 Three, two, one. Hey guys, welcome to Rotorat. I'm Lajrib and this is J-Bird FPV. You might know him for some of his amazing one take shots. Small America shot was next level. Definitely check a link in the description to some of his videos. It's incredible stuff. Most famous is the bowling alley video. That's right, we got the bowling alley pallet right here. You guys had to have seen that video. We're gonna be doing a lot of different tactical stuff and explosions. So being able to get these drones in dangerous situations where you can't get other cameras, it's really nice to use the Rotorat setups because if something goes wrong and a drone's out, like the pre-builds are something that you can get up in the air right away and then immediately when you're on set, you can be shooting at a comfortable level. Well, we're just honored that you're flying the quads and showing all them what amazing things that you can do with it. FPV drones is just such an amazing technology. We've come out to gun site in Arizona, trying to get the drone in some dangerous places where you couldn't get a human filmer and try not to incinerate the drones here. I'm really excited to share with you guys kind of what it's like to be behind the scenes with a pro FPV drone filmer. You make it look really easy, but there's a lot of work that goes into it. And when I say there's one more take, I mean there's five more takes. We're having a nice range difficulty here where our very start point, it's not gonna get us fully to here because the signal is not gonna go all the way from the gate to here. So I could be in the car for a shot. What if you're in the car, we go under the gate. I mean, it's not gonna be going crazy fast. And then come up here and just kind of work its way towards the range. Okay, you drive, I'll hop in the front. Yeah, feel free to buzz through. Like obviously don't, you know, go at reasonable speed, but just feel free to. Three, two, one, zero. Oh, that was a good shot. Oh, I love that. Wow, I love that. And then we veer off right here. And then we drop on into our range. And then we wanna maybe get all the way around. Yup. And you wanna spend a little bit of time there, get close to the people. Yeah, and then they'll be kind of shooting from like right here. No, they'll be a lot closer than that. Oh, they'll be like, they'll be like 20 feet from the target. Boom, right there. So we kinda wanna just work around this. And to get to our next spot, we can just hop up, go to our next spot. Yeah, so okay, so that's what I like. So this one will come from behind the shooting. And then for this guy, what we'll do is like when we approach it, we'll come from behind and we'll be right in the line of fire when we approach it. We're gonna have the two ranges set up where we're gonna coordinate two different drills on each. And then we're gonna have the drone be able to get in front of all the muzzles and see what we can get on both ranges in one shot. The countdown. Drone's up. Almost hit a second. Ah! Holy. Being president and founder of Viridian Technology, we build products. So laser sights, weapon-mounted lights, holsters. You know, we've organized this with some of our key industry partners. We're out and all together here at Gunsite. Gunsite Academy is the oldest, privately held firearms trading academy in the world as far as we know. It's been in existence for 46 years. It's really anyone that has an interest in doing firearms in a safe, responsible way, learning from the experts. And this is the place to do it. You guys have the facility. Exactly so. You got the equipment. We offer classes, anything from one day to five and six day in-depth programs. The federal is one of the largest ammunition companies in the world. They're very innovative. They do all kinds of stuff. So they're excited to be partnering with both Viridian and Springfield on this project. This is gonna be a pretty crazy video. Yeah. So I'm actually a competitive shooter, but today I am going to be an add-on member to the security team. We'll have some dynamic moving and shooting that we're gonna be doing, which will be pretty cool. So hopefully they'll be able to get some cool shots of that. And that's something that you'd actually see to bring that experience of what it would be like to be on a world-class range like this, to somebody sitting, you know, watching that at home. We're waiting for part of the crew to get here at the Fun House. That's this little knife-edge gap. Bobby thinks he's gonna go for it. I'm gonna screw around two in the Fun House. Well, I'm gonna screw around more and have more fun. I'm gonna screw around. I'm already plugged in. What are you doing? I'm not. Where they're gonna go, no shooting yet, but basically this one will give us a little timing matchup. So when they actually have the bullets out, we'll be in the right place at the right time. So from the scale of nah, da brah, what are you feeling? Full scent. Full scent. This is like for FPV pilot, this is like as good as it gets for a dynamic window. And then for scouting it, you just hop up to the top and get a look. The take, it's all down to this. All the practice, all the setup, all the anticipation comes down to this moment. Unless he messes it up and then we'll do another take. The stakes have been higher, but... All right, they're setting up for another exercise. And this exercise actually will be very quick, but they're filming with a high speed camera so it's gonna be ultra slow motion. So Jay switched to a thick, which is a larger drone, X8, seven inch props, basically a drone that can carry a heavier payload because he's carrying a bigger camera, the wave. So Freefly, if you're familiar with like the Alt-A, Alt-6. Freefly made that camera. Oh, okay, I didn't make that connection. That's really cool. So Freefly made this and it's their first camera ever. They make the Mobi Pro, so they're in cinema enough where they're like, let's just make a high frame rate camera that's small enough to go on a drone and also durable enough where you can have this thing get hit by sand and rocks and it's still like compact because there's no screen on it, right? There's no... It's just a fan and you have to HDMI out, just to monitor to it. But it's got an internal two terabyte SSD on it and honestly, it fills up fat. So you're like constantly offloading footage from there onto a laptop or something? Yeah, you have just your SSD with you. So if we have like a money take, you'll just right away get that off there so you can format it and start again. But yeah, it's the idea that like the coolest shots you go through like sand or dirt and Johnny's Porsche film used this camera. So like he definitely put it to the test with like getting stuff shot up at it. So like you could probably go through a lot of lenses but the camera itself will like sustain all that. Seems like a tank. By the bullet though. I didn't shoot it. No, by the, it's fine. It's by the shell. Oh, it's just the ricochet? It's just the shell. We're good. Hit and record. Hit the red button on top of the camera. Camera's not damaged, there's no lens. Oh, but the optics are fine. Look at that. We took that all across. You got some scuffs with the carbon back here. It was on your side. It was coming down. It broke your rubber. I think this drone is done for the day. Yeah. I know this is actually the best case scenario because we're like, we did our, we did our dangerous shot and technically the only thing that needs to be fixed is like just a little repair on this but the camera's totally fine. So shout out to the Free-Fi Night Wave. So next we're going to the explosions. Explosions. We got three explosions. Explosion number one, we're gonna do a clean take with the expensive camera trying to get nice slow motion. The next two explosions, we wanna maximize the chances. Lots of drones. We wanna maximize our chances of getting something so lots of drones, lots of angles. Big, big explosion. Big boom, boom. So the boom is gonna be right on the other side of the white truck there. That's pretty close. We're gonna be posted up right here and then the guy detonating it will be with us and so that way we can know in our shot when the best time for him to blow it up. So I think with this, I almost wanna get in the blast radius and then as I'm pulling out, just have it go to smithereens. Bubby, I'm gonna go straight through the ball. Okay, fire. I'm just gonna go straight through the ball. Fire. I'm just gonna send it. I'm just gonna go straight through the ball. I wanna chase it up. So I'm gonna start low and as it blows I'm gonna try and go up it. Straight through it. Straight down the range. Straight down the range. Okay, I'll come from the left side. Freaking insane. Did you, wait, the quad was still flying like that or did you crash over there? No. Oh, I was about to say. But look at it. It's like completely charged. Did you go right through the fireball? Yeah. Oh, wow. These props were purple. Damn. Oh my God. Oh my God. You melted. And your quad was still flying or not? I just went down. It's fine. Dude, I gotta save these guys. Oh my gosh, the battery. This is a brand new battery. That's crazy. The air unit. This is a brand new battery. The air unit. Look at the props. That's crazy. The GoPro's still alive, man. The GoPro's still rolling. That's all that matters. How often do you do a shoot like this where you have to use so many different types of drones because you use the Cinewup for the close quarters. You use the five inch for the long take where you kind of cross more of the campus and you broke out the thick to carry that super high frame rate camera. Get that ultra slow mo. So I thought that was like really interesting. Is that a common thing you have to deal with? Well, yeah, sometimes. But for this, it would surprise me because originally we wanted to set this up and incorporate as many things as we can in that one shot. But it really looked like when we were scouting that the best setup would be to take each place and really just make that scene unique in its own way. So, yeah, having the speed on the Vanny or the safety on the Cinewup and also getting the slow mo on the wave, making sure to spend time incorporating all the three different types of drones is somewhere now we can go into post and we've got a lot of different looks. It amazes me how little was damaged in the last couple of days for sure. Of course it was the most expensive drone that had to go down though. Thankfully, the damage was very minimal and it was just a bent lens hood. I think you bent it back. It's good as new. It's probably better now. You can have better light blocks. It's fine, it's fine. Well, I hope you guys were not only impressed by the amazing shots they were able to pull off, but also gained an appreciation for how much work goes into it. It is not easy flying and filming at the level that you're at. For sure. And honestly, I had you guys helping me so like the sun didn't go in my goggles or your nose. Watch out for that. But yeah, it's cool too. Cause like a lot of times people wanna see that feed. Like if you have a client or anybody nearby that they're watching the drone buzz around but they wanna be on that same experience you're on to see that view. So being able to have the extra goggles to show the people on set really helps cause once they see that and experience that the first time they're so sold on like, yeah, we'll do another take. Or yeah, what do you need me to do? So making sure that they get the same visual of you as you are getting is huge. Well, I know the clients and the sponsors are stoked about the shots. Are you happy? Did you get what you wanted? I'm super stoked, fam. Dude, thanks a lot for letting us come out here, follow you around and share with them what it's like to be on set with you doing some of these productions. I think it's not something that a lot of people really have seen before. So like what it takes to do these types of shots. Thank you so much. Absolutely fam. Guys, hope you enjoyed this video. If you're new here, hit the subscribe button. We post videos every Monday. Smash the bell so we can spam you. You don't wanna miss one. If you had a good time, hit the like button. Guys, I'm LaDrib. I'm Jaybird. We'll see you next time on Rotorad.