The second part of my "BEAUTIFUL AUSTRALIA" series, this time from:
#2 South Australia.

During Christmas holiday we went on a road trip to South Australia. We drove over 3800km and visited many places in South Australia including Adelaide, Port Augusta, Flinders Ranges National Park, Marree, Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre National Park, Kimba, Lake Gairdner, Lake Giles, Gawler Ranges National Park, Pildappa Rock, York Peninsula, Innes National Park and many more...

All footage recorded with Nikon D3300 and DJI Spark.

Hope you will enjoy this video.

Wow - that's a great video! Many thanks for sharing.

Nice video editing too - I like the way you used the road surface for the video title. I'm going to have to practice that technique myself!

Alan

Conrod Posted at 2018-1-10 05:01
Wow - that's a great video! Many thanks for sharing.

Nice video editing too - I like the way you used the road surface for the video title. I'm going to have to practice that technique myself!

Thanks, Alan, glad you liked it.
For the video title image, I just used photoshop, very easy to do

Nailed it! Been into traditional photography for years and it is hard to do justice to vast landscapes like these in that format, the Spark really captures them fantastic. Brilliant color balancing and overall continuity in white balance and exposure - presume you shot most of this in manual mode.
Really loved the opening reveal. Composition is brilliant in each scene, great use of rule of thirds. Great forethought and setup in some scenes also - the shot of the car approaching gives the sub-conscience feeling that a film crew was following you around :-) But I know the effort that goes into a shot like that, going ahead of yourself setting up a camera and then retracing your steps to approach the set up camera - my wife is used to it now :-) But little shots like that make such a difference to the overall feel of the final project.
Really enjoyed that, will be watching again to pick up some ideas. Thanks for sharing.

Just fantastic in every possible regard, probably the best video I have seen so far. Gosh, you are really setting very high standards for little beginners like me... Thank you so much for sharing it and please keep on posting!

Tagged as DIGEST!
love your work!

Superb in every way!

AlanIRL Posted at 2018-1-10 13:54
Nailed it! Been into traditional photography for years and it is hard to do justice to vast landscapes like these in that format, the Spark really captures them fantastic. Brilliant color balancing and overall continuity in white balance and exposure - presume you shot most of this in manual mode.
Really loved the opening reveal. Composition is brilliant in each scene, great use of rule of thirds. Great forethought and setup in some scenes also - the shot of the car approaching gives the sub-conscience feeling that a film crew was following you around :-) But I know the effort that goes into a shot like that, going ahead of yourself setting up a camera and then retracing your steps to approach the set up camera - my wife is used to it now :-) But little shots like that make such a difference to the overall feel of the final project.
Really enjoyed that, will be watching again to pick up some ideas. Thanks for sharing.

Wow AlanIRL, thanks for such a thorough comment. I am really glad you like it. As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, I have experience with photography but I am just starting with filming.  In fact, I only started making videos since I got my Spark (so thanks to him)

Wachtberger Posted at 2018-1-10 14:36
Just fantastic in every possible regard, probably the best video I have seen so far. Gosh, you are really setting very high standards for little beginners like me... Thank you so much for sharing it and please keep on posting!

Thank you Watchberger, really appreciate it, that means a lot!

DJI Grace Posted at 2018-1-10 19:03
Tagged as DIGEST!
love your work!

Thank you, Grace

Wow.
That was fantastic.
Makes me miss home

Impressive film, lots of beatiful scenes, good control of the drone, very smooth movements!

Very impressive!

aS ALWAYS ! aMAZING !!

Very inspiring! Really great video, it only proves that you don't need the best equipment when you have passion for what you do. Makes me wanna get out and fly!

Very enjoyable and nice soundtrack, too.

Great job, thanks for the tour

Amazing! Congrats!

Nice work!

Good work

Incredible.

What is the situation with commercial music on YouTube?

Kirbz252 Posted at 2018-1-11 15:27
Incredible.

What is the situation with commercial music on YouTube?

I think technically and legally in most places it is considered copyright infringement even if you own the CD or paid to download the song. But if you are not using it for commercial purpose and as just a background to a photo album or holiday video, you'll most likely be fine. YouTube will flag it as copyright protected when you first upload it, but you can just go to edit and click on one of the many options it gives you to chose why you should be allowed to use the track. I think "Fairuse" and "I own the CD" are 2 of the options, or least they used to be.
I think if you have a major youtube channel that is creating an income, you would then want to be more careful.
I'm sure others here have looked into it in more depth...

Thank you, guys, for such nice comments!

Kirbz252 Posted at 2018-1-11 15:27
What is the situation with commercial music on YouTube?

You can use almost any music you want, as long as the video stays on youtube and the music owner allows you to use it.
When you upload a video to YT with some music, you get this notification:

Ads might appear on your video.
Copyrighted content was found in your video.
The claimant is allowing their content to be used in your YouTube video. However, ads might appear on it.
Viewing restrictions: None
Monetization:Monetized by claimant
If you agree with these conditions, you don't have to do anything.

In other words, only the music rights owner is monetized (from ads etc).

Looks like you would have spent a long time on this video - time well spent I reckon!!!
Loved it

Good enough to be a beer commercial!

Excellent.  Full Stop, don't need to say any more.

Great continent for drones.

Very impressive work!

Fantastic...

Yeah that was pro level work!  nice job.

Once again, thanks so much, it really means a lot to me!

A dream adventure of mine. Good post thanks for sharing.

What software do you use to edit your footage with?

Spark in the Pa Posted at 2018-1-25 07:57
What software do you use to edit your footage with?

Thanks for your comment.
I use Adobe Premiere Pro, but there are also similar free programs too.

Beautiful view keep it up

Terrific!  The colour is amazing

Brilliant Video, well done.

I am biased too as I am from SA!!

Passy35 Posted at 2018-2-1 02:45
Brilliant Video, well done.

I am biased too as I am from SA!!

Thanks guys, really appreciate it. Especially I am so glad you like it when you live there

Great work in each aspect, love the mixture of human appearance and the wild life, and the landscaping, amazing work indeed, and as editing wise top notch. Well done and thanks for sharing such a wonderful work.