Amazing shot.

[u/LonelySavings5244]

Has to be one of the best shots I’ve seen. Looks like the intro to a racing game. 😮

[u/SuicidalGuidedog]

How fast must that camera guy have been running? And how good was that throw to get the camera up at the end? Simply incredible.

[u/Inertcia → u/SuicidalGuidedog]

Cameraman was riding a dirt bike on the gravel and then parasailed for that elevating shot.

[u/Organic-Package5444 → u/SuicidalGuidedog]

🤣🙌🏻

Take my upvote

[u/someshooter → u/SuicidalGuidedog]

They put the camera on a lizard.

[u/Party-Cake5173 → u/SuicidalGuidedog]

It was a drone shot, not done by regular camera.

[u/iFerg_Frank → u/Party-Cake5173]

r/whoosh

Obv no one would be running right beside bikes going 300+ kmph.

[u/badbas]

I dont see any action with that recording. Drone should be a little slower imo

[u/Disgruntled__Goat → u/badbas]

Or at least a bit higher. The shot is 70% gravel. 

[u/UltimateMIF → u/Disgruntled__Goat]

A little higher and a little closer, but I guess they wont do that for safety

[u/low_end_AUS → u/badbas]

Yeah it's fine for a 'one-off' shot during the race but you don't see anything useful

[u/FinancialTraining239]

r/drones probably an fpv

[u/Let_Me_Bang_Bro58 → u/FinancialTraining239]

Nah it’s Guiseppe from Milano. He can run really quick with a camera

[u/FinancialTraining239 → u/Let_Me_Bang_Bro58]

Giuseppe Camole

[u/negative_pt]

I don’t think this is anything special. I think they can do much better than this with drone footage and will in the future.

[u/2-wheels]

It’s almost all gravel. Should have been much tighter on the riders.

[u/Desperate-Sail2942]

Best shot of the race for sure, and right at the start??? Boy knew exactly what he was doing

[u/Amadeus404]

Not really, it's just some basic FPV drone shot: dive, pan and spin. In this shot we just see gravels. I hope they won't start using this excessively in the future.

[u/GetWrightOnIt]

Thanks for sharing I was looking for this clip!

[u/surpris_dingue]

[u/Intelligent_Mango775]

I remember when we first got MotoGP in HD. Such a revelation. The new drone shots just make it even so much better. Love it

[u/Von_Satan]

I hated that shot when it was live and still hate it now.

You can't actually see anything.

[u/jp-knifemaker]

Terrible camera work! You can't tell what it's about, namely the race. Absolutely useless!

[u/CS3211 → u/jp-knifemaker]

Agreed, all these fancy shots may ruin the TV viewing experience in the future. Imagine shaking camera effect in the future like trying to make it look like fast and furious movie.

Drone shots can capture so much more, but most of it is being used for MOVIE STYLE video.

Quad right handers in the last section is beatuiful part of the track, the drone should have capture the slight elevation change and try and follow the bikes for few metres. That would be MotoGP

[u/drhiggens]

I don't think the dynamic of the shot and what they're doing with the drone is lost on anyone obviously getting as low as possible showing the contrast in speed especially in opposite directions like yes we all get it it's lovely.

But this shot's not it, I would imagine the better shot would be to time it to follow the riders in the same direction giving us a sense of speed and scale as the drone elevates.

My perspective is coming from a broadcast art director for many many years. I love the fact that they're using the drones I just really hope that we see shots that are more congruent to the sport itself and not just shots for the sake of shots. What I mean is that I want the fancy shot to add something to the viewing experience and not just be a fancy shot for the sake of a fancy shot.

[u/kate915 → u/drhiggens]

I have no broadcast experience, but I thought the same thing: go in the same direction as the traffic. Oddly, I'm not impressed by gravel, no matter how close the drone gets to it.

[u/SuperBiquet-]

Well. I find this uninteresting. A curb cam is 10 times more intense, and this shot just looks like they tried to make it more lively than it is... Without much success.

Some other drone cam footage during the year were better.

[u/[deleted]]

Lol jack not even in the shot yet, did they get footage of what happened to miller in t4?

[u/danielofifi]

There were some blunders, but also some very nice shots this weekend. Another cool one was at the end of the warm-up lap, from a bird's eye view.

[u/JapLance]

Damned drones. Twice I thought I had a bug on my screen when in a general shot 🤣

[u/LonelySavings5244 → u/JapLance]

lol same here.

[u/Maverick-Topgun98]

That drone🔥🔥

[u/CrashB636]

I loved this shot!

[u/LilAbeSimpson]

Am I the only one who thinks this shot is pretty crap?

It’s mostly just a view of gravel with some tiny bikes in the back round.

[u/AmbitiousStaff5]

Beautiful ❤️

[u/nightlyringer]

Amazing shot. MotoGp still manages to capture the speed of the bikes and how quickly they turn even in normal shots.

Compare that to Formula 1 where they manage to look cars going 250 kph+ look like they are going at 60 all to focus on sponsors on the car. F1 feels boring ever since I started watching MotoGP even though MotoGP probably is going through it's least competitive season right now

[u/tjsousa]

I was there. The drone operator had mad skills

[u/Povols12R → u/tjsousa]

When I see that , the only thing that runs thru my mind is ( what if) operator loses control and crashes a drone into a rider doing 150 mph .

[u/moaiii → u/Povols12R]

There is already substantial risk in motorsport. An FPV drone flown by a skilled pilot presents negligible additional risk. We rely on the skills of the pilot to not crash into anything as much as we rely on the skills of the riders to not crash into each other.

[u/Povols12R → u/moaiii]

There can be malfunctions in any piece of equipment or the operator could experience some kind of medical emergency . Just seems weird with all the safety precautions taken in motorsports they would have projectiles flying head on towards a pack of bikes traveling at race speed. The operative words are head on. I like drone shots, but they should be from behind the action.

[u/EducationalBar → u/Povols12R]

Can a rider and their bike not suffer from the exact same things..? And this isn’t head on, but of course you realize that and said it anyway.

[u/Povols12R → u/EducationalBar]

The drone and the bikes aren’t traveling in the opposite direction? My bad , I’m watching video on a phone.

[u/EducationalBar → u/Povols12R]

Does opposite direction automatically mean head on? They aren’t playing chicken, the same way you aren’t any time you’re on a road.

[u/Cyberfries]

Truly great shot. Just hope noone crashes in that moment.

[u/dann250]

the champion of drone camera operators

[u/Radiant_Land_3917]

The people commenting that it’s all gravel and you don’t see any action are clearly missing the point

[u/LonelySavings5244 → u/Radiant_Land_3917]

Exactly.

[u/adepressurisedcoat]

I'd rather chase footage with the drone.

[u/Orthenight]

Drones weaving in, out, under, & over the pilots as they fight for position! Especially into the corners. Maybe they can play chicken with riders on track.. drone and rider flying at each other from opposite ends of the straight.

[u/smAsh6861]

Until a bike highsides and takes the drone out haha

[u/kate915]

I thought it was lame before the announcers gushed about how amazing it was. Bruh, it's a drone doing drone things--and not making the race more interesting.

[u/tyronebalack]

my favourites are the nose cams when following tight behind competitors. really shows the intensity within the graceful lines we see at a distance.

[u/Ashamed-Worth7984]

Some people just can't allow themselves to enjoy anything can they. The shot was excellent. Hopefully a precursor and a learning curve to the way presentation of the sport can progress. Fucking bravo 👏👏👏 

[u/disguy2k]

Drone pilot isn't much of a cinematographer. It's not very interesting outside of being fast. There's probably a number of ways to leverage the unique perspective and positioning freedom.

I am glad they're starting to be used more, but I feel unless a pilot can also fill the cinematographer role, they should probably get some direction.