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Jim noticed the more-or-less constant jitters in the Phantom II footage that I posted the other day. It's annoying, and iMovie's anti-shake processing does nothing to remove it. Can anyone recommend other, better post-processing filters for stabilizing video?
Here's another shortcoming of the system: the image below is a still shot of my rooftop solar panels. What could be causing the periodic distortion? Is this what they mean by 'jello'? The camera has a 140-degree field of view, and there's a setting I haven't tried yet to capture stills in three- or five-frame bursts (but not bracketed). Maybe this is why,...Show more →
The term "jello" refers to a slight undulating movement that shows up in videos, not stills. It's the bane of many multi-rotor (MR) flyers, and has recently been resolved with the advent of the brushless gimbal. These are controlled by a separate circuit board/controller to keep the camera steady and level.
Not familiar with the term "periodic distortion." Could you mean "lens distortion" that's prevalent in wide-angle lenses? If so, there's a feature in Photoshop (CS6, anyway) called the Adaptive Wide Angle filter that does a pretty good job at straightening the lines near the edge of the frame. It has a preset for the GoPro cameras, not sure about the new Phantom II camera.
If you've not done so already, suggest you spend some time on the following MR forums:
http://www.rcgroups.com/multirotor-talk-659/ and http://www.rcgroups.com/aerial-photography-128/