- Hey guys, what is goin' on?
In this video we're talking about
how you can get more cinematic footage
out of your Mavic Air super quickly.
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- So all this footage that you're gonna see
in the video today is from my trip down in Mexico.
I took my Mavic Air.
I flew almost every day in Mexico.
In the cities, up in the mountains,
and it was an awesome experience.
Alright, before we get into the edit
and I show you how to tweak your footage
to make it look really awesome really fast,
I wanna go through a couple things in shooting.
So one of the things that I always do to make sure
I have the best footage possible,
is that I always use ND filters
and I use it with a polarizer.
So PolarPro makes some awesome ND filters.
Their cinema series is awesome
and it makes your footage really pop.
So their polarizer gives you the ability
to get a better look out of your image,
and the ND filter allows you to bring that
shutter speed down,
so that's double or your frame rate
which is like the standard for the cinematic look
when it comes to shutter speed.
Okay so I use an ND filter, and with the ND filters,
PolarPro has made a free app that's super easy to use
and it basically allows you to put in your settings
and it tells you which ND filter you need to use
so that you're able to get the best footage possible
when you're out flying.
Also I make sure to shoot in the flattest setting possible,
so it's D cinelike on the DJI Mavic Air,
so you want to shoot in the flattest profile possible
because we're gonna be color grading the footage in post.
Okay, another tip while flying is that
you wanna keep the drone as stable and smooth as possible.
So you wanna avoid all jerky motions.
Basically you wanna create nice dramatic smooth movements,
whether that's forward, backwards, left, right, up, down.
You wanna feather in and out of your shots,
and you don't want anything too jerky.
If you wanna see another video where I go through
some of my favorite movements with a drone,
I'll put a link in the description below.
Also I have a few other videos as well around this topic
that give you some ideas on how to fly
to get better cinematic results.
Alright, so let's get into editing
and let me show you how you can take this awesome footage
that you went out and shot and make it look more cinematic.
The first thing you're gonna notice when you bring
the footage into your software
is that the footage looks okay.
It's pretty flat, It doesn't have that cinematic
punch to it that you normally see
when you see awesome drone footage.
So there's two ways we can go about this.
The first is just color grading on our own
using some of the tools that you find in Final Cut.
The first thing you're gonna do
is you're gonna bump up the contrast in your image ,
and I use curves to do this.
You wanna create a nice S shaped curve with your Luma curve.
And so what you're doing
is you're bringing down your blacks,
and you're bringing up your whites.
And you're gonna dial this in
to what looks best for your drone shot,
depending on where you want
your whites and your blacks to sit,
but you want more contrast,
because the cinematic look is more contrasty.
And from here we're just gonna go in
and play with the saturation,
give it a little bit more of a pop,
and out of this you already have
a much better looking image out of your footage.
The second way I wanna show you is using a LUT.
So using a LUT is a specific look
that is already predefined,
and you can just drop this on your footage
and it gives you that cinematic look.
I've provided a LUT in my description down below.
This is a LUT that I made myself,
and what it is is the orange teal look.
The orange teal look is a very specific cinematic look.
So what it is is you're adding color contrast
into the scene, not only contrast in your Luma curve.
So what that does is it gives it a better cinematic look
and something that is more appealing to the eye.
Alright so you drop this LUT in
and then if you wanna dial it back
you can just bring it back a tad.
I've basically built this LUT
for Mavic Air D cinelike footage,
and then from there it's just dialing
in the saturation to your taste.
If you wanna bring it back, bring it back.
Alright and then one more thing you can do in post
is to change your aspect ratio.
You can add the black bars on the top and bottom
to give it that ultra widescreen look.
That's how you make your Mavic Air footage
look cinematic really fast.
Alright guys I hope this tutorial was helpful
in giving you some ideas ob what you can do
with your footage to make it more cinematic
and do it really fast in Final Cut.
Final Cut is an awesome tool, they give you a lot of color
grading options, and there's some really cool stuff
you can do with some different plug-ins
or just in the software itself.
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Also I do a lot of adventures, a lot of travel.
Like I said I was out in Mexico for ten days,
climbing the highest peak in Mexico,
which is actually the third highest peak in North America.
So if you wanna see the video from that climb,
you wanna see how I used my Mavic Air footage
within the context of a travel film
go check it out In the description below.
I'll put a link down there.
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