DJI Air 3 4K Drone Waypoint Mission to Pasture
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Here's a DJI Air 3 Waypoint Mission with all the waypoints set for manual camera heading and gimbal tilt set to "Manual." We have full freedom to yaw the aircraft left, right, and even backwards to aim the camera horizontally. And we have full control over the camera's gimbal to move it up and down over its full 90°-plus range. For this flight on a sunny day, an ND16 filter was used with the camera's exposure set to "Auto" in the standard color profile. Shooting was at 4K 60 fps, but the render from Cyberlink's PowerDirector 365 is limited to 4K 30 fps. Portions of the controller screen recording are overlayed. Music is from Cyberlink. JD narrates.
You sir saved me! I have been trying for a month how to do this! Thanks for a great video, actually the description!
Enjoyed watching your Waypoint flight with the Air 3. Looking forward to getting mine. Undecided about keeping my Mini 3 Pro. Probably will keep it for those intimate moments of shooting. LOL! Baton Rouge is beautiful. Been there once or twice years ago.
You sir are MY HERO!!! I have been looking for this for months and everyone said I would have to have some "special" app to do what you just did. Autel used to do that as it was called "cable cam" (where the pilot can control movements of the drone on its waypoints). Thank you very much. Hopefully I can do that with my new air 3 with all updated software. PS. You earned a subscriber.
Not sure whether Autel ever called their waypoint missions "Cahle Cam," but Yuneec certainly did. Like DJI, Yuneec connected the waypoints with smooth Bezier curves. The Autel EVO waypoint missions always stopped at each waypoint, yawed to the new heading for the next segment, then continued. Autel may have issued a firmware update to make the stops optional, but if they did, they never offered it to me for download. I've posted waypoint missions from all 3 (DJI, Autel, and Yuneec), so you can check those out if you'd like. And thanks for subscribing!
Could it be a straight line between waypoints? It is not curved, please clarify that
Waypoints missions planned on the DJI Air 3 get connected by smooth Bezier curves. Not what you want for mapping or photogrammetry. The Air 3 might not be the best consumer-grade choice for that work. The Autel Robotics EVO II with its software for waypoints would be a better choice at the consumer level. Its Mission Planner has an option for automatic grid layouts of waypoints specifically for mapping. Or go with an Enterprise-level drone from DJI or Autel for mapping,
Did I hear you say that the gimbal can be controlled MANUALLY whlie on a waypoint mission? If so, how do you set the gimbal to manual?
Yes. When you set up a waypoint, for the Gimbal Tilt parameter, options are Face POI, Manual, and Custom. Just choose Manual. Then, If you want manual control of the gimbal at all waypoints, just click "Apply to All" on the upper right of the parameters screen. The same technique applies to the Heading parameter for each waypoint.
@@jdthedjyt Thanks. Yes, this would the way to achieve manual control but my problem is that the gimbal tilt options don’t appear on the app screen at present though, as I remember, they were visible when I was first using my drone. I think later firmware updates have messed things up. I am also unable access “ActiveTrack” with the options of tracking from different directions, though, at first this, too, was available. Do you know how to fix this? I have tried both reverting to factory settings and deleting and reinstalling the app but nothing has worked.
@@srilankavideos6105 Open the Waypoint Planner. Choose a waypoint from a mission you've already saved or click the map to create a waypoint in a new mission. At the bottom right of the screen, click the waypoint and you should see a strip of options for Camera Action, Altitude, Speed, etc.. You may have to drag the strip to the left to expose the Gimbal Tilt option. Click that option and a button should appear on the lowest part of the strip. Click that button and you should see options for Face POI, Manual, and Custom. Choose Manual to allow manual control of the gimbal as you fly the waypoint mission.
For the Active Shots, get the aircraft in the air, yaw it to face you, then draw a box on the screen around you. Default of Spotlight should appear. Choose the Active Track option to its left and quickly click Go before it defaults back to Spotlight. The follow position dial should appear in the lower left. Start moving and then click somewhere on the dial to choose the location around you from which you want it to observe you (Back, Front, Left, Right, or in between). Hope this helps. Good luck!
@@jdthedjyt Thanks. I followed your instructions for setting the gimbal to manual control and it worked!
But, unfortunately, I am still unable to access the feature for tracking in different directions. The follow position dial you referred to doesn't appear on my screen.
@@srilankavideos6105 I'm glad you got gimbal control on waypoints working. As for ActiveTrack, all I can suggest is that you have to be quick on the trigger to click Go after drawing the box on your target and clicking ActiveTrack. DJI doesn't give you much time to click Go before reverting to the default Spotlight mode. And make sure your click of the Go button is actually "taking." We're having severe thunderstorms at the moment here, so I can't put my Air 3 up to try it again. Good luck.