17-year-old Natalie Welch is the leading female actress in “Rotor DR1,” the post-apocalyptic film following the lives of two teenagers who struggle to survive in a world mostly wiped out after a viral outbreak, but who survive, in part, because of a drone that leads them to an answer that could save the world. Welch […]
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Using LUTS to grade Inspire 1 / Phantom 3 / Osmo Footage with Final Cut Pro X
“I really wish my footage looked worse” – No one ever said… Of course we want our footage to look as good as possible but sometimes achieving what we want seems more difficult than it should be. Camera features like “LOG” style promise to give us more latitude when editing, but it can sometimes make […]
Sci-fi film “Rotor DR1” provides refreshingly intellectual take on a future with drones
Hollywood likes killer drones. Over the past two years, drones have killed mutants in “X-Men,” attacked the good guy in “Elysium,” served as weapons in “Iron Man 2” and struck down shopping malls in “American Ultra.” But Chad Kapper, who rose to fame in the drone community as former director of beloved web series “Flite […]
Drone Coalition writers presenting at InterDrone 2015
On the week of the official launch of Drone Coalition, InterDrone 2015 (Sept 9-11, Las Vegas) will be featuring several of our staff writers, including Lisa Ellman, Mike Fortin, Sally French, Kerry Garrison, Gretchen West and myself.
Part 2 – Under The Hood of 3DR SOLO
Continuing from my last post “Under The Hood – 3DR SOLO – Part I, I will begin taking you through the steps I took to disassemble my SOLO. To begin remove the battery pack from the SOLO. Underneath there a four phillips-head screws. Using a basic screw driver these four screws can be easily removed. […]
Breaking News: New Drone Chiefs Appointed at FAA
I mentioned in my earlier post how so often, technology moves quicker than policymaking – and this has certainly been the case for drones. One of the hold-ups on the policymaking side over the last few months has been staffing of the federal government. In the spring Jim Williams, former head of the FAA UAS […]
California: Anti-Innovation? And Are We Too Late?
California and anti-innovation are not words you would often see in a sentence together. For years, California has been at the forefront for innovation in technology and automation, including being a leader in the development of drones. Over 100 companies in California are involved with developing the drone ecosystem and hundreds of millions of dollars have […]
Filming over crowds – the great debate
Here’s the next installment of Ask Drone Girl. Got a question for her? Send your email here. Question Hi Drone Girl, My son and his cousin started a droning business in Michigan about a year ago. Recently they were asked to drone a festival in our town, and they readily accepted needing the exposure. I have […]
FAA 333 Approved, But are you Complying?
FAA APPROVED…BUT are you compliant? We keep seeing more companies taking to the web to proclaim they are “FAA APPROVED” but what does that actually mean? The problem I see is that while more and more are getting their approval from the FAA, they are failing miserably at complying or not even trying at all […]
Policymaking in the Age of Drones Fever
Hello! I am so excited to join the Drone Coalition and to share thoughts with this amazing group of industry colleagues. I look forward to exploring with you the opportunities and challenges of the future of unmanned aircraft systems. As is so often the case in our country, technology moves quicker than policymaking. This is […]
