Myself and my friend Kenji had a great pleasure of being able to do a indoor aerial video shoot of the Oregon State capitol building with permission from the Legislature.

This event got its start with pending UAV/UAS laws that were being debated by the state senate. While we were at the hearing (which both of us testified) we also presented them with sample videos that we shot. Soon after, Kenji did a nice outside video of the capitol building, which we presented to the legislatures and they gave us permission to also do an indoor shoot. This following is the product of that shoot. Kenji did a great job of editing the footage.
This was shot mostly in 1080p60 medium mode. We ended up with about 30min of footage in about 2 hour shoot. distilled down to what is in this video.

Tour of the Oregon Capitol (2 min 57 sec)

We managed to make arrangement with the facilities to be able to shoot on saturday when building was closed to public. Initially, the facilities managers were bit concerned but after nice discussion about the capabilities of the gear and a walk through, we allayed any fear that was present. Being professional, knowlegeable and experienced really is important in managing with people. Due to nature of this being indoor, we limited ourselves to smallest rig we had available. I was the indoor pilot as I had much higher experience in flying.

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