Beginner's Guide to Shooting Aerial Video - List of Topics

I have found out quite quickly that there is a lot more to aerial photography than meets the eye. I found a lot of information on the web together with much conflicting advice in comments.

Not everyone who fly multicopters is interested in aerial video. So, not all of the many thousands of pages of information is relevant.

Here is my list of topics that I think are important and that will be covering in this Beginner's Guide to Shooting Aerial Video in the forthcoming posts:

Beginner's Guide to Shooting Aerial Video Topics List

• Learning to fly a radio controlled (RC) copter
• Flight simulators
• Flying a quadcopter for the first time
• Indoor practice quadcopters
• Choosing a first copter for aerial video
• Practice makes perfect
• Where to fly
• Choosing a camera for aerial video
• Commercial aerial video
• UK regs for aerial video with a quadcopter
• First Person View (FPV)
• How to become a qualified pilot/operator
• Quality issues with video output
• Getting landowner permission to fly
• Operational safety
• Crashing your copter
• Post processing video output

I haven't got all the answers as some knowledge and wisdom only comes with experience. However, the key things I have learned so far is that the safety, legal and permission topics of aerial photography are absolutely key to this activity not getting banned in the future. So, please take them seriously. I hope to be happily shooting aerial video for many years and so do an increasing band of other flyers.