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4K gyro-stabilized aerial video of San Francisco
- lawsonia 14y agoThat is looking beautiful.
- madiator 14y agoNow imagine this is put on a drone!
- chups 14y agogreat imagination :)
- dutchbrit 14y agoQuadcopters for the win!
- cup 14y agoWhat makes you think it isn't already?
- olex 14y agoThe article below the video, that clearly shows the system mounted on a full-size helicopter.
- garretruh 14y agoI think the implication was that the military (or drone hobbyists) likely already have similar tech on their UAV platforms. Though maybe not capable of 4K.
- ynniv 14y agoThe gimbal is 95lbs, and the camera another 5. Also, photos of JetRangers.
- olex 14y agoModern brushless gimbals actually deliver really good stabilization - probably not as perfect as this and maybe not good enough to carry a Red, but take a look at this for what is possible with a GoPro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch2iRCWZfKc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch2iRCWZfKc
- gokhan 14y agoVery very impressive stabilization. This video shows motors in action at hand, close up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW1ElgkBiAw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW1ElgkBiAw , crazy.
- stcredzero 14y agoSeems like it could be adapted for lightweight telescopic optics.
- minipark 14y agoThere is an entire movie that was shot using this technique: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40U5D2eI7_8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40U5D2eI7_8
- Aloisius 14y agoThere are many, many, many movies shot like this. The company who shot this, Teton Gravity Research, along with all their competitor snowboard and ski movie makers, use it. Nature documentaries like the movie Earth used it. This is one of the first though, to do it in 4K.
- ptio 14y agolink to video: http://vimeo.com/62831216 http://vimeo.com/62831216
- verytrivial 14y ago4K camera + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wescam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wescam ? Very pretty, but I am not seeing innovation here.
- rimantas 14y agoWhat is with that obsession with innovation? What's wrong with maturity? Too often I come across the comments of a "no innovation there, it's a crap" kind and I wonder where does this attitude come from.
- ynniv 14y agoPeople come here for news about unexpected change. Maturity is great but predictable, and will be reported in other channels.
- verytrivial 14y agoHardly. If the article was title "Captivating 4k images of cites at night" it wouldn't have garnered any HN traction. The implication here was that either 4k or the image stabilisation was note-worthy from a technological point of view. 4k is new/hot-ish (the low-light sensitivity is quite impressive in these shots), but those stabilisation rigs have been around for decades. At first I though someone may have put a Red onto a drone .. (someone still can!)
- nobodyshere 14y agoWhere can I get it in 4k? I don't really care about the fact that it was taken with a 4k cam without being able to download it in said quality...
- SammoJ 14y agoDidn't hunt for the source of this one but I did find some true 4K examples here: http://media.xiph.org/video/derf/ http://media.xiph.org/video/derf/ CTRL-F 2160p
- Aloisius 14y agoRED posted this to vimeo which they say is 5K: http://vimeo.com/25424362#at=0 http://vimeo.com/25424362#at=0
- guelo 14y agoMight have been more interesting without the annoying Hollywood music. Or maybe it would still have been boring. I'm confused why this is top of HN right now.
- nobodyshere 14y agoEspecially with in fact misleading title. Where's 4k here?
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- eulo_ 14y agoIt's titled thus because the mount can house cameras that shoot at 4k res reliably. Can be pretty scary strapping $50k to a moving vehicle.
- lenazegher 14y agoThe corny music along with the establishing shots of SF really, really reminded me of the opening of cult so-bad-it's-good hit The Room [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room_(film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room_(film)
- kalms 14y agoI actually enjoyed the choice of music. Where is it from?
- enginous 14y agoLet me get a little whiny and off-topic here: the video is beautiful, but I wish people mostly stopped using Vimeo until they make their player more resilient. It doesn't seem to degrade video quality if your bandwidth is low, it seems that my bandwidth to Vimeo is generally lower than with YouTube, it handles buffering very poorly, it's jittery on some less powerful computers, and the player itself loads noticably slower than YouTube. For this reason, I hesitate to share the video with others, even if it's great. People going through their feeds have better things to do than wait and give up on content I attempt to share.
- jvzr 14y agoWell, I have the exact opposite experience. I guess it depends on where you live on the globe. :)
- treelovinhippie 14y agoAnd ironically it's the higher-quality, higher bandwidth-intensive artsy videos that are uploaded there. Google should buy them out, though I'm sure they've already gone down that path.
- btipling 14y agoVimeo is already owned by IAC.
- petercooper 14y agoAgreed. When I had 12Mbps down, Vimeo was a real borderline PITA to use and it seemed jumping to points in a video took 10+ seconds to actually occur whereas with YouTube you could jump around the video quickly. Now I have 70Mbps down, Vimeo is somewhat more bearable, but it's still not as good an experience as YouTube. All that said, Vimeo's video always seems better quality to me, even if it slow to load or cumbersome to control. And I suspect that, like me, you're in Europe.. so that might also have a part to play.
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- webmonkeyuk 14y agoI particularly like the way that the Jet Ranger changes colour in the photos
- rockyj 14y agoSF is beautiful, being a programmer I wish I could live there. Oh well :(
- btipling 14y agoSan Francisco is not beautiful. There are nice residential parts, and it isn't a boring place, and there are lots of great technology companies. But this city is not beautiful. Have a walk around the civic center if you doubt.
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- jfb 14y agoI disagree. There are parts of the city that are terrible, but there's so much that's lovely, and the physical environment is almost peerless. Corona Heights park; Glen Park canyon; Ocean Beach; the Embarcadero; Holly Park in Bernal Heights -- gorgeous.
- btipling 14y agoUnfortunately mostly what I see is feces on the pavements, noise, litter and bad smells and whole lot of unhappy grumpy people making their way.
- jrockway 14y agoThis reminds me of the intro to Law & Order.
- joonix 14y agoThere were many shots like this in the Dark Knight Rises of Gotham (Manhattan). They were fantastic.
- cwe 14y agoTotally off topic, but wasn't that shot in Pittsburgh?
- adpowers 14y agoParts were shot in Pittsburgh, LA, Manhattan, and London. The Freedom Tower under construction was obviously visible in some skyline shots. In one scene Batman and Bane were fighting on the steps of Wall Street. From one angle the shot was filmed in front of the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh and another angle was actually on Wall Street. http://moviemaps.org/movies/7y http://moviemaps.org/movies/7y
- joonix 14y agoParts were, but there are tons of gyroscope helicopter shots of Manhattan in the film.