Colorado River -- Cisco Utah in 4K

[@YardLimit]

Nicely done!

[@fanatichighdesertrailroader]

Nice music and of course ; the video nicely done. Can you fly around Fisher Towers ?

[@joejoe5884]

beautiful place....nice video awesome

[@Raptorman0909]

Thanks, at the moment the video, though uploaded in 4K, is only available in HD or less -- it usually takes a few hours to a day or two for YT to offer the video in full 4K.

[@Hopnutjester]

Love the music

[@Raptorman0909]

Thanks, here's another video with music from the same composers. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYXcm3tvl6ifb9k

[@Ptolemy336VV]

Raptor man can I ask something? This is done with the Phantom 4 pro right? The settings that you use in this video, is that the same a the settings that you explained at your Phantom 4 setup video? So for example. White balance: custom 5700k, style: custom -2, 0, -2, Color: D-Cinelike and so on? I just got my Phantom 4 pro today and I took over all these settings. The only thing I would like to know is what you do with the ISO, Aperture etc. Is that set to automatic? Or do you also have custom settings for day, night, or do you change it constantly? Or do you have a "best" setting in these aspects? Thank you in advance. I learned so much from you already. It's still these last little things that Im not sure about

[@Ptolemy336VV]

And what is your preferred flying mode? Do you fly everything manually? My goal is to have the most smoothest cinematic like landscape video's

[@Ptolemy336VV]

Also last question. I want to (or so I believe) capture 4k in 60 fps to have a more smooth video. Would you recommend that? and why are you not doing it in your video's?

[@Raptorman0909]

I tend to keep the same settings for most flights though the exposure does change as the light changes. As I said in several of my videos I use manual exposure control and usually the ISO is left at 100 while the shutter speed is changed to set the exposure. I also mention that for most drone videos you don't have to use the lower shutter speeds that are generally suggested for most videos, but if the drone flight involves flying close to things and doing panning and tilting it would be wise in that situation to use a ND filter to lower the shutter speed to something about 2X the frame rate. Have the histogram up in the Go App and get used to reviewing it at the start of the flight and periodically during the flight, particularly when changing direction relative to the Sun.

[@Ptolemy336VV]

Raptorman. Im still not entirely out of the woods regarding exposure/iso, aperture, but do you for instance use ND filters on the last 10 aerial video's you uploaded? In the histogram ideally everything should be evenly spread right, not too much to the left or to the right. And ISO is usually set to 100 (also least grain). And I have heard it more often that people use 2x the shutter speed compared to the frame rate. 30 fps > 1/60 shutter speed. Also I heard about the argumentation that people may not want to film at 60fps because the video is too smooth, and less cinematic like. Do you agree to that? And lastly. What *field of view* do you use mostly in these video's you shoot?

[@Raptorman0909]

I have not as yet used ND filters in any of my uploaded videos and for the reasons I've already mentioned -- being further away and moving slowly reduces the effect of stuttering and therefore reduces the need to reduce shutter speed to 2X the frame rate. There are occasions when I can see some stuttering in some of my videos but I'll trade that off for greater clarity and detail elsewhere in the video. In this video ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/jISmm36Mfc6nirs ) at 4:17 through about 4:42 I pan/yaw while close to the rocks and you can see some stuttering as a consequence. But, when further away and not doing a rapid pan/yaw there isn't much of an issue. If I'd used an ND filter to keep the shutter speed down for that section there would be less stuttering there but the rest of the video would be less sharp and detailed. You have to understand that the 2X shutter speed rule goes back quite a while, remember that movies are still shot as 24fps and home movies used to be more like 18fps so stuttering, even with film, was a real problem. When we can comfortably do 4K at 60fps the issue will be even less of a problem. At this point 4K@60 isn't practical so I shoot at 4K@30 (3840x2160, 30fps.) Digital doesn't have grain like film but it can have noise which is somewhat similar. Using a lower ISO is desired, but since we mostly fly in daylight conditions we don't have the same need to boost ISO that you might in other situations. The FOV is fixed by the lens of the camera and I retain that in post -- that is 9:16 aspect ration. The effective focal length of the lens is, I think, about 24mm (35 eq) so that should give a horizontal FOV of about 74 degrees.