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fans15490224
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Hi!
Mavic is my second drone, previously I had GoPro Karma, but it's crashed

After reviewing my footage, I saw that my footage have too much noise, I never had this with my GoPro, maybe it can be resolved with some NR like NeatVideo or smth else, but again, I never had the same issue with my GoPro... I don't think that this cameras has too much difference, the same sensor size, the same bitrate 60 mbs.

What I'm doing wrong?

My settings is:
D-Log, Sharpness +1 (to avoid NR and watercolor effect), -3, -1.
4k, 24 fps, ND-32, WB is set to sunny


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Woe
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Try -1-1-1 4k 30fps. You may get better results.
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fans15490224
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When I'm reducing sharpness, I got watercolor effect..

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Jos A
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If you shooting 1+ on 4k 24 fps you get noise , you must use Neat Video to remove noise.(video)
You shown us a photo???
For me best setting is on UHD 30 fps, manual, sunny or cloudy, iso 100, d-log style  0,-2,-2 and of course a ND filter for setting the expose to 0.
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Mikex
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what about ETTR? it will reduce noise in video?

p.s this is screenshot from vide, not photo and you could see trees have watercolor effect
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Montfrooij
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4K in general can look noisy on the MP with 'only' 60Mb/s bitrate.
It is not noise actually, but it is artifacts.
Try 2.7K for better results.
And if you do want (need) 4K, you have to experiment with the picture profiles.
D-Log is possibly not what you want, since that has too much information to put in the datastream.
Try D-cinelike instead.
PS, I have not tested this myself. For now I shoot FHD only.
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Mikex
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I'm working with another cameras with Log profile, but I didn't get any issues with footage like I get with MP I'm very disappointed about that.

Will try to use 2.7K, but I really want to use 4k instead of 2.7k

will try to use different settings for style, maybe it will help...
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Mikex
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So, If I'm using 4k, in my MP with D-Log, I will always have noise/artifacts? Is it anyway to avoid this? right now I'm using +1, -2, -2 or 0, -2, -2 and my footage still have a lot of noise event in good light conditions
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Jos A
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have you try my settings? what kind of edit program have you? do you have NEAT video?
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Mikex
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yes, I tried you're settings and still have too much noise, I'm working in Final Cut Pro X, no, I don't, and don't want to buy it right now, 'cause if something wrong with my mavic, I'll return it ((((

gopro have a LOT better quality than my mavic, and I'm very disappointed.

can anybody share with me raw video from you're mavic? I just want to compare it..
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Mikex
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or checkout my video, in dark areas you can see a lot of noise, + quality isn't good as for me (for LOG profile), maybe it's due to not enough bitrate for 4K?
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When shooting using sharpness at 0 the MP uses it's in camera noise reduction to help reduce some of this noise that you will get.  So by using +1 you are in a sense turning that off giving you better detail but at a cost of more noise.  This video explains it good and ways to fix it    The explanation of the noise issue starts at about 3:10 in the video.  
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Mikex
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got  it, thanks...

now I'll have mavic for this, I want to use 100 mbps for 4k video instead of 60... all details looks so bad... with 60 mbps, it's not usable as 4k drone, and only now I understood that...

Damn.. camera on mavic just sucks (((( I'm very disappointed about that..
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