 Hey, what's up guys? Welcome to Rotoride. I'm Alex Banover and I'm out here in Orlando flying some freestyle And I'm gonna take you guys through my steps to make in the perfect FPV freestyle video. Let's go So there's a lot of factors that go into making what I would consider to be a great or so-called perfect freestyle video There's no such thing as perfect, but I do try and make my flight videos as clean as possible So if you guys have ever watched my videos before you'll know that I don't like to use things like stabilization I like to fly in good light at excellent locations So I really do take my flying very seriously especially when I'm trying to make a video like this But I have a lot of fun doing it You know I enjoy ripping around as well But really making these super smooth buttery flowy freestyle videos is something that as a creator I just have a lot of passion for doing so there's a couple of tricks off the bat that I want to talk to you Guys about before I actually just get out here and fly I'm at this new spot in Orlando Well, it's new to me at least I know the other road right pilots have flown here before But I've never flown here and one of the things I look for in a good freestyle video that I want to make is something that fits My style so when you guys are going out there and flying if your style is very aggressive You might find you like a certain type of spot versus if your style is very flow You might like a spot like this for example this spot It's nice because you got just enough diversity you have the building right here Which is going to be nice for wall rides the glass is really shiny and reflective So we can definitely play with that a bit and then as well the whole parking lot is filled with trees So there's trees with gaps in them that you can do tricks from you can also just you know split us over trees power loop trees And for me, I like a spot that's got just the perfect amount of diversity I don't necessarily like to have a spot that's full of only just trees or only just concrete So something like this is really really nice for me where I can get super technical if I want to but I also Have more open sections where I can really think in my mind like what kind of tricks would be really good looking You know what looks good on the camera? Another thing that's really important for me when I'm making freestyle videos is using no stabilization I like to see the raw movements in the sticks even when there's little bits of corrections now I do try and minimize those corrections the best of my abilities But I think it really showcases not just the flying skill But also the talent and hard work that goes into making a quad fly really really smooth. This is the vany style This is my five inch frame right here. I have the DJI o3 system in this one I have my signature motors on it I recently switched to HQ J37 props and the nice thing about the J37 props is you can get them in this dark gray color So even with a low camera angle, you might see a little bit of the props But not too much which I think just enhances the quality of these freestyle videos The nice thing about these props is they're 4937 so they have really really great prop wash handling And that gives me a lot of confidence in trippy spins and other maneuvers where I would normally fly into a lot of prop wash These props are just very very snappy That's good. That's really good now No, same drone. I just put my weak tune on My it's really for old quads, but That's what this is to be fair to be fair up sounds good though That was actually really sick. I'm in taller grass too See this is what happens to record the video There are four phases for me of like flying in a typical like freestyle session Okay, number one is the show up face learn spot do a couple good tricks feel good about myself number two is the dang I'm feeling really good about myself look at my footage Sean the third face is the most painful in the longest phase This is 75% of the day the crashing every 30 seconds changing like 20 sets of props Just frustrated myself hating everything and then there's the final phase which I don't always get to If I've quad still flying that fly good and that is the magic video phase So I think we're entering phase three right all right phase three here we go guys Let's hope phase three doesn't last very long now. You might notice that these props here are actually a little bit banged up That's because this quads been flying a lot when I get to a new spot I like to learn the lay of the land a little bit see exactly where there's areas where I would like to do tricks that I'm used to doing maybe some areas where I'm a little more uncomfortable and I can think of something really creative So I like to not fly just brand new props every single time on the quad like some of you may think I do But at the same time I do bring lots of spare props because once I feel like I'm in my groove And I'm getting a lot of good, you know like 60 second lines under my belt Then I like to always keep brand new props on my quad especially if I crash because that way the footage is almost guaranteed to be Ultra buttery smooth and for me guys that's really important because I don't use hypersmooth So I keep it all raw so that way it's all about the pilot and making sure that I can perform to the best of my abilities So as you can see a couple of props here now, I've been flying the spot a little bit now So, you know, I could bend them back, but no, we're not doing that. We are determined No, we're not bending. I do not fly hypersmooth. Well, I do. Well, I know I know you do No, they're not look at it. Okay, Sean flies these 4.9 inch props till they're three inch props, right? I've heard his quad sound It sounds like a gas airplane As it's going through the air, I like to keep my quads I would say that none of them are fine, but I'll give them to you if you want So there's no exact script to this video. It's really just me going out here and flying for you guys but I'm gonna kind of you know share some footage on the screen as I go out through the day and Hopefully by the end of this video will have like a really nice Maybe not a one-take but hopefully a video with only a couple of minor clips in it And it'll be a van of our freestyle video. So let's get to it guys. This is what happens on a typical day Sometimes I'll go through five ten sets of props and Then on some days like when I made flawless one of my freestyle videos I think I went through 22 sets of props in a couple hours. So I was literally changing them out But but I was feeling really good. It wasn't like I was crashing that much. Well, I was crashing That's why I was changing I guess I was feeling good And I just was waiting for like the right flight and then this song came on and I just felt great to the song You guys might have seen that video Black bars on the side Where's your backwards? Where's your boobies cute? Yeah, the backwards says a little bit of uniqueness to it. Everyone goes for yeah, but I kind of want to do is I wanted like Like you know like full inverted. Yeah, that was a good one. I went out of the canopy. I would have been sick if you went out of the canopy I don't like to what I'm flying like I always think about like I'm gonna do 30-second cuts So I actually I do this so that way when I'm watching it back. I know I'm like setting okay That's a good pointer right there, and then I'll find a point like this like a little bit for around Let me just keep it going cuz you never know maybe you end up cutting it and just change those props We're in the third So a lot of you might actually ask what I look for in a van of our freestyle video And there's two types of videos that I like to make the first type of video is like a one-take where there's no cuts There's only color grading and music added those videos are really really challenging But really really fun to make and those take a lot of planning You know really figuring out exactly where I'm gonna do tricks and whatnot So I might show you guys one of those but what I intend to make today is what I would call like a Vanny style video Which is only a couple of cuts, so I like to try and have at least 432nd lines together so that way I can cut them together with music And I like to also fly to music as well not the exact song that I intend to edit to but just some music That's of a very similar genre because kind of gets me feeling the beat of what I'm doing if I'm doing a one-take video Though I do like to pick out my song ahead of time because I'm gonna fly to the beat of the music So that way it feels very natural and dynamic whenever you're watching it So I'm not gonna keep talking guys. I'm just gonna get flying and you guys will get to see what this looks like One thing I like to do too is I'm this is not anything special to like eye technique But because I'm learning a really like strong ND filter. I'm running an ND32 and the lights going down I like to make sure that my storage is good So I'd always watch the last flight back and I like to watch like dark points That looks pretty good, but I would say like one more flight and I'm gonna go to an ND 16 Like it's almost perfect right here Then I also like to make sure there's no like random bludders or anything like that because then you go through like the whole rest of Day, and I was nice, but yeah, but there's also watching it back gives me some ideas, too Because obviously make it a 032. It's super wide. Yeah when I get home and watch my footage I'm always like I wish I would have done this. I wish I would have done that So it's why I like watch it. Yeah now that with the GoPro 11 to it's more reliable than a session So it's a lot easier to do that So I think this time it'd be fun to I don't have music going which is really good for a one take And I'm gonna like I've tried to do a full one take all in one. We're calling one. All right, here we go Try and see what I could do. All right So you pretend you got that music going usually waiting for the first little B drop Nice smooth take off of course the wind picks up just in time for us It's had a little windy all of a sudden and the Sun went away so I usually like to start off with like Medium to low difficulty tricks, but like a variety of them So, you know done Rubik's Cube And this is just to kind of get me feeling in my rhythm not trying to the hardest gaps You can notice like I'm lining these all up well before That would allow progressively a little harder Do a big old power loop Now I've pretty much you've gotten the easy tricks, so it's time to level it up a little bit We like to start doing a little bit more blind stuff, right? really Get out my stuff that yeah, how do you do that? And it's really just got a wing in it That was tight and then we're gonna try. Oh You're really going for it. Hey nice line up. Yep And then in the middle we'll do a little filler This is like a mental reset for me and I want to do that wall ride into trippy next So I'm thinking about that try to figure out how to line it up So I'm just getting myself to that point so we talked about the trench run earlier, right? Okay, the truck. Oh, that was boring Yeah, we'll do a little yeah, and I did it back though. That was way perfect. You know, I didn't do a little holder That was nice again. We're thinking we're in the straight so let's do double roll Siller And here we go. We're gonna go for it And a little flick Nice and then keep it interesting. That's like the best-looking one you've done so far No, it's not over yet. And now it's over and again, we talked about we got to exit the trick. Well Now the problem is I've done really hard stuff. Yeah, I look at my timer. I'm at 228 some value roll yet Yeah, yeah, any roll that man. I did about a bank you What do you want of those right here? There you go? All right And now y'all spin. Oh You're doing a birdie yasmin Sometimes I just need to remember which trick I haven't done yet, you know Yeah, this is a good flight. So at this point, I'm almost at three minutes So I can really start to push it. Oh Yeah, do some some backwards stuff. Yeah, Maddie flip something Hey, what's time now? Let's do a warm-up Maddie Nice And I cheat I do a double flip because it gives me a little extra chance to line it up Okay, and then I'll do I did this last year. I like looks like I'm diving. Oh And so that is like that's it. That's the end of one take. Yeah, you got out is a 21 for We'll just give it like a little is a long play. That was a good one, right? So it was three minutes until the mistake so you could that definitely cut it at that point Yeah, that was sick, but I think that's cool because I've never actually Talked through what I'm doing in a one take because I like just turned into like how to do one take I'm gonna do one take and normally I'm flying to music because I Pick the song out ahead of time and I like the the beat, you know I'd like to do tricks on the beat Yeah So you try to figure out what the rhythm is gonna be what the flow is gonna be what the speed of the song is gonna Be ahead of time of your brainage pretend you're singing it to yourself. Yeah, exactly We play it. No, I literally like to play it and unfortunately I'm not playing it right now because I don't know any copyright free songs that because I don't even really care about copyright But like I think that's cool talking about it So like I think for a good one take it's important to sometimes you just go right into it You know, but I think that generally speaking if you go right into it You set the bar super high and so then the video almost gets like more boring as you go on because you're like Oh, we did the epic now at the beginning, right? So I like to make like medium tricks to get the attention then I kind of feather in these like you'll see They look like hard tricks, but I'm like taking these big sweeping turns to line them up So I'm like, okay, I shouldn't Nick some random ghost bridge. Yeah Once I've captured like 60 seconds and I gotta do something now to keep this person here, right? You got to keep people's attention. Absolutely doing the Maddie doing I think the wall right is definitely like the highlight Yeah, and then once you've done that then, you know, you're like two and a half minutes Then you just got to keep pushing pushing and hopefully you don't crash like for me in flawless when I did that video I was like doing all these like Maddie's and stuff and I'm like What else can I do and I thought about power looping into the the dogs. I'm like even if I crash That's what the video ends on so it's like, oh, yeah, but then when I got it I was just like what do I like but that was it that I just stopped because I like that's three minutes That's all you can do. So so hopefully that helps you guys the one take video and really the strategy is the same for when you're Just doing like a normal freestyle at it like I was telling Gordon I like to do a bunch of 30 second cuts So I think in my mind I need four at least forward like good 30 second takes it ends up being a bit longer than that Anyway, yeah, so once I got like four of those then, you know, I'll kind of weave them together So like I could do that or I could do, you know, the one take. Yeah, that was a pretty sick one take right there Yeah, you got a lot of good tricks in what make you I like the one takes just because I there's nothing to hide Right. Yeah, you can't hide any cuts at all My only concern is that with it the we're talking about the ND filter And is that I might have had too much and beyond because the sun went down, right? I'm changing while you're flying before I get clouds I don't ever like to Prematurely celebrate and tell actually watch I watched it. I make sure there's not like some random pitch bobble or something Yeah, but hopefully that's good guys. Thank you so much for watching this episode of Rotorite This is really just a loosely put together video. We're out here Just enjoying some nice Florida weather here and enjoying a good freestyle spot or what I would consider be a good freestyle Yeah, I can enjoy you enjoying the freestyle spot. That's good I'm glad you can enjoy we have a really awesome episode that we're gonna be filming tonight as well guys And that's gonna be coming out on the Rotorite channel or it might be out by the time you're watching it We're gonna be doing some night wings So if you haven't seen yet be sure to tune into that one like in the description down below make sure to subscribe like and subscribe Hit the bell and all the things and yeah, yeah And if you guys want to fly the set of comment the other thing if you guys one of it If you guys want to fly the setups that we fly I just grabbed a tank because Mike What's still pointing over there? But you can get I believe the tank ready to fly as well as the Vanny style ready to fly on Rotorite So be sure to check those out guys and yeah, once again as Sean said, thanks so much for watching. We'll catch you on the next one