{"id":5644,"date":"2017-07-01T17:49:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T00:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=5644"},"modified":"2017-07-01T17:49:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T00:49:16","slug":"muscle-up-an-impossible-drone-shot-tour-de-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/01\/muscle-up-an-impossible-drone-shot-tour-de-force\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Muscle-Up&#8221;: An &#8220;impossible&#8221; drone-shot tour de force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert McIntosh masterfully pilots his tiny homebrew drone over\u2014and through\u2014the landscape of Muscle Beach, resulting in this eye-popping video:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/218839072\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Before you join me in saying, \u201cDamn it, why does my drone footage always look like comparatively shite,\u201d notice that he heavily stabilized his images using\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/reelsteady.com\">ReelSteady<\/a> for Adobe After Effects, and that he was willing to endure quite a few crashes along the way. You can see the unstabilized footage &amp; some mishaps here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/218837928\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema5d.com\/impossible-drone-shot-2-reelsteady\/\">According to Cinema 5D<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mcintosh claims to have used the \u201cworld\u2019s smallest HD drone\u201d which he describes as follows: The drone weighs in at an astonishing 94.7 grams WITH the stripped down Gopro! (120 grams takeoff weight with lipo flight battery and foam roll cage)For reference, a stock Gopro Hero 5 black weighs 118 grams!It\u2019s less that 5\u2033 wide and 3\u2033 tall, Sporting 2\u2033 propellers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NewImage-1.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"599\" height=\"376\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As Jim might say, \u201cThis is the strangest life I\u2019ve ever known\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NewImage.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"598\" height=\"332\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert McIntosh masterfully pilots his tiny homebrew drone over\u2014and through\u2014the landscape of Muscle Beach, resulting in this eye-popping video:\u00a0 Before you join me in saying, \u201cDamn it, why does my drone footage always look like comparatively shite,\u201d notice that he heavily stabilized his images using\u00a0ReelSteady for Adobe After Effects, and that he was willing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5645,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions\/5645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}