I was in Monument Valley earlier this month. I flew this from highway 163, about 4mi due north of the Indian reservation visitors center.
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I was disappointed in the jerkiness too. It took some investigation, but I figured it out. For some reason my Resolve editor rendered at 24FPS when my M2Z source file was 29.97fps. Usually Resolve always asks me, and volunteers to match the source file FPS and resolution. But even though I told it to match my source file, it didn't for some reason. That's the first time that's happened, so maybe it was "pilot error". After I discovered the cause, I made a few more changes to my edits and made a new video that's much smoother. I also added dissolve transitions that you suggested. Sometimes I used dissolves, other times I don't, just depends on my mood. This version of the video you should like more, as the quality is way better, simply because it used matched source resolution and FPS for the render.Nice, John. Better than most here. Still, some transitions were jerky and fades and dissolves would be better between clips.
Yes, this place is an awesome target, absolutely a bucket list flight area. I waited 3yrs before I could manage to visit with my drone. My first visit was 8yrs ago, before I bought my first DJI drone. If you visit, plan to stay 2 or 3 days, because you may experience bad weather (rain, clouds, wind is common). I had one cloudy day, and it's just not the same as a sunny day with puffy clouds. On those bad days it's a good time to orient yourself with the area and make your flight plans, find your launch areas. Even though I combed this area for hours with Google satellite view, leading up to my trip there, I now know more things I want to do after visiting 3wks ago. Yes, I will be returning later this fall if Covid19 doesn't stop me.Very nice video. Good piloting skills.
This place is on my bucket list.
Looks like a good place to go for a few months on campout! I love videos like this great job!I was in Monument Valley earlier this month. I flew this from highway 163, about 4mi due north of the Indian reservation visitors center.
It's not a national park, however when you enter the indian reserve visitor area in AZ they do have a NO DRONE ZONE sign clearly posted. So you cannot launch and retrieve from inside the visitor park, which is worth a half day to drive through the 17mi drive around the monuments in the back of the park. It's good to capture video from the car. As mentioned, I flew from hwy 163 from a turnout in Utah. The hard part of this flight is to stay within the FAA guidelines, always staying within 400' of land, horizontally or vertically. But it's doable if you don't forget through all the adrenaline. The monuments I flew were 1000 to 1100' above launch point, not too bad. It's truly a fun flight and I look forward to returning someday.A fascinating video of this beautiful landscape. Almost ideal for drone flying.
Isn't it a national park? Any issues about flying there?
I really like to be there once but it's almost on the other side of the globe.
What was your distance and altitude there?
Excellence again! One of the best videos.
Well done - some really beautiful video. I watched both version in awe. Thank you for sharing. I would be tempted to run some of the sequences at 2x or 3x original frame rate. I would also suggest that a few of the sequences would be improved by reversing the footage in post so that in stead of flying slowly towards and through a rock formation the viewer is surprised as you appear to fly backwards through the formation as it is revealed. Again, beautiful and many thanks.I was disappointed in the jerkiness too. It took some investigation, but I figured it out. For some reason my Resolve editor rendered at 24FPS when my M2Z source file was 29.97fps. Usually Resolve always asks me, and volunteers to match the source file FPS and resolution. But even though I told it to match my source file, it didn't for some reason. That's the first time that's happened, so maybe it was "pilot error". After I discovered the cause, I made a few more changes to my edits and made a new video that's much smoother. I also added dissolve transitions that you suggested. Sometimes I used dissolves, other times I don't, just depends on my mood. This version of the video you should like more, as the quality is way better, simply because it used matched source resolution and FPS for the render.