Quadcopter/Drone Thread

To be honest, the run around I got from them. But hey they said they have it and I'm going to not wait any longer than I have
 
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And it has to be raining stuffed up in false bay. But glad to have it finally
 
skinndeep said:
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And it has to be raining stuffed up in false bay. But glad to have it finally
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Nice.

Now. If you don't mind sending your address and when you will be away. Also. Just leave your house keys under the welcome mat. ;) :D
 
creeper said:
Nice.

Now. If you don't mind sending your address and when you will be away. Also. Just leave your house keys under the welcome mat. ;) :D
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Hahaha this thing is amazing! Flew it a few times inside now. Tomorrow I will record the park run!
 
Grats Skinndeep, awesome toy and you could probably sell it for double the price.

P.s What hardware you guys editing drone footage with? I also realise that the answer depends and many variables, my i5 with a decreet 2GB GFX and 6GB ram don't cut the mustard. Rendering takes forever and scrubbing while previewing edits is literally delayed by 5-7 seconds, impossible. That's in 2.7k at 100mb/s bitrate.
 
xeslaro said:
Grats Skinndeep, awesome toy and you could probably sell it for double the price.

P.s What hardware you guys editing drone footage with? I also realise that the answer depends and many variables, my i5 with a decreet 2GB GFX and 6GB ram don't cut the mustard. Rendering takes forever and scrubbing while previewing edits is literally delayed by 5-7 seconds, impossible. That's in 2.7k at 100mb/s bitrate.
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I have a dell i7 laptop with a 870m in it. Gonna start with 1080p footage for now. Build up from there. The people that watch these things watch in 480 max
 
skinndeep said:
I have a dell i7 laptop with a 870m in it. Gonna start with 1080p footage for now. Build up from there. The people that watch these things watch in 480 max
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I understand for rendering purposes there's a distinction. Noob thought here, will it matter what raw resolution you editing, because the bitrate remains the same despite capturing in the various resolutions?
 
xeslaro said:
I understand for rendering purposes there's a distinction. Noob thought here, will it matter what raw resolution you editing, because the bitrate remains the same despite capturing in the various resolutions?
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I'm in the same boat
 
xeslaro said:
Grats Skinndeep, awesome toy and you could probably sell it for double the price.

P.s What hardware you guys editing drone footage with? I also realise that the answer depends and many variables, my i5 with a decreet 2GB GFX and 6GB ram don't cut the mustard. Rendering takes forever and scrubbing while previewing edits is literally delayed by 5-7 seconds, impossible. That's in 2.7k at 100mb/s bitrate.
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It can get very technical, but it's not the bitrate that makes scrubbing and rendering take ages - but the long-GOP compression used. 100Mb/s is only around 9MB/s.

Convert your footage to an intermediate codec before editing, and it will make your editing much easier.

Avid DNxHR codecs are a great intermediate codec to edit with, and the de facto standard in the video production industry;

http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/download/Avid-QuickTime-Codecs-LE
 
genetic said:
It can get very technical, but it's not the bitrate that makes scrubbing and rendering take ages - but the long-GOP compression used. 100Mb/s is only around 9MB/s.

Convert your footage to an intermediate codec before editing, and it will make your editing much easier.

Avid DNxHR codecs are a great intermediate codec to edit with, and the de facto standard in the video production industry;

http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/download/Avid-QuickTime-Codecs-LE
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In DaVinci Resolve I changed the settings to 'optimized media' using that codec and at 1/4 resolution, it does make a huge difference, yes. In spite of this, my lappy still lags. Definitely upgrade time to i7 6700HQ + Nvidia 960m + 16GB ram + SSD :D
 
genetic said:
It can get very technical, but it's not the bitrate that makes scrubbing and rendering take ages - but the long-GOP compression used. 100Mb/s is only around 9MB/s.

Convert your footage to an intermediate codec before editing, and it will make your editing much easier.

Avid DNxHR codecs are a great intermediate codec to edit with, and the de facto standard in the video production industry;

http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/download/Avid-QuickTime-Codecs-LE
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Thanks for the tip. Also finding unlicensed music is a must if videos are to be put up on youtube
 
xeslaro said:
Grats Skinndeep, awesome toy and you could probably sell it for double the price.

P.s What hardware you guys editing drone footage with? I also realise that the answer depends and many variables, my i5 with a decreet 2GB GFX and 6GB ram don't cut the mustard. Rendering takes forever and scrubbing while previewing edits is literally delayed by 5-7 seconds, impossible. That's in 2.7k at 100mb/s bitrate.
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Using a Lenovo Thinkpad t540p. I7 6700HQ or something like that. 8gb ram, 250gb Sammy ssd and has 730m gou. Rendering is damn fast on it. Think ssd and GPUs cuda cores help a lot. Only problem is laptops display is horrible! Always connect up to external monitor and edit from there. Also have a MacBook but premiere is slow on it. FCPX is fast but premiere is just better.

I render 4k 30fps with 30mbps bitrate. Renders fine and smooth.

You using premiere? If so just check that you acceleration is enabled.
 
HApyM3al said:
Using a Lenovo Thinkpad t540p. I7 6700HQ or something like that. 8gb ram, 250gb Sammy ssd and has 730m gou. Rendering is damn fast on it. Think ssd and GPUs cuda cores help a lot. Only problem is laptops display is horrible! Always connect up to external monitor and edit from there. Also have a MacBook but premiere is slow on it. FCPX is fast but premiere is just better.

I render 4k 30fps with 30mbps bitrate. Renders fine and smooth.

You using premiere? If so just check that you acceleration is enabled.
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I am using davinci resolve.

But - I decided it was upgrade time anyway and ordered a new laptop. Asus Zenbook i7 UHD 4K+ with 16GB ram, 512GB SSD and nvidia GTX 960m 4GB card - that machine should sort out my problem and then some :D
 
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