in today's video I'm gonna be showing you the camera settings that I use for
my drone videos particularly for the medic to zoom and as a bonus I'll show
you some cinematic footage of that shot today so stay tuned what's up everyone
its Dennis here back with another video so before I dive into the camera
settings I just want to quickly cover some of the settings that I use and I
will turn on the histogram as this will help you check your exposure of your
imagery footage I turn on the grid or the rule thirds as that will help you
frame up your shots if you have the option for you see if you're flying a
maverick drone allows autofocus to be always on so that you don't need to keep
manually pressing the shutter to you know focus the subject now also if you
have the option to turn on those zebra lines you know turn it on just to see
how the image or the footage looks may you know I don't really use it that much
I'll use the histogram more but sometimes I do like to turn on the zubur
lines just to see what our overexposed or underexposed now I'm gonna assume
that you're familiar with camera exposures
if you don't I'll tour that in a separate video so let's dive into the
camera settings most of the time I shoot in manual mode you know sometimes at
this shoot in auto mode there's nothing wrong with that one if you're not
familiar with the manual settings you can start off with the auto however if
you really want to get into the cinematic footage you definitely need to
shoot in manual mode for my settings are almost always shoot in 4k 30 frames per
second sometimes I shoot in 4k 24 frames per second you know when I shoot in
manual I normally change or adjust the shutter speed to double the frame rate
so to give you an example if I'm shooting in 4k 30 frames per second my
shutter speed will need to be double that or at 60 the ISO or light
sensitivity is always set at 100 just remember the higher the ISO the more
noisier or the more grain they'll show up in your footage most DJI drones have
a fixed aperture unless you're using the effect for pro or the map YouTube Pro
that's why an ND filter always helps as it allows
to lower down shutter speed depending on the time of day when you're shooting you
may may not need the ND filter however for example if you're shooting midday
where the Sun is bright then an ND filter will help eliminate those bright
lights coming to your sensor to allow you to lower your shutter speed talk
more about the ND filters in a separate video but in the meantime let's move on
now depending on the time of day you're shooting I always set the white balance
accordingly if I'm flying midday with the bright Sun then my white balance
would be sunny if it's cloudy and I said it cloudy you know hopefully you get the
idea that's for the color styles and color profile actually don't mind just
the stock standard settings that DJI has however if I do want to color grade my
drone videos I always set a custom setting minus one zero plus one that's
minus one or sharpness zero contrast and +1 on saturation I also change the
profile to decent I like to give it a little bit more flatter image now if you
suggest that you test out settings that works well for you again these are the
settings that works for me if you want to see the different attributes and how
that impacts your footage play around with it I'll drop the link down below
just to give you a quick comparison of how each attributes works finally as for
the codec I always shoot in h.264 unfortunate if I use h.265 just puts too
much stress in my video and workflow particularly in my computer much not
high in spec so I always shoot in h.264 we're finished shooting just dump
everything into an editing program like the Adobe Premiere Pro kind of footage
accordingly add an adjustment layer put the crop effect in you know crop top in
the bottom just to give that widescreen black Barsad another adjustment layer
and choose either an existing preset or a lock or lookup table this will allow
you to you know calibrate your work depending on how it looks like I do some
minor adjustments here and there put some music in and away we go that's a
simple and easy cinematic drone footage like this one
so yeah look I hope you learned a little bit more about the camera settings that
I use again these are the sense that I use in my drone videos most importantly
you really need to play around with some of the settings here thinker a little
bit experiment and find out which one works well for you again if you have any
questions feel free to comment down below and have a happy to answer them so
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