If you want to get into the market, buy some affordable hardware, and get to work learning how to build and fly. The job will get done when you have learned enough to do it. But buying expensive hardware, expecting to be able to deliver a product on a deadline is doomed to failure. It's like the script from so many reality TV shows. <dun dun="" dunnnnn=""> "Will they solve the problem before the deadline? Find out, after the break!"
Perfect advice, and I was thinking the same. $4000 budget would get you into a smaller craft, capable of lifting a smaller camera. You can mix and match the aerial footage, just hand it over to post, and tell them to work their magic... LOL. I started with an Xaircraft X8 coaxial, it was terrible, but so was I. Then progressed the hardware over to a hexa frame, and became addicted to this... Then purchased better props, better motors, and worked along that path. Then got a decent mid range frame (second hand), and followed by a gimbal. Now, I'm back onto a hexa, as I only need to lift small cameras, up to DSLR, but if needed can lift a few KG camera with some modifications. I think you'd enjoy a smaller craft more, and also get yourself some simulator, like aero sim (As it has simulation of aerial camera from a gimbal). I did about 40 hours flight training on a simulator, and saved over $100,000 in crashes, LOL.
BTW, I know the difference between renting and buying, I'm not sure what you meant by that. Please, I'm not knocking you, you're on the rite track, asking the rite people, in the rite place.
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