 Hi guys, welcome to Roader Riot. My name's Alex Vanover. I'm Bubby at Phoebe. And today we have a really exciting episode of Roader Riot. For the past, basically since Roader Riot's existence, we've been flying five inch style drones or like micro style drones. The five inch drone is the most popular type of freestyle racing drone that's on the market. It's durable, it's fast. It can carry a GoPro camera to get those sweet freestyle videos. But we're kind of moving into a little bit of a new age and today we're gonna bring out the Cinemate. The Cinemate is actually a much bigger drone as you can see. This swing seven inch propellers is also X8. So there's a lot more motors on there. Yeah, exactly. So the whole goal with something like this is that we can carry a much bigger camera than a GoPro. And by doing so, we can really start to get into more of the filming side of things. I mean, you can use GoPro's for a lot of shoots. When we start getting on these higher end productions, you say the word GoPro to a director or producer and they're just gonna laugh in your face. They're like, yeah, no. So I primarily fly the Red Komodo, I would say about 95% of the time. We also use the Wave camera, which is like a super high resolution, high frame rate so you can get really awesome slow motion shots. Basically any camera that has something like a global shutter and is this type of form factor that can fit on this thing, that's why we have eight motors. Cause we need all that power to lift that kind of camera but still try and make it fly like this a little bit. Cause those cameras are like pretty big, right? Yeah, I mean, you're probably talking at least two, 3,000 grams for some of these cameras. All right, so you've had like a lot of experience with flying these drones and I've never flown one before. Absolutely, I'd love to teach you. And we're out here at a park today in Orlando and we have some really awesome tree canopies that we can fly through. We're gonna start you off in an open field. Today we're not gonna be, you know, just like freestyling this thing around. That's not really our goal. Today it's gonna be more about talking how to fly a CineLifter style drone. I like to call them heavy lift FPV drones. Heavy lift FPV drones. Heavy lift FPV because if you talk about, you know, cinematic flying, right? You can do cinematic flying with something like this. Or a CineWoop, so like. Yeah, exactly. So what we wanna differentiate is like heavy lift being something that carries an expensive camera, a heavy setup and there's a lot more thought process that needs to go into it than just like, you know, putting your five inch quad up in the air. So later this week we're gonna be chasing some pair motors, right? So that'll be pretty sick. So I think it's good to learn here so I don't like mix up too bad there. Yeah, absolutely. And oftentimes, Bubby, when we go on these really big shoots we have what's called a scout day or prep day. So what we'll do is we'll go out, we'll test the drones out. So this is actually very common practice as well to make sure all your equipment works that way when you get to the actual shoot day, everything's dialed in, your flying's dialed in, you know what to expect with the drone and we can get some really awesome shots. So on this drone, we're gonna be actually simulating the weight of a red Komodo with this ugly thing right here. This is actually a replica of a BGH1 which is a little bit smaller and lighter than the Komodo but we have a GoPro attached here so we'll still get some awesome HD footage but the idea is Bubby can learn to fly this setup and get used to it and I highly recommend anyone else out there who's learning to fly heavy lift. Go in and do a dummy weight camera. This one has some sand and there's some lead weight in it that way you don't have to risk a really expensive camera or really expensive lens. You can tune the drone, you can learn to fly it and if you crash it like this, it's gonna be a lot cheaper than if you crash it with a heavy camera. It's gonna simulate to the best of our ability the weight of what you're gonna be flying with the actual camera. It'll be a little bit lighter but it'll feel pretty close. The drone is also pretty expensive so like could I like practice framing up shots with this drone? Oftentimes we like to use something like a five inch quad when we're on set if we're worried about the interference that there might be, the RF, it's much better direct something like this than it is direct something that's really, really expensive even with just the dummy weight it's still a really expensive drone, right? So what we're gonna do is we're gonna start by Bubby just flying this drone around, getting the feel from it and then we're gonna just kind of practice some shots something that you might experience on the paramotor shoot and we're gonna walk through starting on this thing all the way up to like this thing. I don't know why but like I just thought right when I take off it would be like a lot harder to, I don't know, fly. This thing flies smooth. Yeah, Tyler did a really good job with it. Oh, there's some wobbles. Let's find. Yeah, it's a big drone. Still like, what do you mean by it's a big drone? What does it have to do with anything? So you have bigger propellers, right? So the props, because they're bigger they're not gonna spin up quite as fast as like a five inch prop would. That's why five inch quads are so popular is because it's kind of that perfect balance between power that can lift something like a GoPro but also the control. Now the control is really, really good on this but it's gonna respond a little bit slower than if you were flying like a five inch quad. And the way you're flying is very, very well. You won't want to fly a Komodo like that. Yeah, for sure. You definitely could that there's nothing against doing that but you just want to assess as well the Komodo is gonna be a little bit heavier. Oh, it will be heavier than this. It will be heavier than this. So everything's gonna feel a little bit slower but Tyler Crane from Rotoride has done an excellent job setting this thing up and it looks like it's flying on rails. Yeah, it feels really good. Like it honestly feels pretty similar to like my normal quads. Like I'd probably, if you just handed this to me I think it's just a seven inch like, well it's a pretty seven inch props, right? Yeah, it's a seven inch props but it's an X8. So I mean you got a lot of motor, a lot of weight and that's where you just gotta be careful the response is coming out of the move. But I mean, you're flying it very well. Dude, it sounds so cool. Yeah, it does. Okay, here's one thing. I feel like it floats a lot more. Yep, you have eight motors and they're all idling. So it does float. So the number one rule that I like to talk about when it comes to flying heavy lift drones especially when you're on a set, don't crash. Most directors are used to these big drones that aren't even FPV. We call them heavy lift drones as well. They're just not FPV. They carry these big cameras and those drones almost never crash. There's very rarely incidents. They're not pushing like we are. They're not doing the same types of hard flying but a director doesn't really know the difference. They hire you as a pro pilot. They expect you to not have any mistakes, right? So number one rule when you're on a job, do not crash. I feel like the battery life on this is pretty good. Three minutes at 48 seconds. It is light. Keep that in mind. The BGH1, which is basically the replica camera, the dummy weight we have on here is one of the lighter cameras that's out there. It's a great camera. It shoots awesome video, but it's not a red Komodo. The red Komodo is twice the weight of this camera. So it's gonna add another 1,000 grams to the drone. So just keep that in mind. All your movements are gonna be a little swooshier. So here's one thing that's interesting. Since there's motors in the bottom, I'm not the best at landing so I need to practice those landing. Nice and smooth landings and cut. Going into it, I honestly thought it'd be, for some reason, a lot harder to fly. I would have issues just controlling it, but it flies really well. But you did a great job. I think it's time that we maybe come up with a shot or a sequence. I might fly at once and just kinda show you the idea of what we wanna do. And then we'll go through the sequence of start to finish to get a shot and get you ready for flying around the paramotors. Cool. Let's do it. One thing that directors really, really like to see when you're doing cinematic heavy lift FPV is they oftentimes are asking us to reveal the location. So we're here at this pretty awesome location in Orlando. It's a park, but it's backed up to this lake. You're gonna start up at about 200 feet. So like really high. And you're just gonna be looking down to start with. You're gonna be diving. So it's just water, water, and you're gonna pull up, not necessarily right above the water, but to make it look like you're gonna hit the water. From there, you're just gonna do a straight line. You don't have to be really far out. Straight line going this way, right? This way, right? And then you're just gonna come into this tree canopy. Let's do it with a five inch quad first. That way, if we have any issues with video, signal, anything like that, we're gonna discover them on the five inch quad and you get to lose it in the water with your GoPro. And then once you nail the shot, you know the line very well, then we're gonna go ahead and move to the thick and we'll get you some practice. Cool, gotcha. We'll just go ahead and change this over. We'll get it on 4K, four by three with 24 FPS. And ideally what I like to do is I like to run a one over 48 degree shutter. One over 48. Then you use an ND filter to compensate for that. We don't really have ND filters that we're gonna use. So we're just gonna leave the shutter speed on auto. Sometimes we'll be on a job and we very rarely fly GoPro, but maybe they want an impossible shot. An impossible shot. And so we just fly the GoPro because maybe it's too small in the gap or something like that. Dude, we're gonna be in the goggles and this guy's gonna come up and like, I'm sitting right there. Sean, are you ready to fend us with your life? That way. Go that way. So go ahead and turn around. Yeah, there you go. There's your dive. Now slowly pull up. Nice. And then keep it low. Yeah, keep it low. Keep it low. Keep it low. Keep it low. Keep it low. Okay, this is good right here. This is good pace. And you're aiming for that right gap, which is clear. This one right? Yep. Did I go through these gaps over here? Yep. Then you're gonna go, no, not through those gaps. That's why I messed it up there. Yep. So you were coming in a little fast. That's okay. Left and then the bridge. All right. Now you're gonna swing right. Oh, there's the birds. Nice, buddy. And then just a nice straight shot. Just wait till the water hold it, hold it, hold it. And then you're done. Let's try it again. Yeah, cause I messed up that first line. Yeah. So how do I take that turn a little bit better? Just let the drone really slow down as you get into it. So go ahead and start your move. There you go. Beautiful. That's a bunch of left, left, left, left, left. Okay, this is good actually. This is how we adjust the shot up through. So there you're not gonna wanna be as aggressive. See, I keep, this turn is like really hard to do in a really smooth line. Once you start getting towards the edge of the water, just slowly pull back on the pitch a little bit and just let the drone slow down naturally. See how it's just slowing out perfect. It's gonna feel like an attorney. That's good. Yeah, that's what I'm, that's the biggest thing. It's like it feels like it's taking me. It's okay. Don't even worry about that. Left. That squirrel is just loving you. Now just, so you're letting it die, which is good. This is good, buddy. Nice and smooth news, slowly. You don't have to turn right immediately once you're through that bridge. Just let it be natural, real smooth. That little bit of Dutch that you have there at the end, you know, where you're banked, that's not super great. So it's good to have that like rolling move, you know, like that Star Wars-y type flying over the trees, but just you don't wanna kinda exit in Dutch like that. Oh, you got the skier. All right. So I think it's time that we get you on the thick. You don't need to do the shot one time on the thick. Yeah, I'd like that. Yeah, I'll show you. I'll show you what it kinda looks like. That way, I'll kinda help you see what the speed I'm talking about and what those transition moments should look like. Yeah, cause man, when I was going over that land, it felt like forever and you were still saying, you're going too fast and I'm like, what? Right, what they would probably do if that was an actual shot is they would speed ramp that part. But if you come in over the land too fast, you're gonna enter here way too quick and you're not gonna really see what's happening. So you wanna fly really, really slow cause you can always just speed it up. I'll fly the Bobito rates. Here we go. Really small movement. See, I'm not changing pitch. Yeah. But the drone is slowing down. See, you're going really slow. Yeah. I'm coming more of a dive. You're more descending, so. A little bit, yeah. Yeah. It's right there, there's a little correction. Yeah. Hold it and there was a shot. I'm just gonna walk through this one part for you one more time. I just want you to kinda visually see this. It's like right here, slowing down by just giving it power. I'm not pitching back, I'm just giving it power to slow it down. It's okay if the camera angle is not perfectly centered here because we're showing off the tree canopy. Do you think you can do it? Yeah. Let's do it. Yeah, so just fly the drone around for a moment, get comfy with it before you do the shot. You know, do some rolls if you need to. I'm honestly already really comfortable with how it feels. Yeah. It's pretty lightweight for a heavy lift drone, so I mean, you should be pretty comfy with it. Again, you don't need to nail it on the first shot. Just get a good shot. Oftentimes, like I said, you have a very limited amount of time, so it's better just to get a good shot out of the way and then you can improve from there. Remember, very, very small movements on the controls. Any little movement you do is gonna be shown in the camera. Yeah, like that little movement will be shown. Let it elevate and slow down naturally. Let it elevate. Oh, now take your time here, take your time here. There's your birds on the left. Take your time, go into the right. A little bit more right. Yeah, you're a little kind of a caddywampus. There you go. It doesn't look good from a, like a filmmaker standpoint. Boom, beautiful. I liked how you wiped that tree and then nice straight level. Three, two, one. All right, that's your first one. Let's try another one while we're already out there. Yep. So what do you think you could have done better there? Went after one through the pavilion. I thought I was not very smooth, so. Beautiful, that's good. You can keep your speed up for now. You know, this is good right here. You don't need to accelerate. Again, you almost don't even touch the controls. Just let the drone fly. Yep. Now let it just start slowing down. You're gonna enter- The wind is a little bit interesting. Yep, there you go. This is good. Nice and smooth. I like how you're lining that up. All right, this is a good speed. All right, now, as it elevates, it's gonna slow down naturally. See how it does that? Beautiful. Nice, Bubby. Beautiful. I'm like, feel so focused, like trying to get the shot. Yep, absolutely. When you dive over the pavilion, try and make it as smooth as you can. Okay. Even if it's not like you're looking down as much, just try and make that move as smooth as you can. It's my only critique from that. I think flying cinematic heavy lift drones is gonna make all your flying so much better because you have to really think about every little move that you do. I often nag at pilots who use hyper-smooth for freestyle because you can make little tiny corrections and it's not visible, but when you're flying something like this, even with stabilization, the stabilization isn't as good. So you have to be so ultra-smooth. I liked how you were getting close to those tree tops as well as you're coming up. It really shows off what we're doing. And descend, nice and smooth, nice and smooth. Even if you go wide here, we're beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Nice and low, I like that. Little less roll, there you go. Excellent, excellent, excellent. You got it. Yay! You got it. I gotta hold, one, two, three. There you go. You do remember, anytime you think that you're done, just count one beat longer. Sir, good job. Thank you. I'm actually very, very impressed. You know, you saw how every time you did the run, it got better. But sometimes on these sets, you don't get tons of chances, right? Yeah. You mainly get one or two chances at some points if it's like a really busy set day. So my biggest recommendation is don't crash. Go out there and try and make your first run count because it might be the only one that you get. Yeah. Make it good, but don't risk it too much. In that case, you got progressively better every single time. And oftentimes on set, you'll get a few tries like that. Cool. Going into this, I was a little bit scared of like even crashing it, but like after flying it and realizing how good it flies, I'm really excited to like try to do other stuff with it, hopefully in the future. Yeah, it's just a normal quad. My favorite is really all this. It's an expensive normal quad, but it flies the same really. It's just heavier. The power is pretty much the same though. And honestly, man, you did such a great job. You're already a flowy, smooth pilot. So I knew you'd pick it up pretty fast. But I mean, third take in my opinion was a money shot for what we were trying to accomplish here with the limited resources that we have. And honestly, I think it's time that we go out and chase something for real and see how you can really do under that pressure. Yeah. And you know, and we'll talk about camera lenses and we'll kind of dive into that next. So make sure you stay tuned for a future episode because you may be getting some awesome stuff with this drone in here. We're gonna strap a real camera to this. We'll talk about more stuff regarding the camera lens choices. Make sure you subscribe to the Rotorite channel, smash that notification bell so that way you know when we come out with this next video. Be sure to subscribe to Bubby. Thank you guys so much for watching this video. Check out the store. Thank you so much again for supporting us and we'll see you on the next one.