guys gopro just took their flagship camera the hero 10 cut off all its fat to make it the
lightest and slimmest hero camera ever so you can mount it on an fpv drone and get shots like these
good morning from chicago this is possibly the most thrilling shoot since i crashed the drone
into an erupting volcano made my name forever be linked on the internet with this incident
but today we won't be crashing any drones because i'm teaming up with the two most talented
fpv filmmakers that i possibly know and we will try out the hero bones not only here in downtown
chicago but also in the ridiculously cool google office and we will cover a lot of information
well a lot of information from both existing fpv pilots as well as
filmmakers that want to get started in this space as a creative tool so see you in the google office
all right let's go into the office and get to work
i'm here with troy from drone media chicago he usually shoots drone footage for netflix hbo
paramount nike but today we secured his skills to shoot a very special office tour for this
utterly ridiculous google office here but hi troy thanks for doing this what's going on joey tell me
what makes these small fpv drones so special and what are the film making use cases
we are seeing so many awesome use cases with fpv drones now today from
anywhere in the the film space the content creators commercial real estate pretty much where
if you could take a small camera and put it through something the size of
you know your hand like this we're we're using drones like this to come up with
shots that we've never been able to do before and what makes the bones then such a game changer
i mean so we've been asking for this for a while and the fpv community um is maybe yeah i
think they're finally starting to listen um as the drones have gotten smaller we need to find cameras
that were smaller and lightweight enough to fit on something the size of you know a two and a
half three and a half inch drone so um in the past we've had to take the gopros completely apart by
hand often destroying them you know i never really did it personally because i think i would probably
ruin every single one um but now we have a turn key solution from gopro where i mean it
just turns on and it just works and saves all the hassle of you know having to you know potentially
destroy your gopro in the process well here we go let's check out some more footage from here
all right what are we doing here uh you know just your typical fly the drone out of the refrigerator
shot that everybody does uh no so what we're doing is uh we're gonna actually we're gonna
have the drone here the shot's going to actually be the drone flying out of the refrigerator so
we're going to pick up the sparkling water as we do walk over here the drone is going to fly
out and that's going to be the opening shot of our sequence so we'll see if it works
all right let's talk about specs so at the core the bones boast the same image quality and
stabilization as its bigger brother the hero 10 where you have the same sensor that is a 5.3
k image at 60 frames per second you get also the 4k 120 and the same image stabilization
in the hyper smooth 4.0 where it differs is in its weight and size so you can make it fly
now the bones only weighs 54 grams compared to its bigger brother
that is 150 grams to basically cut the weight they stripped it off all the things that you don't need
when flying a gopro on the drone display gone gps gone the speakers when did you ever listen
to gopro footage that is on the drone gone and the uh battery is gone too and the metal enclosure to
keep it safe gone it's actually now in a robust plastic casing that is not waterproof though
but you can still use the same nd filters that you've been using on the hero 10. so there you go
it actually costs 499. if you're not subscribed to the gopro subscription
it comes with real steady 2.0 though which is a program that costs 99 usually so you can get that
that's a good start if you're already a subscriber to gopro you only paid 349 so think about that
all right let's talk about how you mount and connect the bones to your drone because there if
you are already in established fpv flies you may have some questions so nikolai walk us through how
you connect these bones so if you guys already know about anything about naked gopros it does
come with the single naked gopro mount but in the box it does come with a little adapter to adapt it
to any of your current gopro mounts or anything like that it does come with the wire in the box
that you might seen with other naked gopros so for us we had to do a little jerry-rigging and
add it to this plug so we could put it into the balance lead of the battery but if you guys want
to use this permanently on one drone you can wire it straight to your motherboard in the drone to
power it and then you'll also be able to control the start and stop of the camera from your remote
controller without having to click any buttons on it talking about how you can control the bones
there are a couple of ways one being with the rc and the trigger there are a couple of buttons in
the back so you can turn it on that way and you can trigger the recording that way that's
what we've been used doing but if you want to initially set it up and dial in your settings
you can use the gopro quick app just like you connected once with a qr code and you're done
and then in the past like most people when they had these custom built stripped down gopros you
use basically qr codes to dial in the settings you had to print them out there's an app now
but you can use that even it's baked into the software now as well and if you have one of
those remotes you can use that too the settings that we've been using are 5.3k and 4x3 mode
with 24 frames 30 frames per second depending on the use case but what you should definitely
consider is actually turning hyper smooth on now this may be new to you if you've been using a
stripped-down gopro or flying a gopro on an fpv drone before because usually you would put it
through real steady which we were talking about in the in the latter part of the video but what's new
is that now with hypersmooth on you can actually still run it to real steady and get better
smoother stabilization out of that but i asked the gopro guys the answer is actually there's
a little bit more of a crop from like 15 if you just like run it for real steady and if you run
it with hyper smooth on and then real steady it's 16 crop so there's just a little bit loss of frame
but not that much but what you gain basically is that if you turn hyper smooth on while you're
recording already because of the compression you get actually a better image quality out if
you turn it on right from the get-go which makes sense because you have a lower pixel count for the
gopro to compute so you get a little bit of a better image quality also for the day for
the shoot we have a mascot today it's bone birdie because we make the bones fly dad joke number 522
but one of the reasons that why i didn't get into this custom fpv world yet and just like
flew around with my dji fpv is because there's a lot of tinkering involved we've already seen
it now with the bones that camera tinkering is basically taken out and it takes one one hassle
away from me but like what what would i need if i've been like a dj fpv pilot or like just like a
drone enthusiast and want to get started aside from the camera what what do i need to get started
so if you already have the dji fpv drone you actually can use the exact same goggles these
are the v2 ones that came with actually my dji fpv drone okay nikolai why why why are you laying
down so i'm laying down because these antennas that are on my goggles are very very directional
and since we're flying super high up i'm trying to get them pointed to where that drone is as good as
possible so that means laying straight down and looking up what what like on the drone side what
else what do i need like a frame like sadly unlike the goggles you do have to get a new controller i
highly recommend this this is the tbs tango 2. and those frames like the drones themselves they come
pre-made already because like everybody's soldering and whatnot with these things
which is like definitely something i don't as a filmmaker who's just using it as another creative
tool i don't want to waste my time setting these things up or building them so they exist already
you can buy them pre-built yeah you can there's a lot of websites race day quads is a great one
they do sell pre-built ones this one's pre-built another one's pre-built i also highly recommend
getting liftoff or one of the other simulators and messing around in that just to get good at flying
because unlike the dji fpv you do have to remember these are not smart drones this will not stop
against a wall if this disconnects from your remote controller it will just drop from the
sky talking about computers let's go inside and stabilize the footage that we shot today well you
shot it i was just directing i said like do the spinny thing there um and see how real steady 2.0
works now hypersmooth has not been the most reliable or best image stabilization solution
for your gopro fpv footage this is why software like real steady emerge that allows you to tap
into the gopro's gyro data and stabilize the footage in post and give you much more flexibility
in 2020 though gopro acquired real steady and now for the first time it is integrated in the gopro
player with real steady 2.0 let me tell you it's so much faster and more convenient that that is
actually a joy to use a few highlights for me are the real-time playback which reflects any changes
that you make to the stabilization in real time right away i'm using an m1 max as well so maybe
that's helping me but also the export render times are ludicrous fast now if you compare it to
real steady 1.0 and you can also batch export huge deal before you had to go one clip export one clip
export and since it took a while it was always annoying that you had to go to your laptop and
and trigger the next render and lastly also the interface is much more convenient and intuitive so
all in all someone did some legit code cleanup but with that let's go and hit the rope one more time
all right will i get one of these cena woop drones i don't know yet but i'm definitely more tempted
make sure to check out nikolai's and troy social if you have any questions or thoughts on the hero
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have a good morning have a good night wherever you are around this beautiful planet bye bye
ah