so ive been flying for about 8 months now and i feel like my technical flying is getting pretty decent but my videos still just look... amateur i guess? like i watch stuff on youtube from other people with the same mini 3 pro and their footage is buttery smooth and mine looks like im having a seizure or something lol

i shoot in normal mode mostly, tried cine mode a few times but it feels too slow when im trying to get a specific angle before the light changes. i do have a ND filter set, the 64 and 128 mostly, and i think my shutter speed is roughly 2x my framerate most of the time. so i dont think its a motion blur issue exactly

is it stick technique? do i need to expo settings adjusted? or is this something that gets fixed in post? i use premiere pro and honestly i dont really do much stabilization in there because i thought the gimbal was handling that. any advice appreciated, been feeling a bit stuck lately

honestly the biggest thing that helped me was slowing way down. like slower than you think you need to go. most beginners (no offense) push the sticks too fast and even with a gimbal that translates into jittery motion especially on pans. try cutting your stick sensitivity down in the app and just cruise around at like 60-70% of what feels natural to you

also check if you have electronic image stabilization turned on, on the mini 3 i think they call it horizon stabilization or something. that adds a slight crop but makes a huge difference. and in premiere if you havent tried warp stabilizer on clips that still feel off, give it a shot with the smoothness around 20-30%, going higher makes it look weird and floaty

the cine mode thing is worth revisiting too, i know it feels slow but you can always speed footage up slightly in post and it looks way more intentional than trying to do a slow pan manually in normal mode

same boat as you a few months ago and what got me was realizing i was starting and stopping movements too abruptly. like theres no easing in or out, you gotta kinda feather the sticks at the beginning and end of a move. takes practice but once you get it the difference is night and day. also are you shooting log? not sure if mini 3 pro has it but if you have any flat profile option use it, gives you way more to work with in color grade and that alone makes stuff look more cinematic even if the movement isnt perfect