not sure if im doing something wrong but when i shoot stills with mine the jpegs come out looking kind of lifeless compared to even a random frame grabbed from my 4k video. shooting in auto most of the time for photos, maybe thats it. the video just has more punch somehow even before i do anything to it. tried shooting raw once but the files were massive and i didnt really know what to do with them in lightroom so i gave up on that pretty quick

yeah jpegs straight from the drone are pretty aggressively sharpened and compressed, they can look weirdly artificial. the video mode on a lot of these things actually has a nicer processing pipeline for some reason. if you shot in d-log or a flat profile for video and then compared that to the jpeg it would probably look worse, but if you're comparing normal video mode to auto jpegs then yeah i can see why the jpegs seem flat, theres just less dynamic range being preserved

raw is worth the hassle honestly, lightroom has decent presets for drone raw files and once you get a workflow going its not that bad. but also some drones just have mediocre still sensors compared to their video quality so it might not even be a settings thing