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  1. SmilingOgre

    Need a better video editor

    Great suggestion. Very useful little keyboard with a jog wheel as well. You also get a license for Davinci Resolve Studio with the unit. Excellent deal.
  2. SmilingOgre

    Need a better video editor

    I have Davinci Resolve and Premier Pro and for the past few years I've used Davinci Resolve exclusively. I can produce the best images on DR. Both platforms have steep learning curves but that is to be expected. Platforms that do a lot demand a lot of learning.
  3. SmilingOgre

    HLG DEFINITIVE EDITING GUIDE?

    You are most welcome! It's my pleasure to have helped.
  4. SmilingOgre

    No CCCPDA language in the 2025 NDAA!!!

    You're diligence and persistence is greatly appreciated. It's a difficult task staying on top of the goober's activities and impossible to predict what one might do.
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    No CCCPDA language in the 2025 NDAA!!!

    Well, we at least have a temporary reprieve. Pardon or not my cynicism, there's a plethora of possible ultimate outcomes still lurking in the minds of the goobers. I can example a few; They realize they were idiots and the threat fades into the darkness of gooberment, The security assessment...
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    Now's a good time to buy a drone, I guess

    Absolutely absurd. There's nothing in any of my videos that the Chinese couldn't get from google earth. We are again or still the laughing stock of the planet per the actions of our politicians. They fostered the problem to begin with and now they are going to make it worse with their "cure"...
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    Now's a good time to buy a drone, I guess

    Yup, we’ve taken the next step to become the next China, bab, ban, ban!
  8. SmilingOgre

    Is It Worthwhile To Buy A Drone Right Now?

    Our gooberment has once again lost it's mind, or maybe better said still can't harness a rational thought. I for one am doing nothing until this all shakes out. No new drone, no part 107, no placing bets on the outcome. There is no other drone manufacturer that can touch the video quality of...
  9. SmilingOgre

    involved and uninvolved people ?

    Not up on the laws in the Great UK, but here in the US I would simply not fly over the barge and get shots from a bit of a distance. This would pretty much mitigate crashing into the barge and incurring possible civil damage entanglement. In regard to privacy there would be no detailed images...
  10. SmilingOgre

    In which order are the best Mavic cameras?

    The primary camera offered on the Mavic 3 series is a micro 4/3 sensor. This is a much larger sensor than on the Mini2. The larger photo sights on the MFT sensor will provide an overall better quality and better low light performance. The Mavic 3 series also offers 10 bit color vs 8 bit on...
  11. SmilingOgre

    Filming - tests using frame-rate x shutter speed rule.

    I often reference this incidence, Steven Spielberg filmed saving Private Ryan at a shutter angle of 90° or 4x shutter speed to make combat scenes more startling i.e. reduced blur. Some people liked the effect while others found it unnatural. All in the eye of the beholder. The movie made a...
  12. SmilingOgre

    Filming - tests using frame-rate x shutter speed rule.

    Your test is accurate. If you pan a camera at a fast rate you will get nothing but a blur and if it's a rolling shutter it will also cause jello. Same as having something pass in front of you at high speed. Also same as turning your head rapidly. The 2X rule is to duplicate those natural...
  13. SmilingOgre

    Normal vs D-Log

    I'm with ya. Marketing has little in terms of boundary's regarding terms used to extract money form people. Having said that, there's a ton of equipment out there with the absence of mentioned tools that are making people a ton of money. In that sense these devices are quite professional. I...
  14. SmilingOgre

    DJI getting banned?

    Just another day and more gooberment insanity. Of all the things they need to worry about regarding China this isn't it. But that's what they do. Fix things that aren't broken. Oh well, the goobers go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah.
  15. SmilingOgre

    Geomagnetic Storm Watch

    If it's powerful enough you might get a free cancer radiation treatment via heavy ions. Opposite of cosmic rays with nutrinos that can blast through DNA and cause cancer. As per the drone, I have no idea. Never flown in strong solar flairs before. I have prostrate cancer. I'll be out there...
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