The DJI Osmo Pocket came on its first major outing during my 11 day trip to Japan, and I recorded approximately 100GB of 4K 60fps video – 112 videos in all – using it. The Pocket performed perfectly. Well, almost, as half of the videos suffered from very low audio volumes as I’d accidentally set microphone recording levels to low. So, completely user error on that one. I’ll have to extract the audio file from each video clip now, amplify them, then re-code the MP4 file. That’s a crazy amount of work, but thankfully, the source video footage itself is still pristine.
That aside, one feature I was really interested to try out on the Pocket is the time lapse. The Pocket supports it natively, including stitching the shot photo frames seamlessly into a video file. Even better, you can set a starting and ending view point, and the gimbal will cleverely swivel the video head between both points to add a video panning perspective to the recorded timelapse too. The recorded time lapse video file will be in FHD – i.e. 1080p. So if you were to do this the normal way, i.e. capture individual frames using a standard camera set on an intervalometer, you can get much better video resolutions, though you won’t get motion.
I did three timelapses on the Pocket – not nearly as many as I’d like. The first was taken at Ohori Park and too short for showing at just four seconds length. The next two were taken during the sunset shoot up on Fukuoka Tower. I couldn’t get easily round the presence of light reflections at the observation deck, and I should have kept the device recording for even longer than the 20 minute window I used. Still, the resulting quick and dirty videos are quite nifty. The videos were overlaid with music from Freemusicarchive using HD Movie Maker.
The first below is facing the west and also suburbs in the Imazu:
The second below faces the Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk hotel and highway beside it:
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