Happymodel Mobula 6 HD, IL USA filmed March 2022, released December 2022.
Video stabilization hates night time and flashing lights
Edited in Hit Film Express
Feedback welcome.
I'm sitting on a backlog of footage and am having fun catching up on holiday vacation. When I found the awesome song Mayday by TheFatRat/Laura Brehm I knew this footage would be perfect. It was very cold I remember had a gyro and ESC fail on one of the quads that night, not surprising considering I crash a lot and had crashed in the snow more than once (pushin' the envelope I guess). There were only 13 flights, each about 2 minutes long, pretty thin to fill an entire 3 minutes song but I had fun contextualizing the footage with the lyrics. I can see my flight skills have improved over the summer, and video stabilization does not like night footage with flashing lights so unfortunately it's a bit bouncy and jerky. I tried to leave the footage darker in color grading to tie into the space theme, but I think it turned out a hare too dark for mobile displays in daylight... that's what I get for grading at midnight.
