Working Professionally with Your Drone

Get expert advice on the basis of legal issues; how to get clients; how to fly your drone for construction, cinematic, and real estate clients; and more.

Introduction

• What you'll learn in this course
• Using the exercise files
• What you need to know before starting this course

1. Let's Be Legal

• Part 107 certification
• Flying in restricted areas
• Authorization via drone zone
• Waivers: Which one you need and how to get
• Remote ID: What is it? Do you need to have it?
• Risk mitigation techniques

2. Getting the Client: Making Money

• Presenting your work: What does the client really need?
• Pricing your work
• Marketing
• Which drone do you need to get the job done?

3. Real Estate

• Using drones for real estate
• Drones for commercial real estate
• Drones for residential real estate
• Editing and delivering real estate photos
• Editing and delivering real estate videos

4. Drones in Cinematic Work

• What is cinematic work?
• Getting the client
• Shots to get
• What to look for while in the field

5. Drones for Construction

• What kind of work are you doing for your construction client?
• Personal protective equipment (PPE)
• Drones and mapping: Getting the shots and processing them
• Progress reports: Automating your drone flight to get the same images each time
• Delivering your work

6. Flying Your Drone at Night

• Recognize what constitutes a night flight
• Dark adaptation and ways to protect night vision
• Physiological conditions affecting your night vision
• Drone and flight area lighting
• Visual illusions
• Blind spots

7. Aerial Hyperlapses

• What are hyperlapses?
• Getting a good aerial hyperlapse: Setup
• Aerial hyperlapses: What works and what doesn’t?
• Processing your hyperlapse in After Effects

8. Aerial 360 Video

• 360 video: Why use drones?
• What's the best drone and camera for 360 aerial video?
• 360 drone setup and flight
• Editing your aerial 360 video in Premiere Pro

Conclusion

• Goodbye!