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    North Carolina bans aerial mapping without a surveying license

    enough for what? If I have a driver's license that doesn't mean I can drive an 18-wheeler legally, on the roads, with all the other traffic. I need a CDL as well you're acting this is some onerous overreach regulation that a NC Court said was a legal restriction. It's not. Survey is a...
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    North Carolina bans aerial mapping without a surveying license

    can't drive a car without a license either...or insurance
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    More Confused Than Ever..Help

    no...it's separate, stand-alone, personal property policy. I could have added other items to the policy, like a camera or binoculars. The premium is based upon total value insured. $60/year was the minimum premium that covers up to $5000. Above that, the premium escalates as the total value of...
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    More Confused Than Ever..Help

    I have a State Farm personal property policy on two drones: a Mavic 3 and a Mini 3 pro both are insured for new replacement value of the drone and battery. $2420 for the Mavic 3 Pro + battery since DJI does not sell the Mavic 3 anymore. and $700 for the Mini 3, but I added a provision that if...
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    Mini 4 Pro w/Flymore, Case, extra props, fast chgr, strap, other small accessories, 1 1/2 yrs DJI care refresh, RC-N2 (not with screen) controller

    sorry my fault for a poorly constructed sentence what I meant to say was that I understood your critique of the RC1, because I had the opportunity to compare a Tripltek and the RC1, and found the RC1 was lacking
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    Mini 4 Pro w/Flymore, Case, extra props, fast chgr, strap, other small accessories, 1 1/2 yrs DJI care refresh, RC-N2 (not with screen) controller

    I understand, but the comparison wasn't with a Samsung I have a Tripltek that I use for the Mavic3 and Mini 3 Pro. I had an opportunity to compare the Tripltek screen size and brigtness on a sunny day right next to the RC with it's 5.5inch screen. There was no comparison. The Tripltek was very...
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    3 Oregon Solitude

    ok then that surprises me a little. But when I think about it, not a lot. And yes the Succor Creek/Leslie Gulch area is pretty amazing. We camped once at Succor Creek, but it was a hot spell and with all the rim rock it was an oven there. We did sit in the creek to cool off. A couple of times...
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    3 The Awesome Desert SW

    so...did you take all 5 of your drones?
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    3 Oregon Solitude

    I am a native Oregonian....born and raised. Lived here for 65 of my 72 years. And my wife and I camp in SE Oregon at least once a year. So I was trying to calculate where this was shot no trees at all, not even Juniper. No large sagebrush, just ground-hugging vegetation tells me this was shot...
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    More Confused Than Ever..Help

    I took out an accidental loss policy for my Mavic 3 and Mini 3 Pro with State Farm. Replacement value of a Mavic 3 Pro + battery of $2200. And replacement value of Mini 3 + battery of $700. the policy cost $60/year and would still cost the same if the replacement values, combined, were under...
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    More Confused Than Ever..Help

    I read the thread title "more confused than ever"....and was thinking that was me after the latest conversation with my wife
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    Generally, What is Your Average bit rate?

    no doubt. I just make the videos viewable on my 4K TV
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    Generally, What is Your Average bit rate?

    I'm curious about your completed projects after post I had been ending up with 4K at around 75,000-80,000 kbps. But when I use the same process to render video to around 30,000 kbps I can't tell the difference in video quality but the files sure are a lot smaller
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    Normal vs D-Log

    another episode of D-Log + LUTs + my ignorance + my bumbling around I decided to have a 'normal' control video of a flight path similar to a D-Log flight...so I could compare normal to my efforts. Flights were about 3 minutes that I whittled down to about 2 minutes using AVIDemux. Easy Peasy...
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    Normal vs D-Log

    ok....so I decided to play around with D-Log. Some of my options are limited because I don't want to pay for some of the expensive editors like Adobe or Resolve Studio. I especially don't want an annual charge one thing I do to almost all my videos after editing is speed up the clip by X2 or...