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This is a helicopter tour I took over Moorea, French Polynesia. I was shooting footage for a hotel chain. I finally got around to editing the rest of the footage into a short video.

Shooting from a helicopter is tough! There is constant shaking and its very hard to hold the camera still. Thus...the only solution is to use alot of the Smoothcam function in FCP.

The song is "Hearts on Fire" by Cut Copy.

Shot on a Sony V1U.

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lounger 1 year ago

nice
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

thanks lounger!
Filip Minar 1 year ago

nice work, nature and all :)
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

thanks Filip!
Linda McClure 1 year ago

Beautifully done, Jon! I love your work!
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Thanks Linda!
giancarlo giupponi 1 year ago

Wow, stunning. Bellissime scene di volo.
Complimenti.
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Grazie giancarlo!
Paul Frederick 1 year ago

Some super smooth shots there Jon! Some of them look like you used a Wescam mount! Nice job.
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Thanks Paul!
monso 1 year ago

great work!!!!
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Thanks monso!
james curtis 1 year ago

I thought the V1U was a CMOS camera, did you have any weird vibrations showing up in your footage from the rolling shutter vs. helicopter?
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Ya the V1U is a CMOS camera. The only weird issues came from smoothcam in FCP. I wish there were actual settings for it. It just automatically analyzes the footage than zooms and crops - thus you get some weird waving motion on certain shots.
james curtis 1 year ago

I know it's a little non-conventional, but there are a couple great after effects methods for smoothing out your film. I think it's great considering the conditions, but every once in a while you can spot the interlacing. It's gorgeous nonetheless. Answer me this: if you could shoot again, what would you do different?
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Hmmm. If I could shoot again I would use a Sony EX1. Also I screwed up by not doing a reverse telecine before editing. That why you see the interlacing, because the V1U doesn't shoot true 24p.
Kjewbee 1 year ago

great stuff!

indeed, too bad its interlaced but the scenary is overwelming enough not to notice that.
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

I fixed the interlace problem! Now it looks great!

I also fixed the contrast...it was too heavy before!
james curtis 1 year ago

huge improvement, great footage!
Gabriel Soares 1 year ago

Actually V1U do shoot 24p... The 24p signal is converted in 60i to record on tape, by adding some duplicated fields in 3:2 ratio. Once in computer, you need only set the software to remove 3:2 pulldown. The Sony Vegas Pro 8 do it automatically...
Duncan Rawlinson 1 year ago

Awesome video. Great music as well.

flickr.com/photos/thelastminute/1947046112/in/set-72157603108266093/

Man that was an epic trip!
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

hells ya!
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

added the photos to the side.
Duncan Rawlinson 1 year ago

rad. i didn't know you could add pics on vimeo!
Fred Meissner 1 year ago

It would be sweet to stand in that hole at 1:00...
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Definitely! I wonder how big it actually is...we were quite far from it.
Blake Whitman 1 year ago

wow.
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Ya it was awesome!
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

I fixed the interlacing problem I had before. Now the video looks even better! I also brought the contrast down.

Check it out now!
rick fiduccia 1 year ago

I am going to add a 2nd to Blake's comment - WOW!
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Wow indeed.
Ian McLeod 1 year ago

Amazing video,

Helicopters are rad!
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

"A helicopter is absolutely necessary for this shoot."

heh
mikehedge 1 year ago

nice!!!!! I loved it there when I was there a couple years ago!!

Mike
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Thanks Mike!
4Moorhens2 1 year ago

Great scenery, super camera work, thanks for the ride.
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Thanks!
Ray Roman 1 year ago

Good Stuff!!
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Thanks Ray!
Jordan Megahy 1 year ago

Amazing views! I really want to visit now!
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Thanks Jordan!
TreasureProductions 1 year ago

It's shoots like this that make you feel right on the TOP OF THE WORLD and proud of your profession. Great Shoot!
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Thanks!
Kingofpunk 1 year ago

Hello Jon
I notice that your video is interlaced, you can de-interlace the video very easely with the plugin provide in FCP.
Anyway this video is very nice and shooting from an helicopter must be an intense experience.
Thank you for sharing this video
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Thanks!
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Fixed the interlacing! Now it looks great!
Inx 1 year ago

very, very beutiful shots!
although FCP does a decent job on smoothing out a shaky footage, try using AE motion stabilization for even better results (though you'll have to spend more time and do some manual stuff as well).

keep up the good work, man :)
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Ya Ill have to try AE next time

thanks!
w.pasman 1 year ago

Very nice!
Did you consider using a steadicam?
Kjewbee 1 year ago

I think there is not enough room in a heli to use that + shooting downward is pretty difficult with a steadycam ;)
w.pasman 1 year ago

You have pretty small steadicams like the merlin, they might fit? And I have done shooting down with the merlin. Yes it takes a bit of set-up time.
BumKi Cho 1 year ago

Grand shots! Nice work, Jon.
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Thanks!
Brian Mulligan 1 year ago

Nice work, It looks like FCP steady cam works better than the built in one in some of the cameras out on the market.
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

It works pretty good but its painfully slow.
c son 1 year ago

you should of shot a car driving through the mountain roads and played the soundtrack from the shining lol
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

haha
Justin Ecklof 1 year ago

You just made nature awesome.
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

thanks!
Ashley Harrison 1 year ago

Awesome! Seriously...you have an awesome job! But you already knew that!
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Thanks!
TRiSON 1 year ago

Very nice. Some beautiful work there.
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Thanks!
Duncan Rawlinson 1 year ago

Watched this again but in the downloaded HD version. Wicked!
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Awesome. Ya I encoded it pretty high quality. Its 165 meg for 2 minutes! 10000kbps!
mike ambs ☂ 1 year ago

Really beautiful - I love that shot of the mountain with a little hole or cave in it :) man... I just want to run around there...
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Thanks Mike!
Jip Eilbracht 1 year ago

Niice!
Too bad you see the reflections and scratches on the glass of the helicopter sometimes... Didn't you shoot from the open window?
Where can we see the ad you shot the stuff for?

Maybe I'll be able to shoot out of a small airplane flying above our city (Delft, historical city) with a Z1U.. :)
Jon Rawlinson 1 year ago

Thanks.

Well the window was only open on the left side and it was very small.
Harry Juselius 5 months ago

Very very very good ...yes its tough the shaking but you got it so well and the small round hole too which I missed..yess....hj.