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i hear ya. id like to add some noise to the thing im working on rn, but itll just get wasted by youtube at 1080p, but maybe at 4k itll be alright ? gonna do some tests...

@kidzrevil lookin good man, i thought youd like ml raw. its such a nice thick image to work with how are you doing the upscale? what was so time consuming im scared lol

hi mercer! any way you could post a link to a .dng frame from that shot? id like to compare...

i am NOT going to post on this until ive seen the film and there are more comments

OOOoooooo i kno what this issssss i cant wait to see it but i dont have netflix yeah, TOTALLY do what Jonesy said, IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT THIS IS JUST WATCH IT. DONT GOOGLE IT

the drone would have its propellors OFF, on a jib~! no flying indoors lol id just like to match the footage to the night shot going up in the sky cuz its ~all one movement~ that im hacking together in post edit: see this is why i need you guys, i just got a CL message from a guy who has "a Mavic Pro drone which is great in low light!"

ha, the DoP is me, im shooting the rest of this short with ml raw on my 5d3 i swear the rest of this v short film is easy shooting – the cameras locked down 90% of the time im gonna see if i can get my friend to do everything i need drone wise for $650. im fine with that, ill find somewhere else to save a few hundred bucks lol maybe ill do the indoor jib shots on my 5d3 and make life easier on my drone guy.... trynna figure all that out rn

????? thanks i though so ? excellent point, we're discussing that lol thats what i wanted to hear! thanks so much to all you guys

ok ill ask lol: how much do you guys think i should be paying for this? my "friend" with the inspire 2 x4s wants $650... but then i looked it up and i was like wait a min i could rent that drone for a WEEK for $650 BUT ive never flown a drone... is doing this myself a crazy idea? i put up a CL ad to get some other rates note: im not saying $650 is too much, im just poor

perf! ???

it means theyre gonna fuck us again! ?

better example, heres some footage at dusk that i could grade down (link should start playing at about 7 min)

thats the plan! not golden hour, but as SOON as the city lights come on, theres still a ton of light in the sky then it should work ok, mind you the cameras pointed down so the (not dark) sky wont be in the shot... i hope that works lol. ive messed around with some screen grabs of other ppls drone footage in post in photoshop and it seems to be working ok. and im willing to go nuts on it with power windows or whatever in post bc its a short effect – a few seconds this is not amazing looking, but for my purposes i think itll be ok, especially since ill shoot before its actually dark ?

ok... im starting to wrap my brain around this no way im flying a drone inside – just thought id ~ask~ since i have seen lil drones flying around the apple store, but im sure those cameras suck lol i like @DaveAltizer's idea of drone on a jib with the propellors off for indoors, and then my footage will match up a lot easier, cuz this is gonna be one big movement: up, through the ceiling, through "neighboring apartments", through the roof, into the sky. im gonna cut it all together and vfx it into submission update: my one friend has the P4 (not Pro), and my other friend has the Inspire 2 with the X4s camera are either of these good options, or should i hire a pilot with a specific package? looks like the P4 wont cut it for low light (i need a night shot, at dusk or dawn), and the x4s is the 1" sensor, right? thats not ideal huh hmmm...

damn, thanks for the info @Mark Romero 2~! ill keep all that in mind! turns out Inspire 2 is the one my friend has!!! so, is that good? lol my other friend has "a dji phantom 4, dji mavic, dji spark, and dji goggles" what does that mean?? ? i can use google but what would you guys choose, if i was going to pick one person or another? inspire 2? or the other guy?

good lord this is getting a bit more complex lol. what about this? looks ok to me i honestly dont know, what am i missing here? more than happy to shoot in 4k and deliver in 1080p – or whatever. doesnt matter

oh, ONE MORE THING: this is a night shot i figure i can shoot at dusk or dawn, when the city lights are on, and grade things down a bit in post is there anything im missing about low light drone shooting? based on the videos ive watched so far it seems that the night flights need noise reduction even with the best drones – which isnt a problem, ill use neat video or whatever is that fair?

heres a fun idea: ive long thought that we should have a miscellaneous thread for all *kinds* of stuff that you dont want to put in its own thread – theres things i want to share that might not deserve their own topic – and i appreciate the spirit of the voices who echo that so, if we could have a pinned thread like that, i *absolutely promise* not to post pictures like this (i made this btw) @webrunner5 (lol thats seth rich)

@webrunner5 must be doing something right i always see him at the top of the Popular Contributors™

i appreciate the thought unfortunately there is a little movement of the actor in bed during the shot. i did think about some kind of post zoom tho, and i reallllly like the easiness of it > oh, also i didnt mention that i dont need to record any audio on the set whatsoever. so thats a non issue NOTABLE EDIT: Hmmmm looks like im gonna need this guy to go way higher than 400ft... how high CAN a p4 Pro go exactly? i just looked it up and saw something insane like 19,000ft?!?? WHAT!! so, the signal will disappear after 300-400ft, but it can keep going waaay higher? but thats illegal? is that whats going on here?

oh yeah im in SoCal! lots of options so if theres any specific place yall know and like let me kno ill go there! drone on a jib with the blades OFF?

good points guys uhhh YEAH thats just EXACTLY what i want thank u!!!! sounds p easy, no? i *think* my friend has a P4 Pro... ill ask him!!! definitely gonna have a pal help or just hire someone with the right drone im not looking to buy one and i can rent a jib? easy? (tell me mistakes have been made lol)

Hey internet friends I have a project where I need a drone and i dont know ANYTHIiiiinnggg about them!!! i know that they fly. and that they can be controlled by apps could you guys help me out? what would you use to execute the following… > i need a shot with vertical camera movement imagine that this is the beginning of the shot: person in bed, camera looking down, maybe more of a closeup than you see here now imagine that the camera moves UP, to the ceiling, lens still pointed down ill need to repeat that movement several times in different places since i wont be using sets, ill be in real environments – normal rooms with 8 foot ceilings – the distance of this move is going to be confined to such a space so, question 1: do drones do that? if so which one(s)? like imagine a drone is lying on the floor, and you want it to go up to the ceiling, shooting with the camera pointed down – is that a normal thing to ask of a drone? lol i have no idea. id rather that it didnt crash against the ceiling… are drones crashproof now? so, thats one thing id like to do with a drone. if thats impossible i can try to figure out how to do it with my 5d3 but id rather not > the other drone shot i need is from the roof of a building – again shooting down – where the drone goes up, up up… as high as possible~! and thats question 2: what would you recommend there? those are my two purposes! does such a thing exist that will do both? Please help me and tell me stuff about drones and make suggestions again, • i know nothing about drones • i mean nothing - lenses, focal lengths, sensors, color, dynamic range, raw/log/formats, gotchas, etc. • and of course like you guys id like this to look as pretty as possible whaddya think pals?? can it be done???