What an incredible collection of pictures! I am trying to up my game. I have done a lot of aerial videos and single pics on other platforms. But the P3P sure seams the platform for the large pano and or night time pics.
I am trying to figure out what to do for new editing software both for stills and video. Currently I use Sony Movie Studio 12 for video and Gimp2 for pics.
I see the Adobe stand alone programs and then the CC that require monthly fees. All a bit confusing on what does what, and what I need to get. My initial reaction is that I would rather buy something than make a monthly payment. But if the payment method is the way to go, I would do that. I just don't think I want a $50 a month payment if I don't get good use out of the "everything" plan.
What is a good starting point? Where can I go to get some unbiased info to decide my direction? What do you guys use for some of the awesomeness above?
Well this is a hard question to answer. The adobe software will be a large learning curve. If you are happy with your video editing then you can do the subscription for photographers and that is $10/ month. That gives you Lightroom and Photoshop. Lightroom is pretty easy to learn and is basically a cataloging system with some pretty advanced non-destructive editing capabilities. Photoshop is very powerful and has a huge learning curve. Probably for what you are doing now Lightroom will do quite well for you. You can buy a stand alone version of Lightroom although Adobe does not make it easy to find it, you need to change it at the last minute of the checkout.
Lightroom will give you pano ability, although there is better software out there. It will give you full editing capability, and cataloging capability. Lots of tutorials available. Lightroom is non-destructive, in other words all the editing you do is not modifying the actual image until you export a copy of it. So you can easily go back and change edits, often after something sits for day I can find things I want to change. This is a simplistic explanation.
The all access subscription is probably overkill unless this is going to be your primary income source. Lightroom will easily process the raw files from the P3 and also do the lens correction.
Gimp works fine and can do a lot of what photoshop can do.
Answering what software to get is always a difficult thing to answer, it is like a stranger asking "what car should I get?" There are lots of answers and opinions, this is just mine.
I use standalone Lightroom 6, Photoshop CS6 and Premiere Pro CS6, Ptgui and now more and more Resolve. But then I also use other software for my other cameras, like Capture One, etc. I have been doing this for a very long time. (photography that is) Since the old film days.
For video an interesting alternative is Davinci Resolve, I have not used it a lot, but the free version is quite nice and lots of features and interesting color grading capabilities.
Sometimes the best advice is use what you have until it no longer gives you what you need then move up, sometimes you can go back a couple of steps if you change your "world" with large learning curves. Or change things slowly if you can. Whatever works best for you.
Anyone can always pm if you want more opinions of it still on topic on the forums.
Alan