The video was filmed on a GoPro Hero 4 Black attached to a stabilization gimbal. The gimbal helped with the jerky motions associated with handheld video recording, but I was more focused on the launch than filming, so the framing was not very good and some additional stabilization was needed. The stabilization was done in Adobe After Effects using their built-in motion tracker. The full video is about 5 minutes, but I had to cut it down to 68 seconds due to the tracking software losing track of the anchor point after the rocket got too high. The video was taken on Playalinda Beach, which is one of the closest public places you can get to Launch Pad 41.

As for the experience, it was amazing. I live in Arizona and went to Florida on vacation to Disneyworld and Universal Studios, but I was more excited about the launch than the theme parks. I arrived at the beach about 20 minutes before the scheduled launch time and was monitoring what was going on with the launch through the ULA's twitter. You can hear me telling the other photographers that all stations at mission control gave the "go" signal right before it launched. The fire from the rockets was much brighter than I expected, it was almost like looking at a second sun.