Cybertruck Spotted Driving Around Giga Texas! Blink and you'll miss it!

[greggertruck]

From Joe's drone, Cybertruck leaving the outbound lot. maybe heading to logistics?

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[JBee]

Now just hook that left stick to spin the drone around...or pan down!

I think Joe might have to start practising is car chase shots now in sport mode. It's a bit of a different skill set than shooting a Gigafactory that can't drive away from you.

 

[greggertruck]

Now just hook that left stick to spin the drone around...or pan down!

I think Joe might have to start practising is car chase shots now in sport mode. It's a bit of a different slkill set than shooting a Gigafactory that can't drive away from you.

IDK if Joe knows what Sport mode is on the DJI lol (no dig at Joe here)

Honestly think Jeff flys a pre planned flight. The hardest thing he does it's catches the right exit to GFTX.

 

[JBee]

I assume he's using a DJI Mavic or Air then for planned flights. You can do some neat things with that, and the shots tend to be smoother, but using it for car chasing around an unknown path is not possible. You can turn tracking on though which will keep the subject/car in frame whilst you fly around. But I tend to just do car chases manually out of habit.

 

[LCS]

Now just hook that left stick to spin the drone around...or pan down!

I think Joe might have to start practising is car chase shots now in sport mode. It's a bit of a different skill set than shooting a Gigafactory that can't drive away from you.

“Tilt” down you must mean.

 

[JBee]

“Tilt” down you must mean.

Pan down the camera, but "tilt" the quadcopter?

Typically I use tilt to describe aircraft attitude, and pan up/down/left/right for camera control movements. With a DJI and their camera gimbals you can tilt the copter as much as you want but the self stabilising gimbals still holds the camera level, so you need to command the camera to pan down instead to frame the shot.

Of course with a FPV copter with a fixed camera you would have to use attitude to "tilt" the camera down, because it doesn't have a gimbal. The problem with that is you can't maintain the same distance as with a gimballed camera, because your attitude (or tilt) on a FPV copter also determines your horizontal velocity.

 

[LCS]

“Tilt” down you must mean.

Sorry,it’s a pet peeve amongst camera folk. I work in Film and panning up/down is Not used as a descriptor. Tilt is the accepted term, lol. Of course, I am only referring to the camera as on a gimbal would be moved separately from the drone.
anyway, we saw a tiny bit of that Cybertruck, I’m sure there will be more videos to come, it’s getting quite exciting watching this all unfold.

 

[John K]

I only saw an F-150

 

[JBee]

Out of interest, what do you call it when it you move the camera left or right? You see with a drone I can both pan left and strafe right at the same time. Technically I could even yaw right as well at the same time.

 

[Gurule92]

Where's my electric car Elon!

 

[Crissa]

I assume he's using a DJI Mavic or Air then for planned flights. You can do some neat things with that, and the shots tend to be smoother, but using it for car chasing around an unknown path is not possible. You can turn tracking on though which will keep the subject/car in frame whilst you fly around. But I tend to just do car chases manually out of habit.

This is what a drone with a 360 or 180 lens is useful for. Flight and focal direction can be completely divorced. Of course, they aren't as good at looking from further away.

I really never got the hang of piloting a drone, tho ^-^;

Out of interest, what do you call it when it you move the camera left or right? You see with a drone I can both pan left and strafe right at the same time. Technically I could even yaw right as well at the same time.

Panning is rotating in a flat plane around a point; strafe is traveling perpendicular to the camera. Yaw is the same as pan, but usually revers to the vehicle moving vs the camera, whereas panning is the camera moving and the vehicle usually being still.

-Crissa

 

[WHIZZARD OF OZ]

Out of interest, what do you call it when it you move the camera left or right? You see with a drone I can both pan left and strafe right at the same time. Technically I could even yaw right as well at the same time.

YAWning is contagious.
Having a 'KODAK Moment' perhaps, perhaps, perhaps(?) 'Still'

 

[COLAB]

the best pilot mode is the ''ukrainian mode attack'' to follow any vehicle

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[TyPope]

IDK if Joe knows what Sport mode is on the DJI lol (no dig at Joe here)

Honestly think Jeff flys a pre planned flight. The hardest thing he does it's catches the right exit to GFTX.

Jeff flies pre-programmed routes. Joe does not. Definitely not. What happened was that Joe did not realize he had filmed the Cybertruck until post-flight editing. He was more concerned with battery life remaining in his drone and doing his customary wrap up for his video. You can bet that had joe seen the Cybertruck, he would have driven his drone to zero battery just to follow it for us. Plus, he would have gotten some great photos to go along with it.

Joe is definitely not a shaky-short-vertical-video shooter.

 

[CyberGus]

STRAFE	← →
PAN	A D
TILT	W S

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