Become a master drone pilot in 2 weeks and start a business

DJI's New Phantom 4 Unboxed. 

DJI's New Phantom 4 has some interesting new technology on propellor assembly. Check it out.

Best Drones under $75 to practice with.

Overview of what to expect from this course part of the course.

This video covers everything to do with basic of Drone from flying to safety. If you've recently purchased a drone or are looking into buying a drone, then you'll find this video to be very hopeful.

In this video, I show you what you should have inside your drone case including some backups and products to keep your batteries charged at all time.

In order to get cinematic drone shots, you'll need modify your gimbal settings. This video walks you through on how to modify your gimbal settings for best cinematic shots straight from a drone.

Don't fly Drones here is a collaborative online map which outlines where you can and cannot fly your drones. Always a good idea to check the website to ensure you're safe to fly in those areas.

Before you filming a subject, it's always a good idea to plan your subject using Google Earth or any satellite map view to ensure that you can see the features and restrictions of the subject from an aerial perspective before you prepare your equipment and go on-site.

Once you've done planning your subject using online Maps, its very important to physically walk around the subject or area that you're filming to get the best results. This video talks about what to look for you when planning on-site.

This is part 1/2 of the video provides a full behind the scene view of the type of cinematic shot and how it was captured.

This is video shows a collection of all unique aerial cinematic shots without any commentary, only the actual cinematic shot along with a view of the drone's radio controller.

Before leaving a site, it's very important to review your footage. This video gives insights into how to best review your footage and what to look for when reviewing.

Couple of years ago, I injured my left wrist because of how I was holding my drone controller. In this video, I show an ergonomical way to support your radio controller over your shoulder, which also help catch smooth aerial shots as well.

When flying a drone, spotter is an absolute must. This video shows you how to be that support when operating with a small budget.

Footage straight from a drone is good from a video perspective, but from sound, it's totally useless since you only hear propellors. In order to create videos using drone to show a natural scene like that on a beach with crashing waves I show you how to put together an overall video that shows that effect.

Most cameras on a drone can't zoom in while flying since it shifts the gimbal balance. In this video I show you how to do a clean custom zoom using 4K footage.

Utilizing this document help with practicing your aerial cinematic shots. Document provides some sample inanimate objects to film with some possible cinematic shot options.

Utilizing this document help with practicing your aerial cinematic shots. Document provides some sample inanimate objects to film with some possible cinematic shot options.

For those who've never used Final Cut Pro X, this video will provide an overview of the software along with it's features and workflow.

This is a Part 1/2 of Final Cut Pro contain numerous tools to allow editors to edit their videos with. This video will provide an overview of how to use some of those tools, which is important to know before we go deeper in video post-production.

This is a Part 2/2 of Final Cut Pro contain numerous tools to allow editors to edit their videos with. This video will provide an overview of how to use some of those tools, which is important to know before we go deeper in video post-production.

It may seem like basic knowledge, but importing and tagging footage properly can save you a ton of time and hard drive space. This video provides details into how to import and tag footage properly so you can save space and quickly reference to your footage in the future.

Learn how to correct and improve default colors captured from your drone camera.

Learn some advance skills on how to color correct your footage. Make the greens more green, blue more blue, enhance the whites and some other details that basic color correction doesn't allow you to control.

Well synced video always has a great audio track that matches to the beat of the audio. In this video, you'll learn how to match the two together to have a powerful overall video.

As your video library increases, you'll have files in multiple drives including internal and external. Given that you'll be combining videos from different hard drives, you'll probably at some point run into the red missing file error. When you do, this video shows you how to fix it and avoid it.

Adding watermark to your footage is critical. There are few ways to add watermark and its important to know the difference in types of logo file format to use to get the best watermark results. This video takes a deeper look into this topic.

You'll come across various clients asking for different types of video file formats. This video provides an overview of all of those options and which video formats are widely used in the industry.

Over the last few years, I've come across some pretty awesome websites that have helped me produce great videos and in this video I share some of these websites and their benefits added to the other video production.

This video goes over what to expect from this section of the course. You'll be learn how to fix and polish your aerial photos using Adobe Lightroom.

If you've never used Adobe Lightroom, this is definitely a great video to watch in order to understand editing flows, tools and settings before proceeding to other photo editing videos.

This video provides an overview of tools that you'll need to use and know about in order fix and professionally polish your aerial photos.

Post crop vignetting is an awesome finish touch to add to your photos. This video illustrates how to add this effect to your photos.

Not all photos turn around right from a color balance perspective. It's important to know how to use tone curves to correct perfect captured images from framing perspective, but need drastic color changes

Lens correction allows you to fix fish eye effect captured from wide angle lens. This video shows you how to automaitcally fix fish eye effect using Adobe Lightroom based upon camera manufacture.

Split toning is great to use for aerial photos. Sometime color of skies can be off tone and split toning can help with that greatly.

In this video, we go over some advance tool to fix and polish your aerial photos.

You'll notice that often times there are shadows of your drone or image of yourself in your aerial shots. This video shows you how to remove shadows and other unwanted objects from your aerial images professionally.

It's important to know how to save batch images with custom file naming convention. It's also important to know how to add watermark to batch images. This video shows you exactly that.

I recently did a job for a client where I had to do a quick aerial tour of a real state property he's selling in Ontario, Canada. I've decided to share my full raw footage for practice purposes to allow students to practice taking raw footage from the drone and putting together an edited video for their clients. You should use the skills and tricks that I've taught in this course to slice, polish and edit the final video for your clients. 

For reference, here's where the final video is hosted for my client to use:

https://vimeo.com/167803854

I found this really awesome plugin for Mac users to install screensaver that shows aerial shots from around the world. 

Check out the link below:

https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial/releases/download/v1.2beta5/Aerial.zip

Check out my other exercise footage to see how I edited this footage as a reference point.

Sample footage flying through beach entrance. Use this footage to play around with your editing skills.

If you're located in Canada or travelling to Canada with a drone, this image will help explain some rules.

You can download this footage and use to practice tricks taught in this course

You can download this footage and use to practice tricks taught in this course

This video is a raw file straight from my drone. No post processing done on it. Please see my fully edited video to see before and after.

This is the final video that I shared with the client for their marketing purposes to sell this luxury property. I've selected my own track, color corrected the video along with stitching the video together in a manner that tells a small story.

Sometimes for entrance shots, you need to absolutely capture the viewers attention. Adding 3D fly through text will ensure exactly that. This video showcases how to take part of your footage and add 3D motion graphics using Adobe Illustrator.