I was nodding my head at your sage advice, until you mentioned that you could 'stack' movements into cruise control and then you had me. Utterly excellent advice Sir. Liked and subscribed 😀
Love the video and content. I’m a fan now and will check out more of your drone videos. Would love to see some videos on editing drone footage sometime. Thanks!!!
My thought after watching this video is that you did a really good job laying out the cruise control functionality. I had the same thoughts as you initially in that the cruise control function seemed a little gimicky and maybe a little risky. I wasn't too inclined to use it. Now I am. Again, good video.
I had been flying my ir 3 yesterday a lot. This feature was very useful at times. Also in narrow not well lit spaces (inside a factory), where obstacle avoidance was not avaliable. I just set the speed to I wanted and only concentrated on not hitting anything (didnt need to move the gimbal either). You could also use waypoints but setting them up takes some time and they also only work with GPS, which isnt avaliable inside a factory. Cruise control made life a lot easier to make the shots look not shaky while also enabking a safe flight. The 0.65x fish eye extender also added that extra something to make the recordings even more incredible as the drone squeezed through all those narrow gaps. It also widens the aperture a bit (effectively to f1.1 making tge scene extra bright, which was very helpful in the darkness as you'd guess correctly. The factory is still in construction, thats why the lighting was extra minimal.
Nice feature but be careful on how and where to use it be sure to develop all necessary reflexes to be confortable with the cruise control. My last crash on my Mini Crash pro caused lots of damages and was with cruise control on
Hello, Todd, I'm in Northern England. If you are flying under cruise control, say in a basic straight horizontal line, and you pull back on the right control, to move backwards for a second or so, when you let go of the right control, the original forward flight, under Cruise control will resume.
If you don't press your cruise control button to update the cruise control settings while holding the control stick back, yes this is what would happen.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong on my M4P, but i often accidentally cancel CC instead of updating with the C2 button. Is a long tap required, or is a quick tap sufficient? I've tried both with mixed results. I will try again based on your video. Are you able to use the stacking method reliably before you overshoot your subject? Seems like it might take too long to achieve the desired complex motion. Just discovered your channel. Subscribed.
Usually just a quick tap will do the job. Just make sure you're holding the input stick where you want it when you do the tap, because without any input sticks tapping C2 will cancel cruise control. I'll do more testing to see if I can replicate this issue, but for me as long as I'm holding an input then it updates rather than cancels. As for the time it takes to stack, yeah, if you want to set up a shot quickly before you overshoot then you're better off setting it all at once. Thanks for your comments and sub!
This makes me think. This Cruise Control features only available in Canada. Why? I've not heard any of the American reviewers, say anything about it. Not one. My mind is blown. Thank you! If they have mentioned it? They have certainly not, featured it. Obviously, not understanding, it. But I understand this, perfectly. This is very much a kin. To our, Automated Music Audio Mixing. You move a fader. It remembers the move. You move a different fader. That fader move is added to the other fader. And so on and so forth. Until you build up your Mega Recording Mix. It's done the same way. You turn on the automation. And everything else you do. One at a time. Is an update. And you just go back to the beginning. And it does it. Where you want it to do it. Where you set it before. This is the same thing. This is a huge Boon! I had no idea what that was for? Or how it functioned? Because it's not the, 1958 Cadillac. Is that when they introduced their cruise control? No matter. LOL. I guess it took a cold Canadian. To figure this out. Bravo Sir. My hat is off to you. Because it's hot down here in Central, Texas. And I don't like wearing hats. I'm not a cowboy. I'm originally from Detroit. So I know what cold is all about. And year spent in, St. Paul, Minnesota. No thank you. And up in Alberta. I don't know when you can get out to fly a drone? Don't those freeze? Don't the batteries, freeze? You don't want to do that to their batteries. They are expensive. So as I see it. You can only fly your Drone in Alberta, Canada. What? 2 or 3 months out of the year? How did you get this good? You are obviously quite accomplished. As I also was in the Video Business for many years. Only in actual Network Television working for one of America's National Broadcasting Companies. The first. The original. Created by RCA. To become NBC. And so I don't care if you do crappy video. It's Alberta, Canada. And we are both colleagues after all. I do not comment on a colleagues', crappy work. Not that yours is crappy. It obviously isn't. You Ackley took the time to read the manual. I don't think any of the Americans do? They had a toy drone before. So of course they know everything about this new one. No they do not. You, just proved it. I really like this feature. I was thinking about getting a, Mini 4-Pro. I've been waiting and watching. Watching and waiting. But now I think I'm going to go for it. Plus I really like the, SloMo frame rates it offers. I like SloMo. I think SloMo probably looks great in, FPV mode. Overkill over Dale. As long as it doesn't hit the dusty trail. You know? Aye.. (That's my best Canadian,, impersonation aye) Yes growing up in Detroit as I did. I had Windsor Ontario, across the street next door. I could ride my bicycle from Royal Oak, Michigan. As a young teenager. Into a foreign country called Canada. I was thought that was really cool to do. Though I could never go through the Tunnel. I had to go across the Ambassador Bridge. But it was still so cool to do. As a kid. Customs would always ask me and my young teenage friend. What are you doing in Canada? We would laugh and say we are here to buy drugs. And they would tell us to get out. And we would ride around downtown Windsor on our bicycles. Just because, we could. I always loved watching and listening to, CBC Radio & TV. CKLW TV-9. The Big Eight Oh. AM rock station. The FM side was always Classical Music of the Finest Masters. And oh. How I loved, Benny Hill and the, Monty Python's. What great entertainment. And Peter Sellers. We would get all these great BBC programming. On the CBC. That most Americans never got to see or watch. Except in Detroit. And other border cities. So I grew up with better TV than most Americans. I had a marvelous experience earlier in my teenage life in Winnipeg, Manitoba. And I had a life-changing event. 23 years ago in Montréal. Some people left their hearts in San Francisco. I left a little piece of myself in Montréal.. A couple of little pieces. And I dearly miss Montréal. But I shan't be driving to Canada again. Since 2002. When I left in February 2001. After, Nine 11, 2001. They will not allow me to, drive back into Canada. In out today. It also requires a passport. Just like going into Mexico also. When all we used to be able to use was our Driver's license. But thanks to a bunch of terrorists. I guess all Americans are now, terrorists. And due to a small impropriety in my life. Coming home from a big social gathering. In my mid-20s. They decided to throw that in my face. 25 years later. After I paid back my debt, to society. But they told me not in Canada. And I am no longer allowed, in Canada. To drive. Well? I'm a single person with a motorhome. And an old woman. They don't want my money. They don't have to have my money. I'll keep it in the US. I will miss Canada. It was a very important part of my life. All my life until 9/11/2001. When they decided to reject me. After a lifetime of acceptance. Let's hear it for, consistency. And emotional battery. Which is against the law to do in Canada to another person. But the Canadians have chosen to do it to me. I am beyond hurt. And after I spent, the better part of $13,000 in Canada. In February 2001. Because I wanted my life-saving surgery in Canada. I was able to get that. But not go back the following year for follow-up. After I drove from Washington DC to the Canadian border. And had taken the time off from work. For a medical follow-up. Denied. My thread had increased from the previous year I guess? Maybe it was the terrorists? Ya think? Or just some American bigotry? Yeah that. I was not happy. I was devastated and insulted. What nerve. But that's not your fault Sir. All the Canadians I know are wonderful people. Except for aspects of your government. Very different from ours down here in the USA. Americans don't realize how different. It smacked me in the face. It punched me in the gut. It cost me over thousand dollars in expenses. And days with no pay. And I made good money at work. I lost a few thousand bucks. And I said you let me in last year. They said not anymore. And they escorted me back to the US border. As it turns out they were only trying to extort money out of me. That's a fine, Howdy do.. Screw that. They want me to pay fines. But they didn't the previous year. Nothing changed between then and now.. Nothing. I'm still rather outraged by it. Canada was my second home. I loved, Canada. This was a great video. Thank you very much. For your work and effort. And your marvelous Canadian skills. Understanding the manual. Americans now need Artie Fecal Intelligence. RemyRAD
I can't speak to every country, but I know cruise control is available in most of the EU and UK, as well as other places. I was under the impression it worked fine in the US as well, but maybe I'm wrong about that. Glad you enjoyed the video, and nice comments for sure!! A very thorough and detailed reply! And nah, winters are cold and nasty for sure, but summers are hot and I can probably fly the drone 7 or 8 months out of the year, and can even manage a few flights in the cold months thanks to Chinooks (a warm wind from the mountains that can raise the temperature from 20 below F to 40 or 50 above F in literally a couple of hours).
A Canadian here. I lived in a border town and we used to cross the border into the U.S. to party quite frequently in the '70's and '80's by just showing our drivers license. However, the world began to change, and both the U.S. and Canada started asking for passports to enter each country. It was not a Canadian ploy to extort money from you. In fact, my wife was refused entrance into the U.S. over a minor misdemeanor. It was the U.S. that asked for Passports first. At this time no passport was needed to cross into Canada, only the U.S. She had the misdemeanor pardoned and now travels world wide with no issues. Regardless, it is helping to keep people with criminal records from entering each country. If you have a criminal record and you have paid your debt to society, you will need to have it pardoned. Your record never goes away, the border guards can still see it when they scan your passport, but it will say "Pardoned" so they will let you in, and back out. I'm sorry that you feel that Canada owes you some sort of debt, but these decisions are made by people much higher than our pay grade.
Great info ! I have an idea , a good one? Not sure. Do you have 2 drones, any models? I was wondering if you put #1 up , then #2. Now I’m wondering if you can have #1 follow mode on # 2 ? AND have #2 follow # 1 Then wherever each fly, they track and follow each other???? Just wondering
With DJI, you can only do activetrack on people and vehicles such as cars and boats. It won't lock on to other stuff. I've tried several times (usually with my dog, but with other things too). I could try it with another drone, but I strongly suspect it won't work. I may give this a try this weekend. Thanks for the idea!
It's an FPVtosky 3-IN-1 Mini 4 Pro RC 2 Sun Hood protective Cover, purchased from Amazon. Here's the link (Canadian Amazon site): www.amazon.ca/dp/B0CJQZZLMB?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1
Glad to hear you already knew about this. Some folks did. But, of course, plenty of people didn't know about it, as seen in many of the comments, and that's who the video is for. Thanks for your comment.
The real beauty of your knowledge is your delivery. Easy to understand and incredibly useful........Thanks!
Thanks very much! Glad you found it helpful!!
I was nodding my head at your sage advice, until you mentioned that you could 'stack' movements into cruise control and then you had me. Utterly excellent advice Sir. Liked and subscribed 😀
Yeah, that's a great feature for sure. Thanks for the sub!
One the added features when I upgraded from an Air2s to the Mini 4 Pro that I've underutilized. Really appreciate the walk-through tutorial!
You're very welcome. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for the video. I did know about cruise control, but did not know that you can add functions to it, while flying.
Excellent, glad I could help out with that. Thanks.
Same here, that really is a handy feature
Love the video and content. I’m a fan now and will check out more of your drone videos.
Would love to see some videos on editing drone footage sometime.
Thanks!!!
@@jimgunderson6439 Thanks! I may do an editing video in the future, but I have some other things I'd like to cover first.
Input stacking is an incredibly useful feature, thanks for this helpful video! 👍🏻
You're welcome! Glad I could help!
Thx for explaining so well ! Greetings from Austria,Europe
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching!
Hey Blue Marble, I tried it out this evening and it worked perfectly and smoothly! Thank you again! Great footage!
Thanks, glad it helped!
Just came across this channel with only 123 subscribers at the time of this comment. Really useful info here. Liked and subscribed.
Thanks! Glad this helped you out, and thanks for the like and sub!
Excellent advice on this feature
Thank you!
My thought after watching this video is that you did a really good job laying out the cruise control functionality. I had the same thoughts as you initially in that the cruise control function seemed a little gimicky and maybe a little risky. I wasn't too inclined to use it. Now I am. Again, good video.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video!
I had been flying my ir 3 yesterday a lot. This feature was very useful at times. Also in narrow not well lit spaces (inside a factory), where obstacle avoidance was not avaliable. I just set the speed to I wanted and only concentrated on not hitting anything (didnt need to move the gimbal either).
You could also use waypoints but setting them up takes some time and they also only work with GPS, which isnt avaliable inside a factory. Cruise control made life a lot easier to make the shots look not shaky while also enabking a safe flight.
The 0.65x fish eye extender also added that extra something to make the recordings even more incredible as the drone squeezed through all those narrow gaps. It also widens the aperture a bit (effectively to f1.1 making tge scene extra bright, which was very helpful in the darkness as you'd guess correctly.
The factory is still in construction, thats why the lighting was extra minimal.
Yup, excellent points! Thanks! I've been meaning to get one of those 0.65 fish eyes.
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Thank you. Good tips as usual.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for a great video showing you how to enable and use cruise control.
Glad it helped you out!
Brilliant video!
Many thanks!
I never knew this technique! Love the clicking fingers!
Thanks! Glad I could help out!
GREAT tip. Thanks!
You're very welcome!
Excellent, hidden feature indeed
Thanks for watching!!
really helpful, thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Very useful 👍 Thanks !
Nice feature but be careful on how and where to use it be sure to develop all necessary reflexes to be confortable with the cruise control.
My last crash on my Mini Crash pro caused lots of damages and was with cruise control on
Excellent point. Features such as this shouldn't mean one doesn't need to develop necessary skills.
Nice video. Thanks
Thanks for watching!
Thanks, I will try it!!
You're welcome!
cruise control is definitely one of the best features on the mini 4.
Agreed. I use it all the time, and it's something I didn't think I would use that much when I learned about it.
Hello, Todd, I'm in Northern England. If you are flying under cruise control, say in a basic straight horizontal line, and you pull back on the right control, to move backwards for a second or so, when you let go of the right control, the original forward flight, under Cruise control will resume.
If you don't press your cruise control button to update the cruise control settings while holding the control stick back, yes this is what would happen.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong on my M4P, but i often accidentally cancel CC instead of updating with the C2 button. Is a long tap required, or is a quick tap sufficient? I've tried both with mixed results. I will try again based on your video.
Are you able to use the stacking method reliably before you overshoot your subject? Seems like it might take too long to achieve the desired complex motion.
Just discovered your channel. Subscribed.
Usually just a quick tap will do the job. Just make sure you're holding the input stick where you want it when you do the tap, because without any input sticks tapping C2 will cancel cruise control. I'll do more testing to see if I can replicate this issue, but for me as long as I'm holding an input then it updates rather than cancels. As for the time it takes to stack, yeah, if you want to set up a shot quickly before you overshoot then you're better off setting it all at once. Thanks for your comments and sub!
@@Blue-Marble-Videos thanks. Tried again using your technique and it worked perfectly. I may have been long-tapping previously which is unreliable.
This makes me think. This Cruise Control features only available in Canada. Why? I've not heard any of the American reviewers, say anything about it. Not one. My mind is blown. Thank you!
If they have mentioned it? They have certainly not, featured it. Obviously, not understanding, it. But I understand this, perfectly. This is very much a kin. To our, Automated Music Audio Mixing. You move a fader. It remembers the move. You move a different fader. That fader move is added to the other fader. And so on and so forth. Until you build up your Mega Recording Mix. It's done the same way. You turn on the automation. And everything else you do. One at a time. Is an update. And you just go back to the beginning. And it does it. Where you want it to do it. Where you set it before. This is the same thing. This is a huge Boon! I had no idea what that was for? Or how it functioned? Because it's not the, 1958 Cadillac. Is that when they introduced their cruise control? No matter. LOL.
I guess it took a cold Canadian. To figure this out. Bravo Sir. My hat is off to you. Because it's hot down here in Central, Texas. And I don't like wearing hats. I'm not a cowboy. I'm originally from Detroit. So I know what cold is all about. And year spent in, St. Paul, Minnesota. No thank you.
And up in Alberta. I don't know when you can get out to fly a drone? Don't those freeze? Don't the batteries, freeze? You don't want to do that to their batteries. They are expensive. So as I see it. You can only fly your Drone in Alberta, Canada. What? 2 or 3 months out of the year? How did you get this good? You are obviously quite accomplished. As I also was in the Video Business for many years. Only in actual Network Television working for one of America's National Broadcasting Companies. The first. The original. Created by RCA. To become NBC.
And so I don't care if you do crappy video. It's Alberta, Canada. And we are both colleagues after all. I do not comment on a colleagues', crappy work. Not that yours is crappy. It obviously isn't. You Ackley took the time to read the manual. I don't think any of the Americans do? They had a toy drone before. So of course they know everything about this new one. No they do not. You, just proved it.
I really like this feature. I was thinking about getting a, Mini 4-Pro. I've been waiting and watching. Watching and waiting. But now I think I'm going to go for it. Plus I really like the, SloMo frame rates it offers. I like SloMo. I think SloMo probably looks great in, FPV mode. Overkill over Dale. As long as it doesn't hit the dusty trail. You know? Aye.. (That's my best Canadian,, impersonation aye)
Yes growing up in Detroit as I did. I had Windsor Ontario, across the street next door. I could ride my bicycle from Royal Oak, Michigan. As a young teenager. Into a foreign country called Canada. I was thought that was really cool to do. Though I could never go through the Tunnel. I had to go across the Ambassador Bridge. But it was still so cool to do. As a kid. Customs would always ask me and my young teenage friend. What are you doing in Canada? We would laugh and say we are here to buy drugs. And they would tell us to get out. And we would ride around downtown Windsor on our bicycles. Just because, we could.
I always loved watching and listening to, CBC Radio & TV. CKLW TV-9. The Big Eight Oh. AM rock station. The FM side was always Classical Music of the Finest Masters. And oh. How I loved, Benny Hill and the, Monty Python's. What great entertainment. And Peter Sellers. We would get all these great BBC programming. On the CBC. That most Americans never got to see or watch. Except in Detroit. And other border cities. So I grew up with better TV than most Americans.
I had a marvelous experience earlier in my teenage life in Winnipeg, Manitoba. And I had a life-changing event. 23 years ago in Montréal. Some people left their hearts in San Francisco. I left a little piece of myself in Montréal.. A couple of little pieces. And I dearly miss Montréal.
But I shan't be driving to Canada again. Since 2002. When I left in February 2001. After, Nine 11, 2001. They will not allow me to, drive back into Canada. In out today. It also requires a passport. Just like going into Mexico also. When all we used to be able to use was our Driver's license. But thanks to a bunch of terrorists. I guess all Americans are now, terrorists. And due to a small impropriety in my life. Coming home from a big social gathering. In my mid-20s. They decided to throw that in my face. 25 years later. After I paid back my debt, to society. But they told me not in Canada. And I am no longer allowed, in Canada. To drive. Well? I'm a single person with a motorhome. And an old woman. They don't want my money. They don't have to have my money. I'll keep it in the US. I will miss Canada. It was a very important part of my life. All my life until 9/11/2001. When they decided to reject me. After a lifetime of acceptance. Let's hear it for, consistency. And emotional battery. Which is against the law to do in Canada to another person. But the Canadians have chosen to do it to me. I am beyond hurt. And after I spent, the better part of $13,000 in Canada. In February 2001. Because I wanted my life-saving surgery in Canada. I was able to get that. But not go back the following year for follow-up. After I drove from Washington DC to the Canadian border. And had taken the time off from work. For a medical follow-up. Denied. My thread had increased from the previous year I guess? Maybe it was the terrorists? Ya think? Or just some American bigotry? Yeah that. I was not happy. I was devastated and insulted. What nerve. But that's not your fault Sir.
All the Canadians I know are wonderful people. Except for aspects of your government. Very different from ours down here in the USA. Americans don't realize how different. It smacked me in the face. It punched me in the gut. It cost me over thousand dollars in expenses. And days with no pay. And I made good money at work. I lost a few thousand bucks. And I said you let me in last year. They said not anymore. And they escorted me back to the US border.
As it turns out they were only trying to extort money out of me. That's a fine, Howdy do.. Screw that. They want me to pay fines. But they didn't the previous year. Nothing changed between then and now.. Nothing. I'm still rather outraged by it. Canada was my second home. I loved, Canada.
This was a great video. Thank you very much. For your work and effort. And your marvelous Canadian skills. Understanding the manual. Americans now need Artie Fecal Intelligence.
RemyRAD
I can't speak to every country, but I know cruise control is available in most of the EU and UK, as well as other places. I was under the impression it worked fine in the US as well, but maybe I'm wrong about that. Glad you enjoyed the video, and nice comments for sure!! A very thorough and detailed reply! And nah, winters are cold and nasty for sure, but summers are hot and I can probably fly the drone 7 or 8 months out of the year, and can even manage a few flights in the cold months thanks to Chinooks (a warm wind from the mountains that can raise the temperature from 20 below F to 40 or 50 above F in literally a couple of hours).
A Canadian here. I lived in a border town and we used to cross the border into the U.S. to party quite frequently in the '70's and '80's by just showing our drivers license. However, the world began to change, and both the U.S. and Canada started asking for passports to enter each country. It was not a Canadian ploy to extort money from you. In fact, my wife was refused entrance into the U.S. over a minor misdemeanor. It was the U.S. that asked for Passports first. At this time no passport was needed to cross into Canada, only the U.S. She had the misdemeanor pardoned and now travels world wide with no issues. Regardless, it is helping to keep people with criminal records from entering each country. If you have a criminal record and you have paid your debt to society, you will need to have it pardoned. Your record never goes away, the border guards can still see it when they scan your passport, but it will say "Pardoned" so they will let you in, and back out. I'm sorry that you feel that Canada owes you some sort of debt, but these decisions are made by people much higher than our pay grade.
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This was great, dident know that.....
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Great info ! I have an idea , a good one? Not sure. Do you have 2 drones, any models? I was wondering if you put #1 up , then #2. Now I’m wondering if you can have #1 follow mode on # 2 ? AND have #2 follow # 1 Then wherever each fly, they track and follow each other???? Just wondering
With DJI, you can only do activetrack on people and vehicles such as cars and boats. It won't lock on to other stuff. I've tried several times (usually with my dog, but with other things too). I could try it with another drone, but I strongly suspect it won't work. I may give this a try this weekend. Thanks for the idea!
Bloody legend
Thanks for watching!
Where can I get that cover for your controller ?
I got that on Amazon. Here's the link (Canadian Amazon): www.amazon.ca/dp/B0CJQZZLMB?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1
what is that case yourre using on your remote?
It's an FPVtosky 3-IN-1 Mini 4 Pro RC 2 Sun Hood protective Cover, purchased from Amazon. Here's the link (Canadian Amazon site): www.amazon.ca/dp/B0CJQZZLMB?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1
@@Blue-Marble-Videosthanks, new to drones, this will help protect for me.
If you tap pause while on cruise control - what happens does it hover in place?
That's a very good question, and I'm not sure. I don't think I've ever tried that.
I saw a video that implied it would hover not certain though.
Hidden? It's in the manual and on the box!
Not many people know about it so it might as well be hidden, a lot of people never read the box, unfortunately lol.
It’s also already tied to C1 by default. Nothing too secret here. However…I hadn’t tried stacking commands
Hidden feature that everyone's known about for nearly a year. Your next hidden video might be about it can fly.
Glad to hear you already knew about this. Some folks did. But, of course, plenty of people didn't know about it, as seen in many of the comments, and that's who the video is for. Thanks for your comment.
Like me! I didn't know about it.
I have 4 DJI drones,. flying since 2016 and I didn't know about it. And I've never heard anyone in my circle talk annoy it either so ............