Recent content by hillhippy

Smart shots are not currently supported according to the information noted in the App Store.

You need to click the tiny You Tube icon to get to where you can make a sharing link. I just tried and it worked.

When you run the video above, there is an arrow icon below the video window that creates a link. Easy.

You should be able to search on You Tube for Leo Hoyt and find this video, there should be a share tab that will create a link. If that doesn’t work is can email you a link.

Yeah, that would have been good, if I had been more organized in flying while the track gang was working by my place. It was a spur of the moment idea, I kept thinking of following the gang up the railroad for more footage, but never did it. Inertia.

I mostly spent time looking through the raw video to find what I needed to edit the final video. I also spent time finding railroad songs of the right length. On the end of the last song I overdubbed the sound of the train blowing he horn for the crossing, I liked how that came out. The...

Last summer the Union Pacific Railroad did a major tie replacement project on the tracks next to my house. At the last minute I thought that it would be fun to fly my Solo and attempt to document all of the specialized equipment the railroad uses to do track work. The video was shot in 4K and...

I didn't know you could start recording on the GoPro and the Solo app would sync when you launched it.

Just what I need more devices on a different OS. I'm not sure that is a fix, given that I'm an occasional Solo user.

Seems like iOS11 has a lot of reasons to wait for Apple to sort things out before upgrading, besides the Solo app.

Has iOS 11 broken the the Solo app?

I have a cabin in the woods on the Oregon coast and I installed the prop guards while flying in and around the tall fir trees. Seemed like cheap insurance, they did reduce my flight time, but it seemed worth the trade off. Back in CA in the central valley farm country, I don't use them for...

How does a reduced shutter speed improve the stability of the video? When you use the ND filters what do you change on the GoPro's settings?