So many videos of the week, and none are mine...
I would like to thank this contest for giving me the impetus to kick my sorry donkey out of bed early the past few weeks and try to get some footage before I plop my buns in front of a computer for 11 straight hours. We'll see what the compilation looks like in 3 weeks when I smoosh it all together, but I fear not living in the tropics, near the mountains, or next to a volcano may betray me. Alas.
That said, still, thanks, and many kudos to the Patrice and Co for providing an outlet that is much larger than a single forum, and being open to feedback and suggestions from the writhing masses.
That's a popular myth but not true.
The CAA is concerned with aviation safety and commercial flying.
They couldn't care less if you want to share the photos and video you've made on Facebook or Youtube.
You say that, and maybe that is true, but in the US, they go to pretty good lengths to classify exactly who a commercial pilot is, and it amounts to "any pilot that produces footage from an aerial platform that results in a commercial benefit" where "benefit" is then described as either profit or in-kind, be it monetary sale, advertisement, or trade, that benefits any commercial entity, be it the pilot or other. Basicaly, if any entity in the commercial sector benefits from the footage, the pilot, as a result, was operating in a commercial capacity.
Those aren't actual quotes from the laws, I am lazy right now, but that is the end result. Now, the CAA may be different, but here in the US, it's loopholes like that that lead to stealing your first born, or having an NSA agent camp out in your basement. ER MER GERD WER DERD MER RERGHTS GER!!!??!
If you re-read the thread it clearly states that on this occasion the rules have been changed. Also I use up scaling firmware like wonder share filmora which upscaled my P3A videos into 4K so it can be done
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Don't upscale, c'mon... 4K isn't a game of numbers to win, it is a resolution and sharpness thing. Don't play that game. Up-scaling is... ack. The resolution change can actually result in lower-quality footage. Figure, you up-scale from 1080p to 4k using bi-cubic sampling to fill in the lines, then, on display on a lower-resolution screen, you have to perform that same sampling again to display back at 2.7k or 1080p. You have two steps of loss. ALSO, YouTube will be forced to re-encode the footage for smaller display formats, which means that the large number of your viewers will never see the 4k footage.
Displays will have their own re-sampling built in to display 1080p footage at 4k, let the display take care of it, that way, other viewers will actually get the chance to see the non-scaled footage at the resolution it should be played at.
If you actually think an upscaler makes any difference, I ask you this: If it is magic on 2.7 or 1080p footage, why can't we just use one of 480 footage and call it good? You can't make resolution where there wasn't any, the only trick an upscaler may employ is selective sharpening, and inter-frame sampling to fudge the extra lines, but even so, just leave it at it's native resolution, you will get a better encode and at it's actual resolutions it will be sharper. It may be a smidge sharper at 4k than if it were up-scaled on the fly, but it's not worth it...
