rick39
lvl.4
Flight distance : 164354 ft
United Kingdom
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Hi Nick, you're a star!
Thanks very much for the last demo. I don't know if it's possible for you to make a daylight video of the example I gave earlier in the thread. My scenario would be where a video shot from close range focused on say a sign or plaque or whatever you want then pulls away to a significant distance and height away while maintaining the subject in the centre of the frame and keeping the whole sequence in focus. I realise this may be impossible as trying to fly and adjust focus at the same time would be very demanding. I think the only way to do this would be to program two way points as described and let the Mavic fly autonomously, leaving you free to handle the focus pull. However, I notice there is an issue with tap to focus where once the lens achieves the new desired focus point, the image "bounces" presenting a small zoom out and in effect. This would look awful!
The only other thing to try in the same example, again using two way points, would be to try using the GUI interface of the sliding scale focus setting. I don't know, but could imagine this might be a flawed idea as the focus may only change once the desired final focus point had been reached, leaving all other footage set between the original focus point and the final focus point blurry and out of focus.
This procedure would demand serious flying skills that as yet I don't possess (or the Mavic for that matter, but I hope that will be resolved soon!). I don't know if you have the experience to do this yet, and if not I'm sure you will have soon, but if anyone else would like to rise to the challenge and give it a try, I would love to see the result. Another way to do it that might be easier, would be to film the scene the opposite way round from far distance to close up, and then the sequence could be reversed in the edit. This is fine if there's no one around, but seeing people walking backwards and cars reversing down a highway doesn't look great!
Simulating this by running around with the Mavic on the ground between two points and trying to operate the camera at the same time would not work, but it would be funny watching someone try!
Thanks again Nick, keep these videos coming. They are extremely interesting and helpful to me as a relative novice waiting to experience the fun of a DJI drone. |
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