show us a screenshot to help.
Apologies. Adobe support is here in the user-to-user forum and is here to help but to contact the product team about quality issues (complaints), bugs, and feature requests; use this link: -video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro
3. Connect the drone to a computer with a USB cable: Connect the drone to a computer with a USB cable. Open a local disk on the computer, create a file folder, and then move the photos or videos to the new file folder.
4. Use a card reader to export photos or videos from the microSD card: Remove the microSD card from the drone, and insert it into a card reader. Then, connect the card reader to a computer to export photos or videos.
2. Enable the Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Location functions on the smartphone. Open the DJI Fly app and select the drone for connecting. (When connecting the smartphone and the drone for the first time, press and hold the power button for two seconds to confirm the connection.)
If the goggles are connected to a computer via the USB-C cable, please select Settings > About on the goggles menu, and enter the OTG Wired Connection mode to export the footage.
The screen recording includes the OSD elements by default (except for DJI FPV Goggles V2). To record the screen without the OSD elements, change the settings as shown below:
1. Power on the drone, and wait until the drone self-check is completed. Press and hold the QuickTransfer button for two seconds to switch to the QuickTransfer mode. The front LED will turn to pulsing blue from blinking blue slowly once switching is successful.
1. Make sure that the drone is connected to the smartphone via the remote controller and the motors have not started.
2. Enable Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on the smartphone.
3. Open DJI Fly, enter playback, and tap the icon in the upper right corner to access the files on the drone to download files at high speed.
DJI Mini 4 Pro comes with a 2GB internal storage, while DJI Mini 3 Pro comes with a 1.2GB internal storage. Other Mini Series drones do not come with an internal storage. Please check the storage location of footage before exporting.
When the remote controller is not connected to a smartphone, the operations are slightly different. The following video introduces QuickTransfer using DJI Mavic 3 Classic as an example.
Except for DJI Mavic 3 Cine and DJI Mavic 3 Pro Cine, which come with a 1TB SSD storage separately, other DJI Mavic 3 Series drones come with an 8GB internal storage. Other Mavic Series drones do not come with an internal storage. Please check the storage location of footage before exporting.
DJI Inspire 3 utilizes an SSD to store footage, which needs to be connected to a computer for exporting. While DJI RC Plus does not support QuickTransfer or FlyShare, it is able to export footage by connecting to a computer or inserting a microSD card.
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