From August '16 to June '17 I'd been working on this project. A ton of planning, time & effort was put into it. I wanted to show my hometown, Staten Island in a new light & make people reconsider their thoughts of it as New York City's "forgotten borough". It got quite a large amount of recognition just within 2 days including 3 articles and a bunch of collaborative opportunities. New York 1 then reached out to interview me. It's been a crazy ride and it's only the beginning!

New York 1 Interview







Project Total Time: 8 Months: 3 months location scouting, 5 months shooting, 3 hours of footage, 1 week of editing.

Song: A Thousand Years - David A. Molina
https://soundcloud.com/david_a_m ... s/majestic-dramatic

Very beautiful indeed.
I liked it a lot.

You have some great footage. Very well done.

Congratulations and thank you for being a goodwill ambassador for drone pilots everywhere. It's no wonder they were interested in the excellent video you put together.

Gorgeous scenery editing work.   

Great work for your video and editing job and also a big thank you for giving us drone pilots a good reputation.

Excellent video. Your location scouting and planning really showed. Just out of interest, would you mind sharing the camera settings you used on your aircraft (I assume it was the Mavic)?

Congrats! Very cool.. and very well done.

Wow! Congrats, excellent job!

Superb!  Greatly enjoyed that.  Thanks for sharing, keep up the great work.  Now I need to visit New York.

Congratulations! Awesome job! Looking forward more awesome videos from you.

Hi Matthew,  got to say a big thank you. Excellent work which is now starting to pay off for you.

This work, the time taken, the editing and your commitment to getting it done, seeing it through should be used by all of us as an inspiration to what can be achieved with a tool we all share in the enjoyment of.

Genuinely looking forward to seeing more of your work.

Fantastic effort, great video footage, superb editing.

wow those are so stunning shots! Mavic?

Lucas775 Posted at 2017-9-5 16:34
Great work for your video and editing job and also a big thank you for giving us drone pilots a good reputation.

" giving us drone pilots a good reputation."


Exactly. This is what we need; exposure of the good things that responsible pilots can do.

Beautiful shots and fantastic editing!!!! I'm not too far north of you up in Boston man we should try and collaboration some this winter. Check out my channel bro on youtube man ZJMotovlogs

DroneFlying Posted at 2017-9-5 16:02
Congratulations and thank you for being a goodwill ambassador for drone pilots everywhere. It's no wonder they were interested in the excellent video you put together.

Thanks for the kind words!

absolutely stunning video Matthew, WOW i would love to learn your video editing tecniques. what polarizer filter n settings did you  use ?? and style

Lucas775 Posted at 2017-9-5 16:34
Great work for your video and editing job and also a big thank you for giving us drone pilots a good reputation.

Thanks Lucas!

randy.sauder Posted at 2017-9-5 19:44
Superb!  Greatly enjoyed that.  Thanks for sharing, keep up the great work.  Now I need to visit New York.

thank you!

DJI Susan Posted at 2017-9-5 23:17
Congratulations! Awesome job! Looking forward more awesome videos from you.

thanks a lot, they're on the way!

Bigga J Posted at 2017-9-5 23:50
Hi Matthew,  got to say a big thank you. Excellent work which is now starting to pay off for you.

This work, the time taken, the editing and your commitment to getting it done, seeing it through should be used by all of us as an inspiration to what can be achieved with a tool we all share in the enjoyment of.

Thank a ton for your kind words, means a lot! And yes there's more in the works!

Hemlock_Cloud Posted at 2017-9-6 03:28
wow those are so stunning shots! Mavic?

yessir it is!

Bigga J Posted at 2017-9-5 23:50
Hi Matthew,  got to say a big thank you. Excellent work which is now starting to pay off for you.

This work, the time taken, the editing and your commitment to getting it done, seeing it through should be used by all of us as an inspiration to what can be achieved with a tool we all share in the enjoyment of.

Thank a ton for your kind words, means a lot! And yes there's more in the works!

djiuser_OenPlwm Posted at 2017-9-6 04:29
Beautiful shots and fantastic editing!!!! I'm not too far north of you up in Boston man we should try and collaboration some this winter. Check out my channel bro on youtube man ZJMotovlogs

will do! come on down to NYC & lets link!

Best video I've seen in a while.  Your dediciation and skill shine through in its superb finish.. Thanks for sharing..

Man..you killed it.  Great job

Great video! You are on a roll, keep it up!

looks amazing - do you mind sharing your remote control settings? i've been trying to learn how to get a stable image but when you move forward the drone likes to pitch forward - even with the gimbal, it's a bit "odd" - so i've relegated to flying backwards - I've also tried to slow tilt by using head turning on the dji goggles for recording, but i can't figure out how to do smooth fly bys / rotation shots

Bud that was awesome  some of the best presented  video ive seen
all credit to you fantastic

pritchiedotcom Posted at 2017-9-6 05:31
Best video I've seen in a while.  Your dediciation and skill shine through in its superb finish.. Thanks for sharing..

thanks so much!

Brum Ken Posted at 2017-9-6 09:44
Bud that was awesome  some of the best presented  video ive seen
all credit to you fantastic

thank you!

Sportbike_Pilot Posted at 2017-9-6 04:00
" giving us drone pilots a good reputation."

I very much agree to that.

Cheers,

Excellent video! And as mentioned by several others you're an excellent ambassador for drone pilots.  

Matthew you have an excellent footage but you need to upgrade your PC's graphic card (video card ).

Overall, the video was very good.

Ahmed Hussain Posted at 2017-9-7 09:14
Matthew you have an excellent footage but you need to upgrade your PC's graphic card (video card ).

Overall, the video was very good.

"need to upgrade your PC's graphic card (video card )."

Good to know but how can you tell is going bad, quality is going bad? anything specific you can point out?

Thank you you make the bad crap in the news about drones look good keep it up m8 ;)

Sportbike_Pilot Posted at 2017-9-7 09:34
"need to upgrade your PC's graphic card (video card )."

Good to know but how can you tell is going bad, quality is going bad? anything specific you can point out?

Yes, when the video seems like there is a kind of frame goes by frame, this means there were dropped frames during editing. Those dropped frames occures due to either weakness in the editing application or (mostly) due to the PC's video card that un able to deal with high resolution like 2.7 and higher so some frames will drop from the output. You can see these results clearly when watching a car movings

Check your PC's graphic card, If it is less than 4 GB then you're better edit video for HD output. If 4 GB go for FHD output. 6 GB go for K 2.7 and 8 GB for 4k.

Awesome pawsome! Love your video. Beautiful work

Very nice work and some really good thoughts behind it. I think we in general need more of this kind of footage, or more presentation/packaging which you have done here.