![]() The more your ISO is high, the more light sensitive your sensor will be when shooting your video. The ISO setting is the « sensitivity to light » setting of your sensor. Now, knowing the aperture number can be important when choosing the right ND filter, and you that you want to refer to charts. The aperture is fixed, and thus is not a setting we can modify. With the DJI Phantom 3 and DJI Phantom 4, the camera has a fixed aperture of f/2.8, so you cannot change this. ![]() The more light comes in, the more « bright » your image will be. Now, if you want to do slow motion, you can use 60p or 120p with the Phantom 4.įirst of all, the aperture of the lens is one of the factor that will determine how much light is hitting the sensor. ![]() This is the film standard, this is the more natural motion that is close to our human eyes. That is what is needed to shoot landscapes.įrames per second : to obtain a true cinematic look and feel, you want to shoot in 24 frames per second. It will give a crisp images, with many details. The 2,7K resolution with the Phantom 3 advanced is not really good, and you will loose more details and image quality that anything else.ĭJI Phantom 4 : choose one of the 4K resolution. To go right to the point :ĭJI Phantom 3 standard & DJI Phantom 3 advanced : you want to shoot in 1080p. The first setting you want to choose is your image resolution. If your footage is somehow messed up, due to bad camera settings, then the changes you will make in post could enhance a little bit the final image, but you will loose a lot in term of quality.Ĭinematic shot from the official “Demi Lovato – Cool for the Summer” music video. If your video is « the best it can be » right out of the camera, then the change you will make in postproduction will enhance the quality of the video. That’s why you need to keep in mind the importance of having your footage « shot right », that means with the correct exposure, the correct white balance, and in the correct format. On 8 bits compressed footage, the more you will modify in postproduction, to an extent, the more quality you will loose in your image. This is due do the low compression bitrate (40 mbps to 60 mbps), and the 8 bit codec. That means that you cannot do many changes in postproduction to the image, without altering the image quality. But the videos you are going to take with your DJI phantom 3 or phantom 4 are compressed (with the h.264 codec), and your phantom will deliver a 8 bits compressed video. We will see in another article that you can modify your footage in postproduction, to improve it, and we will see how to do it. One of the first thing to understand is that it is really important to take the cleanest and best image possible, right out of the camera. Understanding the basic settings of the camera is essential to produce quality footage So the first step to produce great looking cinematic images with your drone is to understand the basics principles of how the camera works, and to apply these simple basic principles when you take the shots. The camera inside your DJI Phantom works like any other camera, and uses the sames photography rules that every camera use. There are some basic rules and principles to apply to get the best cinematic look to your drone videos. ![]() Shot with a Phantom 3 professionnal First part : Camera settings – the basics Cinematic shot from the official « Demi Lovato – Cool for the Summer » music video. In this serie, we will not go into « how to use your DJI Phantom », but we will only talk about « how to make great videos », and how to get real cinematic look with your DJI Phantom footage. This is the first post of a serie of tutorials to help you make great quality videos and cinematic imagery with your DJI Phantom 3 or DJI Phantom 4.
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