I love that fact that i can still learn new techniques after 1 year of owning the mavic 2 pro simply by asking questions in the community. What's the favorite technique you have discovered on the mavic?
yep I found this by trial and error when I first got my mavic Air and have used a few times to good effect, nice little video jeff, all the best from the UK and of course myself.
Thanks Jeff.. the auto modes are not for me but I understand why there needed.. I love the challenge of flying and getting that perfect shot manually.. I did figure this out when playing with the auto modes along with a few other tricks that I'm sure you already made videos of...lol lol.. my shtick is live streaming from these birds . I love the raw entertainment of it.. one chance to get it right thing.. it's a cool rush for me.. lol lol.. great video and the my friend! Michael
That's a great find! So much for book learning. I did have an issue while panning. While flying my Mavic 2 zoom to the right I panned to move the subject in the frame and I got a warning, "Obstacle on the right." as well as a red arc on right of screen and the drone movement stopped. I was able to recreate this several times. I landed and removed the DJI prop guards which solved the issue. I love the concept of prop guards but find they affect handling especially when there's a breeze.
Hey Jeff. Yep, obvious once you see it! Great tip thanks and will defo be using this feature more. I'd often slowed the movement down but never hit pause and kept it to zero to give full control back to the sticks. Cheers, Ian in London 👍🏻
@@JeffGreeneChannel Thanks Jeff. All good; had a 4 week trip in mid USA and had the greatest time in WY. MO UT & NV. Loved it... Catch up soon fella. Ian
This is great. I started on a Mavic Air 2 and LOVED the spotlight mode, but when I bought a Mavic 2 Pro, it just didn't work the same. This video is definitely going to help out in footage I want to get. Mostly I've been doing manual flying for spotlighting something. My 2 recent videos on my page are manual flying for spotlighting something. Thanks for the "hack"
Nice one Jeff. I always struggle to smoothly operate gimbal and sticks during POI. Good man. Can't wait to try it out. I recently shot a castle where this technique would have been amazing.
Excellent tips,gj for your work. I like Poi in DjiGo4, but the big problem is in low light /night situation when it is not posible to activate it. On the Mavic Pro it was based on Gps, not visual. So, maybe is focus mode in Litchi better for those situations. But I dont like to switch between those apps...
Thanks Jeff for another awesome video tutorial!! Can't wait to try this out! I have a few questions if I may; Have you tried this with your original MA? With your POI setting at 0.0 and rotating around with your left stick woud I be correct in saying, let go of the stick and it just hovers on your subject? Also, are all stick movements available? Thanks again, what an awesome find buddy!
Thanks Jeff - I wish I had found this explanation earlier - it would have saved me a lot of frustrating attempts at getting good pans while trying to smoothly manipulate the two sticks AND the gimbal tilt wheel at the same time!
Wouldn't it be simpler to just use spotlight mode. You have paint the target in spotlight mode and fly around all day with the gimbal locked on target.
Man thanks for this video. I've been trying to figure this out for a while. The best I could do was to get POI framed differently and limited use of the sticks using spotlight mode. I was about to try the Litchi app.
Yes I did it too in spotlight but I didn’t understand about how direction works. I think the direction where you move of the drone is in relation with the initial position calculated after the triangulation. You should test it and make another video with these modes. Sorry to give you some work !! LOL 😂
Thanks Sam, I think this type shot has so many uses that I just couldn't control manual. I'll find that song when I get back home and add it here as well.
Hi Ronan, not exactly since you don't paint the box around the target in POI mode. However, you may want to try Active Track in Spotlight mode and see if you get similar results.
Hi Jeff Thanks for this POI video. I use POI but the way the defalt speed setting many times it is not posible to use. It demands a quite free air space Becurse the defalt speed is pretty high. Have you find a way to reduce the start speed to 0?? It startes all to fast many places and it flyes many meters and it takes sevel times to hit the pause buttom to stop the drone. I realy thing it was me doing somthing wrong when I set the speed to 0 and the drone start in speed. Have a Nice day☀️
Ok I may have missed the trick here haha.. in the end you flew the drone manually, or how was the POI working while you were overriding the feature? I was trying to figure it out. Or was it that the POI was working the spin around while you were adjusting the framing? Anywas Awesome composition and subject selection!
Great tip Jeff, I've been wondering how to get the Gimbal to operate automatically. Now will it work with the Mavic Pro. Guess I'll have to try it and see. Thanks for sharing that. oh I have a tip If you set POI 50' away from object you can get a very close arching fly by. With the old Mavic 2 that is.
Yes, full manual other than the gimbal. However when you move the sticks you are still in orbit. So for example if you move you right stick to the right you will still go in a complete circle eventually counterclockwise around the POI.
I cant figure how to make a quare as a target? For doing POI i need yo fly over the Target, centre it and then that is my target. How do you draw the target square?
Jeff, I have to ask you a question. I have Mavic Pro, latest version of DJI Go APP, When I went o follow your instructions, I could not "Paint" the box around the POI. I tried and tried. Is there some secret how to do this. My Mavic is about 18 months old. Want to try it out, but I i cannot get it to record the POI like you did in your video. Thanks Nick
Hi Nick, that is a good question. If you have a mavic pro, you can only use GPS to set the poi. If you have the mavic 2 pro, this additional option allows you to paint the target like active track. You may be able to do something similar using active track in spotlight mode. I'll double-check and see what I can find.
@@JeffGreeneChannel, thanks for info, I thought I was losing it for a second. I was following along with your video, then I would get to the painting of the box and nothing...Hopefully they may update the app for Pro someday to include that same feature.
Jeff, one last question. I have not been able to put my drone up in the air. I am in Florida and with Dorian, we have been getting wind gusts and a lot of rain. So, being I have mavic pro, will I still be able to manually control the movements like you did in the video and will the process still be the same? Reduce speed to 0mph, etc...
@@NickandCindyDavis I think you can get very similar results. There will basically be a slider that allows you to choose clockwise or counterclockwise (in the middle is neither direction). So after you set the poi, you should still be able to manipulate the sticks. Stay safe in FL. We are up next in NC😳
@@JeffGreeneChannel Thanks for the info! We only got some rain and a little wind here in Tampa, but eats coast got some flooding and wind damage. Be safe...
So I understand.. you can still get above (poi) and back out to desired radius or select to "box" the (poi) by selecting the options next to mph on bottom of app. I don't think this option is on the Air but when the rain lets up Ill check my 2
The air only allows you to gps center point and orbit around it. I also discovered that the air lets you touch screen and move camera up and down , the M2 you can hold finger on screen and move camera in any direction at any time.
Interesting; I"ll have to give it a try. I noticed that all the anti-collision sensors were off (icon all red.) Did you turn them off, or is that normal for POI, or an artifact of this undocumented menthod?
Yep, that is just me turning the sensors off. I like to fly pretty close to things sometimes, so the sensore can be a little too sensitive and make the shot pause. That being said, having the sensors on has saved my bacon several times in the past.
Hi Abel, unfortunately this may only be possible on the mavic 2 pro. However you may get similar results with active track in spotlight mode. i have not tried that yet but is just an idea.
@@JeffGreeneChannel Hi. I already tried the spotlight mode in MA. It works but I also found a "situation" and I'm not sure if I'm doing it wrong or it's an technical problem. When I select the spotlight mode, select the object to track and hit GO everything works well but when I start to move far to the side the right stick direction changes (left becomes back, right becomes forward,forward left and backwards right) and it doesn't change until I get closer to the tracked object. That happened also with trace mode but also affects the left stick. Any idea what could be the problem? Btw I almost crashed the drone because of this issue. Thanks in advance.
Oh man, now we're talking! Not sure, but another commenter did mention this may be possible using spotlight mode in active track. I have not tried this but is a really good idea if it works. Let's find out
I love that fact that i can still learn new techniques after 1 year of owning the mavic 2 pro simply by asking questions in the community. What's the favorite technique you have discovered on the mavic?
What an excellent tip. I just started flying drones. What a great finding. Congratulations and thank you for sharing. Thumb Up!
Would appreciate a video on how you edited the footage to get such a smooth hyper lapse!
Not a problem at all. I can do that. Thanks for the thumbs up!
Wow, I am pleasantly surprised. I have to say that I thought this was clickbait but after giving it a watch, its generally very useful info.
Nice catch Jeff! Have to give this a try.
Thanks Russ! Was pretty excited to stumble upon this as well. Thanks for the thumbs 👍
You r the best👍🏻 on utube with drones
Thank you so much Freerk!
yep I found this by trial and error when I first got my mavic Air and have used a few times to good effect, nice little video jeff, all the best from the UK and of course myself.
Another enjoyable tutorial Jeff. Will have to find the time to watch all your M2P videos.
Thanks Jeff.. the auto modes are not for me but I understand why there needed.. I love the challenge of flying and getting that perfect shot manually.. I did figure this out when playing with the auto modes along with a few other tricks that I'm sure you already made videos of...lol lol.. my shtick is live streaming from these birds . I love the raw entertainment of it.. one chance to get it right thing.. it's a cool rush for me.. lol lol.. great video and the my friend!
Michael
Thanks PhillyDroneLife, i know what you mean. I fly probably 90% manual mode as well. I have not tried the live streaming yet though.
That's a great find! So much for book learning. I did have an issue while panning. While flying my Mavic 2 zoom to the right I panned to move the subject in the frame and I got a warning, "Obstacle on the right." as well as a red arc on right of screen and the drone movement stopped. I was able to recreate this several times. I landed and removed the DJI prop guards which solved the issue. I love the concept of prop guards but find they affect handling especially when there's a breeze.
HI Roscoe, that is interesting. I never thought about the possibility of the prop guards getting in the way of the sensors.
Hey Jeff. Yep, obvious once you see it! Great tip thanks and will defo be using this feature more. I'd often slowed the movement down but never hit pause and kept it to zero to give full control back to the sticks. Cheers, Ian in London 👍🏻
Ian, what's up man! I was just wondering what you have been up to across the pond. Hope you are doing well.
@@JeffGreeneChannel Thanks Jeff. All good; had a 4 week trip in mid USA and had the greatest time in WY. MO UT & NV. Loved it... Catch up soon fella. Ian
Cool shots, didn’t know this trick before. Thanks for sharing 👍🏻
You are very welcome Pascal😀
Very interesting additional option! I haven't heard of anyone doing this either. Going to have to check it out! Thank for the vid!
That is cool makes me wander what other tricks are available and not discovered 👍
Yea, kind of crazy learning something new a year later after purchase.
That's a real great tip I have never heard before! Thank you! That's awsome!
Thanks Ronny!
This is awesome! Now I know what I'm going to work on tomorrow!
This is great. I started on a Mavic Air 2 and LOVED the spotlight mode, but when I bought a Mavic 2 Pro, it just didn't work the same. This video is definitely going to help out in footage I want to get. Mostly I've been doing manual flying for spotlighting something. My 2 recent videos on my page are manual flying for spotlighting something. Thanks for the "hack"
Fantastic tip, a feature that I have wanted for a long time. Thanks for sharing
This is great! Thanks for the info :)
Great Tip! Thanks!
This is exactly what I was disappointed it doesn’t exist!!! Thanks
You're welcome Michael, I hope this helps!
This is what I am looking for thanks
Nice one Jeff. I always struggle to smoothly operate gimbal and sticks during POI. Good man. Can't wait to try it out. I recently shot a castle where this technique would have been amazing.
Thanks Ronan, i know what you mean. The gimbal wheel is always a bit fidgety for me when i am trying to be real specific.
Thanks Jeff that was awesome!
Nice! Thanks Jeff
Great video. Really helpful for beginners. Cheers!
Thanks JJ, i had a lot of fun with this one!
Excellent tips,gj for your work. I like Poi in DjiGo4, but the big problem is in low light /night situation when it is not posible to activate it. On the Mavic Pro it was based on Gps, not visual. So, maybe is focus mode in Litchi better for those situations. But I dont like to switch between those apps...
Hello. Does those tip occur for Mavic Air as well. Excellent tutorials mate.
Great share. Now I’m going to go give a try. Love the stuff you produce. Keep up the great work!
Thanks a lot Jeff ! Can"t wait to try it next week on my shooting day.
Thanks Japonska, can't wait to see what you come up with!
Great tip thanks, will try in the field too!
Thanks, would love to see your results!
Good info!!! Thanks!
Keep those tips and tricks coming!!!
Thanks DJL61!
Thanks Jeff for another awesome video tutorial!! Can't wait to try this out! I have a few questions if I may; Have you tried this with your original MA? With your POI setting at 0.0 and rotating around with your left stick woud I be correct in saying, let go of the stick and it just hovers on your subject? Also, are all stick movements available? Thanks again, what an awesome find buddy!
Awesome trick, thanks a lot
Thanks Jeff always learning something new from you. Fly Safe
Thanks UAS FLIGHT, glad it helps!
Thanks Jeff - I wish I had found this explanation earlier - it would have saved me a lot of frustrating attempts at getting good pans while trying to smoothly manipulate the two sticks AND the gimbal tilt wheel at the same time!
thank you .... sehr gut Sir .
awesome, thanks for sharing.
That is great! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks ab!
AWESOME find! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you sir, for the thumbs up. I hope this helps!
Great Job
Wouldn't it be simpler to just use spotlight mode. You have paint the target in spotlight mode and fly around all day with the gimbal locked on target.
Excellent point. If you used 60 fps, your production would be a lot smoother, check it out. And thanks.
Great video! Thank for for the insight and tips! 😊
Thanks Lisa, I appreciate the thumbs up!
Great vid, thanks for sharing!
That's pretty cool! And I like your calming personality :)
Thank you! I appreciate that. I always feel like I am talking too fast or rambling sometimes.
Excellent!!!!
Amazing.. thank you
Man thanks for this video. I've been trying to figure this out for a while. The best I could do was to get POI framed differently and limited use of the sticks using spotlight mode. I was about to try the Litchi app.
You're very welcome, I was wondering about spotlight mode myself.
Brilliant!
Cool! You can almost do the same thing with active track and spotlight mode.
That's cool Marcus, i hadn't thought about spotlight mode for this type purpose. That's a good idea!
Yes I did it too in spotlight but I didn’t understand about how direction works. I think the direction where you move of the drone is in relation with the initial position calculated after the triangulation. You should test it and make another video with these modes. Sorry to give you some work !! LOL 😂
@@bengazzara1324 lol, no worries at all, I love this stuff!
Outstanding editing! Great package as always! Did you pan down manually or while in POI it automatically keep the Bell Tower in frame?
Hey man, that's the crazy thing. I didn't even touch the gimbal. Just concentrated on the stick movement.
That is amazing! DJI rocks for making creativity easier...
TW...Glad to see your drone videos again, missed em while you took a break...
@@DesignEagles thanks man I appreciate that😀 . More to come!
Very good!! Thanks for sharing!!
Thanks Chris!
Haha wow, Jeff's back! Finally 😎
Thanks Dr One Drone, it's great to be back. Hope you are doing well 😀
Thank you
I think you have discovered the most interesting future of the Mavic 2. Great! By the way, what's the music at the end of the movie? I love it!
Thanks Sam, I think this type shot has so many uses that I just couldn't control manual. I'll find that song when I get back home and add it here as well.
@Sam Wisniewski the song is titled "Suffer City Blues" on Epidemic Sound.
Jeff Greene Thank You
Thanks Jeff 👍
Very Cool 😎 Hidden Gem 💎
Heading out today to give it a try.
Have a Great Week 👍🦅🦅🦅
Thanks wizbang99, happy flying!
Nice! Thanks for sharing this
Thank you!
Good find. I’m going to try that. 😊👍
Thanks Captain!
Hey Jeff, great video - very cool feature indeed. Would this work on the Go4 app when using with a Mavic Air ?
Hi Ronan, not exactly since you don't paint the box around the target in POI mode. However, you may want to try Active Track in Spotlight mode and see if you get similar results.
So nice feature 👍
OMG that is freaking awesome!!!
Thanks Al, I was pretty excited to stumble onto this too.
Hi Jeff
Thanks for this POI video.
I use POI but the way the defalt speed setting many times it is not posible to use.
It demands a quite free air space Becurse the defalt speed is pretty high. Have you find a way to reduce the start speed to 0??
It startes all to fast many places and it flyes many meters and it takes sevel times to hit the pause buttom to stop the drone.
I realy thing it was me doing somthing wrong when I set the speed to 0 and the drone start in speed.
Have a Nice day☀️
NIce find!
Ok I may have missed the trick here haha.. in the end you flew the drone manually, or how was the POI working while you were overriding the feature? I was trying to figure it out. Or was it that the POI was working the spin around while you were adjusting the framing? Anywas Awesome composition and subject selection!
Yes you are correct Rogelio, the poi was working the entire time. I just adjusted the framing with my left stick. Thanks for the comment!
Awesome, thanks🙏
Arman, you are most welcome!
Great tip Jeff, I've been wondering how to get the Gimbal to operate automatically. Now will it work with the Mavic Pro. Guess I'll have to try it and see. Thanks for sharing that. oh I have a tip If you set POI 50' away from object you can get a very close arching fly by. With the old Mavic 2 that is.
That is good to know, i'll try that out too. Let me know how it turns out.
Could you not have done this with the regular circular movement around a POI by moving the sticks though?
Wooow woow wooooow :) Goooooood one broooo !!!!
nice, I'ma try that
So you’re doing manual orbit and gimbal tracks tower? I guess I’m asking full manual control other than gimbal?
Yes, full manual other than the gimbal. However when you move the sticks you are still in orbit. So for example if you move you right stick to the right you will still go in a complete circle eventually counterclockwise around the POI.
Jeff Greene thank you. I normally fly manual but always enjoy trying new things.
Thanks for sharing.
Danke! Geiler Tipp! Grüße aus good old Germany
Hallo Luna Air, herzlich willkommen! 😀
Now all I need is a m2p. What I have is an mpp. Will it work on an mpp?
I cant figure how to make a quare as a target? For doing POI i need yo fly over the Target, centre it and then that is my target. How do you draw the target square?
My old Inspire, using the standard DJI Go, requires the center over the target. This is with the DJI Go 4 with the Mavic 2. Are you using these?
Jeff, I have to ask you a question. I have Mavic Pro, latest version of DJI Go APP, When I went o follow your instructions, I could not "Paint" the box around the POI. I tried and tried. Is there some secret how to do this. My Mavic is about 18 months old. Want to try it out, but I i cannot get it to record the POI like you did in your video.
Thanks Nick
Hi Nick, that is a good question. If you have a mavic pro, you can only use GPS to set the poi. If you have the mavic 2 pro, this additional option allows you to paint the target like active track. You may be able to do something similar using active track in spotlight mode. I'll double-check and see what I can find.
@@JeffGreeneChannel, thanks for info, I thought I was losing it for a second. I was following along with your video, then I would get to the painting of the box and nothing...Hopefully they may update the app for Pro someday to include that same feature.
Jeff, one last question. I have not been able to put my drone up in the air. I am in Florida and with Dorian, we have been getting wind gusts and a lot of rain. So, being I have mavic pro, will I still be able to manually control the movements like you did in the video and will the process still be the same? Reduce speed to 0mph, etc...
@@NickandCindyDavis I think you can get very similar results. There will basically be a slider that allows you to choose clockwise or counterclockwise (in the middle is neither direction). So after you set the poi, you should still be able to manipulate the sticks. Stay safe in FL. We are up next in NC😳
@@JeffGreeneChannel Thanks for the info! We only got some rain and a little wind here in Tampa, but eats coast got some flooding and wind damage. Be safe...
So I understand.. you can still get above (poi) and back out to desired radius or select to "box" the (poi) by selecting the options next to mph on bottom of app. I don't think this option is on the Air but when the rain lets up Ill check my 2
I think it should work on the Mavic Air as well. But let me know what you find out. Happy Flying!
The air only allows you to gps center point and orbit around it. I also discovered that the air lets you touch screen and move camera up and down , the M2 you can hold finger on screen and move camera in any direction at any time.
Oh what a great tip. Anyone tried this on a Mavic 1 Pro?
Interesting; I"ll have to give it a try. I noticed that all the anti-collision sensors were off (icon all red.) Did you turn them off, or is that normal for POI, or an artifact of this undocumented menthod?
Yep, that is just me turning the sensors off. I like to fly pretty close to things sometimes, so the sensore can be a little too sensitive and make the shot pause. That being said, having the sensors on has saved my bacon several times in the past.
Is this feature also in the Mavic Air?
Hi Abel, unfortunately this may only be possible on the mavic 2 pro. However you may get similar results with active track in spotlight mode. i have not tried that yet but is just an idea.
@@JeffGreeneChannel Hi. I already tried the spotlight mode in MA. It works but I also found a "situation" and I'm not sure if I'm doing it wrong or it's an technical problem. When I select the spotlight mode, select the object to track and hit GO everything works well but when I start to move far to the side the right stick direction changes (left becomes back, right becomes forward,forward left and backwards right) and it doesn't change until I get closer to the tracked object. That happened also with trace mode but also affects the left stick. Any idea what could be the problem? Btw I almost crashed the drone because of this issue. Thanks in advance.
Can you do this with a moving POI? For example a boat or car or similar?
Oh man, now we're talking! Not sure, but another commenter did mention this may be possible using spotlight mode in active track. I have not tried this but is a really good idea if it works. Let's find out
Is possibile to do with mavic air?
I am not sure about that. I believe the Mavic Air only uses GPS for POI...but what about Active Track perhaps?
That's what'm looking for
isn't this free mode though ??
Camera Man do that for you More Easy Try Parrot anafi.
That's true, I wish I had a second person for the camera while I fly
annoying music