Add Drone Shots to Your Videos

Who it's for

Creators with great aerial clips but flat-feeling videos. Your drone footage is genuinely good. The light was nice, the moves were smooth, the coastline looked cinematic on the little screen. So why does the finished video feel like a slideshow of pretty shots that never quite adds up to anything? The answer is almost never the footage. It is what happens between the shots — and that is a skill you can learn in an afternoon.

What's inside

• Great Clips, Flat Video: The Missing Piece Is Structure
• What Aerial B-roll Is For — the Establishing-Shot Job
• The Aerial Shot List for a Ground Story
• Cutting Between Ground & Air
• Motivated Transitions — Match-Cut on Motion, Whip Pans, Masked Reveals
• Pacing & Music With Aerials
• Story Structure — Using Aerials for Beginning, Middle, and End
• Shoot Aerials Knowing You'll Edit Them — Coverage & Overlap
• Common Mistakes — Too Many Aerials, Aimless Drift, No Ground Connection
• A Repeatable Integration Workflow