Thanks for the compliment...
As to how do I capture the footage, generally the locations are a fair distance from home, so its usually a one chance deal to fly in a place. Before going I research on oogle Maps and YT as to where I think may be a good location to fly - previous photographic knowledge of where to shoot also helps - and then put together an itineraray as to where we will park and TOAL from - not set in stone, but it gives some structure, and we ususally make the plans for about half of the holiday days, but go out nd get them when the weather is with us.
For each video of 2 to 5 minutes there could be 5 to 30 minutes of footage, so dont be afraid of trying things multiple times - I am prone to forgetting to press record, so I generally hit record at take off and leave it recording until I land - means lots of footage to trawl through, but less likely to miss a shot - my
AVATA is set to autorecord, sometimes I wish the other drones had the same options!
As to the actual flights, I have a few types of shot I find work for me, and I walways look to find an intro and outtro - pan in or reveal and overflight and away or back and away. Then there are the normal bread and butter shots, tracking pans and tracjs with height changes, gimbal moves, top down flights and gimbal down rotation flying up or down, and of course orbits. I fly most of what I do manually, occassionally I will use POI mode, but generally I prefer to fly manually...
As to hints, set your feathering high - look at IaninLondon's YT channel as to what settings to use for yaw rates, etc, and then set up your shot before you make the move, and keep direction changes to an absolute minimum - if you are flying past something then do so as smoothly as you can, no jerky stick inputs - if overflying then keep it in a straight line, you can add a height change, but unless you are doing a specific gimball move do not touch the gimball...
I have ony ever once recce'd a spot, and it was to get some footagee anyway, Callanish Standing Stones, we went in the afternoon we arrived on Lews and Harris, and planned to return for sunrise the next day, but with only one opportunity to capture the sunrise and with weather being chancy, well, I flew the afternoon and got plenty of good footage, but also got the dieas for the next morning, if the weather played ball, which it did...
Anyhows, hope this helps...
