HUN - HR - IT - SLO - A ride with a drone
 

Hey Ladies and Gents,

I've recently finished editing the videos from a ~3500km ride I was doing alone in 2017 in 8 days visiting major passes in the eastern part of the Alps (did the same in 2018 at the Western part but it's not edited yet...) That was the last tour I made with my beloved Goldwing GL1800. Last year I went with her successor, a K1600GTL.

The idea was to rush down from Budapest to Split in one day then ferry over to Ancona, Italy over the night, saving me aboat a day of boring ride. That made a ~820km first day, half highway, half on the famous and enjoyable coastline road "8" in Croatia. Then went towards Toscana where I faced 40-42C riding days for a while before I headed north towards Lago di Garda and then to the Alpst. I visited 15 high mountain passes including the standard big ones like Stelvio, Gavia, Pordio, Falzarego, Sella, Giau, Mangart, Nockalmstrasse and so on, but also less popular ones like Vivione and so on.

Long story short, here's the video I edited. It was shot with a DJI Mavic Pro drone and two GoPros (one stabilized on my helmet that made me look like a crazy terminator, and a backward facing one mounted on the mirror). It's 16 minutes with music and I believe it makes sense to watch it on a bigger screen with sound for full enjoyment of the aerials!




If it doesn't play, here's the direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tRmCjBrYOU

I hope you guys and girls enjoy it! :)
Let me know what you guys think!

Ride safe!
neu

Well Neu... Ahem...
It is strange that you have blocked it from being seen :whistling: yet want people to tell you what they think!
As you can see from the screenshot Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner
Are you collecting clicks?:wacko: 4 posts...I'd say so! you might want to fix that if you are looking to advertise/feedback/whatever.
Enjoy the world!

That's what I call a friendly welcome...I guess you also had times when you only had 4 posts and not 2000+...collecting clicks? Not sure I understand what you mean here...

Well, I was under the impression that "Ride Tales" is about sharing about your trips. If it's not correct, I'll remove it of course. I'm new here, so I might be wrong, I apologize if it's not the right forum.

I hope you don't seriously think that I added a video and disabled it on purpose...embeddig is allowed on Youtube, there's no restriction added in any way, however I see indeed that it doesn't play embeded for some reasons - thanks for the screenshot! I'll try to find out why, however the link works so by taking minimal effort it could be still seen (and it'd also make more sense to watch it in larger than a stamp size).

I try to figure out what is going on...

Ride safe.
neu

I clicked on it- screenshot came up- I let you know that it wasn't working and why- my bad!
Something has changed now and it works- well done

It still plays for me, even if I'm not logged in on youtube, so I'm really out of ideas....will check it at a different location.

Here is it anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tRmCjBrYOU

Works fine for me too! Whatever you did must have fixed it. Great shots in there to, well done.
And welcome to HU, we ARE a friendly bunch! :)

Just my opinion.
 

Wow, amazing! Really enjoyed that.
Those drones have been a real game changer for holiday vids, well done.
Did the Stelvio Pass a few years ago,some very tight hairpins on there for a Goldwing! Would love to get to The Dolomites soon.
Thanks for posting. :thumbup1:

Excellent mix of great footage, ambience music and skillful editing. Ty for sharing this video, I enjoyed it thoroughly.

Welcome to Horizons Unlimited!

Dolomites is still my favorite by far! You cna easily spend several days around, it's full of amazing passes! However, keep in mind that there is an initiative that internal combustion engines will be fully banned! I've heard that there will be a permit required which you could do through a not too userfriendly app and it's limited. Also there are already days when you simply cannot enter certain areas, so before you go, make sure you check what the status is as there's stuff going on....

I did Stelvio both ways with the Goldwing in different years, and yes, this is definitely not optimal with a 400kg bike, but it's doable if you know what you're doing :)

@Grant, Pagan

Thank you for the Welcome! :)

Ride safe!
neu

Thanks for the info on The Dolomites, I didn't Know that, looks like I need to get there sooner rather than later!
Picos this year so maybe Dolomites 2020
Cheers AL

That's a good idea, it was already on the table and certain days Stella was not open. So check the situation before you plan your trip, but definitely worth seeing it. It's part of the UNESCO world heritage!

Ride safe!
neu

nice !!!
 

Very nice footage and editing.
I know the area and that makes it even more spectacular.

I drive a GSA and also fly Mavic Pro and use GP camera's...

What kind of editing software did you use for this?
I have a lot of footage of my trip to Nordkapp in the previous weeks and look for a nice way to edit it.

End of this month I will be back in the Dolomites ;-)

Hey Milo

Thank you! I used Adobe Premiere, but you can do it with pretty much any standard editing software depending on your platform. Aside from some stabilization on the backward-looking camera footage I haven't used any advanced features. Even that comes standard with Premiere.

My only problem is that it's extremely time-consuming. It took me nearly 2 years to wrap it up to the way I wanted after the trip (obviously not full time...)

I still have a half done video to finish where from the previous year where I used 5 GoPros and the drone...I'll never do that again... This year I'll take a single GoPro and the drone and that's it....

Ride safe and have fun! :)
neu