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    Drone Flight Log Book for UK

    I assume you are a commercial pilot? DroneLogbook is one of the best out there, although you will need the Enterprise plan to get custom reporting. It's developed in Switzerland so complies with EASA and the UK CAA (as well as other countries / jurisdictions). We've used it for years now to...
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    First Look: Air 3 70mm-lens spherical panoramas

    Thank you! The Mavic 3 Pro (or the Air 3) doesn't create a finished panorama from the 70mm camera so the images need to be stitched in external software. The stitching doesn't take long at all but the overall workflow takes about 20 to 30 minutes per sphere for the 70mm images. My workflow is...
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    First Look: Air 3 70mm-lens spherical panoramas

    The sensor / lens is exactly the same but the Air 3 gimbal pitches higher than the Mavic 3 Pro so gets most of the sky. It's not a foolish thing at all, with the correct software (such as PTGui Pro) you can stitch them in using a grid rather than control points, same as the Mini 3 Pro. I...
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    First Look: Air 3 70mm-lens spherical panoramas

    These are all taken with the 70mm camera on the Mavic 3 Pro, stitched in PTGui. The panos are all 1.37 Gigapixels. https://www.360shetland.co.uk/lerwick-gigapixel/
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    ProRes Noise

    Hi Tom, a M2 MBP will be perfect for any editing. ProRes is far easier to decode than H.264 or H.265 and it is fully optimised for MacOS / FCPX, by default FCPX will render media on the timeline in ProRes, and you have the option to transcode the clips on import to ProRes in a flavour of your...
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    ProRes Noise

    ProRes is a proprietary Apple codec originally designed for editing in FCPX. It has several flavours based on colour information and compression: 4444XQ, 4444, 422HQ, 422, 422LT and 422 proxy (the numbers relate to the colour information and the letters are an indication of compression). If you...
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    DJI RC Pro no longer supports HDMI Out

    Thanks, but unfortunately it's out of warranty. I'll still contact them and see if they will fix it. I have an RC-N1 and a RC I can use while it's getting fixed.
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    DJI RC Pro no longer supports HDMI Out

    Not tried that yet, still on set
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    DJI RC Pro no longer supports HDMI Out

    I’m having the same issue, no HDMI out although it was working fine before (certainly prior to the last firmware update). We were on set today and I couldn’t get a display to our Atomos monitor / recorder. I have tried two cables but nothing. In the display settings there is an HDMI section but...
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    DJI RC Pro no longer supports HDMI Out

    Deleted, see post below
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    Which Mavic 3 model to go from Mavic 2 Pro and smart controller?

    FYI ProRes is a CODEC (COmpress DECompress) designed by Apple whereas d-log is a logarithmic colourspace which is very flat and designed for grading (many camera manufacturers have their own log implementation, it's not a standard). You can record d-log in H.264, H.265, etc., however these are...
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    New Mavic 3 Firmware Released (05/31/2022)

    Yesterday I got 12 satellites from cold in 30 seconds, much the same as all other DJI drones
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    New Mavic 3 Firmware Released (05/31/2022)

    Finally a use for the tele lens! Loving this update, just playing around with the RC Pro settings. It's great that you can set ProRes to standard 422 or even 422LT - HQ was a bit overkill for general stuff. Standard lens Tele lens (three photo pano stitched in Lightroom GPS lock with 14...
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    New Mavic 3 firmware is out

    I have the Cine version, bought early December so one of the first batches. I’ve never had a problem with GNSS lock, possibly a bit slower than the M2P but nothing to worry about. Took it for a test flight today after the update and it acquired GNSS lock in less than 30 seconds, much the same as...
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    M3- for Pro use it flies like a pig.

    I am a “pro”, we operate several drones including a Mini 2, two M2Ps, two Inspire 2s, 2 P4RTKs and a Matrice 210V2. We purchased a Mavic 3 Cine in early December, just in time for the first firmware update. The second firmware update brought features we really need such as panorama mode. All in...