How can a drone track you from the front since it can't predict where you are going to go? To me, unless you are going into a completely straight line or making corrections like you would balancing a broom there is no possible way that it can track you going backwards.
I have been mountainbiking on much zharder terrain , faster and the mount you say is bad has held up brilliantly. So dont think its the mounts fault for being so bad as you say 😂
What is the mount that your using for the RC-N1, i never opted for the RC as it goes, however my plan always was to try tracking myself mountain biking so it may well be that i chose wisely. Thanks in advance and I’m finding your content really informative, keep up the great work 👌
*I can't believe how large your channel got mate! Drone videos really do well on RUclips. Congrats! I remember when it was at like 6k like mine when I first bought my Mini 2 haha*
Active track is amazing. Especially when you're using it as intended vs doing stuff it wasn't meant to do and then speaking as if it's a glitch. Likewise parallel mode literally warns you that there is no obstacle avoidance in this mode and then you immediately go off and almost hit a tree while looking stunned 🥴.
This is why I love my mini 2 in conjunction with litchi or maven 😊😊 Litchi especially as it gives me a clock face so I can decide what direction it follows me 👌
I just used active track in parallel mode and to my surprise, it's no problem to change the position of the drone to any position you like for the shot, by simply pushing the flight stick either reight or left, same applies to height and gimnbal position. Of course no obstacle avoidance engaged, but you can place the drone also in front of you and just keep going and it will stay in that position, keeping you in the frame and maintaining the distance. At least when you move straight. It's like POI mode but, with a moving poi. In this semi automatic mode, you just have to check for objects in the chosen flight path and if somethings comes around, just change the position to 12 o'clock in front of your path and when you pased the object, switch back to 2 o'clock or 11 o'clock whatever suits you by simple push on the stick. Requires minimal attention. I did it while having the dog on the leash in one hand and the controler hanging around my neck, using only one hand to keep the drone out of harms way. Changing position also adds some dramatic effekt on the fotage. Maybe it's not practical to do that on a bike riding through a forrest, but if you shoot in a location with not so many obstacles, it should be possible to manage it on a bike too.
You want it in the back corner. Unless you like scraping the pieces off the road when it flies full speed sideways into a tree, lamppost, etc. Without side sensors, this is the best way to keep these drones in one piece. DJI started doing trace this way sometime around the Mavic Air 2.
Hi mate. Just to let you know, I have a mountain biking channel and the parallel mode is actually really useful. Admittedly you have to pick your location carefully e.g. open hills. However, when you get it right the footage is incredible.
I've tested it for my motorcycle and had the same result. It works good when the drone is behind you and when it is close, but if you want to do it in front it will move to the side and try to get behind you again. It almost crashed into the tree because there are no sensors on the side. The other problem is that it looses tracking if you get little bit fat away. It's good for slower shots till 25-30 km.
When I was researching this drone and watched information on Active Track, the people putting videos of it up were quite clear it always likes to track from behind. At least I knew it going in. I wouldn't have been happy if I specifically wanted it to track from in front and it wouldn't do it. Great Vid as always.
The secret to getting the drone to track you from the front is to help it along. You have to gently nudge the drone to stay in front by touching the stick at times. Left if you want to stay right, right for left. Also you have to back if off a bit in front. Not ideal but it can work.
You shouldn't need to "help it along". I want to use mine for kayaking and rock climbing, in both those scenarios my hands are occupied. The software should do what the software should do.
@@NevContractor1then don’t get this drone. Oh and the word ‘should’ should be removed from your vocab. There is no should. You’d like it to be possible but it isn’t. Therefore, get a different drone.
6:31 "it should be called, you are going to crash your drone in this mode!" lol Great video as always! I honestly didn't know that from behind was pretty much the only usable way to track on the Mini 3 Pro. Good to know.
Thanks for this video. The trace mode is of course best when following from the back and I ride my bike a lot and use the drone. The shot where the drone starts from the front and makes its way to the side and then the back I find really interesting. It’s not a failing at all. I always make sure I do it on a country lane where there are very few trees. Also, I’ve given up on a handlebar mount. I have a lanyard and dangle the RC controller round my neck occasionally if I need to make it go higher. I can do it actually without looking at the controls.
When I use this active track function (Trace), I will increase an altitude slightly higher than the surrounding trees. Then I will zoom in and select my object. I had my trust issue with the obstacle sensor regardless of the trace and parallel options. I filmed myself with motorbike activities, and it works well.
A great, concise test of the drone’s tracking capabilities and limitations. 👍. The trace mode from the rear is a bit dull after a while so I’m attempting to ride the bike and fly the drone at the same time…..with mixed results! However, when the drone (annoyingly) slews from front to rear tracking, it does give a good orbital dynamic to a clip.
Spotlight can be useful in these scenarios. Keeps the subject (you) in or near center of frame, you can focus (pun intended) on flying and zooming if desired.
@@BlairAir and @DM Productions - I don't think I've used spotlight whilst riding my bike yet, but that seems like a great tip....something else to consider, among the many other things, to remember when flying the drone!🤯🧠
Nice video, mate! I fully agree to your comments but Ι found out that parallel mode has a hidden feature. In fact, parallel mode is nothing else than keep the drone on a constant angle relative to the object that is focussed and you can manually change the angle with the yaw-stick. This means that you can position the drone to the direction you want to move, right before you. Then choose parallel mode and the drone will remain very stable on that angle relative to you. So if the the road you are following is straight, this is absolutely useful. If there are curves you have to follow, you can use the yaw-stick to correct this change of angle. In Cine-mode these corrections can be very smooth. I hope this helps.
I don't believe trace was ever designed to track from the front with Active Track on the Mini 3 Pro because of the lack of side obstacle sensors, so it's not a flaw, it's behaving as per specification. If you watch videos of active track from the front on a Mavic 3, it takes a while to return to the front after the subject turns a corner and does a lot of sideways flight in the process.
Even with the limitations, I have a lot of fun with the feature. Im equally as excited to know that when I decide to add a mavic 3 to the collection, active track will be even more capable! Awesome place to demonstrate, btw.
Awesome video. I've just started playing with Active Track and your video is helpful. I wish it would start recording when you hit "go" on it of course.
Nice and simply explained. Last I was tracking myself, also on a bike, but the recording stopt every time again. Once after 40 sec, next after 20 sec...and there were no trees or other obstacles. Any idea why my mini 3 pro is always stopping recording?
I’m a huge fan of active track. I really like using it but one of the challenges I have with it is how I can go hands free on the controller. I’d like to film myself fly fishing or skiing and for both of those activities I need both my hands and I can’t set the controller down b/c I’m moving. Does anyone have a good way of mounting the RC controller to yourself so you can grab it quickly if you see your drone about to crash but also out of the way enough that I can do the activities I want?
I bought a Sunnylife strap for it that comes with an aluminium mount that attaches to the bottom of the RC. I ended up using a different strap than the one that came with it, which was just too long for me, but the bracket is excellent with 3 attach points. I then have the strap over my shoulder across my body and it's quick and easy to grab it if I need to use it. I only use it for walking - I imagine it would work fine for fishing but maybe not so much for skiing....though maybe for that you could just have a clip on your waist to attach the RC to as well so the controller can't move around too much...?
I have used active track in relatively dense bushland and it worked reasonably well as long as you didn't go too fast. Also I had moved the controller into my backpack so I had no capacity to adjust the drone while riding. Best part was when it went off course and couldn't track me it did stop and hover. Also find my drone works well as it clipped a broken tree branch and crashed and I couldn't find it so I activate find my drone and it lead me straight to it. As you have already alluded to it is not designed for forward facing and I recall you indicating just his in one of your earlier videos when you said it can be tricked into active track from the front but obviously not at speed. Your demo at the time was when you were walking. Cheers for the video. Always great learning tips. PS what is your recommendation for free video editing software
I just got a DJI Mini 3 Pro and took it out testing the Active Track. It stayed in front of the Jeep as I drove for about 100 meters until I stopped it because of trees. It stayed a constant distance away and it seemed fine. Perhaps because it was a car or because I drove slow? I found your video looking for information on Active Track as it was the first thing on google. Thanks for the video.
Second the caution on parallel even in a car. We had to have ours replaced following a crash following our car in the mountains using parallel. It was over a valley flying to the side of us so thought it would be fine no obstacles at all. However it did what your film shows and came behind us and basically flew in the mountains luckily scrambled up to get it and was replaced sadly my wife wasn’t quick enough just said ohh it’s flown into a mountain, you can imagine 🙈😂.
The Mini 3 Pro definitely struggles when tracking a human (me) vs. a bigger object like a car. I ran in to these same issues when using Active track on my drone.
Damn, excited to get into the mountains in the spring for some awesome mountain biking. Shame about the RC mount, hopefully someone will make one in time lol.
It (the mount for rc pro) works very good with mtb’ing. have used it multiple times for hours on the bars. On much rougher terrain then this paved road ;-)
Maybe the reason it "likes to track from behind is because there are no obsticle sensors in the back. This makes sense considering they DJI wouldn't program the sofware in a way to crash itself. Thoughts?
Just wanted to test and explore active track but didn't manage to get that green rectangle started. Sad You jumped that step. Some of us are new in the business.....
Working as designed. Want to front track? 1. Get back in the car, go home. 2. Put Mini 3 Pro on the shelf. 3. Get Mavic 3, get back in the car, and go get your shot. Sort of. If you really REALLY want front tracking, put you DJI drones away for now, and grab the Skydio. Brilliant, but mostly singular purpose tracking drone extraordinaire! 🙄 Can't make Mini 3/3 Pro do something it's not engineered to do. Not well, anyway.
Stunning location. I would have liked to have seen these additional tests: 1. What happens when another biker similar to you overtakes you? or you overtake him. I've seen the drone starting tracking the new target. 2. What happens when several similar bikers approach you head on? At times when this happened to me, the drone just quit tracking.
The drone keeps you in track, I’ve had the drone tracking me when someone else was riding a bike next and it shouldn’t switch. Several people the drone def could get confused !
I have only tried it once (just to see if it worked). I positioned the drone in front of me and walked towards it. The drone backed up fine. I stopped, then walked back to where I had come from and it followed me fine. But that was in a relatively straight line, and I do walk rather slowly. I'll have to try it walking a more twisty route and see if it ends up behind me.
I just crashed mine today using parallel track it fell really high up hitting all the branches of the tree, luckily it fell in soft snow. Still works :)
I've tried both active track features on a wide open beach, not impressive, very erratic. It definitely is useless to me right now. You will eventually crash the drone in that rear trace mode unless you stay above the tallest trees/obstacles. Bloom is pushing them to incorporate the soon to be released m3p tri-pod mode ( max 1m/sec in all axis) update into the active track feature- which is otherwise useless. I think then the sensors will be able to manage the mission.
can you put the controller and phone away in a bookbag etc and still have it track you? If im hiking or biking and need both hands. can i take off the joysticks and just put it in the bag? thanks
It looks interesting. Positioning the drone above a lake having it fly sideways aiming at trains. If the train passes behind a hill or trees I suppose it ends the trace. What speeds can be used in parallell flying? I think the train speed is limitied to 40 mph, Sports mode speed.
Ok this is the parrot anafi follow me I think is the most cinematic and perfect In many ways The anafi lost me at the stadium in the begining..but when it is lost the subject starts follow the gps signal of your remote..and the altitude from your phone means that following you in high also from the barometer of your phone..... perfect drone
since when trace means from the front? when you tracing someone you following him from behind. rhe trace mods is ONLY for tracking from the back. when you put it to your front the drones pathfinding dosen't want to loose the subject and that is why for a brief period of time is tracking from the front where you have set it.
I experienced a problem today. I wanted to film a friend and have the drone orbit around him and used the active track feature. I drew a little green box around him. However he was standing next to a parked transit van. And Active track just kept jumping to it very aggressively. It wanted to track the van whether I liked it or not. Is it possible to turn vehicle tracking off.
i thought it never tracked you from in the front? it is always from the back. I think only the higher models do that in front tracking. Though it can be done with the mini 3 but dji needs to have a sell point for the mini 4 right.
If they add rear sensors for rear collision active Trac will work facing forward it’s kinda of self balancing because the drone knows it can’t “see” behind it also angling the rear sensors so they have a little side view will help with sideways tracking I’m sure that would pump the price up but I’m ok with the 6 o’clock track for now
So how do you get the little menu of "Go Spotlight POI" to come up? I try to get it to come up and it is EXTREMELY flaky, and impossible to use. What does a person do to get it to properly and reliably appear?
Anyone know if you need a phone hot spot connection for auto return when loss of signal or low battery auto return is in play while using the RC remote with the screen awesome tracking video BTW I learned some ❤😊
Nice Video Darren. I have a question at the bottom of this... I have the Air2S and have found the tracking awful when tracking my boat and thats despite it recognising the boat with the little icon. It whooshes in and out and increasingly gets worse until it is literally going to crash into you. Walking, car no problem. I treid changing my clothes for better contrast, changed the direction to the sun etc and nothing worked!!! I had no issues with my original Mavic drone, but that unfortunately dies after years of service. So I ended up buying the mini 3 pro and will be testing that in a few weeks time, just to see if its any better. lets hope so!!! Someone I saw using a drone a few weeks ago was using the Litchi app and he said that for tracking it's much better as it uses the GPS off the phone aswell as visual tracking. He showed me and I was impressed TBH. I am also going to try that. He said that you needed both apps really. The DJI app is better all round for just flying and recording but the Litchi app does other stuff better. Does the Mavic 3 track a lot better than the mini 3 and air2S?
I informed Dji about this issue after I crashed my mini 3 Pro in active track mode. Thank God I paid for Dji care plan 🙏🏽. I was hoping they would come out with a firmware update to correct the issue but I guess not.
Some sections of this trail had trees less than 50 feet tall. Will tracking work from the side by flying above the trees using a downward angle while keeping the bike in view?
Nice video as always Darren! Same “problem” here : active track working decently from behind, but not been able to make it work from front. I’m using the POI as an alternative (skiing, hiking, biking), but you have to be extremely cautious as it disables the obstacle avoidance… 😰 Any idea how the mini 4 will perform?
Does anyone know of a method to improve the Active Track/Trace/Follow Me mode? When on a Motorcycle I can't ride at more than maybe 15 miles an hour before the Drone loses me. Is there a color, shape, contrast that it has an easier time following?
Strange you think it wouldn't have a problem tracking from the front of you as it has rear collision sensors, I could see if it didn't that would make sense. Should just call it follow mode.
Thanks for your videos. I really wish it had the 360 clock face trace option. I am planning to do a active track with my Liberty Ace (Modern Morgan 3 wheeler) predecessor. I will start with front view then parallel. Fingers crossed!
The DJI official user manual states for 'Trace': "tracks the subject.... with the direction of the subject", suggesting to me that it only intends to 'Trace' your steps i.e. follow you from behind.
Well tracing in front....how should the drone know how the path will be. It cannot foresee any curves or junctions. It has to change the side at any point. I don't think this is a negative point...no other drone will be able to do this better.
I tried to use the track function inside home. Something unexpected happened. The drone went up and away and crashed against the wall/roof and fell from a height of around 6-8 feet, started making weird beeping sound while the propellers kept rotating while it was lying in floor, then, stopped and I switched it off. I tried flying it again but it didn't fly. Then I charged it and tried flying it again and it was working fine in spite of some damage here and there( little scratches and minor damage to edges). But when I tried to charge it again it's not charging. That may be because I was trying to change few settings by keeping it on. So it may be that it's overheated. Yes, it was charging after I took out and reinserted the battery. Was fine after that. Strange things happen. Guess I would avoid flying it indoors. But what exactly happened. Why did it kind of went crazy and slammed into the wall for no reason. Any ideas?
What bike is that you have? And what's your opinion of it? I'm looking for a couple of electric folding bikes my wife and I can stick in the back of our Octavia brake; it gets boring cycling in the same local area all the time.
@@DMProductions Thanks, 1100 euros here in France, which seems OK for a folding electric bike. I'll do a bit of research and look for a supplier in Bordeaux or Toulouse.
Harusnya Dji bisa menggunakan/mengembangkan suatu benda/semacam chip untuk di pegang si user agar Drone bisa selalu mendeteksi user walau terhalang pohon/obstakel dan lain lain
@@DMProductions Thanks a lot! It works! Drone not flying is understandable. I guess I've been touching the screen by accident and started the green rectangle.
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How can a drone track you from the front since it can't predict where you are going to go? To me, unless you are going into a completely straight line or making corrections like you would balancing a broom there is no possible way that it can track you going backwards.
I have been mountainbiking on much zharder terrain , faster and the mount you say is bad has held up brilliantly.
So dont think its the mounts fault for being so bad as you say 😂
What is the mount that your using for the RC-N1, i never opted for the RC as it goes, however my plan always was to try tracking myself mountain biking so it may well be that i chose wisely. Thanks in advance and I’m finding your content really informative, keep up the great work 👌
*I can't believe how large your channel got mate! Drone videos really do well on RUclips. Congrats! I remember when it was at like 6k like mine when I first bought my Mini 2 haha*
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Active track is amazing. Especially when you're using it as intended vs doing stuff it wasn't meant to do and then speaking as if it's a glitch. Likewise parallel mode literally warns you that there is no obstacle avoidance in this mode and then you immediately go off and almost hit a tree while looking stunned 🥴.
This is why I love my mini 2 in conjunction with litchi or maven 😊😊 Litchi especially as it gives me a clock face so I can decide what direction it follows me 👌
I just used active track in parallel mode and to my surprise, it's no problem to change the position of the drone to any position you like for the shot, by simply pushing the flight stick either reight or left, same applies to height and gimnbal position. Of course no obstacle avoidance engaged, but you can place the drone also in front of you and just keep going and it will stay in that position, keeping you in the frame and maintaining the distance. At least when you move straight. It's like POI mode but, with a moving poi. In this semi automatic mode, you just have to check for objects in the chosen flight path and if somethings comes around, just change the position to 12 o'clock in front of your path and when you pased the object, switch back to 2 o'clock or 11 o'clock whatever suits you by simple push on the stick. Requires minimal attention. I did it while having the dog on the leash in one hand and the controler hanging around my neck, using only one hand to keep the drone out of harms way. Changing position also adds some dramatic effekt on the fotage. Maybe it's not practical to do that on a bike riding through a forrest, but if you shoot in a location with not so many obstacles, it should be possible to manage it on a bike too.
Same ...works great
But mate, Trace mode never was following you from front. It’s starts like this, but until first turn, than it’s stands into back following.
I was thinking the same thing.
Jep thats what trace does and means…
my air2s is able to track me from front no problem.
You want it in the back corner. Unless you like scraping the pieces off the road when it flies full speed sideways into a tree, lamppost, etc. Without side sensors, this is the best way to keep these drones in one piece. DJI started doing trace this way sometime around the Mavic Air 2.
The manual says it can only track subjects in front of it.
Hi mate. Just to let you know, I have a mountain biking channel and the parallel mode is actually really useful. Admittedly you have to pick your location carefully e.g. open hills. However, when you get it right the footage is incredible.
I've tested it for my motorcycle and had the same result. It works good when the drone is behind you and when it is close, but if you want to do it in front it will move to the side and try to get behind you again.
It almost crashed into the tree because there are no sensors on the side. The other problem is that it looses tracking if you get little bit fat away. It's good for slower shots till 25-30 km.
When I was researching this drone and watched information on Active Track, the people putting videos of it up were quite clear it always likes to track from behind. At least I knew it going in. I wouldn't have been happy if I specifically wanted it to track from in front and it wouldn't do it. Great Vid as always.
The secret to getting the drone to track you from the front is to help it along. You have to gently nudge the drone to stay in front by touching the stick at times. Left if you want to stay right, right for left. Also you have to back if off a bit in front. Not ideal but it can work.
You shouldn't need to "help it along". I want to use mine for kayaking and rock climbing, in both those scenarios my hands are occupied. The software should do what the software should do.
@@NevContractor1then don’t get this drone. Oh and the word ‘should’ should be removed from your vocab. There is no should. You’d like it to be possible but it isn’t. Therefore, get a different drone.
6:31 "it should be called, you are going to crash your drone in this mode!" lol Great video as always! I honestly didn't know that from behind was pretty much the only usable way to track on the Mini 3 Pro. Good to know.
Thanks for this video. The trace mode is of course best when following from the back and I ride my bike a lot and use the drone. The shot where the drone starts from the front and makes its way to the side and then the back I find really interesting. It’s not a failing at all. I always make sure I do it on a country lane where there are very few trees. Also, I’ve given up on a handlebar mount. I have a lanyard and dangle the RC controller round my neck occasionally if I need to make it go higher. I can do it actually without looking at the controls.
When I use this active track function (Trace), I will increase an altitude slightly higher than the surrounding trees. Then I will zoom in and select my object. I had my trust issue with the obstacle sensor regardless of the trace and parallel options. I filmed myself with motorbike activities, and it works well.
A great, concise test of the drone’s tracking capabilities and limitations. 👍. The trace mode from the rear is a bit dull after a while so I’m attempting to ride the bike and fly the drone at the same time…..with mixed results! However, when the drone (annoyingly) slews from front to rear tracking, it does give a good orbital dynamic to a clip.
yeah I agree, spotlight mode is my preferred method of tracking but trying that on this bike wasn't the best idea unless I wanted to fall off 😂
Spotlight can be useful in these scenarios. Keeps the subject (you) in or near center of frame, you can focus (pun intended) on flying and zooming if desired.
@@BlairAir and @DM Productions - I don't think I've used spotlight whilst riding my bike yet, but that seems like a great tip....something else to consider, among the many other things, to remember when flying the drone!🤯🧠
Did you try Trace with Disable Sideways Flight ON to have the drone stay in front of you? Maybe it will stay in front if it can't go sideways.
Nice video, mate! I fully agree to your comments but Ι found out that parallel mode has a hidden feature. In fact, parallel mode is nothing else than keep the drone on a constant angle relative to the object that is focussed and you can manually change the angle with the yaw-stick. This means that you can position the drone to the direction you want to move, right before you. Then choose parallel mode and the drone will remain very stable on that angle relative to you. So if the the road you are following is straight, this is absolutely useful. If there are curves you have to follow, you can use the yaw-stick to correct this change of angle. In Cine-mode these corrections can be very smooth. I hope this helps.
Wow ! thats a super post 😮. Well done - useful
I don't believe trace was ever designed to track from the front with Active Track on the Mini 3 Pro because of the lack of side obstacle sensors, so it's not a flaw, it's behaving as per specification. If you watch videos of active track from the front on a Mavic 3, it takes a while to return to the front after the subject turns a corner and does a lot of sideways flight in the process.
It wasn't. I was wondering why he kept trying to do something it was never meant to do and speaking as if it was a glitch.
It also depends on wind when i was going 18~23mph it couldn't keep up on Normal mode. I put it on sports mode and it was fine
Great video and brilliant location
Many thanks!
Even with the limitations, I have a lot of fun with the feature. Im equally as excited to know that when I decide to add a mavic 3 to the collection, active track will be even more capable! Awesome place to demonstrate, btw.
Thanks for this. nice to see you in Whinlatter and Derwent water.
Well spotted 😊
Just bought Rc Pro for my Mini 3 Pro. Planning to make bracket for my dh-ebike that I can shoot videos at bikepark following summer...
Awesome video. I've just started playing with Active Track and your video is helpful. I wish it would start recording when you hit "go" on it of course.
Nice and simply explained. Last I was tracking myself, also on a bike, but the recording stopt every time again. Once after 40 sec, next after 20 sec...and there were no trees or other obstacles. Any idea why my mini 3 pro is always stopping recording?
Trace is designed to follow you. It is working as designed.
I like active track but completely agree it doesn’t work great I hope it can get better with updates
me too
Thanks Darren - another great tuition on a new bike to boot! Jeven Dovey also does a great explanation of this too.
Thank you Andy, Jeven’s done a great job too
I’m a huge fan of active track. I really like using it but one of the challenges I have with it is how I can go hands free on the controller. I’d like to film myself fly fishing or skiing and for both of those activities I need both my hands and I can’t set the controller down b/c I’m moving. Does anyone have a good way of mounting the RC controller to yourself so you can grab it quickly if you see your drone about to crash but also out of the way enough that I can do the activities I want?
I bought a Sunnylife strap for it that comes with an aluminium mount that attaches to the bottom of the RC. I ended up using a different strap than the one that came with it, which was just too long for me, but the bracket is excellent with 3 attach points. I then have the strap over my shoulder across my body and it's quick and easy to grab it if I need to use it. I only use it for walking - I imagine it would work fine for fishing but maybe not so much for skiing....though maybe for that you could just have a clip on your waist to attach the RC to as well so the controller can't move around too much...?
I have used active track in relatively dense bushland and it worked reasonably well as long as you didn't go too fast. Also I had moved the controller into my backpack so I had no capacity to adjust the drone while riding. Best part was when it went off course and couldn't track me it did stop and hover. Also find my drone works well as it clipped a broken tree branch and crashed and I couldn't find it so I activate find my drone and it lead me straight to it. As you have already alluded to it is not designed for forward facing and I recall you indicating just his in one of your earlier videos when you said it can be tricked into active track from the front but obviously not at speed. Your demo at the time was when you were walking. Cheers for the video. Always great learning tips.
PS what is your recommendation for free video editing software
I haven't experimented with active track yet, but I was sure the Mini 3 Pro, as released, would NOT track from the front??? Only in trace or parallel.
I just got a DJI Mini 3 Pro and took it out testing the Active Track. It stayed in front of the Jeep as I drove for about 100 meters until I stopped it because of trees. It stayed a constant distance away and it seemed fine. Perhaps because it was a car or because I drove slow?
I found your video looking for information on Active Track as it was the first thing on google. Thanks for the video.
Thank you yes for tracking cars it does pretty well ! I think due to having a big target to focus on
Second the caution on parallel even in a car. We had to have ours replaced following a crash following our car in the mountains using parallel.
It was over a valley flying to the side of us so thought it would be fine no obstacles at all. However it did what your film shows and came behind us and basically flew in the mountains luckily scrambled up to get it and was replaced sadly my wife wasn’t quick enough just said ohh it’s flown into a mountain, you can imagine 🙈😂.
The Mini 3 Pro definitely struggles when tracking a human (me) vs. a bigger object like a car. I ran in to these same issues when using Active track on my drone.
Damn, excited to get into the mountains in the spring for some awesome mountain biking. Shame about the RC mount, hopefully someone will make one in time lol.
someone needs too!
It (the mount for rc pro) works very good with mtb’ing. have used it multiple times for hours on the bars. On much rougher terrain then this paved road ;-)
Heading out now to try it myself! Thank you 🙏 😊
Hey, if in doubt...
😂 ......... " buy my cheat sheets "
@@DMProductions Best thing since sliced bread those cheat sheets!
Maybe the reason it "likes to track from behind is because there are no obsticle sensors in the back. This makes sense considering they DJI wouldn't program the sofware in a way to crash itself. Thoughts?
Just wanted to test and explore active track but didn't manage to get that green rectangle started.
Sad You jumped that step. Some of us are new in the business.....
Great test. Hopefully DJI will come up with a firmware update to fix the issue when tracking from the front.
They won’t because it’s working perfectly as intended.
@@mapolinski I guess so they won't. I think they are probably focusing on coming up with the next iteration of the drone..dji mini 4 pro..hehe..
Working as designed. Want to front track? 1. Get back in the car, go home. 2. Put Mini 3 Pro on the shelf. 3. Get Mavic 3, get back in the car, and go get your shot. Sort of. If you really REALLY want front tracking, put you DJI drones away for now, and grab the Skydio. Brilliant, but mostly singular purpose tracking drone extraordinaire! 🙄 Can't make Mini 3/3 Pro do something it's not engineered to do. Not well, anyway.
Thanks for the “heads up,” Darren. I enjoyed the video and I like your bicycle.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks!
Stunning location.
I would have liked to have seen these additional tests:
1. What happens when another biker similar to you overtakes you? or you overtake him. I've seen the drone starting tracking the new target.
2. What happens when several similar bikers approach you head on? At times when this happened to me, the drone just quit tracking.
The drone keeps you in track, I’ve had the drone tracking me when someone else was riding a bike next and it shouldn’t switch.
Several people the drone def could get confused !
Hi, I also have a DJI Mini 3 Pro.
This review was very helpful for me.
I will subscribe to your channel from Japan.
Thank you.
I have only tried it once (just to see if it worked). I positioned the drone in front of me and walked towards it. The drone backed up fine. I stopped, then walked back to where I had come from and it followed me fine. But that was in a relatively straight line, and I do walk rather slowly. I'll have to try it walking a more twisty route and see if it ends up behind me.
Thanks. You have revealed how they can't even manage to get it to track consistantly from the front, disfunctional and ineffectual programming. :(
I just crashed mine today using parallel track it fell really high up hitting all the branches of the tree, luckily it fell in soft snow. Still works :)
I've tried both active track features on a wide open beach, not impressive, very erratic. It definitely is useless to me right now. You will eventually crash the drone in that rear trace mode unless you stay above the tallest trees/obstacles. Bloom is pushing them to incorporate the soon to be released m3p tri-pod mode ( max 1m/sec in all axis) update into the active track feature- which is otherwise useless. I think then the sensors will be able to manage the mission.
can you put the controller and phone away in a bookbag etc and still have it track you? If im hiking or biking and need both hands. can i take off the joysticks and just put it in the bag? thanks
This kind of tracking is tough when you don't have side sensors on your drone. Good testing, and thanks for sharing.
sure is, thank you for watching
It looks interesting. Positioning the drone above a lake having it fly sideways aiming at trains. If the train passes behind a hill or trees I suppose it ends the trace. What speeds can be used in parallell flying? I think the train speed is limitied to 40 mph, Sports mode speed.
The word tracking it's self means following from behind, I wouldn't expect it to follow me from the front, unless if I was reversing.
Love the bike. Take care my friend
Yeah really enjoying it , lots of fun
Ok this is the parrot anafi follow me I think is the most cinematic and perfect In many ways The anafi lost me at the stadium in the begining..but when it is lost the subject starts follow the gps signal of your remote..and the altitude from your phone means that following you in high also from the barometer of your phone..... perfect drone
Love the honesty!
Thank you
Another good 1 Darren
since when trace means from the front? when you tracing someone you following him from behind. rhe trace mods is ONLY for tracking from the back. when you put it to your front the drones pathfinding dosen't want to loose the subject and that is why for a brief period of time is tracking from the front where you have set it.
Great video! Can you do the same video and location with the mavic 3 or 3 classic? Then we can see the difference
Sure will 😊
Great advice! Thank you for doing this!😊
thanks Hugh
I experienced a problem today. I wanted to film a friend and have the drone orbit around him and used the active track feature. I drew a little green box around him. However he was standing next to a parked transit van. And Active track just kept jumping to it very aggressively. It wanted to track the van whether I liked it or not. Is it possible to turn vehicle tracking off.
i thought it never tracked you from in the front? it is always from the back. I think only the higher models do that in front tracking. Though it can be done with the mini 3 but dji needs to have a sell point for the mini 4 right.
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If they add rear sensors for rear collision active Trac will work facing forward it’s kinda of self balancing because the drone knows it can’t “see” behind it also angling the rear sensors so they have a little side view will help with sideways tracking I’m sure that would pump the price up but I’m ok with the 6 o’clock track for now
It has rear sensors, not sides
@@bestman7776 you must of missed the part I said rear sensors
@@SticksAndStoners007 What you're saying makes no sense. Read your first sentence and use some punctuation for god's sakes!
@@bestman7776 my bad English professor let me get my paper back so I can make corrections sir
@@bestman7776 don’t bring god into this conversation
Thanks for the vid, can you use active tracking with the DJI mini 3 pro and the RCN - 1 controller?
I was laughing because that parallel mode you can see the fear as it missed those trees 😂 phew close call
The third drone crash in recent times would be the end of me 😂
Good video!👌
Thanks!
Those modes work really well given that there are no side sensors🙂
So how do you get the little menu of "Go Spotlight POI" to come up? I try to get it to come up and it is EXTREMELY flaky, and impossible to use. What does a person do to get it to properly and reliably appear?
The “4” is able to support the trace wheel for active track !
That might be a solution to the issue you describe in your video?
Mine did the same on active track, started in front then swung to the side then behind me.
Anyone know if you need a phone hot spot connection for auto return when loss of signal or low battery auto return is in play while using the RC remote with the screen awesome tracking video BTW I learned some ❤😊
Another great critical review.
I am sure that active track was not intended to be used to track from the front 🤔
It's called tracking for a reason, lol.
That was an interesting test. Haven't tried it yet. Like # 171.
Where did you get your bike from?
Can the drone track Faster moving objects if we select Sports Mode?
Nice Video Darren. I have a question at the bottom of this...
I have the Air2S and have found the tracking awful when tracking my boat and thats despite it recognising the boat with the little icon. It whooshes in and out and increasingly gets worse until it is literally going to crash into you. Walking, car no problem. I treid changing my clothes for better contrast, changed the direction to the sun etc and nothing worked!!! I had no issues with my original Mavic drone, but that unfortunately dies after years of service. So I ended up buying the mini 3 pro and will be testing that in a few weeks time, just to see if its any better. lets hope so!!!
Someone I saw using a drone a few weeks ago was using the Litchi app and he said that for tracking it's much better as it uses the GPS off the phone aswell as visual tracking. He showed me and I was impressed TBH. I am also going to try that. He said that you needed both apps really. The DJI app is better all round for just flying and recording but the Litchi app does other stuff better.
Does the Mavic 3 track a lot better than the mini 3 and air2S?
Great info, thanks
I informed Dji about this issue after I crashed my mini 3 Pro in active track mode. Thank God I paid for Dji care plan 🙏🏽. I was hoping they would come out with a firmware update to correct the issue but I guess not.
There is no issue to correct. It’s working as intended.
@@mapolinski show me the proof.
Some sections of this trail had trees less than 50 feet tall. Will tracking work from the side by flying above the trees using a downward angle while keeping the bike in view?
I can't seem to parallel track a running subject. It always goes towards him/her! Why?
nice vid. do you know if active track is now available on the dji RC on portrait mode?
it is
Seems to be something already noticed by many: in trace mode it only follows
Active track ✖️
Active chase ✔️
Nice video as always Darren!
Same “problem” here : active track working decently from behind, but not been able to make it work from front. I’m using the POI as an alternative (skiing, hiking, biking), but you have to be extremely cautious as it disables the obstacle avoidance… 😰
Any idea how the mini 4 will perform?
there is no mini 4 and will not come for a long time
@@jdexplores01 you should read “the mini 3 replacement, when it will eventually be released” 😉
@@olivierw9447 where is that written in your comment?
Does anyone know of a method to improve the Active Track/Trace/Follow Me mode? When on a Motorcycle I can't ride at more than maybe 15 miles an hour before the Drone loses me. Is there a color, shape, contrast that it has an easier time following?
Strange you think it wouldn't have a problem tracking from the front of you as it has rear collision sensors, I could see if it didn't that would make sense. Should just call it follow mode.
Great video Darren, where did you film this would live to walk round here, looks great 👌🏻
close to Whinlatter forest Lakes
@@DMProductions ahh nice, used to be up Whinlatter with the kids all the time. Will have to look for this 🤘🏻
Thanks for your videos. I really wish it had the 360 clock face trace option. I am planning to do a active track with my Liberty Ace (Modern Morgan 3 wheeler) predecessor. I will start with front view then parallel. Fingers crossed!
when trikes first became popular fifty years ago, I checked the physics and NO WAY they are safe as a child's tricycle.
@@rickmiller4110 the liberty Ace is a reverse trike road vehicle . It corners like a race car.
@@Marvin-fn7ks my Bad. I had knee jerk (pun intended) reaction hearing "Trike". Whenever I see what you are actually describing, I cheer for it.
The DJI official user manual states for 'Trace': "tracks the subject.... with the direction of the subject", suggesting to me that it only intends to 'Trace' your steps i.e. follow you from behind.
so do you recommend N1 or RC controller? I'm willing to buy mini3 pro and still confused which controller should I get!
Rc controller is my fav
@@DMProductions Thank you, I bought the Rc, it's amazing, thaanks
Well tracing in front....how should the drone know how the path will be. It cannot foresee any curves or junctions. It has to change the side at any point. I don't think this is a negative point...no other drone will be able to do this better.
Why don't I have trace? Mine says manual and parallel???
That Mini 3 pro gets more impressive the more I see it. You realize I’m jealous, right?
haha I do , it won't be long now..
I tried to use the track function inside home. Something unexpected happened. The drone went up and away and crashed against the wall/roof and fell from a height of around 6-8 feet, started making weird beeping sound while the propellers kept rotating while it was lying in floor, then, stopped and I switched it off. I tried flying it again but it didn't fly. Then I charged it and tried flying it again and it was working fine in spite of some damage here and there( little scratches and minor damage to edges). But when I tried to charge it again it's not charging. That may be because I was trying to change few settings by keeping it on. So it may be that it's overheated. Yes, it was charging after I took out and reinserted the battery. Was fine after that. Strange things happen. Guess I would avoid flying it indoors. But what exactly happened. Why did it kind of went crazy and slammed into the wall for no reason. Any ideas?
trace only tracks you from the back, it doesnt work from the front on mini 3 pro. from the front works on mavic3
What bike is that you have? And what's your opinion of it? I'm looking for a couple of electric folding bikes my wife and I can stick in the back of our Octavia brake; it gets boring cycling in the same local area all the time.
its called the EP2 Pro, its very good with thick tyres and I love that it folds, I'll prob do a review on it soon
@@DMProductions Thanks, 1100 euros here in France, which seems OK for a folding electric bike. I'll do a bit of research and look for a supplier in Bordeaux or Toulouse.
Does it work on android? I don't see those modes on android app😢
Also "scan objects" is grayed out, although the drone is in normal video mode😢
Harusnya Dji bisa menggunakan/mengembangkan suatu benda/semacam chip untuk di pegang si user agar Drone bisa selalu mendeteksi user walau terhalang pohon/obstakel dan lain lain
How fast can it fly? I tried following my car at 30mph, it couldn’t catch up
It makes sense that it doesn't track from the front because how is the drone supposed to know where you're going on that winding road
The newbie question: How do I get that green box activated? I've seen it poppig up by itsejf some times...
just drag a box around an object, won't work in 4k60
@@DMProductions Thanks a lot! It works! Drone not flying is understandable.
I guess I've been touching the screen by accident and started the green rectangle.