Local town, just after flood waters subsided.  Music credit to Daft Punk.  Need to work on smoother camera operation...

Music credit: Daft Punk

UPDATE:  Reposting as a YouTube video instead of a direct download:

Nicely done! Were you using waypoints? And what kind of color grading did you use?

Ex Machina Posted at 2017-1-17 17:30
Nicely done! Were you using waypoints? And what kind of color grading did you use?

Thanks!  No waypoints. And I didn't make any adjustments to color grading. The only thing I did in post was trim and fade in/out.

Wow! No color grading? That looks awesome! Super crisp video too...perfect lighting. Nice job! I love Petaluma.

CAAirborne Posted at 2017-1-17 20:17
Thanks!  No waypoints. And I didn't make any adjustments to color grading. The only thing I did in post was trim and fade in/out.

Wow, nice light! And for a manually flown flight path, pretty smooth -- well done!

Thanks, all!  I was very lucky with the light... and it was smooth because I cut out all the jumpy stuff. Lots of fun!

I'm currently downloading it as it goes too slow to keep it playing from that url! You should get it to youtube, so it does not consume your bandwith and it also adjusts quality to every connection, allows streaming, etc

I'll comment back when I get it!

Ok, watched now... it looks awesome

CuaC Posted at 2017-1-18 02:05
I'm currently downloading it as it goes too slow to keep it playing from that url! You should get it to youtube, so it does not consume your bandwith and it also adjusts quality to every connection, allows streaming, etc

I'll comment back when I get it!

Yeah, I know! Sorry for the slow download/throughput.  It was a massive file...

Thanks for the feedback!

Nice work! The video is very crisp even with the low lighting. What software did you use to put it together?

OhOhDrone Posted at 2017-1-18 09:09
Nice work! The video is very crisp even with the low lighting. What software did you use to put it together?

Thanks!  I used Corel VideoStudio Pro X9 on a Windows 7 laptop. Nothing too fancy (or very expensive).

CAAirborne Posted at 2017-1-18 09:11
Thanks!  I used Corel VideoStudio Pro X9 on a Windows 7 laptop. Nothing too fancy (or very expensive).

Nicely done! You guys need the water bad. If only you can figure out how to store all those water long term

OhOhDrone Posted at 2017-1-18 15:55
Nicely done! You guys need the water bad. If only you can figure out how to store all those water long term

No kidding... all the water you see in the video flows into San Francisco Bay and then the Pacific ocean. It's raining here right now (again), so maybe this drought if finally over (for now).

Please upload to Youtube.  I'm unable to even buffer it up.  It won't even start here.

AG0N-Gary Posted at 2017-1-18 18:09
Please upload to Youtube.  I'm unable to even buffer it up.  It won't even start here.

Try this:  

Absolutely!  That works great.  Nice video, and I really like the music.  BTW, I was raised in Eureka, and my folks moved to SR when I went into the service.  How close is the river to flooding with all of the recent moisture?

Gary

AG0N-Gary Posted at 2017-1-19 13:42
Absolutely!  That works great.  Nice video, and I really like the music.  BTW, I was raised in Eureka, and my folks moved to SR when I went into the service.  How close is the river to flooding with all of the recent moisture?

Gary

Thanks for the comments!  And I wouldn't have tried YouTube had you not suggested it.

There were parts of the northern part of Petaluma that got flooded, but not very widespread.  Although the Petaluma River looks nasty in my video, it didn't get very close to flooding downtown.  There were other local areas of flooding where storm drains just couldn't drain away the water fast enough.  We had another storm last night, with yet another to arrive tonight.  Where we live it's high and dry, but I feel sorry for those closer to the river and in the low-lying areas/fields.

Cheers,

Larry