Great to hear you’re up again. Always look forward to your films/stills. As I said in my post the two pics were so dark and grey I just had to lift the detail and colour (to the detriment of the sky but hey ho). I am now the proud owner of a MA2 FMCombo so can’t wait to wiz around at 40mph! Will have a go at getting the new CAA A2 Certificate of Competency which is available here and am aiming to get that done before breaking out the Mavic. I’m not supposed to have the new bird until our Wedding Anniversary next month and I am doing well in resisting the temptation!Nice ones twickers, great color! ? Just had Sparky up in sport mode myself, can still make me grin as well!
Congrats twickers!! ? ? That's awesome news, very happy for you! If your wife is anything like mine she'll be watching you like a hawk! ?
Hi Robin and thanks for coming back to me. This is very helpful and I do have a big old external drive already. However I have the original footage too (in addition to the finished films) and I won’t want to keep that. If I get rid of that will the finished films be unaffected? I sort of thought that if the original footage goes so do the finished films as these draw upon the original footage-or are the finished films stand alones? I do hope that makes sense!
One you've outputted your final .mov or mp4 file, there is no link to the source files... that would be true for all editors .... if you used, for example, Final Cut Pro X like I do... if you re-open an old project and you've already deleted the original files which came from the drone, then yes, the project will not work... but normally, you would output the final product before deleting those source files.. so that's basically the very end of the process. Think of it like baking a cake... you mix the ingredients, then bake, then the ingredients are essentially gone, and you have your cake, and eat it too! lol
). The more you fly the more it builds up... so I made that decision a while back. I have over 400 flights so far. I also delete all the project files as they are a huge space eater.It absolutely does and I am only glad I was able to describe the “challenge” in a way that you understood! My finished films, done in iMovie on my Mac, are all MP4s in my Movie file so from what you say they are sacrosanct and I am also increasingly sticking them on You Tube. I think I will probably start to delete the original footage to save space-I can’t think I will ever revisit them. Again thank you.One you've outputted your final .mov or mp4 file, there is no link to the source files... that would be true for all editors .... if you used, for example, Final Cut Pro X like I do... if you re-open an old project and you've already deleted the original files which came from the drone, then yes, the project will not work... but normally, you would output the final product before deleting those source files.. so that's basically the very end of the process. Think of it like baking a cake... you mix the ingredients, then bake, then the ingredients are essentially gone, and you have your cake, and eat it too! lol
I kept all my source files for a while, but then I realized that unless I was going to come back some day and re-process/use them in a new production, there was little use in keeping them and eating up disk space (cake is better
Hope this helps.
