Kyle Ferriter
Senior Member.
This is a good point. When I have filmed planes before, even when zoomed in, it is relatively easy to manually follow the plane and keep it roughly centered or at least in frame, because there is a limited range of direction change a plane can make. Birds are harder, but you'd think a sphere that is moving around randomly would be even harder to predict where it would go, and keep the camera tracking it in that direction.I have the very strong sense that the camera is anticipating the sphere movements, particularly wen it first dives beg-hind the grass, as i descends in stair-step from r to l, and at the end when it emerges from behind grass. I am less firmly convinced that they are taking care never to see too high above it, especially when it goes high and they look up at it, an they tend to keep the zoom tight and the object nearer the top of the frame.
I think even this recreation video by someone trying to portray the original video positively, shows significantly more reaction time latency between ball direction changes and the cameraman adjusting the camera to follow it.Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmjaIizQTjY&ab_channel=VerdadOculta
This seems like a soft leak by the Maussan team to divert public pressure?
It's possible the pendulum issue on velocity changes could be mitigated by a skilled drone operator. There's also the possibility there was more than 1 drone and the ball was suspended from each, and the drones flew pre-plotted routes (something I think most quadcopter drones support, I know my DJI one does). You may also be able to get some mitigation of ball spin and swaying by tying a line on the farthest out point of each of the 4 propeller legs. But those points would be close enough together that the stabilizing effect probably decreases significantly as the length of the lines increase. Hard to say though.