Mavic Pro - How to Shoot Time Lapse with your Mavic Pro 

Being sort of lazy, I am just recording 4k and then do hyper-lapse in post, see here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tiuVmD_3sDA.html

Hello did you ever used Dji GsPro i think it is only availible for ipad but it works like waypoints but it is better because you can pre plan your flight so you donot have too fly the path a first time and also you can make your cablecam as long as you want because you can use multiple batteries because it returns to where it has stopped. By doing so you can also do an awsome day to night hyperlapse when you overlap 2 hyperlapses. Hope i could help you advance your projects.

I must be doing something wrong. Did the first example, but in not getting a hyperlapse

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BTW, which app do you use to speed up your movies?

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kamasutraninja cool give it a shot. Agreed, adding stabilization in post makes a big difference

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Hi Trini, thanks and welcome to the channel! Yep I sped up in post using either retiming or speed ramping in final cut pro x.

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Thanks for the thumbs up newie! I hear you. 9/10 times i shoot video and just speed up in post to get a time-lapse affect. I would rather not waste the short battery time just to get 1 time-lapse shot. I wonder if the dark ND filter might introduce too much blur/float for time-lapse photos. Have you tried this?

Hi Jack, good question. I have not specifically tested different speeds for timelapse, only found that slower is better. The reason i use Tripod mode for this purpose is 1-for the slow speed, but 2-because i can go full throttle in Tripod in any direction, and then just worry about the left stick. Any slight variation in speed(shaky fingers/hand/right stick) will mess up the timelapse. So if i just go full throttle (in Tripod mode), the result is much smoother in the end.

Thanks Peter for commenting. I tried this a couple more times after posting the video with the stabilization in post. Works like a charm!

Jeff Greene No problem :)

Yes indeed. Some days the mavic has a mind of its own and likes to think it is in fixed wing mode 😀

I am using the Polar Pro ND filters. There is a link in the description to the ones that i purchased. Happy Flying!

nope all of them are shot using video, except the one interval shot. I just speed up the video afterwards in the video editor. I get much better results with time-lapse using video instead of interval shots.

Hi Bezkresny, video always. I have found that there's just too much movement between photos.

Hi Ray, yes indeed. I spoke too prematurely in the video. I actually "stabilized" the video in FCPx(a couple days after posting the video) and it worked very nicely that way. I'm not competent in photoshop, but I imagine the process would be similar.

I just hit the subscribe button! I've been watching through several of your videos, you have good content. i like the pace and style of the videos. i just picked up a mavic air and i'm loving it so far.

Ray Petty awesome! Welcome to this growing channel. Let's learn this together to create better vids!

Ray Petty if you are using premier to edit them together, you can put a warp stabilizer over them, usually it gives some pretty awesome results

Ken Wade yep you are absolutely correct. I guess it just depends on the definition of timelapse. Speeding up a series if images, whether taken at 30fps, or 1/sec?

Hi Charles, i have been using FCP x for several years now and have been very happy with it. Seems to be quite a few creative plugins that people come up with to keep things evolving as well.

Dictionary Definition of time-lapse : of, relating to, or constituting a motion picture made so that when projected a slow action (such as the opening of a flower bud) appears to be speeded up.🤔 hmmm, you may be right.....or it may be that the definition of what is a "slow action" is debatable?

in a sense, movie is also timelapse... only 25 or 30fps :) The biggest drawback of flying a drone for 'real' timelapse, is that it moves in the air, while most timelapses are shot on a tripod. In a sense timelapse with drone, especially when moving, is called hyperlapse, where you get the same 'shakiness', so... if you want to remove that 'move' of the drone, look for techniques they use, like warp stabilisation. Biggest reason for using 'photo' timelapse, is that your resolution is going to be much higher, and, if shooting RAW, you have way more control over the endresult (and you can zoom in if you want).

But Jeff knows why you are best to use speed up video when using a DJI drone. Try taking interval shots with your DJI drone just sitting on a table. You will look at the pictures taken when stitched an be amazed at how awful the gimbal works with Interval pictures. They jump around just sitting on a table, so you have to learn a new techniques perfected by Rufus Blackwell where he takes 4k video and breaks up the video into 2 second intervals and frame blends each one of those 2 second intervals to represent a single frame. This will produce the Blur every good time lapse creator searches for. Until DJI creates a gimbal that produces solid aligned pictures as a baseline when just sitting on a table, you are pretty much out of luck creating a time lapse with their drones. I have a P4P and Inspire 2 with X5S and they do the have the same problem when taking Interval pictures just sitting on a table. Jeff produced some pretty good time lapses here with speed up video. When you get a Chance lookup Rufus Blackwell and you will be amazed with the Time Warp Lapses he creates. Warp stabilizer has its limits when you are working with a terrible baseline when just sitting on a table. Give it a try and test it just sitting there on a table. Good luck with your time lapse pursuits.

Bruce Christianson did he ever address how to make it time lapse? Do you have to do that in post? Or can it be done in cam

Best bet is to do the interval photo and then go to quicktime. Just make sure all images are jpeg or converts from DNG to jpeg. Once in quicktime go to File, Open Image Sequence, Select your 1st image and just play with the frame rate until you find something that's a relatively smooth video.

it's not software video, not about some sony vegas or premiere, so everything is good in video. Best time lapse goes from photos, not video, also all photos you should capture in raw.

I don’t understand how he sped up the footage. Can it be done in the DJI app?

@@rowanmoon7102 no mate. He is 'Speed ramping' in his post production software like Premier or Davinci Resolve.

Hi Rangel, I used Final Cut Pro X. What editor do you use?

tigerable may not be clear in the video, but i switched to the litchi app for the interpolate option. Do you have Litchi?

That's why! I see :) So Litchi is like a 3rd party app right? If one uses Litchi, could the DJI go 4 app still record flight data as usual? (in case of a disaster scenario, one may need to find plane)