- So this week we're checking out
the new DJI Mavic 3 Pro Cine.
First of all, we have our wide angle camera
which is a 24 mil equivalent, 4/3 size sensor.
And then we also have our 7x,
which is 166 mil equivalent on a 1/2 inch sensor.
But 166, that's a lot of zoom
and sometimes it could be a little bit tricky to use
because it was so tight.
But this is what I'm most excited about.
3x 70 mil equivalent on a 1/1.3 inch sensor.
And also a huge shout out to Lickd
for sponsoring today's episode.
We'll be using them for the music in this video.
And also, because of them we're going to Coachella.
Coachella baby. - Whoa.
♪ Sometimes all I think about is you ♪
♪ Late nights in the middle of June ♪
♪ Heat waves been fakin' me out ♪
The drone is actually going pretty quickly here
and we got the 3x.
I'm in sport mode right now.
Dangerous thing about that is there's no sensors
when you're in sport mode, but this is cool, 3x zoom.
So, I'm quite a bit out here now.
So I'm gonna cut and I'm gonna go to the 7x lens right here.
- [Kari] Dang, you're really far.
- Normal mode right now.
So, I do have all the sensors on right now.
I'm keeping up around 20 miles per hour.
It is a little bit trickier to have spatial awareness
when you're in a tighter lens.
You're essentially looking down like a tube, you know?
So, here's a shot I'm getting at the 1x lens right here.
And while recording I could do a digital zoom up to 3x
but this is not gonna look as good
because it's a digital zoom,
so I'm gonna go ahead and cut
and then I'm gonna hop over to the actual 3x lens.
I wish it could continue recording on the same clip
but there are some spec differences
that are capable with different lenses so,
I guess that's probably why we have to cut it once
before I can switch modes.
So, at this point I could digital zoom
over to 7x right here
but you can see the quality's not as good,
so I'm gonna go ahead and cut again.
And here we are with the 7x lens.
The van should be passing in front.
Yeah, look at that.
Oh, the auto focus kind of kicked in there.
Overcorrected slightly, but pretty sweet.
It's like way better than what we were getting.
Look, we're in a dust storm right now and actually we can't,
we can barely see out the window.
So, let's see if we can sport mode fly through this thing.
I'm gonna lead us through this.
So, I'm gonna turn around.
Definitely have to clean off the lens after that.
(Kari laughs)
But look at that, I'm on the 3x lens now.
Look at that parallax, I love it.
(drone whooshing)
Hey, nice jeep sir.
Addison is our stunt driver today.
That sand storm was crazy though,
huh? - [Addison] it was wild.
And it is pretty windy.
What is this?
- The real racer. - The sensor looks nice.
- Wow, so they just,
they really just ripped off the iPhone there.
- [Participator] No way, it shoots ProRes too?
- Yeah, 'cause you got a one terabyte internal SSD
which is probably one of the things
that drives up the price on these things,
but you're getting straight ProRes 42 HQ on here.
- [Participator] It only shoots 24, thank God.
- This time all the lenses shoot 24.
Getting some good win test too.
I'll be the driver.
- No way.
Bro, this is cheating good. This is insane.
Look at this, I'm doing this all by myself.
(engine revving) (tires screeching)
Yeah, look at this. (chuckles)
Oh, my God.
No, I mean straight bangers.
I can't pan fast enough though.
- Did you get insurance?
- Of course. - [Kari] Yes.
- [Gene] You liking the 3x lens?
- I like 7x.
- Wow, it climbs fast.
You wanna drag race me?
(drone whooshing) (engine revving)
- Oh, I'm gone. I'm gone.
Wow, this thing's incredible.
- It's so unfair.
This takes away our job security.
- I will say.
- If it's too easy for other people to drone
then it's not good for us.
It's a negative thing.
- So, so far I'm a huge fan of the quality I'm able
to get out of having multiple lenses,
but it is worth noting that each camera
does have different capabilities.
So, let's start with the wide angle camera
on the fourth, third sensor.
And this is definitely the most capable.
First of all, we got 5.1K up to 50 frames per second.
And notice all the color options.
We have normal, HLG, D-Log and Dlog-M.
So, D-Log is the flattest.
Dlog-M is slightly less flat, a little easier to grade.
And also the wide angle is the only one
that gives me a variable aperture.
So, I could go from F2.8 to F11 and anywhere in between,
which is nice, it gives me that extra added control
over my exposure or depth-of-field.
So, now let's go over and hop over to the 3x lens.
Notice we no longer get D-Log. We do still get Dlog-M.
So, that is still a pretty good form of log
but that does make it a little bit trickier
because now you might be shooting in D-Log in the 1x,
and then when you go into 3x, it's a different log
so you have to be able to grade those separately
because they are quite different.
And finally, we have the 7x lens which may be the most epic
but it does have the most limitations.
The color, you're kind of stuck on normal,
so you don't get even HLG or Dlog-M.
I would love to at least have Dlog-M
that way I could have all my lenses be one color.
Oh look, there's somebody out there.
Look, and I still have a digital zoom on that person.
Wait, is that who I think it is?
- [Kari] No.
- [Sam] Oh, hey guys.
- [Gene] Sam, where have you been?
- [Sam] Dude, I lost my AirPods.
I've been searching for like, what year is it?
- 2023.
- [Sam] It's been a while.
- Your AirPods are in my van, I think you left them.
I meant to text you, but yeah, well, I have 'em now.
So you found them, yay.
- [Sam] That's good, do you guys have some water
or maybe a Mimosa?
- No, but we do have a extra Coachella wristband,
you wanna come?
- [Sam] Yeah, let's go.
♪ Is it too late to say I'm sorry now ♪
♪ I'm sorry, yeah ♪
♪ Sorry, yeah ♪
- Dude, why are you using Justin Bieber?
Music is copyrighted and stuff.
- No, it's cool 'cause I'm using Lickd
to license music for this video.
So- - Wait, who did you lick?
- What, no.
I could even get an instrumental version of this song.
We have over a million mainstream music tracks
that we can choose from.
- All without risking copyright claims
and you still get to monetize your video?
- Yeah. And then now, let's thumbs up for the camera.
All right, let's go see some of these artists.
- Now, lick me. - [Gene] Okay.
- Hey, you checked out Lickd's website for the first time,
what'd you think?
- [Participator] It was pretty cool.
I was surprised with the artists they had.
They had some pretty big names like Bruno Mars.
Ma Jam.
♪ Moon ♪
- [Gene] When it comes to music like this,
there's nobody else that's making it possible.
- They're licking out the competition.
- [Gene] But like popular bands like the Gorillaz.
Remember when we used to not know
what the Gorillaz look like?
- They're not the cartoon?
Dude, you know how much I love cartoons?
I have a SpongeBob tattoo right here.
So when they were like-
- Wait, you got a SpongeBob tattoo on there-
- I got a SpongeBob tattoo. - [Gene] oh my gosh.
- [Participator] And it's just gonna get stupider.
- [Gene] That's awesome. (chuckles)
- Cardi B is dope to add in a video
but what if it's for a client
and I need some background music?
- Well, good news is that
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- Why are you laughing?
Are you laughing 'cause we're at Coachella
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- There's just so many people walking around
that think we're weird.
- They're just watching us. - It's just funny.
- We're being influencers in the wild.
- Yeah.
- I think we're just gonna go ahead
and voice over the rest of this, all right.
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so thanks again to Lickd for sponsoring this episode.
Now, let's go ahead and take it back to the unboxing.
- Whoa. Mavic 3 Pro Cine. - [Participator] Whoa.
- [Participator] Look at that camera.
- Don't get it mixed up with the 3 Cine,
'cause that's old news.
Lets see. A new bag.
- [Participator] Yeah, it's a nice bag.
- [Gene] Look at that.
Oh, it's magnetic too.
You should see a fashion model, geez.
- These look like your standard propeller.
- Same exact batteries as the 3 Cine.
Three battery bay, charger.
- Did that come with it?. This is the-
- This must be the fly more.
- Fly more combo, right?
- ACM out, the same RC pro.
- Ooh, look at that. - That is a big camera.
- Oh damn, that's huge. - It's huge.
Oh, the Hasselblad.
- [Gene] Oh, maybe they're calling it the three
because it's like, maybe the same aircraft.
- [Participator] Whoa, look at that camera.
- 82 decibels. Is that the sound it makes?
First impressions, seems like a familiar drone,
but with a much better camera.
- Photo, video, quick shots, this all looks the same.
- 5.1K. - 5.1.
- At how many frame rate? - Up to 50.
- [Gene] Sensors on all sides.
So, I shouldn't be able to crash into us.
- What are you doing? what are you doing?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
- [Participator] Hey look, it stopped.
- Yeah. Can we snatch it out of the air?
(drone whooshes) - [Participator] Oh, it works.
- [Gene] Yeah. Hey, it works.
- [Participator] Okay. - [Gene] Don't do that. Right?
- Yeah, I wouldn't recommend that.
- That's not recommended according to DJI.
- That stuffs dangerous.
- But it did actually have some pull, like when I tilted it.
It's like. (grunts) - Yeah, yeah.
- You know what's cool about this?
Its like, it looks more like a helicopter shot
with a shot over or something.
- [Participator] It does, yeah.
- [Gene] Just because it's like a tele lens.
For sound it makes a big difference having it on the 7x
and being all the way out there.
- [Participator] Yeah, you can't even hear it. super slick.
- [Josh] Top speed baby.
- [Participator] That thing is moving, Josh.
- We have 46. Can we hit 50?
For a second we hit 47.
With a little tailwind, we could probably hit 50.
- Yeah, we could get a little extra.
- [Gene] It's funny because it doesn't look as fast
when you're moving forward like that on the 3x lens.
- [Josh] Yeah.
- [Gene] Yeah, if you pop out to the wide angle lens,
it probably looks pretty quick.
- [Participator] Does this turn off all the sensors?
- On sport, yeah.
Seems like we're consistently hitting 45 at least.
But it is always fun having this lens though.
Everything looks so much cooler when you-
- [Participator] That's what I love about
the Gimbal FPV stuff.
- [Participator] Yeah, it almost looks like you're not
even flying a drone.
- [Gene] Don't mind me, I'm just over here trying to see
if I can crash this drone into one of the walls
so I could get a nice fat fine from Airbnb.
But so far, I mean,
it's got sensors in every direction so.
It's not too terribly loud, right?
- [Kari] No, it's not that bad,
it's better than your FPV drones.
- The sensors definitely work pretty good on it.
So these sensors can be great
because they help you not crash,
but they also can be a little bit limiting
if you're trying to fly through tight spaces.
Even if I move the stick around,
it just knows that it's surrounded by stuff.
So, it's not really letting me move around too much.
And by default, the sensors are on on normal and cine mode.
But if I go into sport mode, it should turn off.
Of course, I could hop into like cinema mode
and then go in and turn off obstacle avoidance.
So, now I still have to control over cinema mode
but the sensors are not gonna stop
if I go towards something.
So, if I crash, it's a hundred percent my fault
at this point.
Let's see what kind of propwash we're dealing with here.
Oh, oh. Oh, yeah.
- [Kari] Oh my God, there goes the chips,
there goes my hat.
- Oops. But look how smooth this is though.
It's like a slider or a gimbal.
Well technically it is a gimbal actually,
it's just a fine gimbal. (chuckles)
Another thing that's pretty cool is that the yaw speed
or basically how fast it turns like this,
changes depending on what lens you're on.
So, if I go onto the 3x, now it turns a little bit slower.
If I go into the 7x lens, now it's turning even slower.
But that's actually really useful
because when you're zoomed way in,
even just a slow move like this can look fast on the shot.
But the speed of the yaw,
can be all adjusted right here under gain and expo tuning.
And then this is what you want, max angular velocity.
So you can crank that way up if you want to
but you whip the camera around on the 7x lens
it's pretty quick.
If you do a lot of flying
with these obstacle sensors turned off like I tend to do,
it might be worth looking into DJI Care.
It's like one of those warranties that are kind of worth it
if you maybe destroy it.
I'll go ahead and throw some info off for DJI Care
and basically you could buy it for one or two years.
You could swap it out and pay a much lower fee
than the cost of an actual replacement.
So, if you destroy one, it kind of pays for itself.
Typically, I'm not much of a warranty guy
but I mean, you know, drone crashes can happen,
especially if you're an idiot flying around
in Airbnbs without the sensors on.
All right, so now let's go ahead
and try out some of this active track here.
Doesn't work in all settings, but I have it in 4K 24,
and I have it outside of ProRes
which will allow me to just drag it and let's see,
here I am, all right.
So, if I go ahead and select Sam here, we have a spotlight.
So, that means I should just be able to fly around.
And I'm still in normal mode, so I do have sensors,
which is useful in case I accidentally go sideways
into a tree or something.
This should hopefully stop me before that happens.
Of course, you're always gonna wanna try to keep eyes
on the drone because it's never a hundred percent.
All right, so it looks like I have a decent amount
of control over how the spotlight is composed.
So, right now I have him tucked over on the bottom left.
Let's try active track here where it should just trace, so.
Let's see how this thing flies itself.
It's gonna work its way around the trees, nice, okay?
Ah. (chuckles)
It is definitely getting close to objects
but it's definitely sensing it.
How you feeling Sam?
- [Sam] I'm not thirsty anymore.
- [Gene] Let's see what it does
if it goes under the canopy here.
And it's staying under, and dodged the poles.
I believe I can go ahead and change the position.
So, what if we wanna go 3/4 in the front.
So, now it should hold that front position here.
Having the sensors in every direction is definitely good.
All right, Sam, your goal is to crash this drone now.
- [Sam] Okay.
- [Gene] We even threw this right here,
but it's making it work.
Most of DJI's drones don't have sensors on the side,
so it's definitely way more stressful
to do this sideways active track.
Let's see if Sam can lose it.
I'm gonna need you to get on foot.
(Sam grunting)
Oh, oh, oh, hello. (chuckles)
(Sam grunting) (Gene chuckling)
- [Gene] Watch out. It popped you out of active track.
- [Sam] Ha, I lost it.
- [Gene] It's getting really close to all these trees
and obstacles there, but it obviously saw all of that.
Okay, let's see if I can get this to go
on the other side of this tree.
Yep, dodged the tree, nice.
I do wanna try out the slow-mo mode,
but it does crop in a little bit,
but it gives us access to 4K 120.
And there is also HD 200 frames per second
but that does crop in even more.
And that 200 frame per second option is not available
in ProRes, but the 4K 120 is available in all codex.
(upbeat music)
(Sam grunting)
♪ Sick of drinking your cyanid ♪
♪ Keep me from walkin' on the right side ♪
♪ Sipping your koolaid like a mai tai ♪
- Well it looks like in the slow-mo mode,
there is no option to switch between the different lenses
so you are stuck at that wide angle.
So, now we're trying to active track on the 3x.
Let me see if I could get it more towards the front, so 3/4.
Oh dang, it actually flew really close to him.
Let's see if it recovers.
Oh, it did.
For a second, it looked like it was about to lose him
but it got him back.
I mean, it's definitely much more challenging
to track things in a tighter lens.
♪ Do, do, do ridding the one wheel ♪
- [Gene] Now I'm kind of curious,
can we even do this with the 7x lens?
Yeah, let's try that.
All right, so I'm gonna go ahead and highlight him.
And it looks like active track doesn't wanna work
when I'm using the 7x, but I can do point of interest.
So, let's wrap it around to the left here.
Have you seen the 7x lens?
Check this out.
- oh, snap.
- Yeah. Let me see if I could go fast to the right.
Let's see that does.
Ooh, oh, lost him there.
All right, let's go a little bit faster.
Okay, so it's not hard to lose.
I'm like an extreme close up of you right now.
Oh, let's check out this auto focus here.
So, auto focus on me, to the background,
back to me, back to you, ooh.
From our Airbnb, the festival is a mile and 1/2 away
so I wanna try out explore mode here.
So, usually you have to cut
the clip every time you wanna switch between the lenses.
Here I can go ahead and start off on the wide
and do a digital zoom in.
And at 3x, we see that it automatically switches
the lenses for us.
Little bit jumpy when it switches
but I didn't have to cut it.
And again, we're at seven,
everything past this is digital zoom
on the 7x lens, but, check it out at 28x,
the digital zoom does not make it look beautiful
but I mean, the reach on this thing is pretty awesome.
I mean the drone is directly above us right now.
We're just down here hanging out.
The downside of explorer mode is that it is pretty limited.
I mean, you have 4K at 30 frames per second
or 1080p at 30.
And also if I try to manually adjust my exposure,
it says it only supports auto mode.
And when it comes to the codex, I do have access to H.265
but I'm not seeing the option for ProRes.
But honestly, I wouldn't even use ProRes here.
I feel like ProRes could be worth it
if you're shooting the flattest color profile and D-Log.
But even Dlog-M handles pretty good in H.265.
So on the 7x lens where there is no log options,
I'm just gonna keep that at H.265
and only really put it to ProRes when I'm on D-Log
on the wide angle.
And what's nice is that, each of these lenses
have their own settings independently saved.
So, if I have the 1x lens on ProRes and the 7x on H.265,
it'll switch the codex automatically every time I switch
between the lenses.
Ooh, look at all these birds.
Whoa, look at that. That was cool.
Video transmission, we have O3 plus,
so up to 15 kilometers of video feed,
which is freaking great.
But that is of course in a perfect environment.
But generally speaking, during my time with it,
I had zero issues with range.
Like my video quality has been
very clear all the way through.
Max flight time is 43 minutes or 37 minutes at a hover.
But real world time, I generally get about 30 minutes
before the controller starts beeping at me and going,
Hey, maybe get ready to land soon.
I could definitely milk a little bit more time
out of the batteries.
But with the combo, I got three batteries,
so that's like 90 minutes of flight time.
We also got a set of ND filters that go up to ND 64,
which is a 6-stop ND
but I wouldn't mind a ND 128 or a 7-stop ND.
But they just rotate on like all the other Mavics do.
So, I'm sure
there's gonna be some aftermarket ND filters available.
Look how epic this looks though.
You know, 3x, this is where it's at.
And I love the 7x and it's amazing how stable
this 7x lens is.
I mean it's windy right now.
The drones like kind of do on this whole thing
but it looks nice and smooth.
I just really wish the 7x lens
had some sort of log, you know?
Even if it was Dlog-M.
Right now, I have D-Log on the wide angle,
Dlog-M in the 3x and then no color profiles on the 7x
so it's handling three different files.
- [Kari] Should we use this to film our wedding?
- [Gene] Yeah, actually.
And there's way points,
basically where you can go and pre-program your routes.
So, before our wedding, I'm might have to go in
and just pre-program all the camera moves
and then just have it run its laps.
All right, let's get some 3x action right here.
This looks so good.
You know, the whole point of this Mavic
is how fairly easy it is to do these shots.
Like here, take this, highlight us on the screen.
Yeah, just tap and hold us. - [Kari] Yeah.
- [Gene] Yeah, you selected us.
Now wait for the box to appear.
Cool, so now you're on spotlights.
So now you just use this to kind of scoot the drone around
and you have sensors in every direction
so you're unlikely to hit anything.
Look at this shot. This is Kari flying here.
Look how epic this looks, oh my gosh.
- [Kari] I'm a pro, don't act like I'm not a professional.
- [Gene] She does actually have her part 107.
See, this is the 3x lens.
That is why I'm stoked on this drone.
And this is the Mavic 3 Pro Cine, which has the ProRes,
but it is quite a bit more expensive than the other ones.
It's 4,800 I think, for the whole Combo Kit.
But then there's the Mavic 3 Pro, which is also new
and that also has three cameras.
It just doesn't have the ProRes
and the one terabyte internal.
But honestly, if I had that,
I would just go Dlog-M and H.265 everything
and I'd be pretty happy.
There's definitely a big price hike when it's the Cine.
- [Kari] I think this is the first round that I'm like,
whoa, this is really cool.
- [Gene] Yeah, you like it? - [Kari] Yeah.
- [Gene] And when you start losing the light,
there is this night mode here
which gives you more denoising, I believe, in higher ISO.
So, now it starts at ISO 800 and goes up to 12,800.
Wow, that's actually really bright. (chuckles)
Let's see what 1,600 looks like.
And we do lose zooming capabilities,
so you are stuck on that wide angle lens.
But yeah, not bad for 1,600.
Let's try going up a little bit higher just to test it out.
So, ISO 3,200. And how's the image looking here?
Let's try 64.
I'm even gonna close down the aperture a little bit
to simulate some real darkness here
because we do actually
still have a little bit of light out here.
It's pretty good, even ISO 6,400 baby.
We've come this far, we gotta try 12,800
and I'm gonna even close down my aperture further.
Yeah, this is like A7 S3 level low light here.
12,800 is very low light.
So, I'm not expecting this to look amazing but,
I mean the fact that we can actually see ourselves
with some clarity,
I mean, I had to close down the aperture
to F5.6 for this even.
So anyways, I think we should go ahead and land this now.
We'll end this video here.
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