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LinkedIn Learning

Working Professionally with Your Drone

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

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.

Syllabus

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!

Taught by

Luisa Winters and Francis Torres

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