As people know, TTT is a moron. I don't even care anymore.
He is likable looking, and quite affable but he doesn't know what the **** he is talking about on any level and DOES A GREAT job at making it seem so. I almost respect him for making it seem like he knows stuff when he knows nothing.
He made a video that shows you "how to fly in ATTI mode" and I thought it was good and then I thought about it and I was like wait, what did I learn other than what ATTI mode IS. Nothing!
Then of course there was the infamous "How to make a professional 4k cinematic look with your P4" using UHD at 30fps which is literally television at a TV fps and his 30+K followers just liked it up, ate it up, and when I tried to tell people the truth, I got so much crap, I couldn't believe it.
I tried to talk to him privately to tell him and he just got his back up and so I made a video showing that he was wrong, not because I wanted to show he was wrong but because he was so wrong that it was a good way to show what was right. Sort of using his wrongness as a backdrop for what is.
Anyway, still people got their back up a little. Something I've come to find out is that (and with all the humility that I can muster and say this), I know more about videography and codecs, formats and different types of shots than the majority of people not on this forum but everywhere. Just like an insurance salesman knows more about insurance. It's his job. I don't love it. It's not even what I love doing most but it is what it is.
So TTT of course doesn't want the TH to take away some of his thunder because the $600 a month he makes on adsense and the free swag and invite to local events he gets for his following would go away if it dwindled and even DJI posted on their main board the ATTI thing and thats when I fully lost respect for their community. Don't watch TTT, and don't take anything he takes with any sort of knowledge because I would say most of the people that I see posting on this board know more than he does, they just don't fake the funk and have a little more humility. Every time he takes those eyes and tells me he wants to make me a better film maker and then says something so wrong that I post it in the AVS forums as a joke, I want to vomit.
I am sorry for all the TTT lovers that will probably flame me for this, but the guy just says stuff and learns and occasionally gets it right and when he does, he puts it together VERY WELL. I will give him that. He knows how to put together a GREAT looking youtube channel. Even though he doesn't make his own graphics and stuff like that, of which I don't have a problem with but he is an absolute con artist feeding on people that don't know and that just bothers me.
You don't make someone an artist by telling them how to do a brush stroke. You give them the paint, you tell them the different strokes, and then you paint and let the artist be the artist. The next time someone tells you they are going to make you a better artist, stop listening to them and he says it pretty much at every video. With his condenser mic, his sly glasses and those looks. Ugh, sorry. I should erase this post. It's nothing but a flame on someone that I'm going to get crap for. I know many of you love him and honestly if he wasn't preying on the people that are going to get mad at me for saying this, I would not care what he does. Truly would not.
I was actually subscribed to his channel before I heard him start talking about things that I knew about and realized that he was not only just saying incorrect things, but glossing over things he didn't have any idea about and straight up lying about other things (or I'll give him the benefit and say mis-informing by accident?).
He is has one goal, and it aint to make you a better flier, photographer, or anything else. It's to get swag and monetize his YT channel and that's fine if he's doing it with good info but he's not so it bothers me. I should talk to my shrink about this. It's definitely not healthy for me to care about him ripping off other people. Again, it doesn't bother me, it bothers me that other people don't know. It's like picking on a person that just doesn't know. I don't know how there aren't more people that don't realize how wrong he is.
Do this, go though his comments (especially about photography and cinematography, as he knows a lot more about flying than he does cameras) and find the nay sayers in the comment. It's not like "everything is right but this", it's like "what the **** are you talking about dude?".
And if you really want to laugh, I'll link to the AVS forums (these are the nerdiest videophiles you'll find this side of Tatooine) who just have a field day with the stuff he says.
Ok, I know I should delete this as it's gonna make someone real upset at me.
For those people, I'm sorry in advance.
FTR, I have the H and the P4. RIGHT NOW, I enjoy flying the H a lot more than the P4 because I had a P2, a P3 and a P4 before the H and I also have a Tornado and a S1000 for real shots when I'm not trying to have fun.
For flying, there is no comparison right now, the H is more fun. Period. Is it because its a novelty? I don't know. I'll tell you in a month. I still fly the P4 on occasion but its just a different experience and so I fly the H mostly for fun currently (I never owned the Q500, just don't like how it flies and is too similar to the PXs). So for flying, AT THE MOMENT, no contest, H.
For camera, there really isn't a competition IMO, the P4 destroys the H camera in every way, and I do know how to set the settings. It's not even close but that said, they both suck.
As I've said before, the 4k camera on an iPhone 6s is 5x better than either one and they don't even have the 20mm lens. Its more like 4mm.
This will change over time (as long as people stop them from wasting money on useless things like optical zooms for infinite vistas) and pay more attention to things like chips, speed increases and integration and if people WOULD LEARN ABOUT CODECS and understand that they don't want to catabolize their Tornados and Matrices so they take out video and make it better than h.264 and instead at least a prosumer deliverable.
UNTIL THESE CAMERAS start delivering codecs that are above a point and shoot, they will be nothing more than prosumer drones with barely consumer level cameras. THESE ARE NOT PROSUMER CAMERAS. Even on the consumer market, if you bought this camera for more than $50 you should be PISSED! So these cameras are not good, and for what they are, they are actually quite good. If you knew how much technology went into taking these tiny cameras and making them look even decent with an onboard AVC hardware h.264 encoder, you would be amazed. Sony is working with DJI, Panasonic is working with Yuneec. Both very capable. But Sony makes the A7 series which does much better in the dark because of it's dynamic range and gamma capabilities (again, I'm not a DP, I'm a VFX guy) but I know this stuff because my job makes me have to work in tandem with the DP.
So what am I saying? I don't know. Terrible ADD, OCD and a lot of other things that make me just go on tangents but if this was an important e-mail I would have to spent another 45 minutes going back, erasing and fixing the non-sense but since it aint, I won't.
I hope there is some useful information in there somewhere and I am sorry to the TTT lovers out there that are going to flame me. If I had the inclination, I would go back and erase it but I don't have it in me at the moment. I will later. He's probably a great guy, but when someone said he made a rehearsed video trashing the H, it just furthers my theory about the guy and sort of lit a flame I let die.
Off soapbox.