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automatically tracks, while planning a safe flight route. The 1/1.3-inch CMOS camera sensor has dual native ISO, with an f/1.7 lens, shooting images at up to 48 megapixels and video up to 4K/60fps. HDR video is offered at frame rates up to 30fps. A D-Cinelike colour profile allows for more dynamic range in post. It gives digital video zoom at up to 2x in 4K, 3x in 2.7K and 4x in Full HD. There’s also an extended flight battery option, affording a maximum flight time of 47 minutes. However, this takes the drone above the 250g limit, so is only suitable if you have the right credentials to legally fly. Also new is the DJI RC, a lightweight remote controller with a 5.5-inch built-in touchscreen, that has the Fly app already integrated. The DJI Mini 3 Pro is £639/$669, £709/$759 with the basic controller that uses a smartphone, or £859/$909 with the new DJI RC. dji.com

DJI’s new Mini 3 Pro drone weighs less than 249g, which makes it legal to fly without training and certification in many countries. Yet it has a full range of features, such as 4K/60fps video, subject tracking, obstacle sensing and a flight time of over 30 minutes. It also has 90° gimbal rotation to shoot vertical imaging for social media. Like its predecessors – Mavic Mini, Mini 2 and Mini SE – it keeps the same compact foldability. But the Mini 3 Pro has more features than any other DJI drone of this size, including improved flight performance, camera system and battery life – plus intelligent attributes previously only available in the larger Air and Mavic series. The arms and propellers have been adjusted to increase flight time. In a first for the collection, the Mini 3 Pro has forward, backward and downward visual sensors to detect and avoid obstacles. These also enable DJI’s FocusTrack technology, which allows users to select a subject that the drone

Adobe Premiere Pro gets a speed boost with up to ten times faster exports for 10-bit 4:2:2 HEVC across all platforms. This is thanks to new hardware encoding support for macOS – including M1 systems – and AMD GPUs on Windows. Smart rendering and playback of QuickTime screen recordings is smoother. Other improvements include support for transparencies in GIFs, options to distribute spacing between objects for titles or graphics – and HDR proxy workflows. adobe.com PERFORMANCE BOOST FOR PREMIERE PRO to an SD card and loaded onto multiple MixPres to save time. The engineer will lock the MixPre into ‘Reporter Mode’, so contributors just connect a microphone and headphones, hit record, then adjust mix levels if needed. Purchase online. sounddevices.com Sound Devices has introduced the $30 Reporter plug-in for the MixPre-3, MixPre-6, MixPre-3 II and MixPre-6 II recorders that allows all menus to be locked off, preventing accidental changes during use by inexperienced practitioners. The MixPre’s 32-bit float recording and clean preamplifiers mean a huge range of sound levels can be captured with no adjustments. This new plug-in makes it simpler to get great sound. A sound engineer can set up a MixPre with preferred settings. These can be saved SIMPLIFIED SOUND FOR NEWBIES

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