Any pointers on things I can change to make it better are welcome!

Nice vid, but try to film it a bit closer to cars.

You need more locations..
You need to reduce the frames so it becomes more like a stop motion vid.

adrian8891 Posted at 2017-5-24 21:43
Nice vid, but try to film it a bit closer to cars.

I agree. Thought the same thing during editing.

QuanthonyTrang Posted at 2017-5-24 22:00
You need more locations..
You need to reduce the frames so it becomes more like a stop motion vid.

I actually have one rendering right now at 3x the speed. Guess I could just speed the youtube video up to see the effect as well.

With the blur, you can really see the shortcomings of the codec.

So I wanted to see what zoomed in with stop motion looked like. Obviously I'll need to film closer to make it cleaner but just effect wise is this better?

I liked the first one better

Nees Posted at 2017-5-25 00:34
With the blur, you can really see the shortcomings of the codec.

Reedited this once I figured out you were referring to your edited file.
My editing computer doesn't have trouble editing files generated by Mavic in 4K, however using H265 to export the final product takes a lot longer, but a smaller file size.  The finished 4K files play great on our UHD TV, but play erratically on my computer.  (I7-5960 Octacore,  32GB RAM, GeForce GTX970 video card) in H265, but not H264 which plays well on both.
I think you need to look at your data rate, if it is to low then you will have blurring.  What were your settings - Which program, Resolution, number of passes, and other settings etc.  Since I like to shoot in 4K and edit on Premeire Pro, I usually use "settings that match input file"  that usually produces really nice encoded video and have been experimenting with my settings.  If you use 4K Hi datarate it is also good, but has trouble playing on the video apps, but clear and clean on UHD TV.  If I use 4K medium datarate it produces splotchy video that is noticeable especially in areas with less contrast.

Yeah I don't think stop motion works as well for traffic. Maybe people walking around. I played with this one a bit before settling on just a faster speed.

I feel like I need to make the colors POP more. I'm using Power director. Any tips?

Bill in Ohio Posted at 2017-5-25 11:20
Reedited this once I figured out you were referring to your edited file.
My editing computer doesn't have trouble editing files generated by Mavic in 4K, however using H265 to export the final product takes a lot longer, but a smaller file size.  The finished 4K files play great on our UHD TV, but play erratically on my computer.  (I7-5960 Octacore,  32GB RAM, GeForce GTX970 video card) in H265, but not H264 which plays well on both.
I think you need to look at your data rate, if it is to low then you will have blurring.  What were your settings - Which program, Resolution, number of passes, and other settings etc.  Since I like to shoot in 4K and edit on Premeire Pro, I usually use "settings that match input file"  that usually produces really nice encoded video and have been experimenting with my settings.  If you use 4K Hi datarate it is also good, but has trouble playing on the video apps, but clear and clean on UHD TV.  If I use 4K medium datarate it produces splotchy video that is noticeable especially in areas with less contrast.

hmm Haswell-E has problems playing h.265? It's probably the software. I have a 6 core broadwell@4.2, plays 4k h.265 fine. The encoding times are a lot longer. I wish youtube supported h.265 uploads but it comes down to the encode times.

Found the best youtube settings for h.264 4k is 60-80, 2 pass vbr, main profile, max render and depth checked. Google keeps quality that way with a target of 56mbps, still get good rates on areas with a lot of motion. Noticed the older adobe media encoder doesn't do as good a job of compressing with the same settings as 2017. I got rid of the 2017 version, the files are smaller with the same project, but it's noticeable on youtube.

Bill in Ohio Posted at 2017-5-25 11:20
Reedited this once I figured out you were referring to your edited file.
My editing computer doesn't have trouble editing files generated by Mavic in 4K, however using H265 to export the final product takes a lot longer, but a smaller file size.  The finished 4K files play great on our UHD TV, but play erratically on my computer.  (I7-5960 Octacore,  32GB RAM, GeForce GTX970 video card) in H265, but not H264 which plays well on both.
I think you need to look at your data rate, if it is to low then you will have blurring.  What were your settings - Which program, Resolution, number of passes, and other settings etc.  Since I like to shoot in 4K and edit on Premeire Pro, I usually use "settings that match input file"  that usually produces really nice encoded video and have been experimenting with my settings.  If you use 4K Hi datarate it is also good, but has trouble playing on the video apps, but clear and clean on UHD TV.  If I use 4K medium datarate it produces splotchy video that is noticeable especially in areas with less contrast.

Im talking about the pulsating (keyframe-mess) every half sec, that you can clearly see in the blurry parts. Not sure what you started talking about.

Third time's a charm?

thehippoz Posted at 2017-5-25 11:49
hmm Haswell-E has problems playing h.265? It's probably the software. I have a 6 core , plays 4k h.265 fine. The encoding times are a lot longer. I wish youtube supported h.265 uploads but it comes down to the encode times.

Found the best youtube settings for h.264 4k is 60-80, 2 pass vbr, main profile, max render and depth checked. Google keeps quality that way with a target of 56mbps, still get good rates on areas with a lot of motion. Noticed the older adobe media encoder doesn't do as good a job of compressing with the same settings as 2017. I got rid of the 2017 version, the files are smaller with the same project, but it's noticeable on youtube.

Thanks for the info.  When I use Adobe Prem Pro 2017 Creative cloud I have no trouble or editing the 4K 30fps from the Mavic.  I was using the H265 codec to produce about half the file size.  I have been using the mp4  setting on the drone vs AVCHD, because I noticed a lot of flickering of thin line (like trees without leaves) and some moire effects.

Either codec works great on the UHD TV.

Nees Posted at 2017-5-26 15:19
Im talking about the pulsating (keyframe-mess) every half sec, that you can clearly see in the blurry parts. Not sure what you started talking about.

I should have just started with, asking what are your export settings and in what software are you editing.  I see in your video what I would tend to see when the data rate is to low.  Although I would expect it to be that way across the whole display.