Drone video editing
Building an edit from aerial footage
Aerial clips are beautiful individually and monotonous in sequence. Structure is what fixes that.
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Drone video editing
Drone video editing
Stabilisation and fixing shaky clips
What post-production stabilisation can rescue, what it cannot, and what it costs.
Drone video editing
Colour grading aerial footage
A workflow for making aerial clips match each other and look like a deliberate choice.
Drone video editing
Music, sound and text in aerial videos
Drones record no usable audio, so everything the viewer hears is a decision you make later.
Drone video editing
Export settings and delivering files
The last step where good work is routinely damaged by the wrong settings.
Flight moves and technique
The five moves that carry every aerial edit
A small vocabulary of camera moves does most of the work in aerial video. Learn these first.
Flight moves and technique
Flying smoothly with the sticks
Smoothness comes from how you move the sticks, not from what the drone costs.
Flight moves and technique
Composing shots from the air
Aerial composition follows the same rules as ground photography, with altitude as an extra variable.
Flight moves and technique
Planning a shot list before you fly
Battery time is short. Deciding what to film on the ground is what makes it enough.
Flight moves and technique
Advanced moves and when to use them
Combination moves that look effortless on screen and require real coordination to fly.
Camera settings
Manual exposure for drone video
Why automatic exposure ruins aerial footage, and the settings to use instead.
Camera settings
ND filters and why aerial footage needs them
The cheapest accessory that visibly changes how drone video looks.