Recent content by traeger23

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    (Aerial) Before and After Photos of Snowfall in Albuquerque

    Here are two sets of images that I took from about 350 feet of Albuquerque, New Mexico this last weekend. We got the 9th-heaviest record snowfall overnight Friday to Saturday (about eight inches on the ground in the first photos), and a day later it was almost completely gone and 68 degrees...
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    NYT Magazine: What Our Paranoia About Drones Says About Us

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magaz ... ut-us.html
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    Best Video Setting; GoPro hero 3 Black

    Here's a really good comparison of how the Hero 3 Black captures at the various resolution and FOV settings. It will give you a good idea about what to expect from each. http://abekislevitz.com/understanding-your-new-gopro/ One generally good rule of thumb is to capture as big as you can...
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    Best Video Setting; GoPro hero 3 Black

    I'm primarily a videographer/filmmaker as well, and always shoot 2.7K at 24fps at Medium FOV (I shoot non-aerials at 1080p/24, so I have to integrate the frame rate). Shooting on Medium prevents the props and legs from appearing in the frame unless I'm pitched really far forward or fighting a...
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    Video Editing?

    I've used Premiere since its non-Pro days, switched to Final Cut Pro for a few years, and am now back fully into Premiere Pro CC. The biggest advantage for me from an aerial footage perspective is the ability to import footage straight from the GoPro without transcoding first. There's a minute...
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    what stand-alone receiver can i use

    I've had a great experience with the ImmersionRC Uno, feeding a separate Marshall field monitor. The Uno has two outputs (both VGA), and I power both the Rx and the monitor split from a single Canon LP-E6 battery plate on the back of the Marshall.
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    Best Video Stabilization Software

    If cost isn't a big issue, then the Warp Stabilizer VFX plug-in in Adobe Premiere and After Effects is really, really good. Just applying the plug-in generates good results most of the time, and you have several options for tweaking parameters to make it better. Plus, you have lots of other fun...
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    A different kind of Panorama

    It's in Photoshop, under the File... menu: File... Automate... Photomerge You can either manually open all of the tile images into Photoshop ahead of time, or point it at a folder with all of your images in it. Not sure about CS6, but Photoshop CC 2014 has the option of browsing for specific...
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    Go pro Hero 3+ black lacking sharpness and washed out

    I had focus issues with an early production run of the 3+ Black, which resulted in an uneven focus, especially in the bottom left of the frame, but it was a bit more pronounced than what your video is showing. GoPro replaced the camera free of charge under warranty, and the difference between...
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    GoPro cuts 4K video in two

    I've seen this happen on the Black 3+ shooting in 2.7K Cine, with clips that ran longer than 15 minutes or so. I never ran into any issues with dropped frames when sequencing the two files together in Premiere. It modifies the name of the second file so that it ends in the same last four digits...
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    Gopro Hero 3+ Setup Problems ???

    File size is less important of a factor than actual pixel dimensions and pixel density (pixels per inch) of the image. File size is based on compression, which is heavily influenced by the content of your image, and can vary pretty widely. In my experience, images printed at 200 pixels per inch...
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    Why is my footage getting crappier?

    Does the raw footage have the same choppiness? This looks like more of a compression/codec issue on the video, and less an issue with the gimbal or vibrations from the quad. Have you tried shooting footage with the GoPro on its own (preferably on a tripod if you have the tripod mount) to...
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    VFX Test with Quad Footage

    Thanks everybody! Everything was shot at 2.7K Cine on the GoPro and processed in After Effects. Background elements were stabilized using Warp Stabilizer VFX, fisheye removed using Optics Compensation (value of 56.2 or so, Reverse Lens Distortion checked), and sped up anywhere from 4x to 8x...
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    VFX Test with Quad Footage

    Thanks!
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    VFX Test with Quad Footage

    Hey all: Here's a little test I did using footage shot with the GoPro Hero 3+ Black on a Phantom 2. It's mostly just to see how well I can integrate foreground subjects shot against a greenscreen with aerial footage. There are several issues with both the background plates as well as the keys I...