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Flying a GoPro HERO4 with a quadcopter

Flying a GoPro HERO4 with a quadcopter

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Flying a GoPro HERO4 with a quadcopter

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- Rob another option, is a quadcopter. Now we were in a place that had some high ceilings. The challenge though was, not a lot of great GPS reception but fortunately there was not much overhead there was just a steel roof, so the GPS on these units helps keep the units stable. So, if you can get a GPS signal indoors the camera can do a better job of hovering in place which was important for some of these shots. If it can't, you've got to manually do it which is trickier. - Now because I'm Safety Sal here I am also going to mention that flying a quadcopter indoors requires some common sense. - And skill. - And some skill, you don't want to do this with a lot of people around, especially if you're a new pilot. Yes, these are made of plastic and you know, they're not moving all that fast but if you get a rotor on the side of the face it's gonna sting, it's gonna hurt. So you want to be very careful about how you're flying. Not just people of course, those would be the things that would…

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