I’d like to ask everyone to please watch my video of Hownsgill Viaduct, and comment below on the video. That’d be much appreciated! I absolutely love the way of editing, it’s my first time of being creative like this.
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Hi Brad. Just had a watch. First thing that jumped out at me was the video playing within the video (making up a part of the arch), then the fly through into that video. I did something similar (video playing within text then flew through it into that video) to create a channel intro. I did it in capcut and it took hours of instruction videos and time to tweak and perfect it before I started using it.
Big up to you on that front bud, it ain’t easy and takes an understanding of keyframes and layers to achieve that. Impressive stuff.
Great shots of the viaduct - my very early understanding of drone flying is that I want to create dynamic angled cinematic shots - but as you know this will take skill and multiple movements on the controller to achieve. I liked the music also (EDM fan). 
Hey Brad, great video! Interesting location, some really nice shots, and some nice editing there! The tracked power-window shot through the arch is impressively smooth and cleanly keyed.
If I may, I’d like to offer some constructive criticism, and it’s all on the fundamentals. Your editing can only ever be as good as the raw footage you have to work with, and in this case that raw footage is a little… varied. Not in terms of the shots themselves, or the subject matter, but in terms of the technical detail.
Firstly, it looks like you are using auto exposure, and the footage suffers for it. Your frame rate is jumping around, which causes motion in some parts of the video to become jerky (because the recording framerate is no longer an even factor of the delivery framerate). You can see this easily in the shot where you’re running parallel to the viaduct, for example - look at the fence posts on top of the bridge.
This auto-exposure is also causing parts of the video to become over exposed because the exposure can’t keep up - for example the top-down shot where you pan up and then back down. The AE struggles to keep up, leaving the video over-exposed with blown highlights.
It also looks oversaturated at times (the grass in the shot “through” the arch, for example, after we fly through), I’m not sure if this is the auto-exposure messing with the saturation or perhaps you’ve pushed the saturation in the grade - but either way, it’s something that personally I’d want to change.
If I were making recommendations, I’d say (to begin with):
- Get some ND filters, and use them to let you…
- … lock the shutter speed to 1/(double your recording rate)
In the fullness of time, I’d spend some time figuring out the manual shot modes your drone offers and seeing what you can control vs what you’re stuck with.
Anyway, that’s all just my 2¢, and I’m kind of nit-picking - overall I think it’s a solid video as I say 
It’s always helpful to let people know which drone you’re using.
Thank you so much! Every comment has been helping to boost my confidence in flying the drone/ editing the footage with a different technique which allows me to send out a finalised video to the people to watch. it took me about an hour to do this transition because I’m getting used to the software, and I’m very well chuffed about it!
Thank you for your advice, I’ll definitely bear that in my mind, and continue learning because you’ll never stop learning as you go along. I’ve used ND filter in the past, for my Mini 2 which unfortunately it has been crashed. So I’ve got this Neo 2 and Flip, and I’ll definitely get the ND filters for it.
I’ve been using Auto mode since flying the drone for first time, but I’ll try Pro mode next time, and yeah I’ve noticed some issues whilst editing the video out but unfortunately it’s do with the drone control, but I’ll improve next time.
Yeah, I’ve been using D-Log for the videos and I’m not sure which one is the best as it can be oversaturated or very bright or too dark etc.
I’ve been using Neo 2 and Flip for this video.