Shot this, this evening.

pretty! watch your gimbal movement though, try for a smoother motion.

Looks like you need to reduce the speed setting for your gimbal so it will move smoother and I would have liked to see you continue across the church instead of stopping and hovering.  I kept feeling like has the video stopped?  That's a nice subject to work with.

You have jerky footage that people are experiencing when you bring the footage into editor. Spark footage are 29.98 instead of 29.97. Did you use iMovie to edit? If you trim the clip in iMovie first before putting it in timeline jerkiness will be gone or bring it in as 30fps timeline in Final Cut.

Madwand Posted at 2017-8-19 15:34
Looks like you need to reduce the speed setting for your gimbal so it will move smoother and I would have liked to see you continue across the church instead of stopping and hovering.  I kept feeling like has the video stopped?  That's a nice subject to work with.

Thanks. I checked the gimbal speed, it's currently set to 0,  so not sure how I can slow it down much more.

dojoman Posted at 2017-8-19 15:38
You have jerky footage that people are experiencing when you bring the footage into editor. Spark footage are 29.98 instead of 29.97. Did you use iMovie to edit? If you trim the clip in iMovie first before putting it in timeline jerkiness will be gone or bring it in as 30fps timeline in Final Cut.

Thanks.  Not noticing the jerky footage,  I'm new to drones, so I would say the jerkiness, is due to my skills rather than the bitrate.

Mine was at 50 (of 100) I think from factory, I reduced it to 20 and it still seems a bit too fast, but it seems smoother than yours...weird yours is on zero.

jksphoto Posted at 2017-8-19 15:40
Thanks.  Not noticing the jerky footage,  I'm new to drones, so I would say the jerkiness, is due to my skills rather than the bitrate.

No, I wasn't talking about gimble. Your overall footage is not smooth it's 29.98 fps problem.

dojoman Posted at 2017-8-19 17:41
No, I wasn't talking about gimble. Your overall footage is not smooth it's 29.98 fps problem.

Exactly !

Madwand Posted at 2017-8-19 15:41
Mine was at 50 (of 100) I think from factory, I reduced it to 20 and it still seems a bit too fast, but it seems smoother than yours...weird yours is on zero.

I'll have another fly around today and check the speed. Right checked again, seems as though it shows 0 when the Spark is off, flew this morning, it was on 50. Dropped to 20 as per your advice, what a difference.

Thanks for the heads up on that.

dojoman Posted at 2017-8-19 17:41
No, I wasn't talking about gimble. Your overall footage is not smooth it's 29.98 fps problem.

Hmm, like I said the footage looks fine on my Mac. When you say trim the clip, do you mean cut a bit off the beginning.  As I said new to the whole drone thing.

Thanks.

Very nice, good sharpness, control will come in no time, everyone gets some jerk in their videos but post work can help a lot. I hate having to go to you tube to watch you can just as easy embed link. Below.

hallmark007 Posted at 2017-8-20 02:51
Very nice, good sharpness, control will come in no time, everyone gets some jerk in their videos but post work can help a lot. I hate having to go to you tube to watch you can just as easy embed link. Below.

Thanks, my first video embedded, I think I posted this one wrong. Appreciate the feedback. Just want to keep flying and getting used to the controls.

jksphoto Posted at 2017-8-19 23:45
Hmm, like I said the footage looks fine on my Mac. When you say trim the clip, do you mean cut a bit off the beginning.  As I said new to the whole drone thing.

Thanks.

Yes it looks fine when you view the original file on QuickTime but once you bring it into iMovie or FCP it will start to look jerky. It's because editor is treating the footage as 29.97 even though Spark records it in 29.98.
You can trim a little in the editor first doesn't matter how much 1 sec works and bring it in timeline. Or if you have FCP just use 30fps profile.

dojoman Posted at 2017-8-20 08:27
Yes it looks fine when you view the original file on QuickTime but once you bring it into iMovie or FCP it will start to look jerky. It's because editor is treating the footage as 29.97 even though Spark records it in 29.98.
You can trim a little in the editor first doesn't matter how much 1 sec works and bring it in timeline. Or if you have FCP just use 30fps profile.

Thank you, I will try that when I do another filmed flight.

Nice subject, curious about other shots!

I've posted more on my IG @jksphoto

Cool, Thanks for sharing!