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Last summer I did a bunch of video pans (with the pan knob) of a high-dollar property for a client. Everything turned out wonderfully. I did not do anything special with neutral density filters or adjusting shutter speed. I simply set it to 4K mode and off I went. Today I went out to the park to do some practice shoots for another high and property that I have to shoot tomorrow. Everytime I used the pan knob on my typhoon H controller st16, the video when I looked at it in either powerdirector or Lightroom had a really bad Jello wiggly affect from left to right. There were mutiple wiggles in the video, not just one big one. Whether I went slow with the pan or fast with the pan, it was present.
If I used the cruise control to slide along parallel to buildings I did not have this affect, whether I went slow or fast. It was only when the actual gimbal camera was rotating. Does anyone have any idea why this all the sudden is happening, when I never had this issue previously with many many videos?
I do have the three pack of Polar Pro ND filters. I have just not used them yet and really don't want to play, "how does this work" on my shoot tomorrow. But everything I've read says I need to slow my shutter speed down, even though I did not have this issue at all last year and it was the same time of day with a similar light level just using it on auto. If people think that's the way to go, I'll pop on one of the ND filters and get the shutter speed as close to 1/60th a second as I can, since that seems to be the rule of thumb, going twice the frame rate.
Any other input would be greatly appreciated. It should be a pretty non-rushed shoot tomorrow. So if I need to do a few flights to get it right, that's not a problem, I have four batteries. I also plan on doing a bunch of parallel slides using the cruise control feature (which I find amazingly beneficial) of the property to try to get all of the views in addition to some panning shots. So hopefully if the pans don't turn out I can substitute those. The client doesn't have extreme expectations, so I may be able to get by, but I would like to get this problem squared away.
If I used the cruise control to slide along parallel to buildings I did not have this affect, whether I went slow or fast. It was only when the actual gimbal camera was rotating. Does anyone have any idea why this all the sudden is happening, when I never had this issue previously with many many videos?
I do have the three pack of Polar Pro ND filters. I have just not used them yet and really don't want to play, "how does this work" on my shoot tomorrow. But everything I've read says I need to slow my shutter speed down, even though I did not have this issue at all last year and it was the same time of day with a similar light level just using it on auto. If people think that's the way to go, I'll pop on one of the ND filters and get the shutter speed as close to 1/60th a second as I can, since that seems to be the rule of thumb, going twice the frame rate.
Any other input would be greatly appreciated. It should be a pretty non-rushed shoot tomorrow. So if I need to do a few flights to get it right, that's not a problem, I have four batteries. I also plan on doing a bunch of parallel slides using the cruise control feature (which I find amazingly beneficial) of the property to try to get all of the views in addition to some panning shots. So hopefully if the pans don't turn out I can substitute those. The client doesn't have extreme expectations, so I may be able to get by, but I would like to get this problem squared away.