I screwed up on this flight – on the most perfect day imaginable. Blue skies and little or no wind.

Unaccountably, I shot the whole flight with the video setting on H.265

Not a problem for viewing, or for extracting screen grabs as single shots. You may have seen some of those already on this forum.

No, I only realised the problem when I came to try and edit the footage.  My video editor doesn’t support H.265.   Rats!  What now?

I found a free conversion tool on t’internet to transpose it back to H.264, but the results were, to say the least, disappointing.

However, another program produced satisfactory results. But since it came as a free trial, the resulting video was watermarked

at alternating 10 second intervals with the company’s logo.

SO, I’ve had to resort to clipping out the unadorned bits and stringing them together into a short

composition.  Not the Blockbuster I was hoping for

Take a look if you will, and try to imagine what could have been…...

Nicely done. That zoom feature is awesome

Lovely footage mate

Nice footage, awesome zoom. A shame for the configuration change; the place is splendid.

Thanks for sharing

Woe Posted at 8-2 21:50
Nicely done. That zoom feature is awesome

Thanks Woe. It does make a difference, doesn't it

Blériot53 Posted at 8-3 06:05
Thanks Woe. It does make a difference, doesn't it

You're welcome and yes it does.

Cool video!!! Love it! I thought Premiere takes all formats?

A J Posted at 8-3 00:24
Lovely footage mate

Thanks AJ. The weather helped

Blériot53 Posted at 8-3 08:58
Thanks AJ. The weather helped

You're welcome mate

QQRUCH Posted at 8-3 02:04
Nice footage, awesome zoom. A shame for the configuration change; the place is splendid.

Thanks for sharing

Thanks QQ.

VooDoo_PPL Posted at 8-3 07:17
Cool video!!!  Love it! I thought Premiere takes all formats?

Thank you. Maybe Premiere does, but I use Davinci Resolve version 14, which only does H.264. Though I
believe version 16 does H.265

Nice result !

It made quite a nice video anyhow!

Nicely done
Beautiful place

Blériot53 Posted at 8-3 09:43
Thanks QQ.

you're welcome Captain

KDP + Posted at 8-3 10:59
Nice result !

Thank you KDP

Tentoes Posted at 8-3 12:03
It made quite a nice video anyhow!

Thanks Tentoes

Blériot53 Posted at 8-3 09:45
Thank you. Maybe Premiere does, but I use Davinci Resolve version 14, which only does H.264. Though I
believe version 16 does H.265

Dunno, my friend recommends DaVinci to me. But I spent hours learning Premiere and doesn't ready for changes.

VooDoo_PPL Posted at 8-3 20:55
Dunno, my friend recommends DaVinci to me. But I spent hours learning Premiere and doesn't ready for changes.

Whichever Software is used, there's a long learning curve, I agree.  Changing to a different one would mean adapting to a new framework, and take some time.

Try using handbrake to convert it back.

DAFlys Posted at 8-3 23:24
Try using handbrake to convert it back.

That's the one I tried, with unsatisfactory results, unfortunately.
But I won't make the same mistake with the H.264 setting again, so hopefully the need won't arise.
I may try to update Davinci Resolve from 14 to 16.
That would be the solution.

Blériot53 Posted at 8-3 23:53
That's the one I tried, with unsatisfactory results, unfortunately.
But I won't make the same mistake with the H.264 setting again, so hopefully the need won't arise.
I may try to update Davinci Resolve from 14 to 16.

What was unsatisfactory?  The colour or smoothness of playback?

DAFlys Posted at 8-4 00:08
What was unsatisfactory?  The colour or smoothness of playback?

The output was much compressed from the original, and there were artefacts in the video (wavy lines for telephone wires, etc which were not present in the original.)  The software I eventually used gave a satisfactory result, apart from the watermarking in the free demo version.

Blériot53 Posted at 8-4 00:15
The output was much compressed from the original, and there were artefacts in the video (wavy lines for telephone wires, etc which were not present in the original.)  The software I eventually used gave a satisfactory result, apart from the watermarking in the free demo version.

Sounds like you just needed to use a different preset in handbrake for the output format.

DAFlys Posted at 8-4 00:23
Sounds like you just needed to use a different preset in handbrake for the output format.

Perhaps, yes.  I tried twice at the highest settings I could find,  getting the same artefacts each time, then lost patience with it. So I tried the other software with better results, but with the watermark.
I've abandoned both programs now and I don't expect to need that function again. I'll make SURE that my RC settings are at H.264 before I launch

Very nice video!

Montfrooij Posted at 9-28 09:41
Very nice video!

Thanks Monty. I was just familiarising myself with the M2Z back then.

Blériot53 Posted at 9-28 09:45
Thanks Monty. I was just familiarising myself with the M2Z back then.

Yeah, I noticed.
Still nice to see parts of the world that are way out of reach now.

Montfrooij Posted at 9-28 09:46
Yeah, I noticed.
Still nice to see parts of the world that are way out of reach now.

International travel may become easier in a year or two. Let's keep our fingers crossed

Blériot53 Posted at 9-28 09:47
International travel may become easier in a year or two. Let's keep our fingers crossed

Fingers and toes.....
Until the next virus hits.

Montfrooij Posted at 9-28 11:24
Fingers and toes.....
Until the next virus hits.

Don't even go there......

Blériot53 Posted at 9-28 12:06
Don't even go there......

I won't !
.....