This is my first-ever video compilation (using Adobe Premiere), shot during our recent trip to Maui, Hawaii. We stopped at the Kaumahina State Wayside Park, which is a vista point on the Road to Hana.

As it was my first editing project, I didn't include other parts of Maui and only concentrated on this single shooting session in the park. I've been flying the Mavic for 2-3 weeks at this point, so there are several small smoothness issues in the footage, but I'm learning and hope to improve my skills, quality, and variety in the future.

Learning editing in Premiere (till 7am this morning) was a lot of fun too. Enjoy!

Looks great!  What color mode and other settings did you use?

Video is great, and really shows how the Mavic does shooting a video, nice and sharp.

Well done!

Is that jitter present in the raw footage or was it introduced by post processing?

nice work.. lot warmer on the island than here in Oregon  

Rich

This is awesome, a Hawaii trip is well needed for me soon!

Nice job ....

sumitag Posted at 2016-11-17 14:07
Looks great!  What color mode and other settings did you use?

I used a normal mode on the drone itself and did a color tweak in post (in Premiere, it's called SL CLEAN KODAK B ULTRASOFT). Bumped up the exposure a bit (0.2). A little curve tweak: http://i.imgur.com/gr2HsrS.png. I think that's about it.

KulaHI Posted at 2016-11-17 17:26
Is that jitter present in the raw footage or was it introduced by post processing?

There's not much jitter, but whatever is there is from the drone. Hawaii air is super windy, so I'm surprised it was as stable as it is. At some points (not during this video), I could see the Mavic struggle with the wind and fly in circles of like 10ft+ radius, all while trying to stay in one place.

Archon810 Posted at 2016-11-18 09:07
There's not much jitter, but whatever is there is from the drone. Hawaii air is super windy, so I' ...

Thanks.  I live on Maui so very familiar with the trades.  You may want to check footage again in calmer air and see if the jitter persists.  Could be gimbal shake like some are reporting.

Everyone always posting footage of the beautiful parts of Hawaii.  Here is one I shot yesterday right after getting it from the Apple store.  No editing, no music, just straight off the card and uploaded to youtube.  Sorry it's not a production "nice" video.  I was just excited to get it up into the air.  Was pretty scared too as the wind was howling.  The Mavic handled the wind like a champ though!

Daaamn I ordered 10-09 and watching the raw and edited videos are making me start the F5 itch again.... thanks for putting up the content!

robble Posted at 2016-11-18 12:33
Everyone always posting footage of the beautiful parts of Hawaii.  Here is one I shot yesterday righ ...

Damn! Ala Moana or Waikiki Apple Store?  Any left?

KulaHI Posted at 2016-11-18 13:35
Damn! Ala Moana or Waikiki Apple Store?  Any left?

Ala Moana, they only had 1 drone and two sets of props.  you might check the other apple stores.

robble Posted at 2016-11-18 17:33
Everyone always posting footage of the beautiful parts of Hawaii.  Here is one I shot yesterday righ ...

was the camera jittering like crazy because of the strong winds? it must of been blowing hardcore thats the first time ive seen the camera jitter like that

Travelling Dron Posted at 2016-11-18 17:17
was the camera jittering like crazy because of the strong winds? it must of been blowing hardcore  ...

Yeah, you can see there's a very strong wind in the video - Maui in general was very windy when I was shooting, especially next to the ocean.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mavic+gimbal+shake

Awesome!  I love Hawaii.  Epic scenery all around the islands.

The only problem with that video was it was too short

Yea the wind was really strong and gusty!  I could see how it could blow the gimble itself causing the shaking.  What concerns me more is the choppy panning. I've lowered the drone rotation rate and even when trying to rotate very slowly it still gets choppy. (happens in tilting too)
Any idea about the choppiness?  I don't recall seeing it in some other peoples videos.

Great Video! Where did you source the Music?

DaveAus Posted at 2016-11-20 14:04
Great Video! Where did you source the Music?

It's just a (pretty popular) song I had.