Chapter 14

Working with Aerial Images and Footage

In This Chapter

arrow Moving photos and videos from your drone to your computer

arrow Exploring popular photo and video editing software

arrow Sharing pictures and video online

Capturing photos and videos with your drone takes a lot of up front work. You probably didn’t go to the great lengths of buying a drone and learning how to fly it to capture images and video only to never view them or share them with others, right? That’s what I thought! Your aerial images may be for use in a movie, work documentation, art, or maybe just for documenting memories. Regardless of why you are using your drone to capture all of this information, you need to know how to get your videos and pictures off your drone and edited, shared, catalogued, viewed, or otherwise used!

The task of moving files off your drone and onto a computer is called importing. Regardless of how your drone or camera is configured, this process can be achieved without too much effort. In this chapter you will learn how to access the video and images on your drone and import them to your PC, Mac, or Chromebook. It doesn’t stop there; once images and video are on your computer, you have a handful ...

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