World's Best FPV Shot: voluntary workflow discussion and suggestions

[Ivan Johnson]

World's Best FPV Drone Shot? (Extreme Mountain Biking)

Would like to hear some suggestions from people who have worked with similar footage.

This was shot on a hacked GoPro camera attached to the FPV drone, the same workflow was used on the film Hardcore Henry (A colleague of mine was on the production crew and even told a story of how the camera was lost in a wheat field, so GoPro execs made the crew sift through kilometers of grass in order to find it, as no one else could get their hands on the modified camera (trade secret = $$$)) 

The footage is more than likely recorded in DNG RAW format with a very high bitrate.

What would have been the grading workflow, apart from choosing the right gamma and color space in order to achieve that soft, analogue finishing touch?

The picture completely lacks any kind of "plastic" digital look you would get from a consumer drone or XDCAM class camera.

In fact it even holds up extremely well against CineAlta Venice footage shot from inside the fighter jets for Top Gun Maverick. This was definitely achieved by the colorist as the GoPro camera is technologically inferior to the likes of Venice.

Edited April 25, 2022 by Ivan Johnson