I´ve build really a lot of copter until now (from 10" to 30" propeller), but the Inspire is somewhat relaxing. Take it out of the box, nothing to tinker just flying, battery recharging and flying again. What time you spend in video-edition is up to you.
I had to balance my cam (needed 2 washers) but with them, all of the footage I take is perfectly stabilized, no jello, no jerks, just perfect. That stabilization is better than anything else I hold in my hands (much better than e.g. the Zenmuse for the BMPCC). You can really do smooth pan and tilt, as the minimal speed of the gimbal really really low.
The copter itself is quite agile, 15m/s in GPS-mode, 20m/s in Atti-mode a bit more if legs are not raised. The position hold if also above what I knew from wkm or Naza, and the sonar offers exact heigt below 3m. Indoor the optical flow is a nice feature as you can leave the copter in PH as outdoor with GPS (when below 3m). As a measure of the stability in GPS mode you can possibly see, that already some people made night shoots with 2s, and the picture is perfectly sharp.
The downlink has 0,25s lag (with my Androd Tab) and a bit less with the cinemizers, and it is quite a new experience to be able to "tabletize" all options during the flight. Here the real advantage is, that it is simple, you take the copter, and you take the rc and you fly, no ground-station, no extra monitor, no extra battery, everything in one piece. I also did a mod adding a 5,8Ghz FPV-cam, but to be honest I already removed it, since I didn´t like the extra stuff to carry with me and the extra batteries to recharge after the flight.
My frame is perfect, although I would never build such a copter, as I am used to really stiff frames, but as long as it works I do not care. To me this copter brought back the fun and simplicity in making short clips, which I lost somewhere between Alexmos parameters, jello-dampening of the H2D3, and endless tinkering and optimization of my copter. Also I am not able to build a comparable system (e.g H3D3+GoPro, Lightbridge, Copter with retracts) at a comparable price.
Another + for me is that I can do EV-bracketing to do HDR, and here the cam is pretty fast, 5 shots with a base shutter-speed of 1/100s take about 0,1s so this gives also in windy conditions good pictures with no need for deghosting.
Also I should mention that I have flown in really hard wind of 30km/h average an the footage is still perfect (and here I am pretty picky watching at 65")
here some pics:
mod for Aeronaut Propeller:
balance of the cam
FPV mod (did only one one flight and removed it already):
RC
Here some videos:
Playing with the sonar:
Plaing with optical flow:
Yet another areal:
I have no other purpose for this copter than fun, but it is really a lot of fun flying this copter. Is this copter for pros? I don´t care, as the pros should know themselve.
best regards
Ferdinand