MX Video

[motor_mayhem]

Hey all,

Recently I bought a quadcopter and have been working on getting some video of mx with it.

Here's the results of a visit to my local track, which is not particularly suited to it due to all the trees (be sure to choose HD quality):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lSP8U8EpFI

Another one from a few months back:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMsTHmIXRbU

If anyone has any events they would like me to try and film please feel free to let me know and I'll see what I can do - doing it for fun so trying to work it in with going for a ride etc.

[Tazz]

I know fawk all about film, but you want to do something about editing with tracking and stabilizing I think so it's not so shakey when you adjust course or camera. Crop the piece of the copter out too

Otherwise, farkin cool toy

What sort of controller do you use to fly that thing? Any links to some info on the particular one you own? Haven't had a chance to look at one of em yet.

[tigertim20]

nice. how much does one of them copter things set you back?

[motor_mayhem]

I know fawk all about film, but you want to do something about editing with tracking and stabilizing I think so it's not so shakey when you adjust course or camera. Crop the piece of the copter out too

Otherwise, farkin cool toy

What sort of controller do you use to fly that thing? Any links to some info on the particular one you own? Haven't had a chance to look at one of em yet.

Hi Tazz, the answer to that is I do have a gimbal - device that insulates the camera from the quadcopter's movement - however when it came from Malaysia it was reverse wired from the factory so when I plugged it in, the gimbal control board blew up and went on fire, consequently I am waiting for a replacement that hasn't shown up yet.

The controller is the standard one that comes with the copter which is a DJI Phantom. Mine came from trademe but here's a link to the details of it:
http://www.helipal.com/dji-phantom-gps-drone-rtf.html

nice. how much does one of them copter things set you back?

They originally came out at over 1k, I bought mine for ~800 new, you can now pick up second hand ones for as low as 550. Obviously then there's the cost of the camera to mount on it - I use my go pro which I had as a helmet cam already

[unstuck]

Not bad, prefer the closer to the ground stuff myself. Seems too 1 dimensional from too high above.

[oldguy]

Are you using FPV ? or just line of sight? try following rider from behind in stead of just hovering and turning. got to love GPS with altitude hold.

I was thinking the same with mine, my Storm Drone 4 no GPS all manual flying, well crashing anywhoo.

http://youtu.be/kNl66aAySpc

[motor_mayhem]

Are you using FPV ? or just line of sight? try following rider from behind in stead of just hovering and turning. got to love GPS with altitude hold.

I was thinking the same with mine, my Storm Drone 4 no GPS all manual flying, well crashing anywhoo.

http://youtu.be/kNl66aAySpc

At the moment I fly it by just watching it but I am starting to fly it further away which is making it difficult to see which way it's pointing, so will need to switch to the fpv screen.

You should be able to attach GPS to your storm drone and get it to use that to help you. As to learning to fly it, start off not rotating it at all and just use forwards, backwards and strafe L/R until you are really comfortable with that then slowly introduce the rotating, getting into the habit of rotating the copter back to backwards towards you if it gets out of control - this is the way that worked for me.

My heli has a max speed of ~36kmh so I can't follow people when they really get going, would also help if I went somewhere that had no trees to dodge.

[FlangMasterJ]

Liking it. Rode that Moonshine track once. My first and only open day. I knew I was in trouble when I couldn't even complete the sighting lap without binning it.


A friend of mine has got himself a gyrocopter etc.

Here's a sweet little flick he made (production quality far more impressive than the subject matter).

from PuppyGuts on Vimeo.

[george formby]

Watching what your filming & watching the quad copter while utilising all your digits independently and thinking about where to predict and place a good shot, all at the same time?

Must not get me one of those. I'm so uncoordinated I stop breathing when I pick my nose.

[unstuck]

Watching what your filming & watching the quad copter while utilising all your digits independently and thinking about where to predict and place a good shot, all at the same time?

Must not get me one of those. I'm so uncoordinated I stop breathing when I pick my nose.

I got given a remote control helicopter not long ago, off out into the back yard. Switched everything on, paired the copter and remote, checked out what all the functions did, got it hovering, thought fuck this is a piece of piss. Time to fly the sucker, up in the air about 10 mtrs, forward a little, to the right a little, this is way to easy, full power straight into the side of the house and broke the copter and the guttering. Stupid helicopters, they are shit.