This is a "must see" video for ALL of us... with or without previous experience. This gentleman's videos are always exceptional in every way. Thank you, many times over!
Thanks Matthew, just bought my first drone, the mini 3 pro, and checked out your videos before starting. They are really helpful and what’s more really enjoyable to look at. Also the accessories you’re describing in other videos are already part of my ‘drone gear’. Till the next video! Cheers, Rainier.
Having watched hundreds of videos over the past decades for; drones, RC planes, model builders, etc. I put your site as 'The Very First, The Best Place, to Start With a Drone' that I would recommend. Fantastic and essential content, perfect pace, every second of your videos is precious information. I got my first drone a few weeks ago and I am devouring your videos, watching them over and over again, each one containing so much essential knowledge that multiple views and taking notes on paper are essential to keep.
Another great video Mattheww. I often wondered at first why the drone was moving so quick, and like you say, the controller automatically switches on with normal mode, even when you're switched to cine mode. Didn't know about the memory on the sticks if squashed into your bag! You should do a vid of your studio and what equipment you like to use, editing software etc... Thanks mate!
Cheers, mate, all the tips are great, specially the one about the C mode and N mode, I never checked that before and I was wondering why the drone is so not Cine like. Stay safe, bless your heart :)
Great advice and tips as always Mathew, for newbies like me , id say mandatory watching!👍 The editing and colourgrading tip really hit home !(guilty as charged😉) Less is more 👍👍👍🎥 awsome
Once again brilliant and thanks. I put mine into Sports to see if I could get close in for flower pictures in inaccessible places such as overhanging the river. Tried it over land first. Didn’t get focused close enough to the subject, reversed away, clipped blades of grass and downed the aircraft! Still it gave me the chance to use Find My Drone in the grass😂That worked nicely so I didn’t tread on it😅
Excellent and comprehensive video Matthew! The only thing I would add, from personal experience, is to be aware that if you have made changes to reduce the sensitivity of your drone’s braking (for cinematic results), your stopping time will be greatly reduced.
We are going to Australia/NZ in a couple of months. I am preparing through research and using country specific drone apps to get ready and make sure I'm within the laws of each country
What a great guidance video. Just to add to your sticks attached when putting the RC into a camera bag advice, which is a good piece of advice, which is why I was surprised when I receive my RC to find the sticks attached to a protruding thread on the controller, a male, opposed to a female thread. I have gotten into the habit of literally checking the RC once in my bag to make sure the threaded lugs aren’t being forced into a non neutral position for the reasons you mention.
Thanks I’m new to the mini 3 pro and I’m trying to figure it out, as well I have the goggles Integra and motion controler need to figure out how to set everything up and use it.
I have just acquired a mini 3 pro and am wondering why they don't make it so that you can make controller the home point. Seems like it would solve a lot of issues while hiking, boating, etc. where you don't want the drone returning to the take off point.
You are gifted. Your videos are always excellent. You are articulate, very knowledgeable and present a wealth of knowledge in a very short time. Thank you.
As always a very useful. educational and practical video, thanks for this! One thing I'd like to share from my experience with the DJi Mini 3 Pro that can hopefully save pilots from a potential horror scenario _and_ something I haven't seen any warnings for so far is related to hyperlapse filming. I strongly recommend to never shoot longer hyperlapses than 8 seconds. On 10 seconds there's a serious chance a fully charged standard battery will drain completely when attempting this. The catch: a DJI Mini 3 Pro will NOT stop it's lapse shooting mode when this happens, RTH will not even kick in and the drone will NOT respond to the control sticks so if you're unaware of this and panic when you see you have less battery time left than the lapse takes to finish, the only way to stop it from crashing is too _always stop the lapse shooting manually_ by pressing the red record button on the right of the screen. It's really the only way to stop a crash from happening. For this, it would be great if a low battery emergency RTH would bypass everything, but it doesn't work on hyperlapse filming. Yet.
Another one is that the APAS system doesn't have any control over braking level, so if you've set a low braking sensitivity for smoother deceleration, then even if it detects that it's heading straight towards a brick wall, it won't necessarily brake abruptly enough to avoid hitting it, which is crazy. Combine that with the flight mode not being set to whatever the RC's physical switch is set to on startup and you're starting to build quite a list of what I would call significant bugs...
Hi Matthew. Eddie here in Worcestershire. Thank you for so many excellent video tutorials on the Mini 3 Pro. I now own one and find there are so many things to learn about it that it is stopping me from getting the best video and photo shooting with it. Thanks to your tutorials I am slowly getting there ! Can you please tell me what video post editing software uou are using please Matthew as I have nothing at the moment. Keep teaching us Newbies please ! ! ! Best Regards - Eddie.
Hello Mattheww - many thanks for publishing another great video - I enjoy all your videos because although I am flying my air2s and my mini 3pro since some months, I learn something new or you show me that some of my ideas to fly safe are not that wrong. When i started flying drones, i first learned to control the drone safe and for me it was more important to know everything about the options to fly safe than to make good videos. The issue to make good fotos or videos is step 2 after controlling the drone safe and without high blood pressure. When I am safe with the flight conditions and my personal skills, then I can enjoy making nice video footage without getting stressed - and your tips and tricks are helping a lot. So keep on making nice vidoes like this one - I am a very interested follower! Thanks from Germany 😃
Thank you so much for these videos sir, I’ve reasonably bought a mini 3 pro but not taken it out yet, I’m watching all your content first. One question for now is, how far can it fly away from you without losing the signal?
I had an odd experience with my Mini 3 that other people should be aware of. I was filming in a relatively flat area (no hills or mountains) so any crook in the horizon was very apparent. I decided to adjust the horizon manually (cheat the landscape, the earth is not perfectly round) to make the video appear that the horizon was straight. I had my hands off the sticks, I went into the settings and started adjusting the horizon. While I was in settings the quad moved more than 100' and yawed about 90 degrees, I thought it was doing a RTH or getting blown down river but it wasn't, winds were light about 7 mph with gusts no higher than 15 mph. When I got out of settings the quad was fine. I had control and it was not in RTH. I have heard of this happening to other people flying the Mini 3 and one person did crash.
This gentleman is so concise in his presentations that the vast amount of knowledge he is imparting is relatively easy to absorb, where most other channels wander off into distractions. It was precisely this that I could very happily subscribe to this channel and I unsubscribed to all the others I had joined, as now I don’t need them as everything I need is in this vast collection of video presentations on this channel.
Excellent information! I just received my Mini 3 Pro today, so I'm educating myself before my first flight. Your videos have been tremendously helpful. Your views of the Irish coast are really good. I live half a kilometer from the Atlantic Ocean in the southeast USA with white, sandy beaches as far as the eye can see. Very beautiful, but in a different way. Thanks!
Good point on the video transitions, it's not necessary to have one for every different shot. Can't stop myself from transitioning to the beat of the music tho!
Great video and excellent advice I could've used two weeks ago... my DJI Mini 3 Pro took a swim in a public pond... managed to retrieve and got her working again thankfully!
Hi Matthew, I have the mini 3 pro. I want to take my drone flying to the next level. Do you think it's worth getting the DJI Mavic 3 Pro? Thanks Tariq :)
When u see that its going wrong your drone is going hit something after few meters is there a emercency button to stop all actions and just hang in the air?
You made a very important point about color grading and transition. Far to often I find myself using more than I should but I can't seem to tell. Is there like an unspoken rule about this in photography
Just use less than you think you need 😄 Better yet, walk away from anything you're working on for a while and come back with fresh eyes; when you've been working on an edit your eyes become desensitised to whatever treatment you're applying so you tend to overdo it, but of course your audience won't be affected by that phenomenon, so keep it subtle.
very good information bro. last week i lost my new mini 3 pro drone . i hardly used it for 1 day after purchase. i stupidly flew my drone from a running cruise and hence i lost it in the ocean . i tried my best to RTH the drone but it didnt came back to me as i havnt updated the homepoint which was a big stupid mistake of mine resulting it gone for good. i lost 1300 $$ within a few seconds . lessons learned. now i understood the reason why it didnt came back to me. your video gonna help other people also as it explains the way of correctly using the drone. Thank you for this video tutorial. subscribed your channel mate.
To avoid these situations over water, ensure that the downward sensor and vision positioning are turned off. This is because the drone is continuously taking images to determine it's altitude position and the reflection over water disrupts accurate positioning.
I really enjoyed this video…even though I’ve been flying for many years. One common mistake is flying the drone without maintaining line of sight signal. This too can easily lead to loss or destruction!
Amazing scenery and great footage! I subscribed to see more Videos made by you. Dji Mini 3 is an awesome little drone. I own one myself too and create cinematic Videos. Keep it up bro! 👌🏽
You hit all the drones you have and then you teach us how not to hit the drones. Beautiful !!!
Thank you for these worth saving tips. Francisco, from Brazil.
Brilliant tips here, especially for a drone novice (me), and I learned the hard way by losing my M3Pro in a tree! Never again with the new one!
This is a "must see" video for ALL of us... with or without previous experience. This gentleman's videos are always exceptional in every way. Thank you, many times over!
thanks for sharing this..... just beginning to research which drone I want, etc.
Aspiring to become a drone pilot…thank you for letting me learn from the mistakes of others. I’ll do my best to take it to heart! 👍👍
Thanks
Thank you so much!
Thank you for the advice!
Frame rate. You just highlighted a very important technical aspect. Thanks I’ve learn a very important setting to check.
Thanks Matthew, just bought my first drone, the mini 3 pro, and checked out your videos before starting. They are really helpful and what’s more really enjoyable to look at. Also the accessories you’re describing in other videos are already part of my ‘drone gear’. Till the next video! Cheers, Rainier.
Brilliant tutorial I recommend more people watch this thanks for sharing my friend 😁👌👍🇬🇧
That was a lot of great info! Thank you for sharing my friend!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
oooh, stick drift - I wasn't aware of that!
Really excellent advice as always Mattheww, thank you :)
Yeah I just got out of bed to go downstairs and take the sticks off my RC 😂
@@rhythmace1 🤣
Set to hover when active tracking rth
Having watched hundreds of videos over the past decades for; drones, RC planes, model builders, etc. I put your site as 'The Very First, The Best Place, to Start With a Drone' that I would recommend. Fantastic and essential content, perfect pace, every second of your videos is precious information.
I got my first drone a few weeks ago and I am devouring your videos, watching them over and over again, each one containing so much essential knowledge that multiple views and taking notes on paper are essential to keep.
Thank you for your videos . Made my first drone flights with mini 3 pro much more enjoyable and safe. Thank you 👍
You're so welcome! Thanks for watching!
Thanks!
Another great video as always...
Thank you! Really appreciate your kind feedback!
Great video Matheww!
Thank you!
Another great video Mattheww. I often wondered at first why the drone was moving so quick, and like you say, the controller automatically switches on with normal mode, even when you're switched to cine mode. Didn't know about the memory on the sticks if squashed into your bag! You should do a vid of your studio and what equipment you like to use, editing software etc... Thanks mate!
Cheers, mate, all the tips are great, specially the one about the C mode and N mode, I never checked that before and I was wondering why the drone is so not Cine like. Stay safe, bless your heart :)
Great stuff as always. Just wondering if I can set one of the function buttons on my RC to reset the home point. Thank you.
That would be a sensible option, wouldn't it?! However I haven't seen it in the list of assignable functions, sadly.
Nice videos! Very informative. I'm awaiting delivery of a mini 3 pro. I'm look forward to getting started. Keep them coming.
Great advice and tips as always Mathew, for newbies like me , id say mandatory watching!👍 The editing and colourgrading tip really hit home !(guilty as charged😉) Less is more 👍👍👍🎥 awsome
Good video, thanks. Want to know more about the DJI Mini 3 Pro.
Once again brilliant and thanks. I put mine into Sports to see if I could get close in for flower pictures in inaccessible places such as overhanging the river. Tried it over land first. Didn’t get focused close enough to the subject, reversed away, clipped blades of grass and downed the aircraft! Still it gave me the chance to use Find My Drone in the grass😂That worked nicely so I didn’t tread on it😅
Excellent and comprehensive video Matthew! The only thing I would add, from personal experience, is to be aware that if you have made changes to reduce the sensitivity of your drone’s braking (for cinematic results), your stopping time will be greatly reduced.
This is a great point! Thanks for sharing!
You know your drones,, Thanks for all the tips, info,, You are the MAN in this area!!
I appreciate that! Thank you!
We are going to Australia/NZ in a couple of months. I am preparing through research and using country specific drone apps to get ready and make sure I'm within the laws of each country
What a great guidance video. Just to add to your sticks attached when putting the RC into a camera bag advice, which is a good piece of advice, which is why I was surprised when I receive my RC to find the sticks attached to a protruding thread on the controller, a male, opposed to a female thread. I have gotten into the habit of literally checking the RC once in my bag to make sure the threaded lugs aren’t being forced into a non neutral position for the reasons you mention.
Damn I wish I saw this video before the jungle ate my drone in costa rica...Informative video thx for sharing!
Thanks I’m new to the mini 3 pro and I’m trying to figure it out, as well I have the goggles Integra and motion controler need to figure out how to set everything up and use it.
Great videos
I wonder why DJI doesn’t give you the option of making the controller the RTH point
Great tips!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
I have just acquired a mini 3 pro and am wondering why they don't make it so that you can make controller the home point. Seems like it would solve a lot of issues while hiking, boating, etc. where you don't want the drone returning to the take off point.
You are gifted. Your videos are always excellent. You are articulate, very knowledgeable and present a wealth of knowledge in a very short time. Thank you.
Excellent as always, Mattheww. Thanks for. taking all the time to make these well thought out and helpful videos.
As always a very useful. educational and practical video, thanks for this! One thing I'd like to share from my experience with the DJi Mini 3 Pro that can hopefully save pilots from a potential horror scenario _and_ something I haven't seen any warnings for so far is related to hyperlapse filming. I strongly recommend to never shoot longer hyperlapses than 8 seconds. On 10 seconds there's a serious chance a fully charged standard battery will drain completely when attempting this. The catch: a DJI Mini 3 Pro will NOT stop it's lapse shooting mode when this happens, RTH will not even kick in and the drone will NOT respond to the control sticks so if you're unaware of this and panic when you see you have less battery time left than the lapse takes to finish, the only way to stop it from crashing is too _always stop the lapse shooting manually_ by pressing the red record button on the right of the screen. It's really the only way to stop a crash from happening. For this, it would be great if a low battery emergency RTH would bypass everything, but it doesn't work on hyperlapse filming. Yet.
Wow, that's quite an oversight on DJI's part! Hope it gets fixed soon.
Another one is that the APAS system doesn't have any control over braking level, so if you've set a low braking sensitivity for smoother deceleration, then even if it detects that it's heading straight towards a brick wall, it won't necessarily brake abruptly enough to avoid hitting it, which is crazy.
Combine that with the flight mode not being set to whatever the RC's physical switch is set to on startup and you're starting to build quite a list of what I would call significant bugs...
Got a 00+ screwdriver tip, fits much better than the screwdriver they give you and I have not had any problem changing props. Great job Matt
Hi Matthew. Eddie here in Worcestershire. Thank you for so many excellent video tutorials on the Mini 3 Pro. I now own one and find there are so many things to learn about it that it is stopping me from getting the best video and photo shooting with it. Thanks to your tutorials I am slowly getting there ! Can you please tell me what video post editing software uou are using please Matthew as I have nothing at the moment. Keep teaching us Newbies please ! ! ! Best Regards - Eddie.
Great Video
Thanks!
Fantastic tips. Best I have seen 😊
Matthew I love your videos!! Thanks so much for taking the time to do them!!! Congratulations!!!
Excellent advice as always Mattheww. An enjoyable watch. We'll done 👍
Some decent advice here as I am considering purchasing a drone.👍
Hello Mattheww - many thanks for publishing another great video - I enjoy all your videos because although I am flying my air2s and my mini 3pro since some months, I learn something new or you show me that some of my ideas to fly safe are not that wrong. When i started flying drones, i first learned to control the drone safe and for me it was more important to know everything about the options to fly safe than to make good videos. The issue to make good fotos or videos is step 2 after controlling the drone safe and without high blood pressure. When I am safe with the flight conditions and my personal skills, then I can enjoy making nice video footage without getting stressed - and your tips and tricks are helping a lot. So keep on making nice vidoes like this one - I am a very interested follower! Thanks from Germany 😃
Hi Matthew, you’ve convinced me to get the Dji mini pro. Do you recommend any insurance I could take out.
Hey! DJI Care Refesh or CoverDrone are two I would recommend!
Brilliant, thanks. There is that nice tune again @ 7:11 AARRH, what is it.
Thanks for taking the time to add this video, there were some top tips in there!! 👍
I did got call to go and try to save this drone from roof top of castle mission done ✅
Incredible list! Thank you!
Happy to help - thanks for watching!
Great video thank you for the information once again
Thanks for the kind feedback! Really appreciate it!
Thank you so much for these videos sir, I’ve reasonably bought a mini 3 pro but not taken it out yet, I’m watching all your content first.
One question for now is, how far can it fly away from you without losing the signal?
Fantastic video MB. I hope new flyers watch this. It would of helped no end 6 months ago.
I had an odd experience with my Mini 3 that other people should be aware of. I was filming in a relatively flat area (no hills or mountains) so any crook in the horizon was very apparent. I decided to adjust the horizon manually (cheat the landscape, the earth is not perfectly round) to make the video appear that the horizon was straight. I had my hands off the sticks, I went into the settings and started adjusting the horizon. While I was in settings the quad moved more than 100' and yawed about 90 degrees, I thought it was doing a RTH or getting blown down river but it wasn't, winds were light about 7 mph with gusts no higher than 15 mph. When I got out of settings the quad was fine. I had control and it was not in RTH. I have heard of this happening to other people flying the Mini 3 and one person did crash.
Thanks for all the great tips and information, Mattheww. Cheers from Wisconsin, USA.
This gentleman is so concise in his presentations that the vast amount of knowledge he is imparting is relatively easy to absorb, where most other channels wander off into distractions. It was precisely this that I could very happily subscribe to this channel and I unsubscribed to all the others I had joined, as now I don’t need them as everything I need is in this vast collection of video presentations on this channel.
Brilliant!
Excellent information! I just received my Mini 3 Pro today, so I'm educating myself before my first flight. Your videos have been tremendously helpful. Your views of the Irish coast are really good. I live half a kilometer from the Atlantic Ocean in the southeast USA with white, sandy beaches as far as the eye can see. Very beautiful, but in a different way. Thanks!
Thanks for the kind feedback and happy to help! Beaches are one of the best locations for drones!
Many great tips as always, thanks 😊
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching!
I made really less flights,but your videos made me a reasonably skilled drone pilot.✌️
Thanks for the helpful tips.This will help drone pilots newbies.👌✅️❣️
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
In alot of your videos you say, with your favorite video editing program, etc. What is your go to video editing program?
Adobe Premiere Pro and InShot on the mobile!
Thanks, excellent tips and advice
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Great tips Mattheww, thanks for sharing 👍.
In the USA I use both “Airdata” and “UAV Forecast” for my flight conditions information.
Thanks for sharing them apps! Hopefully it will help others flying in the US!
Brilliant tips and easy to understand thank you.
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching!
If you're using active tracking on your bicycle, how do you get the drone to land in a different spot than your launch?
Good point on the video transitions, it's not necessary to have one for every different shot. Can't stop myself from transitioning to the beat of the music tho!
Another great video with lots of very useful tips. Keep up the great work Matthew. 👍
Thank you! Really appreciate that!
Great video 👍
Great tips as always mate ! Luckily I've never had any problems when flying my drones. Been 5 years now without incident (touch wood)
Lucky You. Just ditched a 50$ drone trying to learn and gain experience.
Awesome information 👏
Hi Mattheww, do you suspect that the spray coming off the wave, could interrupt the controller signal? Again in the case of spray from a waterfall?
Hi Matthew. Had my dji rc die on me before I even used it. Charged it with dji 30w charger. Was this a mistake?
First point … what about dynamic home point ? Great when ya on a boat /
Great video and excellent advice I could've used two weeks ago... my DJI Mini 3 Pro took a swim in a public pond... managed to retrieve and got her working again thankfully!
Oh no! Happy to hear you retrieved it and that it’s working!
@@TheDroneCreative Dehumidifier (in a cupboard overnight) for the win!
Hi Matthew, I have the mini 3 pro. I want to take my drone flying to the next level. Do you think it's worth getting the DJI Mavic 3 Pro? Thanks Tariq :)
Gave you a mention in my Vlog👍
Thank you!
Thanks for all the great tips, Mattheww! I've already learned a few of these the hard way. Greetings from the snowy Pacific Northwest, USA.
Happy to help! Thanks for watching!
Great advice Matt.
Does your drone fogs up in high alt?, planning to sent my drone back to DJI
18:32 Poor drone lol. That tree was hating for real
When u see that its going wrong your drone is going hit something after few meters is there a emercency button to stop all actions and just hang in the air?
👍👍✌️ I never take risks with my drone. Have never crashed or hit anything.
Some really great tips.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
You made a very important point about color grading and transition. Far to often I find myself using more than I should but I can't seem to tell. Is there like an unspoken rule about this in photography
Just use less than you think you need 😄
Better yet, walk away from anything you're working on for a while and come back with fresh eyes; when you've been working on an edit your eyes become desensitised to whatever treatment you're applying so you tend to overdo it, but of course your audience won't be affected by that phenomenon, so keep it subtle.
Great stuff, thanks Matthew!
very good information bro. last week i lost my new mini 3 pro drone . i hardly used it for 1 day after purchase. i stupidly flew my drone from a running cruise and hence i lost it in the ocean . i tried my best to RTH the drone but it didnt came back to me as i havnt updated the homepoint which was a big stupid mistake of mine resulting it gone for good. i lost 1300 $$ within a few seconds . lessons learned. now i understood the reason why it didnt came back to me. your video gonna help other people also as it explains the way of correctly using the drone. Thank you for this video tutorial. subscribed your channel mate.
Wow… great information! You are an excellent presenter. Thanks for sharing.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Nice vedio
Thanks very much for all the tips 👍🏻
My pleasure! Thanks for watching!
Great video sir..thanks for sharing.
I think we all said (oh yeah I’ve done that) thanks for putting them all together and make it understandable!
Happy to help! Thanks for watching!
To avoid these situations over water, ensure that the downward sensor and vision positioning are turned off. This is because the drone is continuously taking images to determine it's altitude position and the reflection over water disrupts accurate positioning.
I really enjoyed this video…even though I’ve been flying for many years. One common mistake is flying the drone without maintaining line of sight signal. This too can easily lead to loss or destruction!
So once the drone descides to "return home" there's no way to abort and retake control of it? Updating home point doesn't work then?
Great video Matthew. Do you think in the future you could do a video on gimbals?
Thank you.
Absolutely! Thanks for the video suggestion!
Amazing scenery and great footage! I subscribed to see more Videos made by you. Dji Mini 3 is an awesome little drone. I own one myself too and create cinematic Videos. Keep it up bro! 👌🏽
Thanks for the sub! Welcome along!
Absolutely love your videos, total education for us drone geeks
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching!