Self-filming
Also known as: filming yourself, solo filming
Recording your own riding, training or travel with no one behind the camera, using mounts, tripods, sticks or tracking drones instead of a filmer.
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What it means
Most people who film sport do it alone. Friends get tired of holding a phone, and a dedicated filmer is rare outside teams and pros. Self-filming is the set of tricks that fills that gap.
Each method gives a different view. A helmet or Chest mount shows what the rider sees, a Selfie stick adds a Third-person view, a tripod at a jump catches the full trick, and a tracking drone follows from above.
The footage it produces is long and mostly empty. A camera left running at a spot records every walk back, every failed attempt and every adjustment, with the good moments scattered through it.
How it works in practice
For tricks at one spot, a tripod and a wide lens set at the landing zone is reliable. Start recording, ride, check, repeat; battery and card fill faster than expected.
For moving sports, an Invisible selfie stick on an Insta360 X5 gives a follow-cam look without a person behind you. Small drones such as the DJI Flip or a DJI Air with subject tracking can follow a runner or rider from above in open terrain.
Talking to camera needs a Wireless microphone, since the camera sits far from your mouth on a tripod or stick.
What to watch out for
A tripod frame set before you leave it can be wrong in ways you only see later: a branch in the way, the sun in the lens, the subject outside the frame on the landing. Do one test run and watch it back.
Tracking modes lose subjects behind trees and in crowds, and drones following low through forest crash.
The biggest trap is volume. Self-filmed sessions produce hours of footage for a handful of seconds, and the edit is where most solo projects stall. For a Video part built over a season, the backlog grows faster than anyone can review it.
How RawClip handles it
Self-filmed sessions are the footage RawClip was built for. Upload the whole day as it is, from several cameras at once, and the model finds the landed tricks and the reactions, drops the walking back and the waiting, and offers highlight lengths built from what it found.