Recent content by acall

The quadcopter itself appears to be totally fine. I always let it hover for a minute after I take off, and it seems perfectly stable, no unusual noises or anything. And yea, when it's not powered the gimbal doesn't stick at all. How would I know if a motor is about to go out? How long are they...

I wasn't at full throttle, but just to check I did some more tests at slower speeds and it still has the problem. But I could fly at full throttle before and I never had the issue. So you think the gimbal rubbers can go bad and cause this issue? I'll try replacing them. I just feel like it's...

I did some searching on here before posting this, and I think I may know what the problem is, but I wanted to post a short clip of a recent flight to get some opinions specific to my problem. Every time I've flown recently, the resulting video has a jittery and/or jello effect. The quadcopter...

Thanks for all the input. I actually saw someone else flying a Phantom just now and went and chatted with him and he said the same thing - that his flight times were about 2 minutes less then when he's down in LA.

I live in the LA area and when I'm in the city, at sea level, I have a newer battery which usually gives me about 9 minutes (I have the Phantom 1). I'm up at Big Bear Lake this weekend, which is around 6500 feet elevation, and that same battery is only giving me about 7 minutes before it starts...

I shoot in 2.7k Protune and I love the results. It's sharp, it give's me more room to do post stabilization if needed, and of course it gives you the flat color profile that is excellent for doing your own color grade. I posted it in the Video section recently but I have a new video I put...

Thanks for the comment. I had been using FCP7, being one of those who refused to upgrade to FCPX. But I kept having problems finding any type of plugins for stabilizing footage and also removing the fisheye effect from the GoPro footage. So I finally reluctantly upgraded to FCPX before putting...

I have a 2013 MacBook Pro Retina and have no problems playing and editing 2.7k Protune files. I always shoot in that mode and am happy with the results.

I hope it doesn't look like a mistake. Does anyone else think that? Most of the shots were either very early morning or at sunset, except for the shots of both stadiums, which were late morning-ish. But no, there was barely anyone in the vicinity and no one approached me at all.

They're light leaks that I added. I sort of used them to cover transitions.

I shot this footage a couple months ago while I was in Pittsburgh, just now getting it edited and posted. Hope you all enjoy it and I'd love any feedback. https://vimeo.com/95304220

Yea I would be for putting together some sort of organization for professional aerial photographers / filmmakers. It's just frustrating coming on this website literally every day now and seeing another negative news story, if not 2 or 3 per day. I'm beginning to think what the FAA should do is...

It seems like every day I come on here, there's some more negative news about "drones" and I just get more depressed, so it was incredibly exciting to see this very positive news story coming from Pittsburgh, my hometown no less! We need more of these types of stories.

After hearing about Yosemite, I started looking at the homepages of other NPs (particularly in CA where I live) and noticed that Point Reyes has a notice about drones but that Sequoia and Kings Canyon says nothing about them. So I wonder if they haven't been banned there yet? Zion NP in Utah has...

I'm extremely conflicted on this issue. On the one hand, I love flying my Phantom and want to keep getting amazing aerial footage. I have a camping trip planned for this summer thru Sequoia, Kings Canyon, and Yosemite national parks and have been anxiously waiting to get footage in all the...