how did it not see this giant tree and it crashed down there
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i want to compare the active track on the mavic 3 and the obstacle avoidance of the mavic 3 to
the skydio2 what has been the best tracking and obstacle avoidance drone available on the
market and we'll also get into some of the other differences but that's gonna be the main focus
so let's jump into it now skydio is really easy to hand launch and hand catch you just basically push
and hold this button it says flying in three two one and then you let go when it takes off
and the cool thing is too you can select where you want the drone to follow you from
and then based on your movement the drone will figure out if you want to be from behind or in
front or on the side and uh and record you from there so let's run do a little tip
now flying with the mavic's a lot different because you have to use the controller this
is the smart controller if you didn't get the rc pro combo package or the cine version with the
rc pro then you end up with the normal controller which is about the same size by time you add your
phone on there and stuff like that but you have to use this controller to fly with the drone you
can't just set it down and use your phone or use the beak a beacon or anything like that at least
not yet who knows what i'll come with but you can hand launch and hand catch very similarly
hold the drone like this or from the front it's usually the safest if your fingers are right
under here where the arms fold out that's good and then push and hold push the take off button
push and hold this till the circle is completely green and then hold it away from you and let go
this this drone does have really great obstacle avoidance it's by far the best
that they've put on any dji drones uh if i fly right at us pretty sure it'll avoid us
just like that it went around us i mean from you know 20 feet up
it decided to go around us so that's good
but how is it active track
so did okay definitely not as good as sasquadio did uh when active tracking and the skydio is
a much faster and much better figuring out what direction it's supposed to be at relative to you
regards in regards to your motion so you put from the front the skydio responds almost instantly to
the front whereas the dji kind of struggled there for a minute to figure out where the front was and
how to get in front uh when running both drones perform really well from the front and from the
back but the dji drone definitely struggled at the end there where it basically almost ran into
the ground and i'm not running over snow so it's got some pretty good contrast but yeah
however that happened it happened but that's not everything both of these drones after some pretty
good obstacle avoidance fortunately there's a big forest with a lot of trees and a path running
through it right near here that we can test these out in and here it is the skydio and mavic 3
torture test now i know the skydeal can handle this i've flown it here before but we're going
to start out with flying the skydio as it tracks me through these woods here we go
that's always a little bit terrifying but no issues it avoids all the trees
tracks me through this whole entire area with no problems at all now the big question is will
the mavic 3 be able to do the same thing while active tracking me through these
woods gotta be honest i'm a little scared to try it but we're gonna try it
do
so
well as i feared the mavic 3 did not see a full-size tree that was right next to it uh
just a little way over there and it ran into it
so uh fortunately there's no damage other than a couple of props that got chewed up
and um yeah but skydio still is the king of being able to track and avoid obstacles as we go we're
gonna go ahead and hike out the rest of the way out to the beach out here and we'll talk about
some of the other differences between these two drones and why you might consider one over the
other so as you saw the skydio is still king of obstacle avoidance and active tracking but there
are a lot of other ways these drones compare let's break down some of the differences in the place
where the mavic 3 wins over the skydio2 and places where the skydio2 wins over the mavic 3. the mavic
3 wins when it comes to overall footage quality not only do you get up to 5.1 k but you also get
10-bit d-log which gives you a lot more room to be able to color grade in post and to be able to
hand down professional results i've used this on a lot of professional shoots with big name companies
and it has everybody's been happy with it another way the mavic 3 wins is photos it gets
a 20 megapixel still photo because it has a four thirds sensor which also enables it to get much
better low light performance so if you're looking to turn over professional video or photo results
the dji mavic 3 definitely wins there it also has a much longer range than the skydio2
and although skydio2 introduced a new skydio the skydo 2 plus which gives it better range for the
signal for the remote controller and stuff the dji mavic 3 still wins hands down for signal strength
and distance that you can control this at either one of these drones really will fly beyond your
visual line of sight when it comes down to it especially if you're using the controllers but
the mavic 3 definitely has the better signal quality for distance
another area the dji wins is battery life they say 46 minutes realistically
35 to maybe 38 minutes depending on how you're flying in the conditions you're flying in but the
dji has a load of flight time now recently skydio did introduce a new battery which gives you about
five six extra minutes of flight time so it goes from like 20 21 minutes to 25 26 minutes which is
pretty good but it's still nowhere close to the mavic 3. the other thing the mavic 3 wins at is
cold temperatures i've flown this in 38 below zero and a 30 mile an hour wind at 38 below
zero and the mavic 3 has handled it no problem now i have flown this at eight to 12 below zero
and it's handled it okay but it is much more temperamental as far as keeping the batteries
warm you have to keep the batteries warm before you take off or the skydio just won't take off
at all when it comes to portability the dji mavic 3 does win out over the skydio a little
bit because it is foldable and you can tuck it into a camera bag a little bit easier however
as you've seen the skydio can tuck into the front of my camera bag without too much problems but
because of the way the obstacle avoidance works the cameras i have to be very careful to make sure
those lenses don't get scratched or pushed against something that could scratch them this is meant
to be flown by an operator it's meant to be flown by you controlling it and doing the movements the
the things that you want to do with it to capture the footage you want to or the photos you want to
and so it's built to be controlled and flown that way so it responds very much that way you
can turn obscure voice off you can fly it in the dark if you want to you can fly it in all kinds
of conditions that the sky o2 just won't fly in so you might be saying well how does the skydio
still rate compared to the mavic 3 or how does it even still hold in this this thing is still
the best thing when it comes to tracking and obstacle avoidance there's nothing that has come
close to the skydio2 on the market yet as you saw today this crashed this did not same exact spots
the ma the skydio2 is just a beast when it comes to that so if you're looking for a drone
that is going to track you through all kinds of obstacles this is it the skydio2 you can't
beat it the other thing that shadow 2 beats the mavic 3 out is controllability you can
use your phone you can use the beacon you can use a regular controller if you want to
and all of that enables you to be able to control the drone in the different ways that you want to
while also still utilizing the full-on obstacle avoidance for 360 degrees that this drone is known
for now while it only has 12 megapixel stills it does take very nice photos and the video coming
out of the skydio while it's not 10-bit and it's not d-log so you can't color grade it you get what
you get out of this it is a really nice image it's saturated it looks good and so it really enables
you to pull the footage straight off this drone and put it out there share it to social media
share it to whatever you're going to be putting on youtube something like that and really makes it
easy to edit easy to pull the footage off and make something with it really quickly and really easily
really these drones are aimed at two very different types of people if you want a drone
that will fly and take most of the burden off of you flying you can put a minimal amount of control
input into but the drone will fly and capture footage of you doing whatever you want to do
when you're out in places like this or wherever you might be the skydio2 is the one that wins
hands down the the mavic 3 is much more aimed at people who are capturing high quality footage and
high quality photos and then utilizing that to make videos to make movies to make promotional
videos client videos photos whatever that might be that's really what this is aimed at because
it is a great camera with great flight time but it is built to be controlled by a person at the
controls using the remote controller most of the time now it's nice it has lots of smart features
built in it has obstacle avoidance that works okay apparently not as good as it should or at least as
it was claimed no doubt they'll improve some of that through firmware updates in the future but
it definitely had its fair share of issues whereas this performed flawlessly as the flying tracking
drone camera that uh really it's built to be now if you want to learn how to improve your
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