Hey all,

Thought I would finally contribute instead of merely lurking!

This is my first video with the spark and first time video editing. I tried to use manual setttings for ISO and Shutter but I didn't watch the histogram and ended up under or over exposing most of the shots. All in all I think it turned out alright, but I learned alot from the process and thought I would share for any other newbies. Also interested in feedback from people.

Key learnings:

• Check the histogram and make sure you aren't clipping highs or lows - no amount of editing can fix that.
• try and aim for a shutter speed of around 1/60 and ISO of less than 400 (ideally 100) - these were my best shots.
• set the gymbal speed to low and use tripod mode...i cut a large amount of jerky footage
• Davinci is learnable as a newbie, super powerful and free - watch plenty of youtube
• Colour correction is part art and part science...I am no good at either :-P
  

A long way to go yet, but hope this is helpful and would appreciate any feedback.

Great video, nice work! Thanks for posting!

I'm a newbie myself and I appreciate you letting us learn from your travels.  The video was good but, I do see some of the things you mentioned that you need to work on.  I took over an hour of video and cut my first clip down to 1:40... It was hard to choose what stayed and what went.  

but still, a nice video!

Excellent start. As someone who is also just beginning, I'd say you've learned a lot already.

One thing that took me out of the experience was ending reveal shots before they're revealed. I want to see the sunset beyond the tree instead of cutting immediately to another shot. Personal preference, maybe, because I see it quite often, so your mileage might vary. Other than that, nice shots and flying.

I think you made a great start!
And learning all the time

Nice video and a great start, thanks for sharing, looking forward to seeing more videos from you.

Great vid! Keep it up!

Big thank you to everyone for the responses, inputs and encouragement!

My suggestion, longer clip duration, and dont be afraid to simply hover, even if its just for the branches swaying in the scene, you don't need to have constant aircraft motion (thats the beauty of copters over fixed wing aircraft).  Lovely subject matter... well done.

Thanks for sharing!