-: In this part of the course what I'm going to do is, 2 2
I'm gonna take you down to that forest down there with me, 3 3
and we're going to fly a drone together. 4 4
And, when you fly a drone, there's no audio with it. 5 5
Usually because, you wouldn't hear anything anyway 6 6
because of the propellers. 7 7
But I'm gonna use this device to record me. 8 8
And you'll notice I've got a Dead Cat, 9 9
which is what they call it, 10 10
on top of this Lavalier microphone. 11 11
And this Lavalier is plugged into this H1 zoom device, 12 12
which is awesome it's my favorite audio recording device. 13 13
And I'm recording with 14 14
a couple of different cameras right here, 15 15
and I'll go to a mirror and show you how I'm recording this. 16 16
Okay. 17 17
And I'm on automotive, 18 18
which is why I look all dark here for a second. 19 19
The professionals use filters 20 20
so that when you walk from outside to inside, 21 21
the lighting doesn't get messed up. 22 22
Okay, so, I'm recording this on two cameras here, 23 23
and I'll show you how this is all set up. 24 24
So, what I've got here is my favorite blogging camera, 25 25
the Canon M50. 26 26
And all I did was I turned it on up here to video mode, 27 27
and I hit record. 28 28
And there's a wonderful screen here, 29 29
so I can see myself as well. 30 30
Then I've got this little handheld thing called the Joby, 31 31
underneath me, 32 32
and it's got this little water thing with a ball in it, 33 33
I have no idea what you call those things, 34 34
just to stabilize it. 35 35
So I know if I'm stable or not. 36 36
So right there is in the middle so I am stable. 37 37
And this is level, which is cool. 38 38
And then on top of it, 39 39
I've got this Rode Mic that I'm recording with right now, 40 40
it's a shotgun Mic. 41 41
It's really easy to use, 42 42
all you do is literally plug it into the side, 43 43
here's the microphone port, 44 44
and you turn it on. 45 45
It's that simple and it works great. 46 46
But what I'm gonna do is, 47 47
you'll notice that there's no Dead Cat on the outside of it. 48 48
So I'm gonna go and put a Dead Cat on it 49 49
before we go outdoors to record. 50 50
Now I'm also recording with this GoPro here, 51 51
and I've got it recording at 2.7K, 52 52
which is a certain diameter of 4K, 53 53
and then I'm recording at 24 frames per second. 54 54
Okay, and that's nerd speak for 55 55
24 pictures are taken every second. 56 56
And the same thing with this Canon M50, 57 57
24 frames per second. 58 58
So that later on in the editing process 59 59
it's easier for me to line up both of these videos together, 60 60
this one and this one. 61 61
If I didn't make it the same 62 62
frames per second on both of them, 63 63
they would be a little bit out of sync. 64 64
One would be slightly longer than the other, 65 65
and it wouldn't match my voice. 66 66
And I'm also wearing my favorite audio device ever. 67 67
And you can see I've got a Lavalier here 68 68
with a Dead Cat on it, 69 69
but I'm using this device which 70 70
is my H1n zoom recorder. 71 71
It's amazing. 72 72
Literally all you do is you plug it in right here, 73 73
the Lavalier, 74 74
and then I put the gang there at the top 75 75
on about five or so, 76 76
and I hit record and you're done. 77 77
It's that simple. 78 78
Okay, so what I'm gonna do now is, 79 79
I'm gonna show you how we're going to fly this drone 80 80
by sitting down at the table here 81 81
and explaining how to fly a drone from scratch. 82 82
This drone model here is called the Mavic 2 Zoom. 83 83
And it's got a zoom lens here, 84 84
and I love it because you can send this really far away 85 85
and zoom into you and record, 86 86
and you don't really hear the propellers. 87 87
So, let me take off this protective cover here. 88 88
And it also ships with this device here, 89 89
which is your controller. 90 90
And all you do is you hook up your Android device 91 91
or your iPhone directly to it. 92 92
And, you open it up like this. 93 93
And most drones are quite similar. 94 94
And then you plug in the side 95 95
like this, right into here. 96 96
It's got little ports. 97 97
So I'll plug this in, 98 98
and then I will set this up like this. 99 99
Okay, good. 100 100
And then what you do is you download the software. 101 101
So this, the software I had to download, 102 102
it was from a company called DJI, 103 103
which makes amazing drones. 104 104
And I love that company DJI, 105 105
for their gimbles and especially for their drones. 106 106
And when you buy a drone in my humble opinion, 107 107
it's not about what type of drone to buy, 108 108
but it's what model of DJIs drones to buy. 109 109
And you can go to DJI.com and check it out if you want to. 110 110
And so what I'm gonna do is, 111 111
I'm going to power this on here. 112 112
And the way you power it on is 113 113
you have to double click and then hold it. 114 114
Okay? 115 115
Just for safety reasons. 116 116
And then what you do is 117 117
you make sure that you have Bluetooth on. 118 118
Okay, and I'm going to record my iPhone screen here 119 119
so you can see what I'm looking at. 120 120
Then I'm gonna open up the DJI go app, 121 121
so I can control the drone 122 122
using Bluetooth on this device here. 123 123
Okay, so as you can see, 124 124
you can't see anything on this screen, 125 125
because the drone isn't on. 126 126
So I'll turn the drone on now. 127 127
And so, what happens is, 128 128
when you buy these things, 129 129
it ships with with the battery. 130 130
And I only recommend buying batteries from 131 131
the company that makes the drones, okay? 132 132
Just like with GoPro how I mentioned before, 133 133
only buy batteries from GoPro, 134 134
even though there are cheaper alternatives. 135 135
But these batteries can have safety issues as well. 136 136
So here on this drone here, 137 137
there's a number of different sensors. 138 138
So that if you're in a certain automatic mode, 139 139
it won't hit things. 140 140
You can take it off of that mode as well, 141 141
but I don't recommend doing that, okay? 142 142
And I've got the propellers here, 143 143
and I bought these special propellers that are extra quiet. 144 144
It might've been just a marketing thing, 145 145
but I think they're designed in such a way 146 146
so they're a little bit quieter. 147 147
Now these things do not have microphones, 148 148
obviously because you wouldn't be able to 149 149
hear anything anyway. 150 150
And so, we can control this camera here 151 151
by using this device here 152 152
attached to my iPhone or Android handsets, okay? 153 153
And it can go left right up down and zoom in. 154 154
And I've got what's called a neutral density filter 155 155
screwed onto it just for lighting reasons. 156 156
It's beyond the scope of this course, 157 157
and my knowledge to be honest, 158 158
but I won't go into too much detail on that. 159 159
Okay, so we've opened it up. 160 160
And what I did was I got the memory card stored inside 161 161
one of these compartments on the side here. 162 162
It's one of those tiny SD memory cards from SanDisk. 163 163
And only buy from reputable companies 164 164
when it comes to memory cards, please. 165 165
Okay, so I'm gonna turn this on now. 166 166
Double click. 167 167
Okay, it's on, good. 168 168
And now here it says it's trying to connect, okay? 169 169
So we'll give it a second or two to find it. 170 170
Okay, it says connecting. 171 171
Okay. 172 172
And we are now connected. 173 173
And I'm just going to leave this on auto mode right now. 174 174
I'm not gonna go into some of the more advanced features. 175 175
Okay? 176 176
So, let's turn it on and we'll fly it. 177 177
And my mom, 178 178
I'm at my mom and dad's apartment here in Toronto, 179 179
my mom's not here right now 180 180
which is why I'm showing you this here. 181 181
She wouldn't allow this to happen. 182 182
And of course we'll take it outdoors as well. 183 183
Oh, you can now see through the camera what it's looking at. 184 184
Okay? 185 185
So what I'll do is I'll hit record. 186 186
Good. 187 187
It's recording on this device. 188 188
Okay, so that's what I see right now. 189 189
And I'm gonna take you outdoors in a minute 190 190
and we'll go into the forest. 191 191
And I'll show you the CN Tower too, it'll be kind of neat, 192 192
I'm in Toronto. 193 193
Okay, so what you do is, 194 194
all you have to do is swipe up here to let it take off. 195 195
And there's a million different warnings 196 196
that they'll show you the first time you use this app, 197 197
like safety warnings. 198 198
And that's really smart they did that. 199 199
Now you cannot fly these things in many countries 200 200
without first getting approval from the aviation 201 201
industry or government bodies. 202 202
So in the States it's the FAA. 203 203
And so I had to go and register this drone with the FAA, 204 204
it cost me about five bucks. 205 205
But you want to do that. 206 206
And in the long run, 207 207
I don't think you're going to be able to 208 208
fly these things in many places in the world. 209 209
So what I did actually is for my promotional trailers 210 210
I recorded when I was over in Prague, 211 211
and I'll show you here just a little video of that. 212 212
We had this one great scene where we used a drone 213 213
to come right up to me in a beautiful bridge. 214 214
And then it was gonna fly up into the sky, 215 215
and we had to redo that shot a million times, 216 216
it didn't work. 217 217
And the reason it didn't work 218 218
was because there were government buildings close by. 219 219
And so, governments have set up 220 220
drone safety rules in most countries now. 221 221
So if a drone flies close to a government building 222 222
it will stop working. 223 223
It won't drop out of the sky. 224 224
It just won't move, right? 225 225
It's like an invisible glass wall. 226 226
So that's what happened to us. 227 227
And I did another great shot actually, 228 228
for another one of my trailers. 229 229
We rented a mini Eiffel Tower in Prague, 230 230
and you can see here how we had this dramatic shot 231 231
of me saying you know you can achieve any goal you want to. 232 232
And then we had a beautiful fly up in the sky here. 233 233
It was cloudy that day, 234 234
I wish it was sunny but it worked out quite well. 235 235
So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to swipe up, 236 236
and I'll just show you how this thing takes off. 237 237
And then what we'll do of course 238 238
is we'll go outside and fly it in the forest. 239 239
Okay, so I'm going to swipe up. 240 240
Okay, it's saying slide to take off. 241 241
Are you sure? 242 242
Okay. 243 243
And that's it. 244 244
And it's warning me that there's obstacles around me. 245 245
So, I can turn it around like this to face me 246 246
and I can also turn a lever to make the camera go down. 247 247
Hey there. 248 248
As you can tell the audio is terrible, 249 249
because it's very loud. 250 250
I'm a little bit nervous too. 251 251
So what I can do is, I can lower this 252 252
Hey there. 253 253
And I can fly it around the house because my mom's not here. 254 254
So, I'm gonna do it, let's do it, let's take a chance. 255 255
All right. 256 256
So I'm gonna go forward. 257 257
Actually. 258 258
It might not let me. 259 259
Let's try, hold on, good. 260 260
No, it won't let me because I've got safety precautions on 261 261
which is not a bad thing. 262 262
Okay, that's good, that's good. 263 263
All right. 264 264
So, I'm gonna land this now 265 265
and then we're gonna go outside over there 266 266
and we're gonna to record outside, yeah. 267 267
So, let me just land it, hold on. 268 268
And I'll drag down this to land it. 269 269
Okay. 270 270
Slide to land. 271 271
Okay. 272 272
So, now what we'll do is 273 273
we'll go outside and we'll record it again. 274 274
Now, you see how it's a little bit dark right there? 275 275
The reason it looks a little bit dark, 276 276
is because I've got this ND filter on 277 277
and just like you and I wear sunglasses 278 278
on a really bright day, 279 279
you can do the same thing with cameras. 280 280
You can put Neutral Density filters on. 281 281
Okay. 282 282
You can buy really cool ones where you twist it 283 283
and it gets darker or lighter, 284 284
or you can buy ones where you put on just different flavors 285 285
or different type of lenses based on the shades. 286 286
So what I'm gonna do is, I'm actually going to turn this off 287 287
and we're then gonna go outdoors and film together. 288 288
And, in the post-production process as I put these, 289 289
I gotta double click, that's why. 290 290
As I edit these videos, 291 291
what I'm gonna do is, 292 292
I'm gonna show you the before and after editing. 293 293
So although it looked quite dark when I was filming, 294 294
what I can do is I can change the brightness, 295 295
contrast, color, et cetera, like this. 296 296
So that you can actually see a lot more. 297 297
Okay. 298 298
Now you always wanna try your best to record it perfectly, 299 299
so you don't have to do much post-production stuff 300 300
when you're editing. 301 301
Okay, it finally turned off there. 302 302
Phew, we are out of the woods. 303 303
Now let's go to the woods 304 304
and I'll show you exactly how to fly these things. 305 305
Thanks.