Recent content by Torchbearer

Thanks for the reply. Okay cool, I wanted to make sure I wasn't overlooking anything I'm not a surveyor. I did look into it when I became interested in this stuff, but it looks like I needed to be on that track at the beginning of college (I'm in finance 🥱) I appreciate you pointing this out...

Hey guys - as many of you know, I'm wanting to get into mapping/modeling work and trying to figure out which drone to get for this. I've been thinking maybe a Phantom 4 Pro, but now with the Mavic 3E being announced with a mechanical shutter, I'm thinking that may be the way to go What do you...

Another reason I was thinking selling the raw footage may be a good idea is because I'm unsure about copyright laws for the music side of the videos Did you sign up for a copyright free audio service for the editing you do?

Thanks for your comment. I keep coming back to this one and the M300. It seems like just taking the hit and paying the initial up-front cost, then being able to use it for any type of job I end up getting into might be the right call. Do you ever have any issues with the geofencing on DJI? I...

Haha yes! I've heard that giving out the raw footage or photos was something a lot of people won't do So you would charge a market-appropriate hourly rate, and the only option for the customer would be to pay the hourly rate for filming AND post-production work That makes sense to me, I didn't...

For sure. The flying took me 2 hours including the drive to and from. The editing and uploading was about double that. That is exactly what prompted me to ask about this That makes sense to add it as an add-on option. I had read somewhere else that people don't like to give out their raw...

This is great. I have a spreadsheet going to try to track everything from subscriptions, initial, & recurring costs, etc. that I'm expecting I've started figuring out the accounting, researching how ill do the bookkeeping. I've given some thought to marketing ideas, but getting this stuff all...

Wow yeah to be able to retire at 52 and focus on the projects you want is awesome. You've been workin hard! Your coming from the building industry makes sense. This has made me wish I did some sort of engineering track in college so I could possibly go the surveying direction, but it seems...

That's really exciting! Congratulations man! 👏 That's similar to what I have going on now. I'm about a decade into my career (totally unrelated office job), ~40hrs per week. I also just restarted working on weekends at my college bar at the age of 35 to get money to make this happen. Gotta do...

I ended up grabbing a DJI mini 3 pro and an Autel Nano+ to start becoming familiar with both platforms. I intend to sell them and upgrade as soon as I'm comfortable with them I got the DJI with the dji rc smart controller and that thing is 🔥 it made me fall in love and I really wanted to like...

Thanks for the reply. Speaking of roof / solar inspection, I've been wanting to ask someone about that Are you contracted by a roofing company or insurance company to take pictures and they use the pictures for their inspection reports? Or do you need to become a certified inspector, get...

Hey guys - I just had my first commercial gig on Friday night. I did some FPV filming for a company and it turned out really well I wanted to ask how you would normally charge for these types of jobs I'm thinking I'd need to charge an hourly rate for being out filming, but what comes after...

😂 How did you end up getting the job? I'm not ready to start taking jobs beyond cinematic fpv type gigs yet (just had my first job on Friday!), but I'm trying to get an understanding of how you guys pick up mapping jobs My cinematic stuff comes from people on Instagram messaging me, but the...

😂That's the story of my life with my gopros on my FPV drones. You're not alone! Haha

Thanks for the reply. This is the type of response I was hoping for. Do you do this type of work full-time these days?