Norway aerial shots

[RobinFrcd]

Hi,
I just came back from a trip to Norway and had the chance to visit some great spots. I created a source here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RobinFrcd/AerialShots/master and I'd be glad to share them with the aerial community !

I'm open to any constructive comments on the shots themselves if then need some editing/colour grading.

Thanks

[glouel]

Hey @RobinFrcd

Awesome ! I very very quickly tried to add the source but I get a crash while downloading videos, a bit busy right now but I'll have a look tomorrow and let you know !

[RobinFrcd]

Thanks for the prompt answer! I just got an email from github saying:

Git LFS has been disabled on your personal account RobinFrcd because you’ve exceeded your data plan by at least 150%. Please purchase additional data packs to cover your bandwidth and storage usage

I guess that's why you got an error. How do people usually share their shots when they want to submit them to aerial ?

[glouel]

So the way I do it is make a release, it's a bit weird but that's not metered. Check: https://github.com/glouel/AerialCommunity/blob/master/entries.json

Basically you make a release with all your files like this : https://github.com/glouel/AerialCommunity/releases/tag/mw2-4k-sdr

And then you link as in the entries.json. Let me know how that goes for you but this has gotten a lot of traffic and it's fine here on a free account.

[RobinFrcd]

Alright thanks, it seems to work way better indeed! I've updated the entries with the links to the release files.

[glouel]

Can confirm it works and only had a very quick look but they look gorgeous. Lots of grain on first one, unsure if it's grain or rain actually, but otherwise really cool shots.

I'll have a better look tomorrow as it's getting really late and get back to you, don't hesitate to ping me if I forget as I'm a bit swamped right now with work.

[RobinFrcd]

I've tried to remove the noise from the first shot with FCPX but didn't manage to get something clean enough sadly 🤷

[glouel]

Hey no prob, and sorry got swamped again, didn't get to have a look yet but asked a friend to look at it, he might have some tips on colors and such. All in all this is a serious effort so I'm all for including them in some way or another. Feel free to talk to him, I'll follow the conversation.

Next release of Aerial I'm targeting Monterey release, so that would be around that time.

But again thanks for submitting them, I'll keep in touch.

[ZV00]

Hey @RobinFrcd,

@glouel asked me to take a look and chime in here.

1. First off, what a magical and beautiful place to have gotten to shoot. Looks like it must have been amazing being there!
2. I noticed that you have a near duplicate of the Henningsvaer video
3. As for color grading, to me the colors look a bit muted and the sky feels like it could benefit from some darkening. I'm not sure whether you have the videos in a compressed format or not, but that would be an area to look into tweaking from my perspective. It's been a while since I have edited videos (and I was never a grader) but I think that the tweaks could likely help amplify the beauty of the locations for screen saver use.
4. Overall I think these would be great, let me know if you work on them further and I will continue to test them out on my setup!

[RobinFrcd]

Thank you very much for your feedback! I still have the dlog footage, so yes, I can still try to work on the color grading. I'll try to spend some time on final cut this weekend, I'll keep you in touch.

Thanks again!

[RobinFrcd]

@ZV00 @glouel Hi again, and sorry for the delay, have been a bit busy this week.

Anyway, you were right, I worked on the colour grading and I find it much better now. I couldn't manage to remove all the noise from the first clip, though. Here the link to all the clips in 4K (v1 is the version I sent 12 days ago and v2 is the new version).

Thanks again for your feedbacks !

[glouel]

@RobinFrcd very sorry for not anwsering sooner, my schedule is a bit of a mess. Happy to hear about the improvements, I'll check your v2 tomorrow. Realistically I'm hoping to release next version of Aerial in around 2 weeks, so looking around that timeframe to add your source in there. This will depend on if my schedule clears up a bit.

Again, sorry for the lag, rest assured, not forgetting you !

[RobinFrcd]

@glouel @ZV00 Hi again!
I've updated the manifest with all the 5 videos in 1080p H264+HEVC and 4K HEVC.

https://github.com/RobinFrcd/AerialShots/blob/master/entries.json

[glouel]

@RobinFrcd damn, apologies I again got stuck into work. I'll have a look asap, super sorry again. I may push a build of Aerial this week as I have some performance improvements in the works, if that's ok with you and everything is ok with the manifests I'll add your videos then.

Again, sorry for not following up.

[RobinFrcd]

@glouel No problem at all, thanks again for your work!
I think I'm happy with this version of the shots, yes. Maybe @ZV00 still has some comments before adding these to the release ?

[RobinFrcd]

@glouel Sorry for the ping. Any news about these shots ?