Recent content by herein2021

Handbrake HandBrake: Open Source Video Transcoder

I agree, DJI truly is a monopoly now in the drone market. I think the most telling sign was when even GoPro couldn't make a dent in their market share. No one comes close to DJI in the drone or gimbal market. DJI has some competition in the gimbal market; but let's face it, they are all just...

If you have never used LR before then if I were you, I would not start now unless you are going to be filming for commercial work. It comes with an endless subscription fee that is not worth it unless you can pass the cost off to your clients. If you do get LR, you just go to the Lens Correction...

I wouldn't call it a total waste of money; it paid for itself on the very first job I used it on and the customer couldn't care less what platform was used. IMO it will suffice for the same types of jobs I used to use the EVO for; but yes, if you are a purist or looking for true MFT DR and...

For cinematic shots, the Mavic Pro 3 is actually a little more difficult than the EVO II from what I've seen so far. It is a little "jumpier" with the default settings vs the EVO unless you switch to Cinema mode which is too slow to me. I don't believe in adjusting any of the EXPO or gain...

To be honest, the video quality in my opinion is no better than the EVO II 6K in 10bit. For a MFT sensor it is quite disappointing even for version 3 of the Mavic Pro. In my opinion, it should at least be equivalent to the Panasonic GH5 since that uses a MFT sensor as well or other MFT...

DJI did something I never thought they would do, and they removed geofencing from the US version of their drone software. Without hesitation I got the DJI Mavic Pro 3 and was immediately welcomed back to a modern 2025 approach to software interfaces, drone stability, and drone performance. My...

All wide-angle lenses have it, the Mavic 3 Pro may fix it in camera especially if you shoot JPG, but it is still there the instant the image is captured; it's just a limitation of wide-angle lenses. Also, if you are shooting RAW and post processing in LR, LR has a lens profile for the Mavic Pro...

Barrel distortion, it is present in all wide-angle lenses. To fix it you will just need the proper lens profile in your post processing editor. You can reduce it by trying to keep the camera as level as possible, but obviously with drones that is not always feasible.

Why no iPads? I have an iPad mini that is now over 10yrs old and has worked flawlessly for commercial jobs all over the world, I've flown everything from the DJI P3 to the Autel EVO II with it. The only thing I added was a non-glare film. It stays in airplane mode, I never update it or the...

Highly unlikely, it sounds like a battery failure to me. It could have been too cold, the battery may not have been properly charged or balanced, or the battery could have had a bad cell, or you continued to fly it it despite all of the warnings and continued until it failed. I don't see Autel...

I don't know much about mapping but typically these types of things are managed by mapping software, I doubt at those speeds you will get overlapping images which means you will not be able to get them properly stitched later. You need approximately 20% or more overlap to easily stich together...

You want to be able to take images with the camera aimed straight down while it is still moving? Or is the drone going to come to a complete stop for each image? If you want to film while still moving I would go with an Aperture of F2.8, ISO400 and whatever shutter speed you need for proper...

That is really odd, I'm still on 23H2, not even sure if I can view jpgs out of my EVO II since I never shoot JPG, but I might test it if I get the time the next time I use it. FastStone is what I use for sorting, I can cull from over a thousand images after an event to what I need in less than...

It sounds like maybe some file associates are messed up, it could be something as small as JPG vs jpg vs jpeg in the file metadata that is throwing off Windows 11. You could probably fix them via default apps, but if FastStone works fine I would just use that, its better than any native Win11...