so ive been flying for about 8 months now and i feel like my piloting is pretty solid but whenever i go back and watch my footage it just looks... off. like its not terrible but it doesnt have that smooth buttery look i see other people getting. im using a mini 3 pro and i fly in normal mode mostly, sometimes sport if im doing something fast.

i think part of it might be how im moving the sticks but honestly not sure. do people use expo settings or something? also does the editing matter a lot for this or is it mostly a flying thing. asking because i spent like 3 hours trying to stabilize a clip in premiere last week and it still looked rough

the stick movement is probably the biggest thing honestly. a lot of people dont realize how much even tiny jerky inputs show up on camera, especially with a small drone like the mini 3 where theres not a ton of mass to smooth things out. what helped me a ton was slowing way down in normal mode and just practicing really deliberate slow movements, like pretend the sticks are made of glass or something. expo settings help too but thats more of a fine tuning thing once your muscle memory is better.

also if youre not already shooting in 4k 60fps and then editing in a 24fps timeline that alone will make a massive difference. you get that natural slow motion effect and it hides a lot of the micro jitter. the 1/3 shutter rule still applies though so make sure your ND filters are on point or itll look weird.

warp stabilizer in premiere is kind of a trap imo, it fixes some stuff but then it crops your footage and sometimes makes that weird jelly effect that looks worse than the original shake. i had the same problem and ended up just practicing slower flights and it fixed like 80% of my issues. also lowering sensitivity in the DJI app helped me