how we doing Brett Garamella, the drone pilot pro here.
and today i'm going to compare the mavic air 2
and the mavic 2 pro at 60 frames per second
i'm also going to give you a lot of great tips to use at 60 frames per
second so let's get right into it alright so
both of these drones shoot 60 frames per second the mavic air
2 does it in 4k whereas the mavic 2 pro does it a
2.7 k but let's first start out by talking
about whether you need 60 frames per second or not for most
people in most shooting situations with a drone you're
not going to need 60 frames per second i usually shoot at
24 frames per second if you want to slow it down ever so
slightly you could shoot at 30 frames per second
but i like the 24 frames per second look with both of these drones so both of
these drones have a three axis gimbal so your footage is gonna be nice and
smooth and cinematic and because you're so far away
from your subject you don't really need to slow it down
because the footage is already appearing very slow because you're so
far away now there's different situations where
you need to shoot 60 frames per second and we're gonna talk about that so when
do you need 60 frames per second now the first reason
is if you're shooting sports or cars or doing a car chase and trying to speed up
or slow down the footage anything that's moving really fast and
you're close to that action you want to use 60 frames per second
because then you can slow it down in post-production
or you can speed it up if you want if you want to make a cool transition
from one scene to another where things are moving really fast and you want to
slow them down and then all of a sudden you want to speed it up
you can shoot at 60 frames per second this leads me to my second situation
where something's really close to you so it doesn't have to necessarily be sports
or car chase but if anything is moving or you're
shooting anything really close for instance if you're
shooting inside or shooting a building and you're going by
it or moving past it 60 frames per second can slow
things down whereas if you move at normal speed it
might be too fast for the viewer and they really
can't take in the scene the way you want them to be so
anytime you're shooting really close to something you might
consider using 60 frames per second all right the next
situation is if you're shooting waterfalls or water moving really fast
okay because it's hard for the person to take in all
that fast moving water it looks fine but when you
slow it down it just has a more cinematic and
pleasing look to the person now it has to fit the music or what
you're talking about now i realize for certain videos this won't work
or certain films you're making it won't work but from my experience and the way
i shoot i really do like slowing down water
especially if i'm close to it especially with a waterfall
because it's moving so fast it's nice to shoot 60 frames per second now that
water is just moving slow you don't need the 60 frames per second but in a lot of
situations rivers waterfalls things like this use
60 frames per second and the fourth situation
for using 60 frames per second is doing some creative
edits and speeding up and slowing down your footage
i know i talked about this earlier with sports and car chases but you can use
this in nature and all different sorts of
scenes you can add this in to make your footage more interesting
more intriguing it's also great for transitions or
intros to videos so doing these creative edits
make sure you shoot at 60 frames per second that way you can edit
you can speed it up or slow it down or all do all sorts of things
in post production if you only shoot at 24 or 30 frames per second
and then try to speed it up or slow it down in post-production
the footage won't look smooth you're not going to have enough frames
to really slow it down or speed it up the way you want so make sure you shoot
at least 60 frames per second that way you have more leniency in
post-production when doing these creative edits all
right so now let's talk about the settings i used
i shot at 60 frames per second obviously with both of these drones
the mavic air 2 does it at 4k whereas the mavic 2 pro
does it at 2.7 k however i still think the mavic
2 pro looks a little better than the mavic air 2 and i'll explain in a second
but i just upscaled the footage the 2.7k footage
in premiere pro when editing and it looks great scaled up to 4k
side by side i still think the mavic 2 pro
looks better but you can be the judge in the video that i'm about to show you
now the other settings i used i use the iso 100
obviously keep that down so we don't have any noise or grain in our image
i also use an auto white balance and kept my f-stop number
my aperture to f 2.8 with the mavic air 2 because we can't change that it's a
fixed aperture whereas the mavic 2 pro you can change
the aperture now this is best i found between
f4 to f5.6 so i used about an f4 for the majority of this footage and
i had to use an nd filter in order to get the proper
exposure while using the proper shutter speed so
i used 60 frames per second which means i had
to double my shutter speed which my shutter speed
was 120th of a second that way the footage looked nice and
smooth and cinematic and i recommend you use an nd filter if
you're shooting during the day during sunset or sunrise you may not
need that nd filter because you have the higher shutter
speed shooting at 60 frames per second but i'll let you be the judge depends
when you shoot so the last settings i used i both shot in normal mode
but i also shot in descending like with the mavic air 2 and then i color graded
it as well with the mavic 2 pro i shot in d
log which is kind of like the decenny-like they're kind of comparable
a little more muted desaturated tones you get a little more
dynamic range and you can edit that in post so i
edited that and posted a little color grading to try to make them close
together as you can see in the comparison coming up
now i use a 24 frame per second timeline in premiere pro
you can use that with whatever editing software you use
now the reason i did that is because it looks nice and cinematic
but i had to slow down that footage so i'm going to show you how i slowed down
that footage in premiere pro now keep in mind this
will work for whatever editing software you use
and the whole point of slowing it down in post-production
is to make it nice and silky and smooth and slow
okay so if you really want to slow it down this is how you do it so let me
show you now all right so the first thing we're going
to do is you're going to click on both of our clips so they're
highlighted then you're going to right click
and choose speed and duration then you're going to go to time
interpolation and make sure it says optical flow
the reason you want optical flow is because you don't want any jittery
or jumpy footage optical flow is going to help smooth it out
after you slow it down and then we're going to go up top to where it says
speed and since we have a 60 frame per second
clip in a 24 frame per second timeline what we need to do is slow the
speed down to 40 percent then we're gonna press ok
and as you can see the clips both got longer because we slowed them down
and the footage is now going to be silky and smooth
and of course it's going to be a lot slower now as well and that's how we
slow down our 60 frame per second slow motion video in our 24 frame per
second timeline i did this in premiere pro but it will
work in other editing softwares the same way
just slow it down to 40 and make sure you choose
optical flow alright so now we got all our settings
so that's how i shot with these drones so
we're gonna look at this first footage now this first footage
i shot from really far away i probably could have used 24 frames per second or
30 frames so this footage sort of emphasizes my
point that you don't need 60 frames per second
when far away and you're gonna see it in the footage
coming up however the thing to look in this first comparison
is the video quality and i think the mavic 2 pro just look
better because it has the bigger sensor and
there's too much sharpening on the mavic air too
especially you'll notice in the water the ripples of the water
i see some aliasing and moire you can be the judge but for me it looked
a little too sharpened whereas the mavic 2 pro just looked a lot more natural
even with the trees the mavic 2 pro looked more natural and i could also
sharpen it a little more i didn't but you could sharpen that in
post-production if you want whereas the mavic air too you can't add
any sharpening in post-production and so let's get into the footage so we
can see them side by side
all right so now that we saw that footage really far away let's get closer
to that water and actually change locations i went to a river where the
water was moving a lot faster and i shot a lot closer got right down
there and then i also shot from above so you'll see the difference when
i got really close to that water and shot at 60 frames per second and
slow it down in post as you're gonna see all this footage is slowed down
it's gonna look great because it's gonna look nice and cinematic and smooth and
shooting something like a dam or a waterfall
that water is moving so fast so the 60 frames per second slowed down it's still
gonna move fast but a lot slower than it would and it
looks nice cinematic and pleasing for the viewer whereas i've
shot that at 24 frames per second it'd be hard to take in all the
different things the water moving the rocks the trees the bushes different
things it's hard to take that in when you're really close to it so let's
go look at that footage right now
all right i hope you enjoyed this video and found some of these tips helpful
which did you think was better leave it in the comment below the mavic air 2
or the mavic 2 pro for shooting at 60 frames per second
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