Air 3 Chasing boats & missing electricity cables in the land down under! 🇦🇺 8 lives left!

[Squidinc]

Hi all,

Spent some time away this Easter at Wisemans Ferry on the Hawkesbury River. Just casually chasing a few boats up and down the river. Ohh and did I mention just missing colliding with some electricity cables in the process. 8 lives left!

 

[RockyMtns]

Hi Paul, great video. You tracked the speedboats very well!
What software did you use in the beginning of the video, grading from a very coarse black and white to full color? Really like that effect!

 

[twickers14]

Another fun video and as always good to watch. It seems a little washed out in the early part of the vid, would that have been the light and sun location?

 

[GFields]

Another good video. However, there were some exposure issues in some of the video. Some seemed underexpose while some seemed a bit overexposed. Are you using auto or manual settings? I always use the Histogram for exposure balance.

 

[Squidinc]

Hi Paul, great video. You tracked the speedboats very well!
What software did you use in the beginning of the video, grading from a very coarse black and white to full color? Really like that effect!

Hi @RockyMtns:
I use Final Cut Pro X. The effect I use at the beginning and end is not a standard transition. I firstly split the footage then add “comic basic” to the first section and fade that to the second. I first got (stole lol) the idea from @Jeremy Clark Clark in the UK. It’s become a bit of a standard for me now, as I like to create it on all my videos.

 

[Squidinc]

Another fun video and as always good to watch. It seems a little washed out in the early part of the vid, would that have been the light and sun location?

Hi @twickers14 Thanks. I agree. It was a difficult one for me to colour grade with the sun changing position over the water as I circled about.

 

[Squidinc]

Another good video. However, there were some exposure issues in some of the video. Some seemed underexpose while some seemed a bit overexposed. Are you using auto or manual settings? I always use the Histogram for exposure balance.

@GFields Yes I agree. It was difficult to colour grade with the sun moving all over the place as I circled about. I still have much to learn in the colour grading side of flying. I shot it all in raw.