I’ve seen many example movies of fireworks captured with drones. However, I’ve never seen anyone post a hyperlapse sequence of a fireworks display much less one synchronized to the beat of the music.
For this video, I planned a mission using Litchi to circle an area where a fireworks display was planned. One the night of the fireworks display, I ran the mission twice, once capturing video, and once taking a photo every two seconds. Both turned out nice but I especially like the hyperlapse sequence set to music.
The song I chose to use has 4/4 time at 158 beats per minute (BPM). 158 BPM is close to 150 BPM and 150 BPM is 0.4 seconds per image (60 minutes / 0.4 = 150). Knowing that the song I used had 158 BPM I needed to scale the tempo of the music by 95% (150/158=0.9494). Doing so got me close to the frame rate of the hyperlapse. Then, it was just a matter of tweaking the tempo and the timeline in slow motion until I got beat to match the frames perfectly. Here’s the final product.
For this video, I planned a mission using Litchi to circle an area where a fireworks display was planned. One the night of the fireworks display, I ran the mission twice, once capturing video, and once taking a photo every two seconds. Both turned out nice but I especially like the hyperlapse sequence set to music.
The song I chose to use has 4/4 time at 158 beats per minute (BPM). 158 BPM is close to 150 BPM and 150 BPM is 0.4 seconds per image (60 minutes / 0.4 = 150). Knowing that the song I used had 158 BPM I needed to scale the tempo of the music by 95% (150/158=0.9494). Doing so got me close to the frame rate of the hyperlapse. Then, it was just a matter of tweaking the tempo and the timeline in slow motion until I got beat to match the frames perfectly. Here’s the final product.
