Gerry Senechal
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It’s a small world, George! I flew fixed-wing 20 years ago, and all my pilot friends are intensely skeptical about drones, and rightfully so as we only hear about the few absolute morons intent on violating class B airspace with them. Fortunately most drone operators are sensible folk and only the very, very few make the news – of course. All that said, drones are massively entertaining and are becoming invaluable to photographers/real estate/construction/inspectors/etc. I’d recommend an older Phantom 3 or Phantom 4 – they are coming down nicely in price and the manufacturer DJI is really great. In fact they’ve updated all of their firmware to make it basically impossible to fly into any kind of restricted airspace without proof that you have authorization. Enough about all this – many thanks again for all the help!
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This is funny – I actually am a professional drone operator! I am very well acquainted with what drones are capable of and I’m quite sure the 3D maps they’re using are not drone, but I think Google Earth is quite close for sure. I’ll have to do a bit more poking around! Many thanks again for opening my eyes to this!
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Well now that I’ve had time to play with this a bit, this HAS to be how those videos were made. George, I simply can’t thank you enough – I would NEVER have figured this out on my own!!
Thank you so very much,
G
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Many thanks for these links, George – I had no idea this was possible!
I do have to say that these examples seem to lack the smoothness and resolution of the example from my video; do you think my example was also made this way? Perhaps in the years since these videos were made the technology has improved – most certainly worth playing with, which I’m off to do immediately!
It really would be incredible if this was how such animations were made; it would mean I’d been barking up the wrong tree entirely, but I’d much rather know which tree I should have been barking up all along!!
Many thanks again,
G
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Hey George – many thanks for the post. I have tried to google based on this but keep finding things like basic tutorials of how to use Google Earth. I wish I could somehow search more specifically but that’s turning out to be not easy!
While I am really eager to figure out how to do this, I’m also a little afraid of how taxing it will be on my system – just the 2d 5000×5000 image plane has caused a few crashes while I’ve been working! Can’t imagine how much more intensive a 3d image plane (is that an oxymoron?) will be.
If anybody has any insight here, I would be deeply grateful!
Many thanks all,
G
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Glenn, this was news to me – thanks so much. That’s what I get for jumping into Fusion and watching tutorials instead of truly learning it first! I really appreciate the help.
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FINALLY figured it out! It did need a merge node in the right place. For anybody else who needs it, here’s what worked for me:
Happy editing!
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I will – thank you!!
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Thanks, Glenn – I’m talking about using Fusion while within Resolve. I’ve never had issues with “GPU Memory Full” before, but now that I’ve got a very large image that I’m playing with in front of the camera/rendered within Fusion, it’s complaining!
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Yeah, it’s really the only brick wall I’ve ever hit in years of using it – and it’s all my fault for somehow not hitting the “Change” button when prompted at importing the first clip. That nanosecond is costing me a lot of time ☺ oh well – I’m wiser now!
