{"id":7472,"date":"2019-01-02T12:38:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T12:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/?p=7472"},"modified":"2019-01-02T12:40:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T12:40:14","slug":"dji-osmo-pocket-a-slow-motion-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/dji-osmo-pocket-a-slow-motion-test\/","title":{"rendered":"DJI Osmo Pocket: A Slow Motion Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"River View Walk - DJI Osmo Pocket Slow Motion Test\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iB5uANtG7gk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over Christmas I treated myself to a new camera &#8211; the newly released DJI Osmo Pocket. This thing is a wondrously small gimbal mounted camera, that I thought might be really interesting to carry with me on bike rides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This absolutely isn&#8217;t a proper review, since I&#8217;ve not had the device long enough. Instead, it&#8217;s a few early thoughts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The thing is tiny. I knew this as everyone said it was tiny, but it really is. Even the box that it comes in is tiny! But it&#8217;s size means that you can put it in just about any pocket. Certainly it&#8217;d be safe in a cycle jersey pocket. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, phones are great, and more and more of them have optically or digitally stabilised cameras, but you can&#8217;t beat mechanical stabilisation with a bit of leeway for shakes. And there&#8217;s no real problem taking both this and your phone out with you. Indeed, you can use the two together to get a proper screen Note: This can be important if you want to get your focusing right. Focusing is perhaps the thing you need to most worry about with the camera. A couple of the shots above are definitely a little &#8220;soft.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To really use this phone properly you will need either a USB-C enabled phone like a Google Pixel device, or an Apple iPhone. If your phone uses micro-USB you lose a lot functionality. I suspect that limitation is because different manufacturers have the micro-USB port oriented differently. USB-C and Lightning connectors are reversible, and the adaptor to the device only works if you have the screen facing you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The device is 4K and can shoot at 60 frames a second, meaning that you can slow it down a bit if needed. But it also has a good slow motion mode, shooting at 120 frames a second in regular 1080 HD. The video above is shot using that 1080 mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Usually I edit all my videos in Adobe Premiere Pro CC, but for this I thought I&#8217;d try a more portable solution at least to start with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I shot that video without a phone attached &#8211; people barely could see there was a camera there. Then I edited it roughly using Adobe Premiere Rush, Adobe&#8217;s new lightweight video editing application. It&#8217;s iOS and desktop only at the moment, so I used it on an iPad rather than my Pixel 2 phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did a rough-ish edit on the iPad, but also did some colour grading there too. Then using the Adobe Cloud, I opened the project on a laptop to fine-tune those edits. I&#8217;m not sure that Rush is quite there yet for really precise editing &#8211; certainly not on a touchscreen interface. Shortening clips can be tricky. On the other hand &#8211; you can certainly get something out the door very fast with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Incidentally, I seemed to need to open my project it in Rush on a PC before I could open it in Premiere Pro CC on my PC. Theoretically, I shouldn&#8217;t have had to do that, but the project failed to open (although a previous project did!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ended up finishing up the video in Premiere Pro CC, where I tightened edits some more, added some music, and added a couple of fades (Rush has limited transitions available). Finally, there was a little bit of camera tracking to be done in After Effects to get that text on the wall at the start. Not necessary, but the wall lent itself to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While you <em>can&nbsp;<\/em>edit a 4K video on a phone using something like Rush, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s all that practical. Mostly that&#8217;s because of the sizes of video involved. Your phone or tablet will need plenty of free space to work with, and even transferring the files between camera and device is a slow process. If your phone has 128GB or more, then go for it. For short videos anyway. But even a 15 minute video might be difficult to find space for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, I might write a fuller review of the Osmo Pocket once I&#8217;ve used it for a while. But in general terms, I like it a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over Christmas I treated myself to a new camera &#8211; the newly released DJI Osmo Pocket. This thing is a wondrously small gimbal mounted camera, that I thought might be really interesting to carry with me on bike rides. This absolutely isn&#8217;t a proper review, since I&#8217;ve not had the device long enough. 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