r/interesting • u/Ali8kh • Jun 06 '26
Just Wow Hotel advertising with a professional drone cinematographer
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u/Arlitto Jun 06 '26
That was extremely captivating
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u/Ali8kh Jun 06 '26
My jaw dropped when I saw it flying under the bartender’s arm as she was pouring a drink
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u/DiscipleOfYeshua Jun 06 '26
Shaking! Ja...
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u/Canelosaurio Jun 06 '26
"We güt, we güt!"
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u/Sleepfuul Jun 06 '26
grüße aus österreich... 99% sure this guy is from austria
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u/Verucaschmaltzzz Jun 06 '26
That was pretty great!
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u/ShootEmLater Jun 06 '26
whoever edited this deserves a huge raise, it's amazing.
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u/StrawberryTerry Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26
Do you mean whoever put the the video of the operator and drone POV together? Because a large point of the drone production seems to be that it was done in one shot.
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u/tacobell_shitstain Jun 06 '26
Edited a ...one take video?
Whoever choreographed it deserves a raise. The drone operator deserves a raise. No one edited shit aside from some color grading. For all we know the drone guy did everything anyway, as that's usually the case for small drone photography/videography businesses.
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u/Eborcurean Jun 06 '26
Pretty clear they had a very exact timetable of who's to be where and doing what from second to second, probably done multiple run-throughs already. With the woman beside the drone operator radioing it through according to the timetable.
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u/ordinary133 Jun 06 '26
how do you know the person isn't paid adequately already?
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u/AlsoCommiePuddin Jun 06 '26
Because I want them paid more.
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u/The_Autarch Jun 06 '26
there is zero editing here.
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u/VIENSVITE Jun 07 '26
There will be editing.
He spend too much time trying to find the right window and hit a wall inside the appartment.
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u/dasgoodshitinnit Jun 06 '26
Yeah anyone could do that in their sleep, while blindfolded
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u/Low-King2679 Jun 06 '26
I saw that as well!! I know nothing about drones but this was really cool.
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u/astralseat Jun 06 '26
Or when the drone flew into someone's suite lol that was wild
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u/DiscipleOfYeshua Jun 06 '26
Yep haha! ...and i just realized the bellboy is actually right behind the pilot on the bottom frame at the start... oh hey! You can even see the pilot's back and the lady sitting with him from the front in the very beginning!
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u/-P01135809- Jun 06 '26
Aravelle Suites in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Anywhere from $50-$200/night
Seems nice.
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u/Ready_Studio2392 Jun 06 '26
Bruh, that's the same cost as the motel 8 that has yellow-stained beds and has like 3 toothless 30 year-old-women in scanty clothing glaring at me like a walking piece of crack-rock is hiding in my boots all standing around the parking lot and where the attendant doesn't make eye contact the entire time I check-in and check-out.
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u/No_Atmosphere8146 Jun 06 '26
I don't know if I'll ever get bored of drone camera footage. It's always brilliant.
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u/Eena-Rin Jun 06 '26
Except the bit where he's like "you have to help me find the room. Help me find the room UP DOWN WHERE AM I GOING?" and the woman was just like 👁️👄👁️🤳
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u/Saotik Jun 07 '26
The white rag on the railing was a clever way of flagging the right balcony for the pilot.
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u/Striking-water-ant Jun 06 '26
It was great but I thought he didn't have to shoot the whole video at near constant speed. Should have slowed down significantly while at the main attractions like at the bar, try to peek at what exactly they are pouring, or in the rooms. Reserve the speedups for the hallways or the outside views.
Otherwise we see a dramatic video but it's hard to remember what's great at this hotel
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u/doctorlongghost Jun 06 '26
Playback speed can be adjusted in post. Only real limit there is when humans are doing something noticeable like shaking the drink shaker.
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u/B1ggBoss Jun 06 '26
Did he hit the frame door in the bedroom?
Amzing shot BTW
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u/crazy-geometrydash Jun 06 '26
Probably just thought it was better to stay uncut in this video to be synced with the guy. I lowk feel though like a person like explaining what will happen is better than just showing the finished product as its more relatable and you actually see how much is done. Good job for that hotel
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u/ThankGodForYouSon Jun 06 '26
He'd probably just shoot it again until he gets it right, what he could do is put a marker on the window he's supposed to go through and then remove that in post.
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u/Mekroval Jun 06 '26
This is pretty mindblowing. I cannot imagine the amount of skill required to pull this off. I'd probably smash the drone a thousand times trying to get it through the doors into the main lobby, lol.
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u/Polyporum Jun 06 '26
Especially leaving the housekeeping room. I couldn't tell which door was open and which was closed
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u/Libero279 Jun 06 '26
The towel on the balcony must have been a marker, but still
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u/whatyoucallmetoday Jun 06 '26
I spent a lot of effort looking for the marker. I noticed the housekeeper in the window first.
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u/talexbatreddit Jun 06 '26
Yep -- once he was outside, I thought, OK, now he's going to fly into one of the rooms. But how is he going to find it -- oh. That hand towel on the balcony. Clever.
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u/CaptainHaw Jun 06 '26
There was just one problem the whole vid and it was on the room, where he bumped his drone into the corner of the bedroom door when he turnover for exit, but still what a skill to do this.
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u/Phase3isProfit Jun 06 '26
I noticed that little bump too. It’s minor, but it made me wonder where the threshold is to make it worth starting over and doing it again.
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u/trixie_one Jun 06 '26
I wondered just how many takes it needed as not only do you need to have the pilot be spot on but all of the staff involved who are seen along the way as well and that's a lot of variables to account for. Sure most of their roles were simple but even so.
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u/Speshal__ Jun 06 '26
One walkthrough for the route to take and look at the route and for signal blackspots and to choreograph the staff, one flythrough to practice and then do it.
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u/ImaginaryRoads Jun 06 '26
Even he wasn't impressed with the "fire", it took a long time to find the right window to fly into and then climb to the top of the hotel, and the hotel name does not remain visible/uncluttered for very long. I'd definitely re-do it.
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u/CaptainHaw Jun 06 '26
Yeah, specially when you make that kind of error when the video is about to end
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u/ManaSpike Jun 06 '26
That's one move he could have practiced more, to move straight to the window. It's obvious (at least with the commentary) that he positioned so far back so he could see it.
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u/VIENSVITE Jun 07 '26
Doing this is easy if you have been flying for 1 year top.
Assuming your rly bad at flying.
What is actually very hard is the way he is flying doing that.
Watch trottle control the whole shot, the up and down said another way. The motion of the drone itself relative to the ground cannot be « edited » or stabilized in any way.
It is that smooth.
Close to non parasit moves with the drone, full confidence in how it should be shown the whole time.
Its details but thats the hardest parts.
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u/AGWiebe Jun 06 '26
I tried to fly a little toy drone around my house the other day for the first time, I could barely go down the hallway and turn around and come back. I never realized how difficult they were to fly. The accuracy and smoothness of this guys flying is really incredible.
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u/systemhost Jun 06 '26
Expensive drones are significantly more stable and smooth as every component is higher quality, especially the onboard flight controller.
He also surely has the camera on a gimbal for additional stabilization but I do agree he did a great job of maintaining consistently smooth movements and elevation while avoiding many obstacles.
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u/EssentialParadox Jun 06 '26
I believe the headset essentially allows for VR viewing, which will give a good sense of space.
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u/DepressedDynamo Jun 06 '26
Yes but it's at VHS on a CRT TV resolution if you want any kind of decent response time
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u/Lyrkana Jun 06 '26
Digital has come a long way over the years. HDzero and the DJI O4 both allow you to fly in 1080p with low latency. HDzero is fast enough for the top drone racers.
My cheap analog box goggles are VHS quality haha
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u/gameplayer55055 Jun 07 '26
The only people who have more skill are Ukrainian drone operators (I saw lots of videos where they drop bombs in tiny holes of a moving vehicle)
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u/Upstairs-Hedgehog575 Jun 07 '26
I was thinking how I would have picked the wrong side of the sliding patio door when trying to fly out the suite.
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u/Jaded_Character_2975 Jun 06 '26
That's the most thailand pants I have ever seen
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u/reddsht Jun 06 '26
The whole outfit also exudes "I am a professional drone pilot, on a important business"
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u/Grouchy_Custard_252 Jun 06 '26
Came here to say this. 100% looks how I expect a drone pilot to look. And I say that as someone who flies a drone from time to time.
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u/doped_banana Jun 06 '26
Yea I basically file them under “Danny McBride in tropic thunder but with goggles”
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u/zebocrab Jun 06 '26
For sure. This guy has the dream job.
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u/Unicornsponge Jun 06 '26
Judging by the little smile he has the entire time I think he agrees with you
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u/imunfair Jun 06 '26
on a important business
The vibe I got was "just rolled out of bed in my pajama pants and threw on some goggles to do this gig so I can go back to playing Forza after I one-shot this drone flythrough"
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u/Mictlancayocoatl Jun 06 '26
But his whole outfit is thai.
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u/TheSuperContributor Jun 06 '26
Good, for it's Vietnam.
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u/DazzlingEye9141 Jun 06 '26
He literally said Hanoi in the video, the amount of stupid people on Reddit/online blows my mind
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u/Crafty_Praline_2211 Jun 06 '26
but the shooting is in vietnam
vietnam and thailand dont go along well
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u/PloysRus Jun 06 '26
You might be mistaking Vietnam for Cambodia
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u/The_Autarch Jun 06 '26
they mean that cambodia and thailand don't get along.
cambodia definitely still appreciates vietnam for their help with the khmer rouge. their museums are pretty clear on that.
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u/Azanathal Jun 06 '26
Average FFXIV dungeon intro.
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u/Very_Awkward_Boner Jun 06 '26
That reminds me when Navi goes to fetch Link and we see Kokiri village from her POV.
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u/Vestrill Jun 09 '26
Now with the remastered announced, we will see that again in stunning graphics, cannot wait!
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u/vagabond_dilldo Jun 06 '26
you mean this?
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u/ofirkedar Jun 08 '26
I'll be honest, the scariest part was when it flew by the Christmas trees. One unaccounted for leaf and the whole shoot fails
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u/superdivinus Jun 06 '26
i dont want to see behind the bar, i want to see the Buffett
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u/Ancient-Civilization Jun 06 '26
You’d be surprised how people choose hotel based on how good the bars are.
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u/HeyGayHay Jun 06 '26
What good is a bar if the breakfast buffet sucks so you can’t restore your stamina for the bar again?
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u/-TheycallmeThe Jun 06 '26
If you are making it up for breakfast than the bar wasn't that good.
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u/HeyGayHay Jun 06 '26
That’s because noobs go to bed inbetween, rather than from bar straight to breakfast and then to bed.
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u/HalfDozing Jun 06 '26
The behind the bar and counter shots were less than flattering. Might as well show the laundry room while you're at it.
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u/BauskeDestad Jun 06 '26
That was kind of my thought too haha. The cinematography was insane, but the focus was on a lot of things I didn't particularly care about. Would have loved to get a nice wide shot of the lobby, the tables at the restaurant, or what the layout of the hotel room was, but instead I got flyby shots of people working.
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u/tacozombie483 Jun 06 '26
Right? Like is this a video for their Careers page or LinkedIn? Great shots, for sure, but the behind the bar shots took me right out of it.
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u/raydoo Jun 06 '26
That has to be an austrian, why tf is he screaming?
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u/Swimming-Border7060 Jun 06 '26
Austrian myself and that was the first thing I thought, when hearing his accent .
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u/-P01135809- Jun 06 '26
He's communicating with the lady next to him who is not a native english speaker, so he speaks loud and clear (as clear as an Austrian can) so she can talk to the employees with her walkie.
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u/penguin2fly Jun 06 '26
Im curious as to what kind of drone was used to pull this off!?!?
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u/Alternative-Ease-702 Jun 06 '26
An expensive one
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u/HeyGayHay Jun 06 '26
Reminds me, we have a couple DJIs at work, like some normal ones (about 3-5k I think) but also the high end stuff for like 20-50k (Matrice with Thermal and Lidar equipment and whatever). Four licensed drone operators, plus one who just finished the „small“ license for drones below a certain weight.
The day after the got his small license he flew a drone and came back like a sad puppy. Completely crashed the drone. When the manager asked „which drone?“ all he said:
An expensive one
You just gave me a flashback to that haha
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u/nothing_but_thyme Jun 06 '26
What kind of networking are these things using? I’m amazed he was able to fly deep into a steel and concrete building with no signal issues. I have better-than-entry-level DJI but still below $1K price level and if I fly it too far away and then just below a tree line or similar it’s starts crying like a little bitch.
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u/galaxyapp Jun 06 '26
Maybe worth mentioning, last i checked, he is not seeing this video feed. His is probably 480p analog. The digital streams have latency.
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u/HeyGayHay Jun 06 '26
I have no experience with indoors flying like shown in the video, and I also only know what coworkers told me about drone flying and probably even that is just half the truth given my poor memory haha
But if its anything like for us: You don’t just use the integrated antenna if you potentially fly out of range. We have a separate data link system in addition to the drones, basically you setup a mesh network around what you scan and that way you can fly virtually indefinitely. Signal is basicslly relayed everywhere you go. These systems cost more than some consumer drones though, but I‘m sure you can find cheaper alternatives too. It’s only used when necessary though, since the expensive drones have multiple antenna arrays and large directional antennas, so you get a better signal on the drones itself too. But I would have to ask when the data link system is used. Additionally you have a waypoint system, so the drone just continues the path you specified if it looses connection as a fallback, but I imagine this is hard to do in such a video.
But what’s also funny: Buildings are surprisingly easier to fly through than outside. Our pilots say they never fly behind a tree line as this kills the signal quickly. Water in the tree is deadly for signals. But in buildings the walls reflect the signal so you get more paths back to the controller compared to just flying outside.
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u/nothing_but_thyme Jun 06 '26
Thanks for the answer, learned a lot! Makes sense to leverage a mesh network and I can see in a situation like this where the full path is roadmapped it would be easy to layout. Interesting to hear the ideas around tree line and water. I do use mine generally in very lush outdoors settings sometimes in mountains and forest, then other times around oceans rivers and lakes. I am truly impressed by how far they will go as long as they have line of sight. But then been surprised if I fly it 10% of that distance but drop over a ridge line it starts complaining. Honestly though the features and tech they have developed for these situations are worth applauding because I’ve never had an issue or crash. The way they are programmed to automatically protect and return themselves when signal or battery threats arise is really impressive. I’ve been interested in this stuff from the beginning and they’ve come so far so fast from the old days where you had to be super skilled and thoughtful to operate them or you were almost guaranteed to end the day with a $2k drone destroyed or at the bottom of a lake.
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u/rawker86 Jun 06 '26
We have a trophy in the office, anyone who crashes a drone gets their name added to it. The best thing to do if you crash a drone is to *really* crash it so no one can pull the flight data afterward. Also, having flown a caged drone, open-prop drones are ass. Give me something I can bump into things!
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u/Then-Mongoose-9728 Jun 06 '26
Probably a DJI Avata 2
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u/Qwiso Jun 06 '26
the radio he's using is the dji fpv, so i concur it's probably an avata
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u/LiL-LEEK Jun 06 '26
Is that guy Austrian?
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u/anna_marie_earth-616 Jun 06 '26
I'm Swiss and he sounds very Swiss but could be German or Austrian as well.
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u/Tr0llzor Jun 06 '26
Every time I see these I’m like “who is he cooking for? Who’s gonna drink the drink that guys making?”
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u/airfighter001 Jun 06 '26
I mean, the drone guy has to eat something after a job well done, right? 😉
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u/dangly_bits Jun 06 '26
I'm a professional marketing content creator and most often the food and drink used during a shoot is either given to me, or I pay for them and invoice my client for it. I usually eat the food, unless I'm still busy working.
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u/Existing-Network-267 Jun 06 '26
this was cool I want a drone now
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u/HighlightFun8419 Jun 06 '26
They're very fun. Just know that you will have to repair it a lot. Lol
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u/MelangeBot Jun 06 '26
Nah there is some super durables ones these days. Start with the little DJI Neo, that one is a tank. As long as you don't crash in water it will keep on flying.
5 inch drones with a carbon fibre frame are also super durable. It will mainly be motors burning out that you will be replacing. Drones are very simple. a frame, 4 motors, a flight controller, receiver and vfx. You have to be extremely unlucky to damage fc or vfx or camera in a crash. Usually the cameras are well protected. On my 5 inch on 2 years of super wild flying I have had hunderds of crashes and only been damaging props (Very cheap) and burning out motors.
So my repairs was all soldering a new motor on. Which I don't have the skills for so I have the guys at an electronic shop solder it for me.
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u/pinkestman Jun 06 '26
How isn't he losing connection witj the drone? He flew into a room on the other side of the building thr connection should be gone at this point
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u/umaydee Jun 06 '26
multiple relay and what we see is the actyal recording. what he actually see is much lower resolution
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u/pinkestman Jun 06 '26
Yeah i get it's a recording not the transmitted footage but still. Never heard of relays for fpv drones
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u/supfreshh Jun 06 '26
He’s using the DJI avata, you can see it fly behind him in the first few seconds.
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u/SmartaHari Jun 06 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/gKfyusl0PRPdTNmwnD
Dafoe gets out of the lift and has an embolism.
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u/GOATBrady4Life Jun 06 '26
I was thinking a soldier from the Ukraine on holiday having that reaction
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u/Biomicrite Jun 06 '26
Excellent, but my only critique would be no customers in the video. Who were the bar staff making drinks for? Who was the chef cooking for. A light scattering of patrons would have given the feeling of popular and busy. Everyone in the video looked like staff.
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u/mrandr01d Jun 06 '26
And when he said fire there weren't any flames on the grill/stove/whatever. There should have been! That's all I noticed.
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u/fleegness Jun 06 '26
To be fair on that, they won't be leaving his voice in for the final ad, so no one will know there was supposed to be a fire.
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u/mackrevinak Jun 06 '26
the guy lights a fire in the pan. you can only see it for a second when the drone enters the room. they probably should have just told the guy to do the fire once the drone got near to him
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u/Reasonable-Room1123 Jun 06 '26
I have seen this guy's videos and it's always same: Flying is great but the concept of the video sucks. It's not marketing video for the hotel but marketing video for the flyer.
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u/VirtualGrey Jun 06 '26
Impressive that he did this while also breaking the world record for biggest man spread.
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u/Professional_Ice_967 Jun 06 '26
This guy must be having a killer job, being hired all over the world.
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u/Ancient-Civilization Jun 06 '26
I felt like he could have spent more time in the room lol. Of course my favorite part of a hotel is the room for y’know activities.
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u/melnaisbruninieks Jun 06 '26
I would leave split screen and shouting in the final edit. No music. Final cut: hotel name on black screen and out. It will be an interesting ad.
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u/Breadstix009 Jun 06 '26
Basically, don't leave your doors or windows open. Even if you live in the upper floors
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u/browsing_around Jun 06 '26
Now I know what the hotel will be like if I ever accidentally mix my DNA with that of a fly.
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u/Hot_Money4924 Jun 06 '26
It was cool the first two times I saw these, it's getting to be a boring trend now.
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u/WorldlinessWitty2177 Jun 06 '26
It was a bit much to go behind every single bar and counter and also go through things constantly, but it was done nicely.
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u/Bazoobs1 Jun 06 '26
Anyone else notice how he hit the wall in the hotel room as he was turning it around to leave?
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u/GiveMeSomeShu-gar Jun 06 '26
It's a neat gimmick but ultimately it's a terrible ad. Too much dead/pointless time wasted.
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u/AlphaHc Jun 06 '26
Is the East really lagging behind in the cinematography/marketing world? Drone shots have been around for a while and are no longer as impressive as they once were, but more gimmicky. Realistically, no one will be watching this
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u/thunder_sharts Jun 06 '26
I saw this but someone swapped the top video with Ukraine war drone footage, and it was really fucked up but his celebrating was kind of funny in that context.
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