Birstall Church

by ycopter | October 28, 2013 | (11) Posted in Just Fun

I was invited to film Birstall Church to celebrate 50 years since the modern extension was completed.  Most shots are filmed FPV with my YQ2 quadcopter.  The internal shots were taken with my T-copter and some of these shots were visual and not FPV.  FPV flying indoors is a first for me!

Thanks to SizzleBird for allowing me to use his fantastic music: Stepping Stones https://soundcloud.com/sizzlebird/stepping-stones-free

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COMMENTS

RoyBro on October 28, 2013
As usual, great video.
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ycopter on October 28, 2013
RoyBro, thanks for taking the time to comment, it is appreciated.
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flyingAce on October 28, 2013
Cool!
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ycopter on October 29, 2013
I'm pleased you like it...
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swittner on October 29, 2013
Awesome video. Love the music - fits the video very well.
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ycopter on October 29, 2013
I'm pleased you like the music, it takes a long time to find the right music for the video and then get permission to use it.
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filken on October 29, 2013
Fantastic work! What control board do you use?
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ycopter on October 30, 2013
Thanks. I use KK2 on my T-copter and CC3D on my quadcopter. They are both great boards, the KK2 flies well and is convenient with its LCD screen, but for pure flying performance the CC3D is excellent.
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mioh on October 31, 2013
Great video with good music, excellent flying and beautiful surroundings.
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ycopter on October 31, 2013
Thanks for your feedback. I looked at your Vimeo videos, your tricopter is very stable with great image quality. All the best with your FPV flying.
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#3 on October 31, 2013
Very cool like the sun on the stain glass windows I was hopeing you would land on the tower and take off again
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ycopter on November 1, 2013
Glad you liked the video, not sure my skills are good enough to land on the tower, maybe next time!
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buckwheat on November 1, 2013
Epic video with very nice music! :)
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ycopter on November 1, 2013
Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment, it is appreciated.
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onemoreflite (John Michaels) on November 4, 2013
Great stuff as usual! You've always inspired me... as you can see from my last article, when i saw your YQ2, i had to build it!!
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onemoreflite (John Michaels) on November 4, 2013
http://www.flitetest.com/articles/custom-plastic-parts-for-multirotor-scratch-builds
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ycopter on November 5, 2013
Hello John, thanks for your kind words, I'm really pleased you have built my quad design with some adaptions, how rigid is the frame all in wood? Wood is a lot easier to work with than the fibreglass sheet.
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onemoreflite (John Michaels) on November 6, 2013
My frame is Rock Solid. I used a half of tube of epoxy (overkill) to connect the arms, top plate and side pieces. I connected the arms to each other with a lap joint in the middle (I wanted rigidness more than portability) and used epoxy as well. There is no flex laterally and the arms do not twist at all (on my last scratch build quad 450mm size, the arms would twist a lot, killing yaw authority, so I've learned my lessons to build it as rigid as possible.
I use only wood and plastic, some Carbon fiber, because it's easy to cut with a knife and Dremel...
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ThatRoboticsGuy on November 18, 2013
Amazing video, and nice flying! Just a few questions, did you use any stabilizers in something like after effects? Also, was some of the video slowed down? Thanks, new to videos on multirotors, just trying to learn some of the tricks of the trade.
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ycopter on November 19, 2013
Hello RoboticsGuy. I never apply any post production stabilization, video that has been 'stabilised' can look unnatural. it is best to get the machine to fly as smoothly as possible by design and PID setting adjustment. I record everything at 1080 60 frames per second, this gives the option of slowing down actual speed by up to 50% without much loss of quality. The scenes at 0.44, 1.10, 1.54 and 2.53 are all slowed down (mainly to fit the flow of the music). Nothing in this video is speeded up. If you have a GoPro 2 then use 720 at 60 frames per second, 1080 30 FPS looks really bad with anything but the slowest panning. I hope this helps.
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ycopter on November 19, 2013
I forgot to mention, YouTube compression has got much worse recently, my best advice is to use H.264 and output the finished video at 30kbps (matches 1080 60 GoPro raw video). This high data rate preserves as much of the quality as possible before YouTube converts it.
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Featherstonhaugh on November 19, 2013
Lovely video and music. I see there is a Commonwealth War Grave of a Victoria Cross winner in the first few frames, a rare find.

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ycopter on November 19, 2013
Thanks and well spotted. It is good that those that gave their lives in war are not forgotten. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hannah_(VC)
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CVogel63 on February 6, 2014
Hi Ycopter thanks a lot for all input I had build a quad based on your parameters and it flys really we'll hope you are filing a lot as I am :-) all the best hope to see more video soon Christian
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ycopter on February 6, 2014
Hello Christian, I'm pleased your quad flies well. Is it exactly the same specification as my design on Flitetest? Not flying much at the moment, very stormy and wet winter here in the UK.
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