have i wanted to shoot a stadium tour on an fvb drone in one shot let's check out
so i watched a bunch of these fpv one-shot tours of buildings particularly stadiums heck the mls
even has a whole series on all their stadiums on their youtube channel so when dji challenged
me to remake a famous fpv video with the dji avatar i thought like there's no better place
than the stadium the former world cup stadium of my home town and the stadium of hanover 96
and get one of those shots they need it right anyhow sports arenas is something that we are
all very very familiar with and have seen in different angles so
fbv drones are actually the perfect tool to give you a different perspective a different view
show of these vast spaces to visitors to fans and show them a different different side of the
stadium and the dji avatar actually allows folks like me who are not day-to-day fpv pilots to
get these shots so in this video we go through a step-by-step guide on how we pulled off this shoot
alright so for inspiration i watched a ton of videos of fpv drone shots in stadiums in fact
they like they have these races and stadiums often times so you have a lot of material to
work with but i picked a couple of shots that i really wanted to get put them together and check
them out now if you can ideally you can also get some some footage video or photos of the location
you're actually going to shoot at so that you can start mapping out what shots you want to
get in this inspiration and brainstorming phase don't put any limitations on yourself just like
think what you really want to get and then later on you can figure out if it's actually possible
now once you're on the ground you have to assess what's possible and see what the situation is now
first of all this very much depends on your flying skills but also on environmental factors like the
weather and wind particularly these small cinder whoops and strong winds are not friends that can
really ruin your day but luckily the dj avatar is very small and compact as well as the small
very compact goggles you can just like throw them in with the rest of your gear in a backpack and
track around all right now it's getting real during the walkthrough you want to figure out
your exact flight path you want to find some gaps you can fly through some details that you
want to show off of your location so that's what we're doing right now good fpv one shots take
paths that ground-based cameras cannot do and also do close proximity flights that normal drones
can't do because of their size and maneuverability you want to start on something that sets the scene
that suspends reality in the first couple of seconds to get the audience attention and show
that this is not a normal video you can achieve that by immediately integrating some close flybys
super fast shots you want to mix up things and and get really the energy up right from the get-go
luckily the dji avatar has these built-in prop guards and a very robust build with which allows
you to confidently fly in these tight places even if you don't have that much of fpv experience
okay since they're actually transitioning through indoor and outdoor spaces through that player
tunnel down there i want to hide the transition here while flying through it for the outdoor shots
it is of camera settings i'm gonna try to hit iso 100 and use these nd filters that you can get for
the avatar to achieve a 150th 180th of exposure time and have that nice motion blur come through
especially with these faster fpv shots you want to get that motion blur for the indoor shots
i'm going to take off the nd filter and luckily because of the one over 1.7 inch new cmos sensor
that is slightly bigger actually than the one that is on the original dji fpv drone you have a
more light sensitive sensor in the camera which is better for these indoor shots that you want to get
all right now the exciting part starts the first test run this is where you want to fly a little
bit slower and see where the tricky areas are what the wind conditions are so that you get a little
bit of a hang on the situation actually before you make before you take off you may need to unlock
the geo zones if you're flying inside a stadium you can do this on the dji website and then it's
getting pushed to your drone definitely do this we had to do it and it's definitely something
that you want to consider and do before you get to the location also for this whole shot i'm going
to mostly fly in sports mode rather than acro manual because i found that the avatar is flying
incredibly well and it allows me to confidently really hit actually narrow targets more so than
the acro mode where i'm a little bit jittery so let's see what we can get in this trial run
okay the first fly through was amazing i think i found a few spots that i want to hit
all the shots that i had in my mind are possible even in sports mode so let's go for the real deal
okay to set yourself up for success you want to have at least enough batteries to allow you two
to three flights now usually these fpv cedar whips they have a flight time of three to four minutes
but the magic of dji's battery technology allows you to stay up in the air up to 18 minutes i would
say more realistically i got like 11 minutes in my test flight in that much of a longer battery
time also allows you to take longer one shots or make a few mistakes and redo it now i'm gonna get
away from all distractions get into a calm mood and focus completely on the flight
i can do that if i make mistakes that's all right don't get over confident but let's see what we get
okay i think we got it uh oh my god i mean it's it's overall already such an
emotional moment for me to fly in the stadium place i've been coming to for all my life and
uh seeing this from this angle yeah it's it was worth it it was worth it
okay i hope you learned something i hope you feel inspired and encouraged but go out
and fly yourself see what's possible and get this ultimate flying experience in places that you love
big thanks to hanover 96 for letting us fly in the stadium and dji for building these amazing
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