Just a quick test to see how Twilight and Night videos look with it. Flying over Brentwood, Tennessee (soon after a storm!). Shot in 5.4K, auto settings, the default "Natural" color setting, no color grading. Shot in Cine mode, sped up 2X in Final Cut Pro.

Looks great.  

Looks good.

sduck, Nicely done - Twilight - one of my favorite times.  It gives me something to go for when I finally get to doing some real flying.
Thanks for sharing.

Nice video.  I also love flying at twilight.  Making me jealous with being able to fly that far in the city.  Can't do that with my original Mini.

K6CCC Posted at 5-7 19:29
Nice video.  I also love flying at twilight.  Making me jealous with being able to fly that far in the city.  Can't do that with my original Mini.

You'll love Ocusync, should you choose to upgrade down the road.

Great video! Keep it up and thanks for sharing.

beautiful video...

Great footage!    Have a great weekend.

DGCA3 Posted at 5-7 23:11
You'll love Ocusync, should you choose to upgrade down the road.

I know.  I expect to at some point.  I'm kinda waiting for the Mavic 3 Pro - when it comes out.  Although the Air 2S is sure tempting...

Looks very nice!

be honest and confess that you put heavy noise filters, because the air 2s is not better with respect to low light performance

Lops Posted at 5-11 07:31
be honest and confess that you put heavy noise filters, because the air 2s is not better with respect to low light performance

Sorry, being totally honest here - no filters or anything. I didn't touch the color palette or anything. It's just the straight 5.4K h265 files from the drone card dropped into Final Cut Pro, sped up 2x, and then downscaled to 4K using Apple Compressor (because youtube/vimeo can't really handle 5k yet).

What you can see is a pretty drastic loss of details/resolution in the night part of the video - which was shot only about 10-15 minutes after the first part - it wasn't even completely dark yet. Same auto settings, so the iso had to go up substantially, and hence the loss of resolution.

sduck Posted at 5-11 17:57
Sorry, being totally honest here - no filters or anything. I didn't touch the color palette or anything. It's just the straight 5.4K h265 files from the drone card dropped into Final Cut Pro, sped up 2x, and then downscaled to 4K using Apple Compressor (because youtube/vimeo can't really handle 5k yet).

What you can see is a pretty drastic loss of details/resolution in the night part of the video - which was shot only about 10-15 minutes after the first part - it wasn't even completely dark yet. Same auto settings, so the iso had to go up substantially, and hence the loss of resolution.

Ok, accepting your statement I suggest, that the downsampling process caused a denoise effect because good editing software uses interpolation algorithms for resampling which calculates the resampled pixel values from local pixel clusters (e.g. 3x3) which is leading to a certain noise reduction. Might be a good idea to take highest resolution under low light conditions and then just downsample...have to check that. And saying that, I realize that you also speeded up by factor two and the same argument as with downsampling applies here too - not in the image-spatial but in the image sequence temporal direction. That means by downsampling and speeding up you did a double-strike against the noise.

And btw. I like your video ;)