IH-610 Hyperlapse - March 27, 2018

pmshop · Mar 29, 2018

Looking towards the Houston Galleria area from Bellaire. Loop 610 south of IH-69 at 4:45 PM Captured by the DJI Spark

ELD.visuals · Mar 29, 2018

Awesome video!, now my questions. What are the rules with the FAA and flying near highways?? I'm going to assume flying directly over is a nono

pmshop · Mar 29, 2018

ELD.visuals said:
Awesome video!, now my questions. What are the rules with the FAA and flying near highways?? I'm going to assume flying directly over is a nono

Correct. At least that is how I would fly - avoiding flying directly over highways.
No rules in writing though.
Not violating "flying over people" because it goes not to say "unless they are covered" and the autos are defiantly cover.
But like I said, I wouldn't play with the letter of the regulations.

Someone posted recently that makes it so simple from the FAA site:

Fly for hobby or recreation ONLY
Register your model aircraft
Fly within visual line-of-sight
Follow community-based safety guidelines and fly within the programming of a nationwide community-based organization
Fly a drone under 55 lbs. unless certified by a community-based organization
Never fly near other aircraft
Notify the airport and air traffic control tower prior to flying within 5 miles of an airport*
Never fly near emergency response efforts

And that is it - we tend to complicate the rules with other rules.
Like the rules in Part 107 which is commercial, which is not what I fly under.

Nothing about 400 feet altitude limit or fly at daytime only.
HOWEVER, that can be enforced by line of sight - can you see it past 400ft without the aid of optics other than glasses??

ELD.visuals · Mar 29, 2018

pmshop said:
Correct. At least that is how I would fly - avoiding flying directly over highways.
No rules in writing though.
Not violating "flying over people" because it goes not to say "unless they are covered" and the autos are defiantly cover.
But like I said, I wouldn't play with the letter of the regulations.

Someone posted recently that makes it so simple from the FAA site:

Fly for hobby or recreation ONLY

Register your model aircraft

Fly within visual line-of-sight

Follow community-based safety guidelines and fly within the programming of a nationwide community-based organization

Fly a drone under 55 lbs. unless certified by a community-based organization

Never fly near other aircraft

Notify the airport and air traffic control tower prior to flying within 5 miles of an airport*

Never fly near emergency response efforts

And that is it - we tend to complicate the rules with other rules.
Like the rules in Part 107 which is commercial, which is not what I fly under.

Nothing about 400 feet altitude limit or fly at daytime only.
HOWEVER, that can be enforced by line of sight - can you see it past 400ft without the aid of optics other than glasses??

Oh ok cool. Makes sense but also makes cool shots. I have to get in touch with a local drone pilot who is flying in our downtown providence area. IT is a FLY ZONE which is odd, but I Want to make sure before I get to flying lol.

webvan · Mar 29, 2018

Nice, what was your workflow for that video ?

pmshop · Mar 30, 2018

webvan said:
Nice, what was your workflow for that video ?

Workflow?
Well, not a professional editor for sure.
Can you rephrase your question? I do not quite understand.

webvan · Mar 30, 2018

Well I was just asking how you did it ;-)

pmshop · Mar 30, 2018

webvan said:
Well I was just asking how you did it ;-)

Ahhh, I see.
I'm just reading too much into a "technical term"

So I went up about 100ft in normal mode, tilted the cam down a little bit, watched the screen and flew parallel to the interstate.
Went out for about 1 minute and 50 seconds and came back.
Put the video in Filmora video editor, found the first & last frame of stable flight and trimmed.
Gave the video speed a 3.700x boost, added 30 to saturation, added music and upscaled the rendering processing to 4k

webvan · Mar 30, 2018

Thanks, been looking for a good editing package so I'll see if Filmora have a trial version. So far I've compiled videos using GoPro Quik on my Android but have not found a PC equivalent unfortunately.

Nils1976 · Mar 31, 2018

That was just a 2 Minute flight? My thoughts were, that you spend a whole battery pack for this. I like it a lot, well done!

pmshop · Mar 31, 2018

Nils1976 said:
That was just a 2 Minute flight? My thoughts were, that you spend a whole battery pack for this. I like it a lot, well done!

More like a 5.5 to 6 minute flight.

About 1 minute to get up to 100AGL and adjust the camera (I have to level every time because the gimbal will not hold the horizon - set for repair when my other Spark comes back from service)
2 minutes to get out to where the end of the video shows.
2 minutes to get back.
1 minute to come down.

webvan · Mar 31, 2018

Thanks for the Filmora tip, I think I've finally found an app to get back into video editing, many, many years after Premiere and my miniDV camera ! Will post my first attempt into a new thread ;-)

pmshop · Mar 31, 2018

webvan said:
Thanks for the Filmora tip, I think I've finally found an app to get back into video editing, many, many years after Premiere and my miniDV camera ! Will post my first attempt into a new thread ;-)

You are quite welcome. Don’t let the editing preview fool you. It will look fuzzy but the output is stellar

webvan · Mar 31, 2018

Yes and I was also getting some choppiness because the FPS was set to 24 for some reason, going to 30 fps fixed the problem. Here's my first attempt BTW : ;-)

pmshop · Mar 31, 2018

webvan said:
Yes and I was also getting some choppiness because the FPS was set to 24 for some reason, going to 30 fps fixed the problem. Here's my first attempt BTW :

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