DJI Osmo Nano Indoors: What's the BEST setting?

DJI Osmo Nano camera is great outdoors, but does low light footage have a noticeable stabilization shudder? I put the camera through the ultimate indoor test by comparing every major setting, including RockSteady vs Horizon Balancing, high vs standard bit rate, 1080p VS 4K, and frame rates from 25fps to 60fps to see if we can smooth out the footage. 

There's also a direct DJI Osmo Nano vs Pocket 3 low light comparison to show you what's possible. Full sample footage from these grueling kitchen tests and choose the best settings for your DJI Nano camera when shooting indoors.

DJI Osmo Nano Indoors: What's the BEST setting?



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I'm trying to share as much footage as possible from the DJI Osmo Nano camera uh just so you can see for yourself if this is something that might be right for your YouTube channel or maybe even Instagram or TikTok videos. I really wanted this camera because I do vlog on other channels where I wear a camera either while I'm traveling or or riding a bike. The the footage in this video is really dull though because I've noticed and you've told me in the comments that low light footage isn't as uh overwhelmingly good as you'd hoped it would be. Oh, by the way, it's raining. So, sorry about the pitter patter on my DJI Mic 2 that I've got attached here. But with the low light footage, and I noticed this when I was vlogging yesterday, uh when you go into say a store situation, this is me in IKEA, you notice there are shutters where the stabilization doesn't quite cope, doesn't quite catch up with the movements in lower light situations. But this is just indoors. It's brightly lit. The shudders were slightly irritating. Now, it's a bit unfair really because it is an action camera and every action camera I've ever had has done this kind of thing indoors and I've bought this camera with my own money. So, I I'm not being sponsored by DJI, I wish. And I' I've paid good money for this thing. So, I've got no skin in the game. But actually, I think the footage from indoors on the DJI Nano has been better than any action camera I've had. But, is there a way we can improve it? Can I somehow mitigate those shutters? I just don't want it to shudder. That's all. I just want it to be smooth footage. So, I tried some tests this morning in my kitchen. This is really, really super boring footage. But if you want to see how the DJI Osmo Nano looks indoors with the curtains closed, so it's not nighttime. It's a fairly ordinary indoor situation, but you'll see the shutters as I walk around the the kitchen counter. So, I've got to do a lens wipe. Now, I thought I'd present to you all of my tests. I was shooting them for 1 minute, and that was to measure the file sizes. That's on another video. You'll see that down in the description to see how much file storage the DJI Nano camera takes. But this is my crushingly dull walk around my kitchen indoors to see if I can improve the footage. So, I guess I ought to introduce each of these clips like Alfred Hitchcock. It's like a little uh movie festival, a little film festival of my kitchen on a Sunday morning. So, the first footage you will see in its entirety is shot at 1080p rock steady at 25 frames per second at the standard bit rate. And I'll explain that in a moment. See exactly how much uh gigabytes. Let's record for a minute at 1080 at the lower bit rate.

I did some lights jogging

off.

So this next clip is exactly the same. So it's 1080p rocksteady stabilization dewarp field of view. But for this one, I went into the menu and I chose the high bit rate just to see if that would improve how much data the camera records per second at that higher bit rate. Does that mean we get any better quality footage or does it make the shutter happen less? Remove the curtains. Let's adjust the hat clip. We're going to run around.

See how the stabilization copes. This is rock steady dewarp and this is the higher bit rate at 1080p.

We're going to step up now to 4K. So this is standard bit rate. 4K 25 frames per second rocksteady dewarp. And this is at the standard bit rate. So, this is at the lower bit rate. Give me a little jog around the kitchen.

Let's go into the dark room. And uh I'll turn the light on. 25 seconds.

Just going for a jog around the kitchen.

And just for the fun of it, this is 4K at the higher bit rate. And I'll let it run for a minute because then I will know how it, you know, how much storage it takes. Uh this with the light off. Turn the light on.

Am I getting any those hurry blurry jumping up and down?

I'm just going to walk around like I'm walking around an IKEA. Sometimes my house actually feels like an IKEA showroom. So, that was all shot at rock steady stabilization. The next sequence of videos, the next four videos, 4 minutes of utter delight, seat of your pants action. This is shot in horizon balancing stabilization. So, horizon balancing 1080p 25 frames per second at a standard bit rate. But Casper is wondering what's going on. Why am I getting a walk and not him? So, this is 1080 horizon balancing standard bit rates. Do another bit of jogging. I'm bouncing up and down, deliberately bouncing the camera, and I can see the monitor glitching. This would be the setting that I would hope would give me the most uh stable footage. So, this is the high bit rate at 1080p with horizon balancing. I'm going to jump up and down. I'm turning the camera. I'm swinging it so that the horizon is thrown. Uh, it's looking pretty solid on the monitor. Let's go into the dark room. Turn the light on. Give you the pan of a completely dark room. Turn on the light. Have a look around. Casper's biscuits. Hey, maybe I should give him one. I'll give him one on the next on the next test. Now it's 4K at standard bit rates. This is horizon balancing. I'll do some jogging with me in vision. I'm really shaking the camera. a rising balancing 4K standard bit rate. Let's clip you on and give you the tour of the kitchen one final time. I'll jog and dark room. Turn the light on. These are all the gadgets that we're not using in our kitchen. Back into the kitchen now. It's 4K at horizon balancing at 25 frames per second. And this is the I can't remember which bit rate this is. I'm lost. I think this is the higher bit rate. And then we'll go into the dark room, turn the light on, give you a pan, and I'll jog around the kitchen. I'm really shaking this. Make sure the lanyard's straight. I hope those four clips were useful. Then I thought, well, I can make four more clips. This will be at double the frame rate. So all of those clips that you've seen up until now have been shot at 25 frames per second. I'm now going to shoot at 50 frames per second. I use 25 and 50 because I'm in the UK and uh it's so that I help avoid flicker with the electrical lights. In our country, we're at 50 Hz. So that's why I use 25 frames per second. But for these clips, they're at double that, 50 frames per second. Enjoy. This is 1080p higher bit rate. I'm really shaking the camera up and down and jogging up and down. Let's put you on the the lanyard. I'm going to jog around the kitchen. So, this is higher bit rates. had to hope that this would look better than the last video, but it's at 50 frames per second. Uh, let's go into a dark room with no light on. And then I'll turn the light on. Now, I have the um I have the microphone on as well, just to see if that changes anything. Uh, this is a DJI Mic 2, and it means that I can't see my monitor, so I have no idea what this footage looks like. Really, really bouncing it around. 50 frames per second. Doing lots of swoops. Uh, this is standard bit rate. Rock steady. Do some jogging around the kitchen. Am I getting that shutter? I need to find a name for the shudder. It kind of goes a little bit blurry when uh when you bounce when you kind of overwhelm the stabilizations. That's uh with a light on. Okay. I hope I hope this these videos are helping. It does feel slightly ridiculous just walking around my kitchen, uh, bouncing a camera up and down. So, I'm really giving it a shake here. So, this is 4K at 50 frames per second and this is at the higher bit rate. And then I give you a side pan of our counter. It's a Sunday morning, so basically the aftermath of a Saturday night. Don't judge me. We're here to judge the footage, not me. There's a there's tiny bit of warmth on the camera. It's not going hot though. And then for completion, I know that you are not in the UK, so you are probably shooting at 30 frames per second or 60 frames per second. This video you're seeing now is being presented to you at 4K and 50 frames per second. But I'll just shoot it at 4K 60 frames per second so you can see what it's like. Let's put you on my chest and I'll go into the dark room. Turn the light on and just look around. And then we have a point of view shot doing some jogging and bouncing around. So this is the high bit rate 4K 60 frames per second. Now it's difficult, isn't it? Judging whether or not your action camera is behaving itself. Is it the best it could be? So let's compare it now with a completely different camera. This isn't an action camera. This is the DJI Pocket 3 camera. In the same situation, 25 frames per second. I think it's standard bit rate. This is what the minute would look like with DJI Pocket 3 camera. Light on.

I got the zoom on. Hang on. Let's tilt down.

So, this is what it looks like on the DJI Pocket 3. I'll jump up and down. I'm really uh waving it around with my hand now. So, what do you think? If you've reached this point of of the video, my goodness, you really want to know about this camera. So, thank you. I really appreciate it. And thanks for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. I hope something here is of use. I hope if you're, you know, you're looking at footage to see if this is for you. All action cameras aren't great indoors. For me, for the few that I've had, this has definitely been the best so far. But, uh, what do you think? Say hi in the comments below. And over here are even more footage samples and tips and tricks and other experiences I've had with the DJI Osmo Nano camera.

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