It is a 4K remastered model of my quick movie “Koh Yao Noi,” which I initially revealed 10 years in the past.

This model has been upscaled from 2.7K utilizing Topaz Video AI. I additionally used it to repair lots of the stabilisation/ rolling shutter points brought on by the drone. I tweaked a few the edits and toned down the grade from the unique utilizing Movie Convert Nitrate. I additionally added movie grain and a contact of diffusion utilizing their halation add-on.

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I’m nonetheless very pleased with the unique edit; it’s going to all the time be the primary model. I simply wished to mark the tenth anniversary by making it look higher, which I really feel I’ve achieved. This is likely one of the movies I’m most pleased with making. With the drones we’ve now, I wouldn’t have wanted to undergo all of the work of constructing it look higher, nor would I’ve had all of the technical issues. Drones have come a great distance in 10 years! Right here’s some extra details about the gear and the filming: Koh Yao Noi is a small island in Thailand.

I filmed this while on my vacation there. Initially, I used to be simply going to make use of drone photographs alongside my GH4 photographs, however the footage was so distinctive that I made this standalone edit. I used two DJI Phantom 2s with a GoPro Hero 3+ capturing in 2.7K, hooked up to the drone with the Zen Muse 3-axis gimbal. The video high quality wasn’t nice, as lots of the photographs had many points with rolling shutter ripples. Monitoring the photographs was additionally very exhausting. One Phantom 2 had an terrible FPV monitor, which I may barely see something on, and the opposite had nothing, so I used to be flying purely by line of sight, which is hard for composition! I needed to do lots of work in publish to repair the problems and make it nearly as good as attainable. The movie acquired a improbable reception and, thus far, has had 759,000 views on Vimeo.

There’s a lot much less on YouTube on this channel, however GoPro additionally uploaded it to their channel, with 1.2 million views. In the future, I hope one in every of my movies on this channel will break 1 million views! The movie additionally helped me land “The Surprise Checklist” TV collection for CNN, which I filmed all around the world for the primary two seasons; then, in the course of the filming of season 3, I badly injured my again, which meant I couldn’t proceed anymore. In March 2015, I entered the movie into the first New York Metropolis Drone Movie Pageant, and it gained the “Finest Journey/Panorama” class. Thanks to all of the judges who voted for it. Music from Music Mattress Gatlin Elms “For we by no means knew your magnificence.”