![]() So how has Chasing sliced the price so low?įirstly the camera is a more modest 1080p, supported by only 250 lumens of light (at shallower depths this shouldn’t be an issue). It’s certainly the same striking yellow and pleasingly incorporates the maneuverable five-thruster design, which makes it possible to tilt the body (and, by extension, the camera) up and down. If you think that might make it hard to control, worry not – the depth lock feature is retained from its bigger brother too. This is in many respects a smaller version of Chasing’s Gladius Mini. ![]() The thoughtful app is easily operated, and VR compatible, and the 4K camera produces great results, with the only complaint really being that in rougher seas the image stabilization could be better. The five thrusters make the drone quick to respond – useful as you need to tilt the body up or down to look around. You can lock the pitch, but the camera (and accompanying 1,200-lumen lights) cannot be separately turned, making this a real pilot’s craft, and fun with it. Smart features include depth-lock (like altitude hold on a flying drone), and there is 64GB storage to record. On the downside, the protective caps for the 50m or 100m tether cable are easily lost, but otherwise, the drone is solidly built and can be thrown into the sea after setup and can easily take a few knocks underwater. Setting up is reasonably easy – an included towel means you can set the drone down on sharp coastal rocks safely. The Chasing Innovation Gladius Mini is supplied in a nice backpack (not unlike one photographer who might use to carry a body and lenses), with a laptop in a separate bay. The latter isn’t just good fun, it makes enjoying the 1080p live feedback easier than on your phone screen on a bright day, although the price differential between the Explorer and Wizard versions is considerable in some stores. There is a PowerRay Explorer which is the basic video shooting drone, and a more expensive PowerRay Wizard edition which adds the PowerSeeker sonar device (which can detect the underwater landscape and use temperature data to identify fishing hotspots), bait dropper, and a carry-on friendly travel case and Zeiss VR One Goggles, which provide an alternative means of exploring the depths from the deck. 32 or 64Gb SD storage is provided depending on the version you choose (but you can put your own card in). With a maximum ISO of 1600, the camera is more than capable in the depths the PowerRay can manage, though the 1/2.3-inch sensor could be bigger in a perfect world. In case useful: File is 47gb (so not easy to send for repair), was shot on C300, let me know if anything else would be helpful.The depths can be a murky place, even the first few meters, so the Ray adds two dimmable 450-lumen headlight lights to illuminate your subject, which can be captured in 4K (30fps max) or 4,000 x 3,000-pixel stills. Obviously I'd love to salvage the whole video file but if I can find a way to save just the audio I could work with that because we did shoot a second camera which I can match it with, but it was further away on a 5D so couldn't use the audio from that.Īny help would be gratefully appreciated! So it's taunting me with the possibility I can salvage more of the audio if possible. However I did once somehow managed to get about 6 minutes of audio (albeit interrupted around the 1.55 mark for a bit). Clearly there's a glitch/corruption there that is messing with anything trying to read/export it. I've managed to get the first 1min55s from the interview but then mostly nothing. I can scrub through the interview we shot, so there is clearly information stored there - but everytime I try to export it, it mostly either crashes the whole of Premiere or my computer or whatever other software I've tried in desperation. I've have huge problems with a 4K MXF file in Premiere Pro (and elsewhere tbh).
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