This is my first attempt at producing something with drone video that is not boring or painful to watch. The footage I captured with my new Tarot T-2D and GoPro had some vibration and lighting issues, but this edit is the best of what I did get.
I used LightWorks to edit the video, add the music, and to increase the contrast - the raw video from the GoPro was a little washed out. I've ordered a neutral density filter to try to help with that. Lightworks is as quirky as any other NLE I've used, but it was solid, runs on linux, and is available by monthly subscription so I could try it out without a big investment.
There is some obvious jello at some speeds. I'm going to try to address that with some tuning of PIDs and maybe some different props. The ND filter will hopefully help with that a bit as well. For this footage, I may try to stabilize the video with Blender and see if that helps.
Here's another short video of just a 360-degree yaw, shot in 60fps and slowed down to 30.
Does anyone else use linux? If so, what's your workflow?
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And now, looking in that link, YouTube is using 8Mbps for the bitrate of 1080p content. That should be lots with MPEG-4, even for those slow panning shots. I'll make sure that's the bitrate I'm encoding in and see if that helps.
I think YouTube uses a lower bitrate (more compression) for any given resolution.
Apparently if you encode to YouTube's exact specs then your video won't get re-encoded when you upload it, but LightWorks has a YouTube preset (I assume Premiere does as well) and I used that - still doesn't look as good as my .mp4 file, even playing in the highest resolution from YouTube.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en
Hi,
Looks pretty good. I have the same issue as you do to post videos on YouTube and keep the original quality. I am using Adobe premiere and tried all kinds of options to publish on you tube but could never get the same video fluidity as the original video. Probably you tube degrades the video somehow...