today I want to show you a really simple way that you can get some really creative shots
if you're filming yourself with a drone while you're also doing an activity it's not active
track it's something else now active track is a great feature and I use it a lot especially
when I'm doing things out in the wilderness like this where I'm hiking walking through
a place and you want to get shots I want to get shots of myself in the location I'm in
doing something that I'm doing but there are times when I want to get more creative shots
and the problem with active track is that your subject always has to be in the field
of view if you take these examples here active track it's very cool you can get some great
shots from the side you can get some great shots from behind or in front you can do really
cool point of Interest mode like this here and you can get some really great shots but
there's a lot of times where I want to be moving into a scene and have the Drone moving
into a scene at a different speed or there's a lot of times where I want to actually be
behind something and have the Drone reveal off of a Hilltop or around a Mountainside
or something like that and you can't do that with active track because it has to have the
subject in view another problem with active track is that you can't film in the full resolution
that the mavic 3 is capable of because active track takes up a fair amount of processing
power so you have to drop down to DCI 4K or UHD 4K and in the case of if you're using
the mavic cine you also can't film in prores but this little trick does let you film in
prores or at the full 5.1 k
as I said you can't film in full 5.13 case so if I try and highlight myself it says unable
to use Focus track because of the current recording format now if I drop to 4K
but I'm in prores if I try and highlight myself it's the same problem because it doesn't work
in prores so to do any sort of active tracking we have to be in 4k or DCI 4K Cinema 4K and
in h.264 h.265 so now if I select myself
there we go now I'm active tracking and we can set up for a POI and record the poi or
I could run around and it would active track me as I walk around here which maybe we'll
do a little bit of real quick
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now I've gotten pretty good at being able to walk or hike or ski while also controlling
the Drone and filming myself but it does get pretty hard and it definitely always looks
like I'm holding a controller or I'm you know concentrating on both things because it's
hard to not be watching the screen not be watching the Drone while I'm flying and to
try and get shots that look somewhat natural of me working through when I'm not using active
track but let's say I wanted to come up and reveal off of this hill as I'm walking down
this pathway well the easy way to do that is use waypoints hey if you're enjoying this
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of tests and review of filmmaking equipment here in Alaska so to get into Waypoint mode
you tap waypoints there it's really simple you just hit the plus sign and that sets your
first Waypoint now you move to the next Waypoint that you want to do so let's say I want to
come up over here
right there you can set a waypoint there and then let's say I just want to keep going and
maybe overfly myself go over the top of this wall also panning up so we'll go like that
and we'll set our next Waypoint so now that we've set our waypoints basically you can
set up four different types of different ways that you want to do it but I'm going to do
just a very simple speed uh I like to lower the speed down a little bit like around three
to two and a half if you're walking two and a half miles an hour is a great speed um yeah
and then if you're uh I'm going to set this to hover because I like it to just stop wherever
it goes and then basically you hit go I'm going to start recording now so I don't forget
while I'm talking to you but then the Drone goes to that first Waypoint and then follows
pretty much exactly the flight path that you've set this is a great way to be able to show
stuff and reveal off of things and I've used this a bunch lately because it allows me to
walk through a scene while the Drone is also moving through a scene in a way that maybe
it wasn't doing before so there we're going to start the recording right there and now
you see the Drone is coming up over the hill revealing us as we're talking all automatically
I don't have to do anything but just hold on to the remote controller because I don't
want to set it in the snow here and then the Drone is going to fly forward over us in a
second here and then pan up to reveal the mountains behind us in this uh very spectacular
location that I get to film in today which is amazing another really cool thing about
waypoints is you can save them so you have repeatable motions which means you can do
them in other kinds of lighting where maybe active track isn't going to work because it's
too dark waypoints are a really powerful feature that allow you to get some very cool very
creative shots but let's say we wanted to do it a little bit differently or let's say
maybe uh you know as I'm walking out to this point here out on the cliff Edge I want the
Drone to fly up and over looking down revealing all that space down behind me here we're going
to do the same thing we're going to set up some waypoints and then we're just going to
walk through the scene exactly like we planned first Waypoint will be right there
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it'll be the second Waypoint [Music] and once the waypoints are hit or programmed in you
just hit go and then you get something like this [Music] foreign [Music]
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here and this is one of my favorites is just coming up and over something as you're walking
into a scene because it's a great way to reveal information to your audience
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[Music] now you're going to want to watch this video here next to see seven great shots
that you're going to want to use for any time you use drones to film any sort of video I'll
see over there as always if you have questions ask me in the comments below or join my live
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next video cheers