This evening I pulled off one of the more challenging video shoots with our P4P 2.0: a nighttime shoot of fireworks, synched to a land based camera for audio pickup.
On the ground, we had my Sony RX10 mk III recording at the river bank with a Tascam X-Y microphone.
In the air, the DJI Phantom 4 Pro 2.0.
Also in the air, were at least THREE other drones by local residents. I was not alone in the sky! This made me feel more comfortable knowing I wasn't the lone droner up there. But I did have to watch out to make sure I kept my AC away from the others.
My wife noted that the other drones left the sky after about ten minutes. Their batteries probably depleted.
So I stayed through the whole grand finale and got it all. In the early part of the show, I backed the drone up over the town green to get the foreground downtown with the fireworks in the background. Then slowly flew toward the fireworks launch area, 2 miles west. Finally got the closeup I wanted.
As the finale finished, I had about 20% battery left. But I made it back to the river shore where I launched from, well before RTH kicked in.
Here's the resulting video, encoded in HEVC before uploading to Youtube:
On the ground, we had my Sony RX10 mk III recording at the river bank with a Tascam X-Y microphone.
In the air, the DJI Phantom 4 Pro 2.0.
Also in the air, were at least THREE other drones by local residents. I was not alone in the sky! This made me feel more comfortable knowing I wasn't the lone droner up there. But I did have to watch out to make sure I kept my AC away from the others.
My wife noted that the other drones left the sky after about ten minutes. Their batteries probably depleted.
So I stayed through the whole grand finale and got it all. In the early part of the show, I backed the drone up over the town green to get the foreground downtown with the fireworks in the background. Then slowly flew toward the fireworks launch area, 2 miles west. Finally got the closeup I wanted.
As the finale finished, I had about 20% battery left. But I made it back to the river shore where I launched from, well before RTH kicked in.
Here's the resulting video, encoded in HEVC before uploading to Youtube: