Pygmy Quad Debut - Wales, Black Covert(Afon Ystwyth) - Cinewhoop

My first video from my little creation, the Pygmy Quad. It's 2" & currently a little over weight but wow it's fun to fly. This was just a quick rip of a nice little path we found at another little gem on our Wales holiday. I am saving that footage & I explain why later. #PygmyQuad #CineWhoop #ReelsteadyGo I apologise in advance for the wall of text to follow, but it's been a lot of effort to get to this point & I thought it was worth explaining. So in fact there are a few 1st times that lead to the creation of this video. I used to use HitFilm(free) to make my movies & have always hated the way it dealt with speed ramping. So I looked elsewhere & gave Davinci Resolve(free) a try. The work flow is drastically different & it took a few attempts to get to this point. Its also the 1st time I have used any stabilisation software. I took the plunge & grabbed Reelsteady GO as it was always the plan for this project. It's a great tool & I might have already soft mounted my Chameleon Ti for the GoPro Session 5. The plan going forward is to use the Ti as a cinematic quad & the OG Chameleon for freestlye. Another 1st is I formatted my PC for the first time in 3yrs. It wasn't slow day to day, but it was stuttering in Resolve so I grabbed a new SSD & gave the PC a new lease of life. Sorry, I haven't even got Photoshop back on it yet, so I made the thumbnail on my phone. Ok, enough of the preamble & lets get down to the meat. Since I started flying quadcopters I have been drawn to the micro class. My first quad I bought was a terrible Eachine Aurora 90. It was massively disappointing & shortly after I got the OG Chameleon 5" which was more reliable to fly as it had decent gear in it. I dabbled a little here & there in micros, but nothing ever really had what I was looking for. Recently with the release of the on board HD cameras, smaller more powerful FC's & drive trains, the bug bit me again. I came to the conclusion after looking around at what cinewhoops there were on the market that I would just rather design my own. So therefor I give you the Pygmy Quad. Its a 2" micro class 110mm frame with a unibody 3mm bottom plate, 2mm top plate & 4x 30mm standoffs that secure the ducts along with the FPV camera, front/back bumpers, FPV/RC antenna mounts & any other gumpf you might want sticking out the back. Each duct secures to the bottom plate at 2 other points with M3 bolts to give it amazing rigidity. The ducts I am using are printed in Armadillo, they hold up much better than the PETG ones I tested, but I am yet to break a TPU duct. Though the TPU ones deform & tend to break props. It has tons of space inside, I only put mounting holes for 20x20, but v2 will allow for 16x16 & will use 25mm standoffs. The gaps between the ducts allow for access to USB & SD cards in the flight stack, but the rest of the main body is enclosed from the sides so little dirt makes its way in. I also put slots all over the the place to allow for various battery/camera setups. The layout of the 4 standoffs allows for easy mounting of TPU mounts for what ever GoPro I might want to throw at it on the front, back, top or bottom. Gear used for this video: Pygmy Quad 2" v1, Emax RS 1306b 4600kv motors, Emax Avan 2045 quad blade props, iFlight Succex F$ & 35a 20x20 stack, Caddex Turtle v2, TBS Unify Pro 5v v3, Lumenier Micro AXII, FrSky R9MM, FrSky IPEX 4. There are 3 large capacitors inside, 1 on the battery leads, 1 on the Caddex Turlte v2 & 1 on the 5v BEC running the Unify. I know this isn't ideal but I had it to hand. I will swap the 1 cap, BEC & Unify out for a HV at some point. It hovers between 40-50% throttle depending on the setup, though I have done a throttle correction in BetaFlight so on the sticks it's now about 25-35% which leaves more resolution. I run 850mah with no GoPro for about 5mins flight & 650mah with the GoPro & 2mins flight. The Caddex footage is ok & without the GoPro, using a 650mah pack it can kinda freestyle a little. I ran a 650mah top mounted straight behind the GoPro. The camera used to record was a GoPro Session 5, in a hand cut foam case mounted on a custom TPU soft mount. It was shot at 1440p 60 FPS without an ND filter. In future I will shoot 1080p 90fps with ND's as I am not having much luck with optical flow for super slow motion. The footage was then put through Reelsteady GO with the zoom down, unlinked and smoothness down. All post was done in Davinci Resolve(free). Raw GoPro Footage: https://youtu.be/MsokrOHQK1g Reelsteady GO footage: https://youtu.be/zL2tAuJHIGo I will post a build log on Rotor Builds & link it in future videos, I just haven't had the time. I still have so much footage to process & with the new editing software it is taking much longer than usual. 🎶 Music 🎶 Adrian von Ziegler (https://adrianvonziegler.bandcamp.com...) Song: Celtic Fantasy Music - Forest Rites (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guJHi...)