 You're killing it on YouTube shorts. Like maybe you could teach me something about like what it is you look for in like a spot or something. Like the main thing I usually do is I look for bangers. You know, it's like, if you're going to start off with these tree spot or something, start with something that'll- Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, man. What is that? Whoa! Oh my goodness. Man, you down to get changed by some drone? Hell yeah. So we are joined here today by Peter FPV, legendary freestyle pilot, YouTube shorts extraordinaire. He's going to show us how to make a proper short. That looks good. Hey, what's up? I'm Peter FX and this man, he needs no introduction. This is one of the most popular FPV freestyle pilots in the whole world, Peter FPV. And he's been gracious enough to join us and show us a little bit about how he does his shorts and reels because you are absolutely killing it on YouTube and Instagram. I do, okay. Is there like certain techniques you have when you go out to try to capture your shorts? So when I do my shorts, yes. I always have like my own little techniques. I always try to plan a little line because planning, I mean, I do try to wing it but people like when you're coming in with a bang so I'd like to try to plan that bang a little better. Okay, okay. So that's when I try to go forth when we're doing my shorts and usually we just rip and have fun throughout the whole day, me and my friends and I just try to go through the clips and I'm like, okay, this is the start of this clip, this is the start of that. And I think what we could do is like, we'll try to get a couple clips together. Like maybe we'll post one to your channel and then we'll post one to the right channel. Awesome. Well, yeah, this is gonna be a real treat because you don't really get to see behind the scenes of like how these things come together. You only ever see like the final, you know, short clip. A lot of people think I don't crash because I mean, I hardly post fail clips but I crash a lot guys. I'm crashing like dozen times every single day. And I'm repairing every single day. One of the things that I really struggle with with like shorts and reels is that it's usually vertical video. And we shoot in 69 with our GoPros and so I'm like, how do you decide on like how to fill that frame? Because you don't always necessarily want to crop your 69 down. Yeah, you don't, yeah, you don't. I love my stick ends. So this is, I always use a GoPro 8 to record or a GoPro, whatever. I love stick ends just because I like people seeing the radio they ask a lot of questions, they interact with me about it. And they also hear my audio, you know? So they also hear my friends interact, everybody around me and they're all engaging and it's amazing for them. So they all like it. You're not cropping in as much on the flight video Yep, exactly. So that's good, that's good. And I just resize it all and just crop it all and everybody loves it. You guys love it. Thank you guys for everything. Damn it. Short content can be a little bit tough and it definitely is tough trying to capture the audience's attention because the first thing you got to do is you got to start off with like kind of a banger, you know? You got to start off and the audience are already getting, first three seconds got to be everything, you know? They got to be already attracted to the video. They got to be wanting to interact. They want to be wanting more. You got to feed them more, you know? So that's what we're trying to do here right now. We're going to start off with a banger. We're going to have the bike come in and then everybody's going to be like, well, blown away. So let's try that out, guys. How's the video for you? The video is good for me right now. You? Copy. Good enough? Good enough. I could go down and I know you're good. Oh, okay. We're not freestyle. Are you following me behind me? I turned around. I'm on the bridge. Where are you starting the grind? Where are you? Is he following me right? Yeah, where are you? Right behind the biker. Oh, you're behind the biker? About the grind. I thought you were going to grind it. Yeah, I'm going to grind the rail and then. So you're grinding the whole thing? Oh, I see. You mean? Gotcha. Let me know when you're behind me. I'm behind you. All right, ready? Well, this side of you. Point, sir. Go. Go! Go! I had to bail. Yeah, that's a good one. I had to bail. Reset! Reset! I got a really blocky right there. Woo! Oh, buddy. Cool, I'm ready. And action! Outside? Orbit? No, that's fine. I just went. I didn't orbit him, but it's funny because I'm focused on the bike, but then I'm like, oh, no, it's the quad. I'm supposed to be watching. Oh, yeah, huh, sir? Oh, you did a little kick right there. Like, I'm chasing Peter right now. Oh, that was so sick. That was too much speed going down the stairs. Yeah, yeah, that was too much speed going down the stairs. That's sick. I like going through the trees. Where are the spots that you slow down? Slow down here? I slow down here. Yeah, I slow down when I turn down the hill. Yeah, so good. Because there's a lot of, like, stuff you can kick up right there. That'll be nice, yeah. Yeah, it'll be loose. Yeah, it might slide out. Oh, yeah, be careful with that. With the pine trough, we'll see, yeah. Oh, that's true, yeah. Oh, that's sick. I went right through the rail, too. I had to bail. Did you? Yeah, I'm going to catch that guy. OK, I went right through the rail. That was sick. Shot at the side right there. OK. I forgot to do that, and he's going fast. He's speeding up fast right here. Oh, it's crawling on me. But then we ran into Max here. Max also known as Dirty Dactyl on Instagram. Kicking up some dirt, kicking rocks out, getting, doing wheelies. And we were just like, this is the perfect opportunity. We've got to follow him with the drone. So yeah, he was kind enough to agree to let us do a few chase shots. So now we are here at this college, and we have found this kind of crazy library. We've got all these windows that are just, like, in this crazy circle. And so what we're thinking is, this is the perfect place to do a chase. You see the circle, so it's almost obvious, like an orbit. Yeah. So what I see to grab someone's attention, maybe we could incorporate the orbit, but we can't start with the orbit. We have to start with something, like, nice and fresh. So maybe if we, like, stand in the middle, have both of the quads on the separate ends facing us, that way we're in view. People, when we start off with the short with people in view and we're in our gear, they'll be like, what are they doing back to back? And then we just start off real quick, pop up, orbit each other. And then while we orbit, we open our orbit and go into that and then just spin out real quick. It'd be cool to get, like, a chase shot too, where I'm, like, right on you, right on me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, people all that stuff. People all that stuff. Go down. Yeah, now I am. This is wild. Right? My head is just, like, turning. You guys are both cars. What if you guys are leaving so far? I got a bail. Oh, that was so much. Woo, that's good, though, right? That was insane, man. There was a couple times when we got so close to each other, I thought we were going to nick each other, but man. I couldn't see you. You were right behind you, so. OK, so we got the shot. Oh, yeah, I think we got the essence of us being in the middle together, being close, being on the edge, right in there, man. I think it's going to be good. That second run, that second run where we would start it off, so I think that was a good way to do it. Yeah, we talked it out. Right when I was right behind you, yeah, that chase thing is going to be like, yeah. And we get that audio, the back and forth, like, talking about it, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's perfect, man. Back and forth and going, the woo! I noticed you kind of, like, narrate the videos a little bit, too. So it's like letting the viewer kind of know what's coming up, what to expect, and, like, stick around. Yeah, exactly, yeah, that way you. Going for this dive and going to go to do this trick. So, yeah, I love the commentary that comes in. So now what I do is I take the SD card, go back home, put it in the computer, and what we do is chop it up. Well, we get the best segments out of there. I take both clips. I take the top segment, which is my flight video, and I take the bottom, which is the stick cam, stick them both together. And I don't do much color grading. I only do color correction. I try to do the basic stuff. That way I keep it easier for me and ready to go Once you've got the stick cam and the main camera in the timeline, you've got to line those up. In the beginning, I always, you know, to sync up both videos, I always say, like, oh, this is the, I always say my build, this is the Apex with the F-16 motors, with the TPU mount or whatever, just so I could know what build I'm flying. And then after that, I arm, and I line up the arm audio. You look at the two waveforms for the audio. Yeah, the waveforms, that's what I like to do. Where they match up. Okay. I try to keep only at least 30 or less percent of the video just to stick them. And then the rest, I just put it all on the GoPro. Okay, yeah, because you wouldn't want half and half. Yeah, you wouldn't want half and half. You don't need much. I mean, I've been thinking about also scaling my stick cam down and adding, you know, like we were talking about adding the horizontal GoPro. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that way I could have a more of a, more of a look and more resolution, but I haven't got to that yet, but I'm thinking about making the transition to that. That way I add a little bit less stick time. I still add the commentary because that's very important for people, people want to hear that. People want to see you guys having fun and they want to be in there with you guys. Show them your camera. You are running an OG session five still. Yeah, yeah, yeah, an OG session five. So this only shoots in 16.9. You can't do any real steady on it really. Or at least it doesn't like it. Greatest. People are always surprised that I film in 1080p, 30 frames per second. And they're like, yeah, 1080p. Okay, all right, all right. Yeah. So I am glad that I got to use this Pure 11 Mini today because I shot in the 8.7 aspect radio shield and I'll be able to do like a vertical propped real steady clip. Okay, so that was awesome. Make sure that you check out both of the clips. We'll have links in the description to Peter's channel and to the short on the Roto Riot channel. Thank you so much, Peter, for joining us. It was just a pleasure. It was amazing. We've got a few more videos with Peter. He's hanging out for the week with us. Make sure you go check out rotoriot.com. Give us a like, give us a comment down in the comment section. I'm Pete FX. I'm Peter FPV. And we'll see you next time on Roto Riot.