Well, perhaps marsupials don't. But I have it on good authority, namely mine, that their drones do.
For those of you who see my comments on Facebook, you may have seen my comments. Few have seen my videos.
Exclusive to close friends and family, and those with whom I want to work, and now you, I present my raw, uncut, unedited work so far.
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I am working now to improve my skill at both flying and getting the shots I want. For instance in a video I took tonight, I did a quick fly-by of a house, this one, or a later one like it, intended to show what a flyover of a house could look like for, say, a REALTOR(R).
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In the first video, I start out filming in front of my house in my neighborhood, with my wife at the controls for the first flight, and ten she hands the controls over to me. That's right, this is your chance to see the Lady Wallaby.
After that, we head off to Titusville at 17:32, where I filmed the area from which we watched the SpaceX DSCOVR launch. I did not film the launch, I never do. NASA and SpaceX do a far better job than I ever could, and when your eyes are glued to a screen, you miss the launch.
Then, it's off to a hidden Mickey at 23:40, a grove of trees about seven miles north of my house. I had always wanted to see it and this was my chance. As I stated before, the video is uncut so don't expect it to look great yet. What you are seeing is practice runs that will probably never get used for anything. On the home and Titusville shoot, you'll see some wavy lines in the video, a negative effect called Jello. On the Hidden Mickey shoot I had a neutral density filter on the camera to fix that. For those of you who don't know, the Mickey is located here.
I intend to explore Florida and find the beautiful places, and film them in ways few have done before. Are you guys interested in seeing videos as I produce them? This will probably be the only time I post raw stuff, because most of it is unplanned footage that I can't really use for anything, it's just time getting to know the equipment. So the footage should only get better from here. Hopefully I will have some great stuff together soon.
Marsupials Take Flight
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At the old Disney Hyperion Studio, the screening room where animators would show animated scenes to Walt for his approval was small, with no ventilation or AC. Not only was it hot, but the animators were nervously awaiting Walt's reaction to their work. Thus, the room became known as the Sweatbox. Even after the Studio moved to Burbank and elegant screening rooms were offered to the staff, the moniker remained.
Now SGT has a sweatbox of our own. This is the place to find and post all entertaining topics such as video links, jokes, games, and the like. A general rule of thumb is that if the thread is meant to be informative (interesting news stories for example), or a topic for discussion (like setting up a park meet) then it should go in the Break Room, but if the intent is to entertain the masses then it's home is The Sweatbox. I'm sure there will be grey areas at times, so if you have doubt as to where a new thread should go, just use your best judgement and the SGT Staff will be glad to move it later if you guessed wrong.
At the old Disney Hyperion Studio, the screening room where animators would show animated scenes to Walt for his approval was small, with no ventilation or AC. Not only was it hot, but the animators were nervously awaiting Walt's reaction to their work. Thus, the room became known as the Sweatbox. Even after the Studio moved to Burbank and elegant screening rooms were offered to the staff, the moniker remained.
Now SGT has a sweatbox of our own. This is the place to find and post all entertaining topics such as video links, jokes, games, and the like. A general rule of thumb is that if the thread is meant to be informative (interesting news stories for example), or a topic for discussion (like setting up a park meet) then it should go in the Break Room, but if the intent is to entertain the masses then it's home is The Sweatbox. I'm sure there will be grey areas at times, so if you have doubt as to where a new thread should go, just use your best judgement and the SGT Staff will be glad to move it later if you guessed wrong.
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Once you get flyovers perfected you should work on fly throughs.
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I'm really impressed at the stability of the drone and the video -- especially since from the leaves it's apparent that there's a not-insignificant breeze blowing. Cool!
BTW, Wallaby, from the opening video and clues you dropped in your post, it took me less than four minutes to find your house on Google Earth, without any road names or other labels turned on. Now I know where to drop in unannounced someday.
BTW, Wallaby, from the opening video and clues you dropped in your post, it took me less than four minutes to find your house on Google Earth, without any road names or other labels turned on. Now I know where to drop in unannounced someday.
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I can't think of too many people here who would be unwelcome. And they won't be posting any time soon. Party at Wallaby Estate!BRWombat wrote:I'm really impressed at the stability of the drone and the video -- especially since from the leaves it's apparent that there's a not-insignificant breeze blowing. Cool!
BTW, Wallaby, from the opening video and clues you dropped in your post, it took me less than four minutes to find your house on Google Earth, without any road names or other labels turned on. Now I know where to drop in unannounced someday.
My opinions are mine and mine only. If my opinions are the opinion of others who happen to share whatever my crazy views may be, then fine, but it's not because I represent them in having my opinions. Got it?
