Spectacular! As an L.A. boy, this makes me miss my home town. Resolution is amazing, and the fact that you did places that usually aren't thought about as L.A. is great. Thank you for this.
That was some spectacular photography of Los Angeles at night. It seemed to be a calm city within the lights. Loved the music! Sorry to hear you had an unfortunate incident during the flight. I have been flying up over the city where I live and its fun to get sunset shots, but after hearing your story makes me take a second thought at city flying. I love going into the forest flying, it’s what I have been wanting do and I love it. Thanks for sharing your work! Happy flying!
Gosh would never ever thought to fly my drone in the city, well done! Very brave! :) Greetings from Ireland and think I will stick to my green fields and rivers, bridges and castles! :) Loved the video!
Thank you so much for sharing this. I loved it. Specially seeing the Herbalife building at Nokia Plaza (Im a distributor in Adelaide, South Australia) and its a big dream to some day visit LA!! Fantastic images.
Unfortunately my drone smashed to tiny pieces when it went out of control and hit a tall skyscraper so I would not recommend flying over cities, buildings, or people anymore. Something majorly malfunctioned, we are not sure what. But when something goes bad with these, there is no glide path like a plane and they cannot autogyrate down like a helicopter. They fall out of the sky and will hurt, damage, kill anything thats under it. I would keep it for landscape use or low liability flying. This is no way DSLR Pros fault, it has to do with a motor failure, speed contrller issue, or radio interferience of some sort. DSLR Pros still makes the best kits for filming, by far and away. The problems and or dangers are with the mechanics and or physical limitations of range and the fact that there are no redundant systems on small drones. No backup motors. No parachutes. No room for pilot error over people.
Thats what I was saying earlier laspeed13 about the Grove footage, any catastrophic mechanical failure, Radio failure, pilot error, electronics, motors, battery problems can cause you at the least some money to replace your aircraft. Good luck in the future.
Ever open your phone and see over two dozen WIFI access points near a skyscraper? I'm pretty sure the interference from the multitude of 2.4ghz and 5.8ghz signals may have caused a glitch. Glad no one was hurt. I'm about to get my 1st P2 with FPV, and I thank you for sharing your experience.
When I looked at the DJI No Fly Zone map of San Diego, it seemed like there were two big red circles over most of the city. Although you should be OK for casual flying. You can go up to 35 feet 1.5 miles from the airport and gradually up to 400 feet high as you get to 5 miles away from the airport, like at the beach. I rarely go higher than 200 feet since I live close to John Wayne Airport here in Orange County, CA and I still have a lot of fun flying over the ocean or the harbor. La Jolla is all clear. I plan on going down there to get some footage of the sea lions. Enjoy your Phantom! :)
Andy's Aerial Adventures I took it to Yosemite and got some amazing shots. Most people don't get too offended when they know you are filming. I'll mail you the video. I like it.
wow some really good video. I see you mastered the smooth diaganol manuever. I always wanted to get it good but i think i try and go upwards too much. Any tips? Good example at 5:10 . If this is the black + you should try out 1440p at 30fps and protune (unless your in low light like this) then put it through free go pro software and reduce fisheye and boom the footage cropped slightly getting rid of the blades if their in the shot and making it look so much better.
Absolutely loved this video, i'm a photographer not a videographer and much less a drone pilot but i must say i find this new medium quite interesting. I just might give it a try one day. Been watching vids and tutorials all day and although many people have these, i haven't seen too many such good quality footage. Also it seems to be quite an endeavour to properly fly these drones smoothly and get good imagery as well. Namely i've seen advices on balancing the propellers to get rid of the jello effect and it also seems to entail long hours of post processing with expensive programs and plug ins to make anything of a decent quality. Did you have to go through all this in order to make this high quality video ? I suppose that being used to photography post processing i could learn to make good quality videos but as far as piloting goes knowing my luck i would probably crash the contraption on the 1st flight... Anywho thanks for sharing this :-)
Its a nerve racking and possibly expensive and dangerous (to people around you and below) learning curve. It wasnt easy figuring our how to fly it. It took some practice. I would start with a base model and learn to fly before attaching expensive camera and gimbal equipment to it. I havent been flying because my $4500 drone smashed to tiny pieces when something interfered with the radio
How come your red lights are not showing?? Please help All my night videos is just horrible, im going to try to shot on that 1080 30fps because im doing on 2k =/
Amazed and impressed by how smooth your shots are. Do you credit the Futaba controller with that? Or did you luck out and get lots of zero-wind nights? :)
I had another copter before my DJI quad and it went out of control and spiraled back down to earth and landed perfect, not sure why it can’t happen with the DJI, I got the footage of it happening between two building… Thanks again!
hi can u tell me the whole go pro setting u use on night? i know its 1080 p 30fps but my videos at night looks realy noise and with alot of artifacts, i have tried 1080p 30fps protune on and camera raw.. can u share ur settings plz? (sorry for my bad english)
I'm just guessing here since I haven't done any night flights yet, but you might have to change the Auto ISO setting to the lowest ISO available to keep the video from looking grainy or "noisy". I was going to try a night flight tomorrow night with the ISO cranked up high and then turned down really low to see the difference.
Love your vids man! I'm getting ready to get one of the DSLR PROS phantom kits and wanted to ask you how quickly you felt prepared enough to go for shots over water, over buildings, over the Grove etc. Did you have faith in the phantom or were you nervous about losing power/control when you were above people or water?
Thank you. Its amazing flying this setup. There is a video of a crash at the beginning when I wasnt clear about setting it up with GPS and the compass. This is what happens Brand New Phantom DJI CRASH INTO A TREE WITH A GOPRO HERO 3 It took a little while to get comfortable, especially after this crash that took more than a week to repair, with multiple trips to DSLR Pros. A couple of tips : I always fly in GPS mode. If your compass is calibrated and you are connected to the satellites, just let go of the sticks and it stops. When I fly super long distances and Im watching the FPV monitor, I have a spotter watching the drone which helps to fly and not crash into a mountain or building. I ALWAYS check my battery charge in the battery pack before every flight. That way I know Im taking of with a full battery. At the beginning, I was a little worried about the Phantom losing power or control, but it seems to be pretty reliable. The biggest problem is actually loosing it from flying too far (and at the beginning, way way to high) and not being able to see it and find where you are on the ground to bring it back. The fail safe switch works well in these cases, the drone turns and aims the camera home and it flys back almost full speed fast. Home lock works well too but it flys more slowly and it doesnt aim the camera home.
Infinity Aquarium Design Its fun, it actually took me a while to get brave enough to fly long distance and over people. It was really nerve racking. Also, if you notice my first video of night shots over Beverly Hills, I am only flying straight up and over things, and then straight back. I wasnt turning much because once you lose your orientation of where the front of the drone is, it was hard to control. Once you get the FPV flying thing down its a lot easier. Take it to the biggest wide open field you can and practice flying while only watching your FPV video monitor.
Hi! I have used this video to help me practice making timelapses. Do you might if I uplaod the timelapse to my channel and give you credit in the description for the footage? Thanks!
Also you may not be watching at the best setting for quailty..Look at the settings box on the bottom right corner of the youtube video and make sure your watching in hd and best play speed for your pc.
freddiebebop No offense but... I have a Mac and I already knew that. I've been posting videos on You Tube for years and I must have watched over one million videos on it too, so.... ;-) I' m always on it. lol Thanks anyway.
Really a great video! Looks pretty sharp and steady. I will be using the same setup for night flight video's mainly. What video settings and what kind of video editting did you use here ?
1080 30FPS You have to keep the frame rate low or the camera wont shoot good night video, it will be very grainy because of the ISO. It was edited and stabilized in iMovie 11. Nothing sophisticated.
***** Im not sure that Arris CM3000 will work on a Phantom. It looks too big and more advanced than what seems to work on the the smaller Phantom. I think this Arris would work on a larger drone. Check out www.dslrpros.com Im using the Ultimate Cinema Kit.
You have to get rid of the landing gear on the phantom as well. The bigger drones have landing gear that folds up and out of the way of the camera. If the camera rotated even a few degrees on the phantom, you would have the landing legs in the video
They have to rotate up and out of the way. Also the compass is attached to one of the legs. Simensays Foldable Landing Gear for DJI Phantom :: Assembly
We tried to create a similar video of down town fort worth at night. We filmed with a go pro hero 3 and a dji phantom 2. Problems that we had were that the leds from the drone caused an awful red glow to the shot and many of the street lights and other lights had a bad glare. We had the go pro in low light setting. Was that a mistake? Any suggestions?
1080 at 30 FPS Less frame rate gives better resolution per frame. The red glow was from the lights on the drone itself. Put black Gorrilla tape (its the thickest tape) over most of the red forward lights on the Phantom. That way you can see the direction the drone is flying but the lights dont glare downards on the camera. Leave a little light showing out the edges of the lights, just cap the surface.
I have the black4 so I am assuming 4k 30 FPS is the way to go. Did you turn protune off and just shoot raw and expect the auto settings to do their part? If you have protune on are you shooting high ISO?
trevor bona I just shot 1080 30FPS. I shot it regular setting, I dont understand protune or raw. I think I just made some small saturation adjustments in iMovie.
No denoise, just saturation and color levels correction. Some of those levels hide some of the noise but its relatively clean video and one reason for that is because LA is so heavily lit up at night, especially during the holidays.
This is a good drone shot video. However, here is one challenge which you may want to consider doing. Find some of those famous FEMA camps & fly your drone over it, carefully noting the exteriors of buildings from INSIDE the buildings courtyard, than merely flying over the chain link fencing. You should carefully focus on building signage, to give further clues as to the purpose and intentions of such facilities.
It's disturbing to see how many of you are completely uneducated on how many different violations you are committing and just how many lawsuits you potentially open yourselves up to. Unauthorized flying in class B airspace is one of the worst acts you can commit as real pilot. UAS are NOT allowed EVER into flight of class B. Flying around people/buildings/etc, any damage caused you will be held liable. If you happen to hit someone with even the smallest piece of an aircraft you may face severe civil penalties. Most cities have specific ordinances on model aircraft flight. Educate yourselves, please! It's those of you who think you can just throw one of these in the air that is causing all of the bad publicity and giving justification to harsh regulations.
Mr Trembly you might be right for general aviation but as of right now, all the FAA can come up with are unenforceable guidelines and policy statements regarding drones. After almost a decade, nothing. Not one official regulation has been proposed, much less passed. You are correct that it is not a good idea, but until your beloved FAA gets off their ass, it is not illegal, and unfortunately until they do, they have only themselves to blame if a tragedy occurs. In fact I almost wonder sometimes if that is what they are waiting for, so they won't have to do their job and can just institute a blanket ban. Not to even mention that without clear guidance, instead of blanket "if you get paid" bans, otherwise you can do whatever you please, companies are abandoning the US in mass, for countries where the atmosphere is much friendlier. What a shame they can't see how far behind they are putting us.
probably civilian drones are using unlicensed frequency which will always have interference risk with other nearby same freq. use devices, gadgets and equipment. In city environment, 2.4 or 5.7 Ghz unlicensed frequency use is always high and this may cause the risk of transmission failures with the drone. better to use that in more open and less urbanized areas.
the part of the sales pitch/marketing feature about the anti gravity motor thingy is a little over the top. no such thing as anti gravity... at least not anywhere outside of black budgeted military technology.
Something is going on with Drone too much flying away either the drone are rig by the GPS most of the Drone are made in China I wander if its a set up to keep us buying Drone I have one fly's away the company dos not want to sell me the parts they recommend I buy a new drone some one need to look in to this . Nice toys and they are easy to assemble .
That's an expensive lesson for you! I hope your face wasn't on the video when you took off or you might end up like spiro9210 mentioned. Check out this link : abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/investigators&id=9292217. Realistically, you can't expect to fly an RC vehicle in an urban setting. There is way too much interference. Think of all the wi-fi in the offices, cell phones, communication towers... If you don't loose control or crash you are lucky! It may seem like a cool thing to do, but how cool will it be when you get a knock on your door from the police? This kind of poor judgement is surely going to ruin it for everyone. Remember they are surely looking for people to make "examples" of.
Good freaking lord stupid flying to the T. Granted a nice video but damn flying over all those people and stuff is so dumb ass. Sadly this is another log on the fire why all will be band cause crap like this.
Spectacular! As an L.A. boy, this makes me miss my home town. Resolution is amazing, and the fact that you did places that usually aren't thought about as L.A. is great. Thank you for this.
I've probably watched this a hundred times. I put it on in the background while I write. Thank you, it's great.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder....majestic
You have good taste in music, and the video is quite good. Thanks for posting it.
Nice to see Los Angeles.. from Liverpool UK
Beautiful with high quality pictures .... Amaze with the Go Pro ....
Beautiful, I would never fly over our city, but it does make for an awesome video experience. Thanks for sharing.
Outstanding! I watched the entire 10 minute video without fast forwarding.
Great video! It makes me miss living in LA.
I loved this compilation of aerial shots! Keep it coming!!!
Really nice video and music,Thanks' for sharing.
Finally found this. I remember running into someone filming this around UCLA, and actually found myself in the video. Great to see the final product.
That was some spectacular photography of Los Angeles at night. It seemed to be a calm city within the lights. Loved the music! Sorry to hear you had an unfortunate incident during the flight. I have been flying up over the city where I live and its fun to get sunset shots, but after hearing your story makes me take a second thought at city flying. I love going into the forest flying, it’s what I have been wanting do and I love it. Thanks for sharing your work! Happy flying!
Beautiful work! That's real artistry
Gosh would never ever thought to fly my drone in the city, well done! Very brave! :)
Greetings from Ireland and think I will stick to my green fields and rivers, bridges and castles! :) Loved the video!
DJI Quadcopter Girl Thank you! I dont have a drone anymore, it was too risky flying like that. But I had fun while it lasted
Thank you so much for sharing this. I loved it. Specially seeing the Herbalife building at Nokia Plaza (Im a distributor in Adelaide, South Australia) and its a big dream to some day visit LA!! Fantastic images.
Thank you for posting this! You are very talented.
awesome vid man!
Laspeed very nice video !!!
Very nice shots! Love my Phantom as well...
Great video. Great songs. Great Job.
Really liked this video its just awesome. Cheers from Sint Maarten
Great job love it
just brilliant.. amazing control
Unfortunately my drone smashed to tiny pieces when it went out of control and hit a tall skyscraper so I would not recommend flying over cities, buildings, or people anymore. Something majorly malfunctioned, we are not sure what. But when something goes bad with these, there is no glide path like a plane and they cannot autogyrate down like a helicopter. They fall out of the sky and will hurt, damage, kill anything thats under it. I would keep it for landscape use or low liability flying. This is no way DSLR Pros fault, it has to do with a motor failure, speed contrller issue, or radio interferience of some sort. DSLR Pros still makes the best kits for filming, by far and away. The problems and or dangers are with the mechanics and or physical limitations of range and the fact that there are no redundant systems on small drones. No backup motors. No parachutes. No room for pilot error over people.
Thats what I was saying earlier laspeed13 about the Grove footage, any catastrophic mechanical failure, Radio failure, pilot error, electronics, motors, battery problems can cause you at the least some money to replace your aircraft. Good luck in the future.
For sure, I agree now. I didnt know or realize it could hapen
Ever open your phone and see over two dozen WIFI access points near a skyscraper? I'm pretty sure the interference from the multitude of 2.4ghz and 5.8ghz signals may have caused a glitch. Glad no one was hurt. I'm about to get my 1st P2 with FPV, and I thank you for sharing your experience.
put a parashoot on it
A parachute is a good idea.
Nice flying and editing!
Beautiful video!
Before the duly appointed authorities close in on this whole "FPV thing" ...
Brilliant video ...
Building my own, (FPV that is) ...
Santa Monica Pier looks great from up there. :)
wow , this is realy excelent mate , 5 star movie
Congrats man! AMAZING VIDEO!! I live in Spain and I'm planning to go to L.A to live and this video confirm that is a great city.... THANK YOU :)
+Bonno Guardiani i want to go there too ^^
Bellissimo. Bravo
This needs to get at least to a Million views!
FANTASTIC
My Phantom 2 should be here in the next few days!!!! TEEE HEEEEE. San Diego will be beautiful in it
When I looked at the DJI No Fly Zone map of San Diego, it seemed like there were two big red circles over most of the city. Although you should be OK for casual flying.
You can go up to 35 feet 1.5 miles from the airport and gradually up to 400 feet high as you get to 5 miles away from the airport, like at the beach.
I rarely go higher than 200 feet since I live close to John Wayne Airport here in Orange County, CA and I still have a lot of fun flying over the ocean or the harbor.
La Jolla is all clear. I plan on going down there to get some footage of the sea lions. Enjoy your Phantom! :)
Andy's Aerial Adventures I took it to Yosemite and got some amazing shots. Most people don't get too offended when they know you are filming.
I'll mail you the video. I like it.
like a movie, awesome
Awesome man.
Amazing
wow some really good video. I see you mastered the smooth diaganol manuever. I always wanted to get it good but i think i try and go upwards too much. Any tips? Good example at 5:10 . If this is the black + you should try out 1440p at 30fps and protune (unless your in low light like this) then put it through free go pro software and reduce fisheye and boom the footage cropped slightly getting rid of the blades if their in the shot and making it look so much better.
Beatifull thank you
awesome!
Question....can you take still photos with this set up? (New to drones etc.) Thanks.
Absolutely loved this video, i'm a photographer not a videographer and much less a drone pilot but i must say i find this new medium quite interesting. I just might give it a try one day. Been watching vids and tutorials all day and although many people have these, i haven't seen too many such good quality footage. Also it seems to be quite an endeavour to properly fly these drones smoothly and get good imagery as well. Namely i've seen advices on balancing the propellers to get rid of the jello effect and it also seems to entail long hours of post processing with expensive programs and plug ins to make anything of a decent quality. Did you have to go through all this in order to make this high quality video ? I suppose that being used to photography post processing i could learn to make good quality videos but as far as piloting goes knowing my luck i would probably crash the contraption on the 1st flight... Anywho thanks for sharing this :-)
Its a nerve racking and possibly expensive and dangerous (to people around you and below) learning curve. It wasnt easy figuring our how to fly it. It took some practice. I would start with a base model and learn to fly before attaching expensive camera and gimbal equipment to it. I havent been flying because my $4500 drone smashed to tiny pieces when something interfered with the radio
Dont see the appeal of neon lights, luckily i was born where natural beauty and wide open spaces are abundant
Where do you live, in Montana or Wyoming?
Value these shots. I have a feeling in the near future we won't be able to do this anymore.
How come your red lights are not showing?? Please help All my night videos is just horrible, im going to try to shot on that 1080 30fps because im doing on 2k =/
What gimbal do you have installed? If you can add link it would be much appreciated. Also what version Phanton do you have?
Amazed and impressed by how smooth your shots are. Do you credit the Futaba controller with that? Or did you luck out and get lots of zero-wind nights? :)
Zero wind, a good Gimbal and slow flying. No rapid movements and some editing on iMovie
I had another copter before my DJI quad and it went out of control and spiraled back down to earth and landed perfect, not sure why it can’t happen with the DJI, I got the footage of it happening between two building… Thanks again!
Can I use a clip of this in my project? Great work.
hi can u tell me the whole go pro setting u use on night? i know its 1080 p 30fps but my videos at night looks realy noise and with alot of artifacts, i have tried 1080p 30fps protune on and camera raw.. can u share ur settings plz? (sorry for my bad english)
I'm just guessing here since I haven't done any night flights yet, but you might have to change the Auto ISO setting to the lowest ISO available to keep the video from looking grainy or "noisy".
I was going to try a night flight tomorrow night with the ISO cranked up high and then turned down really low to see the difference.
Love your vids man! I'm getting ready to get one of the DSLR PROS phantom kits and wanted to ask you how quickly you felt prepared enough to go for shots over water, over buildings, over the Grove etc. Did you have faith in the phantom or were you nervous about losing power/control when you were above people or water?
Thank you. Its amazing flying this setup. There is a video of a crash at the beginning when I wasnt clear about setting it up with GPS and the compass. This is what happens Brand New Phantom DJI CRASH INTO A TREE WITH A GOPRO HERO 3 It took a little while to get comfortable, especially after this crash that took more than a week to repair, with multiple trips to DSLR Pros. A couple of tips : I always fly in GPS mode. If your compass is calibrated and you are connected to the satellites, just let go of the sticks and it stops. When I fly super long distances and Im watching the FPV monitor, I have a spotter watching the drone which helps to fly and not crash into a mountain or building. I ALWAYS check my battery charge in the battery pack before every flight. That way I know Im taking of with a full battery. At the beginning, I was a little worried about the Phantom losing power or control, but it seems to be pretty reliable. The biggest problem is actually loosing it from flying too far (and at the beginning, way way to high) and not being able to see it and find where you are on the ground to bring it back. The fail safe switch works well in these cases, the drone turns and aims the camera home and it flys back almost full speed fast. Home lock works well too but it flys more slowly and it doesnt aim the camera home.
Thank u for the tips! Can't wait to start flying.
Infinity Aquarium Design Its fun, it actually took me a while to get brave enough to fly long distance and over people. It was really nerve racking. Also, if you notice my first video of night shots over Beverly Hills, I am only flying straight up and over things, and then straight back. I wasnt turning much because once you lose your orientation of where the front of the drone is, it was hard to control. Once you get the FPV flying thing down its a lot easier. Take it to the biggest wide open field you can and practice flying while only watching your FPV video monitor.
laspeed13
thanks for your tips
good video ;)
Hi! I have used this video to help me practice making timelapses. Do you might if I uplaod the timelapse to my channel and give you credit in the description for the footage? Thanks!
Did you use protune on the camera?
could you tell me the settings you used.
very nice shots! do you think I can use part of it for a non profit video? thank you!
Which model Phantom did you fly also did you use follow me mode for the video?ThanksChris
What settings at you using or editing? My gopro hero videos in the night do not look anything like this!
Awesome! Could you tell me what setup you had? I heard the shots are shaky. How did you get yours so stable?
The blacks seems very nice with no appearance of grain, but everything seem so soft/out of focus on my 21,5 inches computer. Why is that?
I think its because RUclips compresses the videos when you upload them and ruins the HD video quality
Also you may not be watching at the best setting for quailty..Look at the settings box on the bottom right corner of the youtube video and make sure your watching in hd and best play speed for your pc.
freddiebebop No offense but... I have a Mac and I already knew that. I've been posting videos on You Tube for years and I must have watched over one million videos on it too, so.... ;-) I' m always on it. lol Thanks anyway.
how is it possible you don't have a lot of noise? was it with the hero3 black? and thanks for the tip to use less fps in dark. Have a lovely day.
nice video are you using 5.8ghz FPV or Lightbridge 2.4
Really a great video!
Looks pretty sharp and steady.
I will be using the same setup for night flight video's mainly.
What video settings and what kind of video editting did you use here ?
1080 30FPS You have to keep the frame rate low or the camera wont shoot good night video, it will be very grainy because of the ISO. It was edited and stabilized in iMovie 11. Nothing sophisticated.
***** Im using the DJI Zenmuse H3-2D Gimbal. Im not really familiar with the Arris.
***** Im not sure that Arris CM3000 will work on a Phantom. It looks too big and more advanced than what seems to work on the the smaller Phantom. I think this Arris would work on a larger drone. Check out www.dslrpros.com Im using the Ultimate Cinema Kit.
You have to get rid of the landing gear on the phantom as well. The bigger drones have landing gear that folds up and out of the way of the camera. If the camera rotated even a few degrees on the phantom, you would have the landing legs in the video
They have to rotate up and out of the way. Also the compass is attached to one of the legs. Simensays Foldable Landing Gear for DJI Phantom :: Assembly
I'm curious, when this happened did you have the stock motors on when this happened? How many hours were on them?
I would have been interested in what you GP settings were. Wide or Medium? 1080P 60 or 30 or some other setting.
It was shot at 1080P 30 FPS. Slower frame rates for night. It doesnt work well at a higher frame rate in the dark. You will get a lot of grain.
We tried to create a similar video of down town fort worth at night. We filmed with a go pro hero 3 and a dji phantom 2. Problems that we had were that the leds from the drone caused an awful red glow to the shot and many of the street lights and other lights had a bad glare. We had the go pro in low light setting. Was that a mistake? Any suggestions?
1080 at 30 FPS Less frame rate gives better resolution per frame. The red glow was from the lights on the drone itself. Put black Gorrilla tape (its the thickest tape) over most of the red forward lights on the Phantom. That way you can see the direction the drone is flying but the lights dont glare downards on the camera. Leave a little light showing out the edges of the lights, just cap the surface.
Did you film in the low light setting?
Could I use this footage in a student film project I'm working on and credit you?
cool!
Good night shots! Did you use any noise reduction in post edit?...as the shots look very clear
No noise reduction, its shot at 30fps and I flew super slow and smooth.
What do you recommend are the best settings for night video filming?
I have the black4 so I am assuming 4k 30 FPS is the way to go. Did you turn protune off and just shoot raw and expect the auto settings to do their part?
If you have protune on are you shooting high ISO?
trevor bona
I just shot 1080 30FPS. I shot it regular setting, I dont understand protune or raw. I think I just made some small saturation adjustments in iMovie.
What gopro settings you used for such good quality night shoots ?
1080 set at 30 FPS. The 30FPS is the key. Low frame rate gives less grain.
laspeed13 Appreciate that info, so it's original movie without any denoise in post production ?
No denoise, just saturation and color levels correction. Some of those levels hide some of the noise but its relatively clean video and one reason for that is because LA is so heavily lit up at night, especially during the holidays.
Great production, music, great flying... enjoyed that. I don't understand how you spent $4500 though for DJI and GoPro ?
How do you keep the glare from the led from showing up?
zoom in 4% on the video editing
Dude how did you prevent the red lights from the phantom from appearing in the footage?
Black
do you used some filters ?
What was the focal length of the lens you used? Thanks!
Its a GoPro Hero set on the middle setting (medium)
I have the Phantom 2 Vision, it measures the FOV as 140 degrees, 120 degrees and 90 degrees. would you say its around 90 degrees on the GoPro?
Bobster986 I have no clue. Im sure if you go to GoPro.com and google it you can figure it out.
You need a special system for big cities. There is so much wi-fi ect. it's like flying though a mine field! Sorry you lost your quad :/
This is a good drone shot video. However, here is one challenge which you may want to consider doing. Find some of those famous FEMA camps & fly your drone over it, carefully noting the exteriors of buildings from INSIDE the buildings courtyard, than merely flying over the chain link fencing. You should carefully focus on building signage, to give further clues as to the purpose and intentions of such facilities.
Is this footage raw? It looks really mucky. Like your lens was dirty or something.
you used a go pro? at night? no grain?
Yes, 1280 at probably 30FPS. The Hero 3 Black works weel at night and there are so many lights in LA its really not fully dark
All forward shots are right to left and anybody that flies one will tell you why that is. Nice nerves .
seems like the end of gta san andreas.
+Pedro Siqueira ikr :o
It's disturbing to see how many of you are completely uneducated on how many different violations you are committing and just how many lawsuits you potentially open yourselves up to. Unauthorized flying in class B airspace is one of the worst acts you can commit as real pilot. UAS are NOT allowed EVER into flight of class B. Flying around people/buildings/etc, any damage caused you will be held liable. If you happen to hit someone with even the smallest piece of an aircraft you may face severe civil penalties. Most cities have specific ordinances on model aircraft flight. Educate yourselves, please! It's those of you who think you can just throw one of these in the air that is causing all of the bad publicity and giving justification to harsh regulations.
Mr Trembly you might be right for general aviation but as of right now, all the FAA can come up with are unenforceable guidelines and policy statements regarding drones. After almost a decade, nothing. Not one official regulation has been proposed, much less passed. You are correct that it is not a good idea, but until your beloved FAA gets off their ass, it is not illegal, and unfortunately until they do, they have only themselves to blame if a tragedy occurs. In fact I almost wonder sometimes if that is what they are waiting for, so they won't have to do their job and can just institute a blanket ban. Not to even mention that without clear guidance, instead of blanket "if you get paid" bans, otherwise you can do whatever you please, companies are abandoning the US in mass, for countries where the atmosphere is much friendlier. What a shame they can't see how far behind they are putting us.
Airplanes fly over cities all the time. they crash into cities, weighing several tons, lots of people die. drone crashes don't even compare.
***** Tis indeed true.
1:48 GTA 5
probably civilian drones are using unlicensed frequency which will always have interference risk with other nearby same freq. use devices, gadgets and equipment. In city environment, 2.4 or 5.7 Ghz unlicensed frequency use is always high and this may cause the risk of transmission failures with the drone. better to use that in more open and less urbanized areas.
STOP MAKING SENSE
This is cool. I just hate the LAPD drones that are allowed to go wherever they want. It invades your privacy.
the part of the sales pitch/marketing feature about the anti gravity motor thingy is a little over the top. no such thing as anti gravity... at least not anywhere outside of black budgeted military technology.
Something is going on with Drone too much flying away either the drone are rig by the GPS most of the Drone are made in China I wander if its a set up to keep us buying Drone I have one fly's away the company dos not want to sell me the parts they recommend I buy a new drone some one need to look in to this . Nice toys and they are easy to assemble .
That's an expensive lesson for you! I hope your face wasn't on the video when you took off or you might end up like spiro9210 mentioned. Check out this link : abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/investigators&id=9292217.
Realistically, you can't expect to fly an RC vehicle in an urban setting. There is way too much interference. Think of all the wi-fi in the offices, cell phones, communication towers... If you don't loose control or crash you are lucky! It may seem like a cool thing to do, but how cool will it be when you get a knock on your door from the police?
This kind of poor judgement is surely going to ruin it for everyone.
Remember they are surely looking for people to make "examples" of.
gta v ;)
Good freaking lord stupid flying to the T. Granted a nice video but damn flying over all those people and stuff is so dumb ass. Sadly this is another log on the fire why all will be band cause crap like this.
what an ugly place.
Hi friend,
What settings did you use??
In the gopro