4 Simple Mavic Mini Drone Shots for Beginners.

in today's video I'm going to show you guys how to take four hot cinematic shots with your DJI maverick meanie with a bonus coming at the end showing you how to combine them and share them simply and easily mini flyers are you ready let's get started [Music] [Music] fake shoutouts autonomous drone services and Matt mix tube comm for providing us with the equipment to make these videos pass the first thing is going to those three dots at the top right go into not safety with your control scroll down and look for your gimbal settings there's gimbal calibration and then there's gimbal advanced hit that little blue advance button now I set my pitch speed to 15 and I set my pitch smoothness to 5 you don't want that for photos photos you want your gimbal to move fast so you can line up quickly and then snap the shot but what I'm showing you here is cinematic video shots so we want the gimbal to move slowly so pitch speed for me is 15 you can play around with that as well as the smoothness is 5 that works for me nice smooth pitch also I allow the gimbal to rotate upwards for shot like these because just in case I don't stop exactly at the 90 degree or the center point and and I lose the the the wheel here a little bit slow the gimbal will still continue to roll up slightly as opposed to hitting the 90 which is the upright spot and just abruptly blam stopping are you ready let's go over these four shots quickly and simply I'm not gonna do anything fancy you could take it to a fancy location I just want to give you some ideas [Music] now another tip as we're here you don't you see the Sun right there that's the Sun in front of me you don't ever want to face the camera towards the Sun because it will nine out of ten ruin your shot so we're gonna face the other way see I'm gonna turn the drone around and use the Sun see how bright and nice everything gets now and use the Sun to supply me with light this first shots called a crane shot now do I want to reveal that how about this this looks a little better with the ducts and stuff in there so I'll lock my exposure see the little at bottom right that's it's not yellow that means it's unlocked yellow means it's locked I'll go all the way down there you go so now I've got a tree like in the center I'm six feet and five feet I'm four feet two feet somewhere around there so it looks like I'm on the ground okay my exposure has been locked for the shot that I want not the shot that I'm at right now so it's locked it's not gonna move now that I've lined up I'm gonna hit report and then I simply just rise up [Music] revealing the beautiful leaf in the background now you could do this with cities with whatever it is in the background that you prefer but this is the shot that I'm going for just it's called a crane shot just simple easy appealing to the eye especially if you're at a really nice location now shot number two is very simple it's the reveal and this is where the gimbal smoothness really comes into play right where you're going to reveal something as you're flying now you can do this shot flying forwards or you can do this shot flying backwards remember you cannot see what's behind you so don't hit anything so I would recommend you try this flying forward until you get the hang of it not bad I'm almost at a thousand feet and I'm sitting in my car which is pretty good for the Maverick media I'm pretty impressed as always with this little quad so this is my reveal shot this is what I'm going to be revealing as I am on the trail so with this shot everything centered up at zero looks good I'll lock my exposure I'll go from P mode to cinematic mode right and I'll slow the speed down I will look down now that that's a shot that I want to lock even though the bottom looks dark it's okay it's not a big deal I know that it's going to be a reveal shot on three two one I hit record I pushed my right stick forward and I start raising the gimbal up slowly as I will reveal from the ground people walking pasta people talk to the me beautiful beautiful and if I had made my gimbal movement even slower and smoother oh the reveal shot would have been wonderful that's it okay I'll stop the shot I'll stop recording because for me I don't like recording just a ton of footage because then I have to go through the footage I like to plan my shots out get the shot that I'm looking for and that's it now if you notice I'm still going forward and that's because I know hey if I can push forward on the right stick and not hit anything I can also come back on the right stick when you mean push the right stick backwards and not hit anything so my exposure is locked I'm in sinner smooth still I will point the gimbal down yep to the shadows on the ground I'll hit record and then I'll start moving backwards as I'm moving backwards I know I won't hit anything because I'm repeating my path and as I go backwards guess what oh look at the reveal [Music] nice [Music] I love them how about you I don't want to push it too much because I don't want to hit anything but this is a shot I think it actually looks better flying backwards than it does flying forward that's your second shot your third shot will be your bird's eye view while flying and all that is is the camera looking down so let's find our way I go into P mode I'll find my way back to my car or at least I should be me there you go let me make sure I'm pretty height so I can't disrupt her hit anything while I'm flying it looks pretty good I jump back into cinema smooth mode this one is a little different because I'm gonna take off my exposure now while I'm looking down when you sent her up a little bit see how smooth and nice and slowly drawn and moving now while I'm looking down then is what I want to lock my exposure so it remains zero while looking down so the shot is not dark and I'm all set pretty much so let's do this I'll hit record here we go and let's get moving I'm looking at my screen as it goes as it goes there we go and I've seen the car here I come out [Music] okay not a bad shot again guys remember when you're looking down make sure you clear all the trees and stuff I did that while I was flying coming towards me so I'm not worried about hitting a tree or anything that's kind of a shot that's as interesting as I can meet it but you get the point just look down and follow this shots called a roll and throttle shot now check this out I'm at 83 feet high okay for safety reasons I know I really can't hit anything over the lake if you're afraid of flying over water don't fly over water but flying over water actually the signal bounces off the water and hits the drone and actually increases and gives you a signal more strength right so I like flying over water if you don't feel comfortable don't worry about it it'll come over time just make sure that you're starting at a low altitude as you can see I'm over the water so I'm 87 feet I'm looking down right I will slip down I will go to about 50 feet 50 feet slow enough for me ma'am I'm at 40 that's good so I'm gonna look here because I'm going to be flying sideways so I just went down I'm going to be flying sideways I'll keep my gimbal at the height that I wanted at this is the shot that I'm going for sideways this is a shot that I want so I'm going to lock my exposure I'm going to go into cinema mode and ready turn the camera maybe you could see better like this right and of course you've got hit record if you don't hit record then you're in a lot of trouble right now I know I'm going to the right but I know I can't hit anything at the right of me because look what's at the right of me nothing for like a good couple of miles so I'm safe I'm good to go alright this is the shot I want of the lake so I will be going to the right but first hit record my exposures isn't luck I mean Sinha smooth mode and I push to the right just to the right and then up you don't have to go up fast or you can go up fast it all depends on what kind of effect looking for that's the two movements under stick writing up so I'm gonna take it up really fast and that is kind of a beautiful shot I love this shot as the lake goes then comes the road as you climb higher and higher [Music] what 452 knots in the night so bear that in mind what a beautiful shot now I've got the car settled I'll come off the left stick easy and just keep rocking and rolling to the right as I reveal more and more and more and I can even scroll it to the right if I want and reveal more and more and more I'm pretty high I'm a 240 feet there's nothing out there look at that guy's yeah now you're using two sticks and slowly and gently there you go and all movement must be slowly and gently very nice okay I'm done that's a little too much all right now I'm done I will go to P mode turn around and head back [Music] I know that was really lazy right let's look at these videos and decide what we're gonna do with it I'm gonna hit this play button I'm gonna hit the Select at the top right I'm going to select one two three four five the five videos that we just shot and I'm going to hit download photos will take a few seconds to download to your phone there and it wirelessly transmits the photos and videos in this case videos to your phone so you can edit it on your phone if you want to speed up the process you have two options I recorded in two point seven cake because I wanted the best quality you don't have to you can record in 1080p the other option is you can pop this SD card out and get a download adapter for your iPhone or in my case my Android phone and plug it into my USB or lightning port and just edit the videos right from there that's another option and then you don't have to wait for that download time anyway I didn't mind waiting for the download it was only a few minutes because the clips were very short and in the meanwhile I was able to kind of think about how I want to plan and color grade my foot let's get to editing we shall hit in the top right of the screen but we can let's just select the first video and then we'll hit this little scissors mark right there there you go now that the video is transcoded and my screen is loaded up and I'm ready to edit now my next step is disconnecting the phone so I can operate with my phone only there you go I don't need to control anymore I don't need to draw I'll turn off blinking for turn off the drill as well give these two guys a rest what's happen home did you know and now I can operate from my phone if I'm in my car and my battery's running low I can always hook up my fast charger you always want to leave your phone screen on full brightness I just checked mine now I can scrub through my shots but I know my shots are pretty good it doesn't really need much cutting over here if you're not sure how to use this editor I made a complete video on that now that all the videos are finished transcoding them I have them all in my timeline all of them one two three four and the fifth one is over here the really long one so now I can trim each one each clip but if I were to go through it and just press play I will be able to see well how long it takes now boom I want this shot I might not want it at the bottom like I think here is good so I'm just gonna cut it right here and this one right here I'm just gonna scroll to the bottom hit delete so now it starts at this point where it's revealing up how about that I'm just gonna stop it right there and I'm gonna cut again why because that's where I want it to stop I don't know if I want all of this to play out or if I do want it to play out what I can do is stop it right here cut a game all right go back to the middle section over here hit speed and just speed it up all right and there you go I'll apply it so now my clip at the beginning looks like this or I'm starting to reveal up right and what I'll do is I will start right here this looks like a nice reveal shot I'll cut I like the end there delete it so now I'm just rising up and then I'm going into a speed up and then smoothing out that's my first shot alright my second shot now and a speed up over here you see how fast you can scrub through the the footage over here so now but walk I kind of just want this so I'll cut right here I'll take this I will delete it I don't want that so my reveal now goes just like this beautiful where you see the people in the shot and then boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom reveal that's it that's all I want so I'll do the same here I'll cut there once it stops there and I will delete this shot here I don't want the rest of that in it okay so my third one my third clip now all right so I'm gonna delete this shot because I'm gonna save this shot I think for the end this makes a nice closing shot so I'll delete it out for now I will add this one in with me walking over the car this one out frame it out I want to catch the part where I'm just stepping out of the car here we go that's the part I'm most interested in soon as that door closes boom right there that's just shot I want I'm gonna cut from here take this part delete it out and then BOOM that's the reveal shot that I want me coming out of the car and just walking walking walking and walking walking walking and walking and walking boom stop right there I will cut again and I will take the excess of the clip out because I really don't want that I want nice short clips to share with friends and family I really don't like the long shots this one here I will cut it and edit it as well and this one here because there's traffic and stuff from the time it starts moving I will cut I will delete this piece peace out I just want the movement and then I will scrub through until it is finished and then what I'll do with this clip I'll speed it up speed it up as fast as possible now hit so that's it right and then while looking at it I kind of like from here I'll cut from here I'll take this piece out nope sorry No don't want to blow anything I just want to delete that little piece I'll play from here it looks kind of cool with the cars going so you get some nice effects you know what I'm saying and then boom once the lake goes away I think that's good enough I'll cut right there and the end piece that's highlighted delete that now I add the last clip that I wanted in the first time remember the last click that's me revealing backward so it's got to be this one that's the reveal with me looking up yes so I want it from right right there I will cut and delete this piece at the beginning and this is the reveal shot that I'm going to be my story with and I'll put something at the end here that pretty much says well thanks for watching and my shot as you can see is under a minute which is perfect I hit delete my shots under mini Philae I'm gonna have to choose one of these titles let's go with this thanks for watching in the corner no how about this nice in the middle thanks for watching let's set it to end so it's at the end as opposed to the beginning or always-on I hit the checkmark so I go up back to my basic manual game where it's just scrolling through all this stuff now I'm gonna pause it I'm gonna go to the first clip and that's what I'm going to edit I'm gonna go to tone and what I'm gonna do is just brighten it up a little bit I feel like not really I kind of like you just play with it and see what you like but I want to see everything I think that that's like the perfect brightness for me the saturation and this is kinda like what's called color grading now I don't like too much contrast this one's contrasts because it just it just looks kind of fake I like like like like a light looking look so that's it and then saturation I prefer to just punch this up and just saturate the crap out of everything I don't care how unrealistic it looks I just wanted saturated the temperature you could play with that too you could get a blue or a warm effect I'm going for this warm kind of effect as opposed to natural-looking I'll leave it warm and the sharpness you could sharpen the image up or not I don't want it too sharp I don't want it too dull that's just a leave it the way it was now instead of me hitting this check at the bottom I'm gonna hit apply to all and apply this same color option to all you don't have to do that you can do it individually I just want to put out something really fast so I'm gonna hit apply to all apply right and so all the clips have it now last but not least we have music and we have some effects over here which is like Luntz I guess you can call these Luntz which is like applying a lot over it so look at that that look looks pretty cool these look actually pretty cool so you play around you find which a lot you like you don't have to apply a lot alright so I can effect a mask that goes over and last but not least last thing I'll add is music you choose the type of music you want you can also choose music from your phone if you have music on your phone you just hit local over here and you choose so I'm not gonna hit local I'm just gonna go back I'll select one of their funky songs no not funk let's go it pop so dude what's so good about this okay I like that let's just hit use and that's it I hit this upload button right here 1080p of course hit continue and I'm generating [Music] [Music] with that being said guys I'd like to thank my sponsors again autonomous drones services.com and madniks to calm for sponsoring this DJI my meeting for us to fly and test and make videos for you guys out there do do hit the thumbs up thumbs out whichever button works for you don't forget to hit subscribe and hit the bell icon so you can get notified when I release more magic meaning video speaking of magic mini videos let me know what video you want me to share with you guys next down in the comments section or as usual any questions I'll be happy to answer it for you with that being said I'll see you when I can I'm still giving away 6 DJI 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Id: jlIEu3NnUBY

Length: 22min 59sec (1379 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 17 2020