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Swhitcomb 02-15-2018 02:42 PM

Following my Boxster with a drone
 
So we had a nice weather day today for once, and I decided to play with my drone and Boxster. I bought a DJI Spark last month, and it does what is called Active Track. You draw a box around a subject and it follows it.

https://youtu.be/zutFriCBCkM

rexcramer 02-15-2018 03:36 PM

Cool. What is the fastest you could drive and it be able to keep up? Do you choose the hover altitude and is it adjustable?

Swhitcomb 02-15-2018 03:38 PM

Hover altitude is adjustable. Fastest I think it can go is about 25 mph.

thstone 02-15-2018 05:23 PM

That is really cool!

I ran a drone company from 2013-2017 but we focused all of our efforts on applying drones to farms and agriculture.

Amazing Quirks 02-15-2018 07:12 PM

That's not bad. Smooth. But as a former cinematographer I would of liked to see some camera moves , something similar to what I've done in this music video I shot https://youtu.be/f5evR6rw9Ik . I know sometimes it's easier said than done, my Porsche videos I do pretty amateur style www.youtube.com/amazingquirks as I try to focus on what I'm doing and don't have help like I would on a film set bit just sharing

Geof3 02-15-2018 10:07 PM

Ha cool! Obviously need some wide open space. It would be cool to do one right off the back of the car.

Swhitcomb 02-16-2018 01:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thstone (Post 562814)
That is really cool!

I ran a drone company from 2013-2017 but we focused all of our efforts on applying drones to farms and agriculture.

I’ve been reading about that. Never really thought of it until I bought mine. They have all kinds of good and positive uses. The LAFD has one they use to find hotspots in wildfires. A police department out here on the east coast just used one to find a guy who’d gone missing while hiking a month or so ago.

As for the angle it can track from. It can do it from any angle you want. I plan on playing with it more and seeing what it can do. I watched a few videos last night on YouTube. One guy got up to 30mph and it was keeping up.

Swhitcomb 02-16-2018 08:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amazing Quirks (Post 562820)
That's not bad. Smooth. But as a former cinematographer I would of liked to see some camera moves , something similar to what I've done in this music video I shot https://youtu.be/f5evR6rw9Ik . I know sometimes it's easier said than done, my Porsche videos I do pretty amateur style www.youtube.com/amazingquirks as I try to focus on what I'm doing and don't have help like I would on a film set bit just sharing


It was just me playing. I didn’t operate the drone at all. I set it in a mode called active track. It followed the car automatically. It was a last minute thing when I got off work and there was still daylight. I even forgot the ND filter for the lense.


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