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Strange, the footage from the MTV Music Awards more looks like rather unspectacular drone footage. And certainly could have been taken by drone without a problem.
Comment from someone with no experience in aerial filming, or the limitations drones have. You're talking about sustained flight at 1,100ft AGL in very turbulent air carrying a 25lb+ camera package with downlink, in an extraordinarily RF-hostile environment, with dynamic moves, in close proximity to structures, at the edge of Class B airspace. A helicopter was absolutely the right tool for this flight.