Hi everybody, welcome to another episode
of Exploring Photography, right here on
AdoramaTV.
I'm Mark Wallace in Kununurra
ir Western Australia, right beside the
Lily Creek Lagoon, and that's a perfect
location while the sun is getting low on
the horizon, for me to show you some
basic Intelligent Flight Modes for the
DJI Mavic. This also works with the DJI
Air and any DJI Drone actually, has these
Intelligent Flight Modes, and there's a
bunch of intelligent flight modes that
you should learn, but really there's one
as a total game changer, that you should
absolutely know. So we're going to get to
that, but I'm going to show you two other
ones first. They're very, very, basic.
The first one is cinematic mode, and what
cinematic mode does, is it basically
slows down the Mavic when it's stopping.
So normally when the Maverick stops, it
goes errr....and what that'll do is, it'll make
the gimbal sort of jerk around, and it
doesn't give you a nice smooth motion!
Also when you yaw, which is this
movement right here, so when you're yawning your
drone, that can be sort of quick, and give
you a herky-jerky video. In cinematic
mode what that does, is it slows down
that yaw, and it slows down your
deceleration, so instead of it going and
stopping, you'll sort of coast into a
nice slow stop. Same with acceleration
instead of wwerr.. taking off, you'll sort of
zip out. So cinematic mode just gives you
nice smooth motion. So let's take a look!
Okay once again, we have our drone our
Mavic Pro in the air. I'm going to fly it
out. I have it out over the the lagoon.
Now what I'm going to do here is first,
I'm going to fly toward this little bush
right down here, and I'm going to fly and
then stop. So fly stop, so you can see
that sort of just stops really quickly
there. Fly backwards, stop,
it stops, okay, if I tear it to the left,
I'm going to full yaw left,woah... I'm going to get
sick... it's pretty darn fast! Alright so
now let's see what happens when we click
the little robot, and then what we're
going to do is, we're going to turn on
Cinematic Mode so Cinematic Mode is
right here. I'll say okay. Now the first
thing yaw should change, so I'm going
to jerk the joystick to the left, full-on
much, much, slower, much smoother, so that's
full 100%. So normally you wouldn't do
that but that's a much smoother
movement, and then, now let's watch and see how
this glides to a stop. So full-on, notice
it's a nice smooth start, and now I've
stopped it's still gliding, gliding,
gliding, comes to a nice smooth stop. So
you can see I did some side-by-side
comparisons, and you're in normal mode,
you can see that the Mavic comes to a
screeching halt, and that can wiggle the
gimbal just a little bit. When you're in
cinematic mode, it glides to a stop,
cinematic mode is pretty nice, but
there's one mode that's even better in
my opinion, and that is called Tripod
Mode. Now what Tripod Mode does, is it
slows down all of the motion of your
drone. So when you're flying, you're yawing,
you're accelerating, and decelerating, and
doing all the movements, it just makes
everything go much slower, and much
smoother. So if you're looking for that
really amazing shot, and you're moving
your drone, put it in Tripod Mode and
that will work. So don't think about
Tripod Mode as the drone just sort of..
sitting there on a tripod, but think of
it as a stable platform. So you're moving
in a stable way, so let's take a look at
Tripod Mode. All right, well let's get our
Mavic out over the lagoon. Once again
zipping right over there, so now what I'm
going to do here, is I'm going to get it
up in the air, just a little bit, and then
what we'll do is, we will put this in to
Tripod Mode, so again I'm going to push
the little face of the robot over there,
and then we have Tripod Mode. I'll click
on that, I'll say 'Ok', now this is going
to make my movement substantially
smoother, and it'll take the controls to
make them not as herky-jerky. So here we
go. I'm going to push forward, I am, this
is full forward on the right joystick,
and you can see that it's just crawling
along, crawling along, which is awesome if
I go to the right for a tracking move.
You can see again, it's crawling along,
and this is perfect for those tracking shots
for anyone. I want that cinematic look
without having a really, really fast move,
so my joystick is all the way to the
right, it's full-on to the right, so
normally we would be smokin' right now,
and then if I need to make a move to get
my drone to a place I want it to be, I
can turn off cinematic mode. Okay, now I
can fly up zuup... now we're back to normal!
Notice that when I'm moving my joysticks
around, everything's moving very, very,
quickly, as we would expect. Notice how I
move my yaw left and right, things are
really changing dramatically, but let's
go back into Cinematic Mode. I'm sorry in
Tripod Mode! So I'll say okay. Now watch
this I'm going to yaw to the left, full-on,
much slower, similar to what we had in
Cinematic Mode. But I'm going to now push
my right joystick to the left. So I'm
doing a tracking move.It's very, very
slow. I'm going to go down.
Notice that I'm coming down, very, very
slowly, and this is just awesome, and so
Tripod Mode gives you the ability to
have these really refined, very, very
precise camera movements. Now there is
one Intelligent Flight Mode that I think,
it's a game-changer, that every single
drone pilot should know about.
It's called point of interest, but what that
allows you to do, is to fly your drone
directly over the top of something that
you think is interesting. You'll tell your
drone, hey this is my point of interest,
then you back the drone up, and then it
will automatically start circling that
thing, and you can tell it how far away,
how high, and what speed and what
direction to circle that point of
interest, and you get these just
perfectly smooth videos, because
everything's working on autopilot. So let
me show you how easy this is, and what
kind of dramatic effects you can get. all
right well the Mavic is in the air, let
me zip it out over the lagoon here, just
a little ways now, if I go up into the
air here, what we can see is that there
are some boats off in the distance, and
that's going to be my point of interest.
so the first thing I want to do is fly
out to this boat. So I'm just going to
zip on out to this boat, that's
out here in the lagoon. that'll take me
just a couple seconds. Once I get there
what I want to do is I want to fly
directly over the top of that boat, so
I'm going to keep panning my my camera
down until I get there. Now you notice
I'm flying at about 50 meters. It's about
150 feet, and so that means that he's not
going to be able to hear me, so I don't
want to annoy these guys, so I'm almost
there. I want to get right on top of this
boat, so my gimbal needs to be facing
straight down, so I'm almost there,
gimble's straight down, and there he is!
Okay, so now that I'm directly overhead
of the thing, that's my point of interest.
I'll position my, my drone, so he's just
right above. Okay now I'm going to push this
little robot on the left-hand side here.
I'm going to agree to the safety message
there, and then what I'm going to do is
go over here to point of interest. This
is going to give me a little tutorial, If
I want it I'm going to hit okay. So this is
my point of interest. So on the lower
right hand side I'll say record point of
interest, now it's asking me for my
radius, so now I'm going to back up, so I'm
using my right joystick, and I'm backing
up. I want to back up to about probably
50 meters or so, that looks about right,
and then what I want to do is. I want to
drop my altitude a little bit. I want to
go down to about.. oh... 40 meters something
like that! All right.
Now that I have that, I will make sure my
focus is set. I'll click apply, and now
I'm going to hide this little thing
right here, if I need to I can bring it
out, and I can tell it when to start
going. This little slidy thing here
tells me when to make it go. So I'm
sliding it to the right, telling it to go
29 kilometres an hour. I can slow that
down a little bit, but the drone is just
going to automatically track around this boat.
So I'm just going to let it go just like
that, and I have this nice creamy smooth
perfect video of my point of interests.
Well there you have it. Three Intelligent
Flight Modes, that I think every single
drone pilot should know about. Now
there's a lot more to this drone and to
DGI Intelligent Flight Modes, that we want to
talk about in the future. Specifically the
Tracking Modes, where you can have
this drone follow different things in
different ways. We don't have time for
that in this video, but subscribe because
these videos are coming in series, and I
don't want you to miss a single thing!
Also make sure you check me out on
Instagram, because I'm posting all kinds
of behind the scenes footage and stills,
and putting these tips into practical
everyday use. So you can see how I'm
using these things in real life, and you
can see what didn't make it into this
video, which was a bunch of Hawks trying
to take down my drone. So make sure you
check me out on Instagram.
Thanks again for joining me, and I will see
you again next week!