If you are seeing moire, it can be avoided by turning the sharpness down a bit. Most think the default settings are too sharp anyway. Try turning it down one increment at a time.
I'm just helping identify the correct terminology. Yes, you will need to be at 1080 to achieve 120 FPS for true slomo.
I am not familiar with iMovie at all and it very well may not have a Render function. I'm referring to Premiere Pro and FCP with the necessary function of rendering a sequence during final review or to check performance prior to exporting.
I agree with most of these recommendations, especially the 500GB SSD for installing the OS and any applications used. Then import the SD card contents to the SSD video editing program and edit. However, I recommend a 6 or 10TB HDD from Seagate for video archive storage. Keep the current active video files on the SSD as a duplicate for a while, 4 to 6month, then purge as needed to keep the SSD with available space and leave the old video files on the HDD, in case you need them. But to do that the 10TB (or 6TB) drive, you will need to format and initialize the HDD using GPT, so a new computer setup with SSD and HDD would be ideal. IMHO that's a more cost effective way to store video, especially if you shoot 4K. But you may want to pay for a backup service that includes video files.
At 20GB per flight on the P4P, a 500GB SSD without any OS or program files would be completely filled in just 25 flights. If you fly more than one flight a day, and only fly every other day, that SSD will be full within a matter of weeks rather than 4 to 6 months. The purging will need to be much more frequent, but keeping the active files on the fastest SSD program drive certainly makes sense for editing and rendering. I currently use five 5TB external Seagate USB 3.0 drives to store my media, as CostCo sells them for $119 each, and they chain together, and stack easily, obviating the need for an additional hub. Still need a power strip for all the bulky AC adapters, though.
Very true, I was using myself as an example on behalf of the 54% of us who don't shoot 4K. If one prefers 4K then yes, you'll purge more often, or need a larger SSD. I'm still wishing I had an SSD in my home desktop, Hah!. I'm actually waiting for the new Intel 3D Crosspoint Opane FLASH technology SSDs to be released, which I plan to install in a new 7th Gen i-Core PC. Opane is supposed to be 1000 X faster! than today's NAND FLASH. And the wear duration is 1000 greater too. I'm still thinking this propaganda from Intel is too good to be true. They call it "disrupting technology", and if what they say is true, it will be. This is approximately the speed of DRAM. I'm getting an update from Intel here at my company later this month.At 20GB per flight on the P4P, a 500GB SSD without any OS or program files would be completely filled in just 25 flights. If you fly more than one flight a day, and only fly every other day, that SSD will be full within a matter of weeks rather than 4 to 6 months. The purging will need to be much more frequent, but keeping the active files on the fastest SSD program drive certainly makes sense for editing and rendering. I currently use five 5TB external Seagate USB 3.0 drives to store my media, as CostCo sells them for $119 each, and they chain together, and stack easily, obviating the need for an additional hub. Still need a power strip for all the bulky AC adapters, though.
Indeed. Although 54% of the 91 people who voted after reading this thread are hardly a representative cross-section of the PhantomPilots membership of 77,000, nor the over 500,000 Phantom owners world wide. However, I'm sure the actual numbers, were they known, would definitely be higher than the sample percentage of 54%, as shooting in 4K does require more effort and hardware and sophisticated software than 1080p, which can be edited directly on YouTube. The 4K shooters are probably equivalent to the percentage of camera buyers that shoot in RAW v. jpg. The Intel 3D Crosspoint Opane FLASH technology SSD sounds promising and expensive!
