Elite Dangerous - We Are Elite (cinematic) [unofficial]

This is a cinematic trailer, set in Elite Dangerous universe, that showcases the game's varied and nuanced facets and roles which players can embrace. From trading to deep space exploration, or action-packed human or alien combat - the opportunities are plenty.
The filming was completed without any special account, tools or privileges that would make it easier. Instead, tens of thousands of LYs have been travelled to get the best imagery and action takes which are the epitome of Elite Dangerous. Some scenes you see took weeks in planning and/or waiting for the right conditions. Others were cherry picked from hours-long sessions following the "action".
Special thanks to fellow players who either provided guidance and information on the game and it's stunning locations, provided transport around the galaxy or directly participated in the filming. In no particular order:
- Fleet Carrier Owner Club / discord
- The Galactic Exploration Catalog / discord
- Elite Deep Space Explorers Network / discord
- Canonn / discord
- Xeno Strike Force
- Anti-Xeno Initiative / discord
- Elite Events / discord
"We Are Elite" cinematic was created using assets and imagery from Elite Dangerous, with the permission of Frontier Developments plc, for non-commercial purposes. It is not endorsed by nor reflects the views or opinions of Frontier Developments and no employee of Frontier Developments was involved in the making of it.
Music by Really Slow Motion
Composer: Rok Nardin
Track: Don Giovanni
Album: Take Cover

[@RyanSanderson]

Incredible. Well done, Commander, you did this whole community proud. Fdev should take some notes, you blew it out of the water

[@madskater5]

and in engine no less

[@RyanSanderson]

@@madskater5 The cinematography, the framing, the camera work, the environments, the cuts from the rotating perspective from thargoid to guardian (which was SICK), all of it comes together to form a beautifully choreographed experience, with some EPIC narration as the cherry on top. All while in engine, using none of FDEV's own cinematics. Simply incredible

[@lotuschamp7796]

The two janitors still working at FDEV should take some notes :3

[@welshgamer1864]

@@lotuschamp7796 There might only be janitors at the end of the year working on elite dangerous

[@BZSm1th]

Fan-fecking tactics!!!. FDev....take note.....this is how its done. I've neglected my cockpit recently, but this vid has rekindled my love for ED, by highlighting what a great title it is. My only ( minor ) observation is to do with the audio levels... found it hard to hear voice over at some parts. But, seriously, awesome vid o7 Cmdrs

[@Make_Canada_Trudeau-Less-Again]

Been playing since Dec 2014, 12,000 hours (should be more but down to 3 hours a day presently), played this game through some pretty hard times and I swear its the only thing that got me through that period........This vid gave me the cutting onions symptoms ..........such a great tribute to the game and its devs & community. Well done Cmdr(s) I truly hope Fdev sees and acknowledges this!

[@czerwonyniebieski]

Frontier shared this on Twitter.

[@Neo-vz8nh]

Incredible. Better then offical trailers. Pure demostration of ED is not dead.

[@garlicfresh4145]

Unlike the cerebral convolutions of FDev

[@drewwagar]

Looks fabulous. A credit to you and all involved. Right on, Commanders!

[@michal_1725]

United we stand. It was an honor to be apart of this, CMDR. Spectacular work!

[@captainlurb]

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[@commandermeek]

This game is far more than what critics give it credit for. Elite Dangerous Odyssey is an amazing game. It's huge. You can make your own way. My way has been exploration, but wow, this game is the only game I play regularly. Great job on the video!

[@viperregained69420]

wow this is insane. I really wish that this was the actual official trailer. This needs 1000x more views at the very least.

[@cmdrbravo2zero726]

Wow wow wow !!! absolutely incredible all of this superb game deserves and more and an epic showcase for Elite Dangerous Odyssey. IMHO FDEV should buy the full rights to this masterpiece video as it would massively increase game sales of EDO.

[@tiagosaraivacg828]

amazing work !! make the community proud !

[@andywayne5356]

From someone who has played since 2015 and have clocks thousands of hours of playing and meeting people and lifelong friends, bravo.

[@DigThat32]

Outstanding footage. Best camera work, blocking, & direction ever put to work in ED.

[@TheBuurPit]

Beautiful visuals. Well done! REALLY appreciate the amount of work that takes 👍 🙂 o7

[@Metzwerg74]

o7 thank you commander for showing the beauty of my number 1 game for over a decade now.... i´ve been with it since the beta.... over 12000 hours in the game, and sometimes tend to overlook it´s beauty.... thank you for reminding me of it again... o7 see you in the black, good hunt and watch your six....

[@psykit]

Causally dropping one of the best Elite Dangerous edits I have ever seen. Incredible stuff.

[@nicred6312]

Ahh the goosebumps An amazing cinematic, I love the buildup and I absolutely enjoyed the culmination. Fly dangerous, CMDR! o7

[@streyafromspace]

This gave me goosebumps. What a pretty game, and what a great video! Whoever did the voice should get hired, could have easily opened with "in a world..." WE ARE ELITE

[@WhoIsOlton]

coming up on playing for 9 months now i will never be able to catch up on the love a lot of players have for this game. no planetary waypoints are able to be set for explorations sake or in mining where those would help keep track of where you have been but you do have an infinite amount of probes. i dont understand the stupidity behind that. But the sights, the fact that i can go for thousands of lightyears in any direction and see the sights still after 9 months thats what makes me love this game. ill never catch up and i do WANT those waypoints but i do love this game for the sights.

[@Wanelmask]

Astonishing ! Well done CMDR o7 CMDR Wan el mask

[@anthonyprice2330]

Best space exploration game there has ever been. This is amazing thank you for this. Well done, Commanders.

[@ChemFrogEngels]

Man, if I saw this trailer before playing the game - I'd sell my kidney just to play it, lul. Very well done.

[@charles-etiennelavoie2782]

glad to have participated. congrats! amazing! o7 CMDR!

[@AlgoFodder]

Stupendous video! Also, people should know: the game is really **that good** and deserves showing off like this! Well done CMDR!

[@ademason3096]

Absolute fantastic, so love these cinematic films made by wonderful content creators like yourself; they really do promote what is a wonderful game, and I hope it helps Elite keep going and FDev realise and understand the community that love and support it, well done, keep up the great work and thanks, also, kudos and a hat tip to whomever wrote the background music, it was phenomenal.

[@midwayshow7084]

Goosebumps for watching video of an old game? Did not see that one coming! Everything in place here, the music, the narration, images, editing. Even giving the credits in the beginning of the video was a nice touch. Absolutely great! o7 Commander.

[@coeneman02]

Wow, what an incredible trailer! If I didn't already have Elite, this would make me buy it!

[@sinisterhedgehog5586]

Wow - just wow. I could say lots of things like glory to all the fighters, explorers, pirates, merchants, haulers, miners, racers, smugglers, thargoid hunters... and still miss folks out - so the best reaction I can possibly give is... o7

[@stevehems3078]

That's Elite for me!!!!! ... bloody well-done!! nuff said!

[@austinm5630]

This game has its ups and downs, but nothing I've ever done on my computer in my 36 years on this pale blue dot compares to my time on Distant Worlds 2. Very little in my real life does either. And Elite gave me that opportunity. Regardless of what the future holds, I will always be eternally grateful to this game for those precious few weeks.

[@neilsmith8427]

Great video, elite is a legendary, genre defining game that changed the industry back in 1984. Heres hoping elite lives on forever its a special game

[@phillipcox6804]

Makes me want to go back and jump into the verse. Fdev please take note of this, Elite needs more of this, a team passionate to tell the tale of elite, imagine a full campaign with content like this, exploring each fantastic journey a commander can take.

[@Razorklaw001]

2:11 that is one of the coolest shots i've ever seen! One of the best cinematics I've watched in a while.

[@juiceboxextracts4715]

Best cinematic I've ever seen for this game, great work.

[@pascal2405]

Félicitations !!! Superbe, incroyable, fantastique , pleins les yeux et les oreilles. A la hauteur du jeu !!! 🤩❤❤❤

[@IvdW_]

My god this is absolutely brilliant! A beautiful way to show what the game has to offer!

[@Astyrrean]

Congrats Ansic. What a wonderful video! Truly a masterpiece. Well done!!

[@IvagaanimaI]

Sick! What a perfect way to show how amazing the game is, let's hope that it'll bring more people in

[@balazshajdu4612]

and now I will come back to the game, what an amazing video!

[@cmdrblp]

Excellent work CMDRs. So much passion for a game which others are quick to declare is dead. o7

[@griimmjow2286]

The best video I've seen on this game 👏

[@Kaldortangerine]

o7 glad to have taken part of the AXI operations at the spires

[@X-trange]

This is absolutely brilliant! Great work! this should be bought by Frontier as a Game Trailer

[@ambientimpact]

That was phenomenal! Love it. -- Signed, a quintuple elite.

[@LaserTemplate-lasertemplatepl]

again, the fans understood something much better than the publisher..... sad, because the game has such untapped potential..... Fdev!!! wake up and start listening to the community!

[@madskater5]

In addition to what others are saying, I really liked the small detail of how the words are said in cadence with the music. Well done!

[@TheGodlessNorwegian]

Well done cinematics cmdr! o7!

[@tex8596]

Fdev should have already offered you a job dude! So well done! So impressive! So excited to see what you do next :D

[@archonswill9733]

The part where all the ships come out of super cruise and into that camera angle looked amazing🤩

[@percynomercy9075]

Very nice trailer. Elite Dangerous is still the most complete package for "realistic" space game. Will ever be my favorite. o7 Cmdrs.

[@Ammax78]

One of the best Community of all game, passionate and with a limitless creativity. Thanks to all Commanders from all around the galaxy , o7 , Fly safe and stay united !

[@dougolarry]

3:05 Just awesome 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@lukeappleton5286]

Amazing I'd buy the game and all the DLC's again from watching this. Well Done

[@derpat3896]

One of the best Elite Dangerous videos i´ve ever seen! A masterpiece. Thanks for the full body goosebumps ! o7

[@Fynach]

Can only add that you have done amazing work in showcasing Elite. Showing it as we see it in out minds and hearts. o7 Cmdr.

[@chronixchaos7081]

Best advertisement for Elite Dangerous. Ever.

[@MJ-xb8wj]

CMDR Largetto Evander of the Hammond of Texas (TZG-0XW). Well done, Commander! o7

[@michaelcurtis6664]

Wow ❤️❤️ this is mega gave me goose bumps watching.

[@lerner6666]

Hooollyyy fuucinkgluuuaaayyy this is amazing!!!!! I'm proud to be AXIN member and watching this only makes me prouder! Fantastic Job!!!!!!!

[@Lucas-wj8kl]

Into my 2024 worth keeping playlist. That was a cool cinematic bro.

[@eldorfthe_wise129]

Let me just pick my jaw up off the floor.... Wow. Just...Wow.

[@gizmo104drives7]

This is really.. really well done. If fdev had this as an advert for their game..... it would be nothing short of perfect

[@UltiFerocity]

Damn! That was amazing! Glad to have been able to be there, I look forward to see what else you will make in the future!

[@spartanlou3204]

i recently started playing again, i love to see the community somewhat still here. Very well done on this creation, very good cinematography.

[@TheRedCreations]

Perfect trailer of ED. Good work Cmdr

[@Fru_videos]

Absolutely Epic, or should I say - Absolutely Elite! :)

[@asaflevy1540]

We are Elite

[@Timberwolf69]

When I watched this video yesterday, I was so blown away by it that I completely forgot to like and comment. A brilliant work of art this is.

[@battlevortex]

This is a wonderful cinematic. Thank you for putting this together. o7

[@iancoupe6757]

Superb work, so good!!

[@danieldani5922]

What an AWESOME cinematic!

[@agonyaunt6325]

Brilliant work. Great editing, music, etc.

[@jamesschleiger111]

This is amazing! Please continue your beautiful work.

[@GadnokBreakerofWorlds]

Outstanding production CMDR, really impressive work.

[@That_weird_guy_Dragooon]

its so beautiful! im left speechless and in tears😭

[@aresaurelian]

We all got the tools now. Now we need you, the people of the Elite community. Let us make full feature movies. Not tv-shows, or just in game cinematics. There is nothing stopping you now. Show us.

[@Gipofaralcus]

This is incredible trailer

[@alexbenis4726]

Congratulations, a lot of love went into that, others commentators below have said more and much better than I can.

[@Lupinicus1664]

Excellent piece. FDev should license it from you immediately to help draw new players. Take a bow.

[@aleckelsey2663]

Nice. Like a trailer, but for an existing thing. It'd be cool if it went viral and brought in players.

[@aitoluxd]

I'm going to play Elite Dangerous today. last time I "really" played was back in February '23

[@snake6383]

that last scene was chilling, awesome voice over and sound amazing

[@robertjames4908]

I recently tried Elite dangerous after a couple years hiatus. Looked at a planet in Odyssey and compared it to Horizons legacy. Bearing in mind the criticism by many that it's been downgraded, I was surprised and felt it was the opposite. The legacy version looked more blurry and cartoonist (beiges etc) compared to Odyssey which was more realistic in terms of landscaping. The station interiors were sharpened and more detailed in Odyssey. This may explain slightly lower frame rates as the graphics engine has more to process. Just my opinion, I expected to concur with the critics but found I couldn't.

[@kelron2588]

That was amazing!

[@infernalxlegion1191]

Holy crap, you way over did what I was expecting. This sent shivers down my spine...

[@shaikhmanal]

Thank you. It really feels nice to see that ED is not dead.

[@wojciechdannyboy6312]

Great video. For the Wings!

[@Teen-Spirit]

Это Шедевр!!

[@welshgamer1864]

Magical, exactly what you'd expect to find from a great game

[@serenitivie4054]

Ого! Меня до мурашек пробрало! Что заставляет нас делать столь вдохновляющие вещи?! 🤩

[@rosefine7394]

The best trailer so far 💖

[@wavywatson4469]

You know, this video makes me fairly emotional, for I have put a nice chunk of time into Elite Dangerous, as I really love the core gameplay and the wide variety of things I can do, I just struggle in convincing myself to return to this game. I just don't like the state Odyssey created for this game, and I don't want to play on Horizon with only half the content, so I'm kinda stuck. I keep going back and forth as to what to do, and those thoughts will probably keep on going through my mind, for I have the quite the history with this game. Maybe one day something will completely draw me back into Elite Dangerous, but for now I wait for mind to possibly make the decision to return to this frustratingly beautifully creative game.

[@Denoflittletreasures]

Awesome trailer, it shows the beauty of this game and thingsbyou can do and find. Great stuff.

[@OurLifeisaMiracle]

I am proud to part of that amazing Elite-world :) best regards CMDR what an epic movie!

[@cmdrHeliaxx]

Oh... Wow. This almost Feels too professional to be a fan trailer lol. Incredible job 😍

[@chrissumner6046]

Love that, jaw droppingly good 😮❤

[@RMR135]

A masterpiece. o7 commander. Way to make the player base proud

[@dwsnz]

This kind of trailer is what will help to bring back a player number renaissance - plenty of disillusioned Starfield players etc., who will be keen for something more. Let's make our 10 year anniversary a good year.

[@jorg8656]

Amazing Video. I´m proud to be a Cmdr. in this community. o7 and see you in the black

[@corsopeewee7368]

Con decir que al ver este video me han entrado ganas de volver a jugar el Elite Dangerous. Eso si despues veo que apenas han puesto contenido nuevo, los bugs de siempre, la falta de comunicacion por parte de Frontier con la comunidad, etc y se me a pasado.....

[@sirobgoeselite651]

What a masterpiece!!! Great great doing!

[@jayzet8893]

Such a titanic work is here. You ARE truly Elite my man. Keep it up)