Air 2s Best of the Best - My drone highlight reel

[Rick243]

I poured my heart and soul into this video. I will truly appreciate it if you give me two and a half minutes of your day to watch my drone reel! This highlight video is over four years in the making, featuring stunning aerial videos from numerous interesting locations. From 2018-2021 footage was shot on the DJI Mavic Air and in 2022 footage was shot on the DJI Mavic Air 2S. You’ll get to see ten unique hyperlapse shots. If you’re unfamiliar with what a hyperlapse shot is, it’s a series of photos merged together quickly. I would fly the drone through a mapped out set of waypoints and have the aircraft take a photo every five seconds for fifteen to twenty minutes. I’d then merge all the photos together to create some breathtaking shots! I’m really proud of this video and am excited to finally share it. While the footage ranges from 2018 to 2022, I began editing this project back in May. The final hyperlapse shot was taken just two days ago, Sunday August 14th.

Thank you so much for checking this out.

PS: Watch with the sound on and up!

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0:10 Field of Dreams - Dyersville, IA
0:13 Mercedes Benz Stadium & State Farm Arena, home of the Atlanta Falcons and Hawks - Atlanta, GA
0:19 Xavier High School - Cedar Rapids, IA
0:22 Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves - Atlanta, GA
0:25 The Pentacrest, former state capitol of Iowa - Iowa City, IA
0:28 Modern Woodmen Park, home of the Quad Cities River Bandits - Davenport, IA
0:32 Kryton Metals - Cedar Falls, IA
0:36 Interstate 380 S Curve - Cedar Rapids, IA
0:42 Vinton Courthouse - Vinton, IA
0:45 Clickstop Inc. - Urbana, IA
0:47 Shrine Ridge Trail - Red Cliff, CO
0:49 Marion High School Football Field - Marion, IA
0:51 Spaghetti Junction - Atlanta, GA
0:55 Interstate 380 & Interstate 80 - Iowa City, IA
0:58 Mississippi River - Pikes Peak State Park, IA
1:03 Field of Dreams - Dyersville, IA
1:07 Shrine Ridge Trail - Red Cliff, CO
1:09 Twin Cities - Minneapolis, MN
1:12 Kinnick Stadium - Iowa City, IA
1:16 Clickstop Inc. - Urbana, IA
1:18 Cobb Parkway & Kennesaw Mountain - Kennesaw, GA (check out the fireworks from the Braves stadium at the beginning of the shot in the far back left)
1:28 Midtown - Atlanta, GA
1:35 Cabin - Breckenridge, CO
1:38 Downtown - Cedar Rapids, IA
1:40 Foggy Farmland - Clayton County, IA
1:44 Prospect Meadows - Marion, IA
1:47 Backyard - Cedar Rapids, IA
1:50 Farmhouse - Center Point, IA
1:53 Worlds Largest Strawberry - Strawberry Point, IA
1:57 Downtown - Des Moines, IA
2:00 Field of Dreams - Dyersville, IA
2:04 Breckenridge Golf Club - Breckenridge, CO
2:11 Indian Creek Nature Center - Cedar Rapids, IA
2:13 Quaker Oats & Downtown - Cedar Rapids, IA
2:16 Interstate 75 & Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves - Atlanta, GA

That’s very awesome!

 

[Enhanced Exposure Media]

That’s very awesome!

Thank you, I appreciate it!

 

[Robert Prior]

Better than the 1989 Radler film, not as good as Yau's 1992 flick.

Best of the Best (1989 film) - Wikipedia

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Best of the Best (1992 film) - Wikipedia

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Joking aside, I would lose the very short shots — they come and go too fast to really appreciate them. (It would be different if they were part of a sequence, but they aren't.) I also don't like the fancy transitions you've used some (but not all) of the time. The cuts are cleaner and less distracting.

Maybe reorganize it into sections that share a similar theme? At the moment it seems a mishmash — night, day, urban, rural all mixed together. In location you bounce from Dyersville to Atlanta to Cedar Rapids to Atlanta to…

For sections/themes, you have night cities, day cities, rural(ish), workplaces…

What story are you telling? (That's the question my filmmaker niece keeps asking me.) The hyperlapses are very well done, but a video this long should have a story and that seems to be missing.