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Tom, I think those are some great observations. While I still maintain the Hoverfly does best with stability there were some yaw quirks that came in occasionally. Probably some pilot indecision as well hehe ;) I see videos of 2 axis gimbals from a Naza and there's a constant left right motion...

Holy cow that was a cool video, lots of interesting shots and angles. A lot of thought put into light as well, very nice. Some of those shots look like they might have been done with a 2 man setup, I find those to be among the most interesting aerial shots. Thanks for sharing. Although I'm a...

Actually you know what happened to me once? I plugged the battery in but my throttle wasn't all the way down in fact it was kind of high, I must have bumped it. Anyway, the escs beeped and I lowered the throttle when I saw it and without realizing I had just recalibrated the escs to about half...

I can't say that I ever really thought to take off with altitude hold on, maybe it would work. Seems counter intuitive to want to hold your altitude to the ground though :) I always fly in manual mode so I really never thought of all the combinations there are. To me it's pretty black and...

Wow, that's a lot of good questions. Although I think you may be over complicating things a bit but I think you've got a pretty good handle on it with your DJI comparison. You are correct in the number and type of switches the HoverflyPro+GPS combo uses. Although as you'll see below they...

Sorry for the delayed response... but here it is :) Unfortunately I only fly for about 6 minutes with my Spidex quad that shot that Stanley Lake video you saw. I have a minute maybe two to spare but not much. It also depends on how aggressive I fly so I've set my radio timer to 6 minutes to be...

Thanks guys! When I'm ready I'll hit you up!

Where would one find some LHCP antennas for 5.8 gear? All I can find are RHCP antennas :( If you have to make them, I'm out... hehe

I did some more backyard test hovers this weekend, still have yet to get it out and fly. I swear, while spider quad frames are great for camera placement, they're difficult to get the CG correct. I made an "X" from motor to motor to mark the actual center of the quad and thought I had it...

I think ProCam is a little suspect in saying he didn't mean to criticize but it was pretty blatant: ditching the T6 due to its large size(huge for a GoPro rig) poor flight characteristics and poor video results did not provide the footage we needed two T6's were not delivering These are all...

I agree, this thread has some great advice and some good tips and ideas to boot. I really hope we can keep it going. I knew this would be a good place to post this. While the Hoverfly talk is almost nonexistent... I still think it's frequented by a high percentage of gracious professionals...

Thanks Chuck those look great, subscribed! Holy COW! How did they get some of those shots? I almost have to call CG on some of those... hehe ;)

Man I swear sometimes this forum doesn't show me all the updated threads... that's my excuse for the late reply and I'm sticking too it! Hehe. I haven't had a chance to really fly it yet, just hovering tests in the backyard. But with the big 11" props it does seem to have more lift then my...

I've been curious about insurance for commercial use of aerial videography and was wondering if there was an insurance company willing to insure something that seems pretty deep in the grey area as far as legality?

Here's the rest of the footage I shot for the commercial. The director suggested the shots I just did my best to execute them. He was interested in any ideas I had but I didn't have much just little suggestions :( Thus one of the reasons I had to start this thread.

Hahah Perfect!

I do think you have an awesome point that audio is WAY more important than most people think. I feel like I've made a much better video when I can time it to events in the music. Of course the music you choose will always be subjective ;) Whether or not someone wants to be a pro I do think you...

This seems strange that this quad flew well before and not now, I hate stuff like that. However, based on your description I almost think you may be over propped. I have a 1.7kg quad that has 9x4.7 APC props I can't imagine if it had 12x3.8. I do have a big quad with the same size props but its...

haha now we just need the sound effect!

Thanks Chuck, that was a really nice read. I'm kind of in a spot where I really need to learn both about cinematography "101" and also realizing that FPV flight gives you something more and how best to take advantage of that. My day job is working for a health information company where I do...