Beginner's Guide to DJI Mini 3

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you welcome to your complete beginner's guide for the DJI mini 3. this video is going to go through everything that you need to know to get up and flying with this drone fast so whether you are a first time pilot or you're just interested in all the features and all the capabilities of this drone this video is going to go through everything that you need to know about the DJI mini 3. now before we dive into the content for this drone I just want to go through everything that you're going to learn in this video so first we'll do an overview of the Drone itself then we'll go into the two controller options that you have for the mini 3. from there we'll dig into the DJI fly app and I'll show you what every button does and how you actually use the app to get better shots when you're out flying then we'll go into your first flight some things that you need to think about we'll go into how you fly a drone just so that you can have an understanding of how to move your drone in the sky and get better shots then we'll explore the quick shots and what you can do with some of the Automation and last we'll talk about all the different photo modes that you can use in this drone when you're out flying so I know there is a ton to unpack in this video so let's get started on your beginner's guide to the DJI Mini 3. [Music] all right so let's just talk about the Drone itself and everything that's on this drone so it comes completely folded up and the bottom legs fold forward and the top arms fold back now on the front of your drone you're going to have a guard this is protecting your camera and your gimbal so you never want to fly with this on because it's holding your camera in place if you fly with this on it could ruin the motors that are attached to the gimbal so to take this off there's a little latch on the bottom and you just pull this down and out and away and it's going to release the camera now the camera can move in three directions it's a three axis gimbal so that allows it to be completely stabilized when you turn it on and then on the back of the Drone is where you're going to put your battery so when you get the Drone it's going to be empty and you'll just slide your battery in until you hear the click now when you're looking straight down on the Drone you'll see a button on the back to turn on your drone you press once and hold until all four lights turn on and then the Drone will do a little motion you'll hear a sound and that means the Drone is on to turn it off you press once and hold and all the lights will turn off now looking at the front of this drone you'll see your camera the three axis Gimbal and then you'll see the two areas in the upper left and right Corners these are not sensors these are just air intake vents to cool down the Drone you'll also see back by the power button there's two other vets and also right behind the camera behind the gimbal so these are just areas to keep the Drone a little bit cooler now there's no obstacle avoiding sensors on this drone however on the bottom you'll see that there's these two sensors that tell you the distance from the ground to the Drone and so this is useful when it's takeoff and Landing so that it can sense where the ground is now on the back of the Drone you'll see that there is a USBC port and there's a Micro SD card slot so when you're filming or taking photos you'll want to make sure sure that you have a card in here because this is where you're going to be recording your media now you can also record your media that's coming to the controller however that's going to be a lower res file than what's going to be recorded here on the Drone so you want to make sure that you have a big enough micro SD card to be able to capture enough footage when you're out fine I typically fly with 128 gigabytes in my micro SD cards now to take out the battery there's two tabs on either side of the battery you just press in pull out it'll release the battery just make sure when you put your battery in that it clicks so that you know it has a firm connection and that it's not going to fall out when you're flying now when you look down on your drone you'll notice there's actually two different types of propellers and the difference is the markings on the tips and also there's this little line on the right front one and the back left one and you'll also see that same marking on the arm and this is because there's two different styles of propellers on your drone and you need to make sure you put the right one in the right place if you're replacing one now to replace these propellers you'll get a little screwdriver you unscrew it take it off put the new one on unscrew it back on so you'll need to make sure that you're carrying the little small screwdriver with you whenever you're out flying in case you break a propeller now if you ever see cracks or damage on the propellers you'll want to make sure that you replace it because even though the Drone will probably still fly if it does have a crack it could break mid-flight and then your drone could fall to the sky whenever you're about to fly you inspect all your propellers and make sure there's no major cracks or no damage and that way you'll be able to make sure that your drone will always stay in the air now last thing let's talk about the camera lens because you can actually take off this front lens element you twist it counterclockwise and pull it straight off and now you have the lens removed from the camera this is where you can add additional accessories like ND filters or polarizers they just replaced this front lens element now when you're replacing your lens or changing it out you just want to make sure that you're in a clean environment and that no dust is going to get in there now that's everything about the Drone itself so next let's check out everything about the controllers foreign [Music] options for the mini 3. you have the traditional controller which you would put your phone into and then you have this new one which has the screen built in now I personally have been using the one with the screen because it makes it a lot easier but both of these controllers work great with the Mini 3 and I'll show you the differences between both of them let's first go over the standard RC which is the main controller that you put your phone into now you open up the controller on the top and then you connect your phone with the cable that's inside mine has the lightning port on it but if you're using an Android device you just switch this cable out and so you put your phone in the little grooves that are on top of the controller and then plug it in now on the bottom of your controller is where the two thumb sticks are so you're going to pull these out and you're going to screw them into where they go on the front of the controller okay so now we're set up with the controller to start flying now looking at the front what you see are a few different buttons the two joist sticks are going to control all the directionality of your drone and later in this video we'll talk about how you actually fly in the sky and what you do with both of these thumbsticks and how you can use them to control your drone now in the upper left hand corner you're going to see an FN button this is a function button and in your menu you can change this to do different things now in the upper right hand corner you have a camera switch button now this button changes from video back to photo so this is where I'll switch between both just using the controller you can also do it on the screen in the app but this is a physical way on the controller that allows you to flip quickly between photo and video now in the middle you have two buttons and the switch on the far left you have a return to home and also a pause button on the far right you have your power button and then you have these three modes in the middle you have cine normal and sport mode and this allows you to go slow medium fast and in the menu you can actually set what each one of these are and I'll show you that when we get to the section all about the app now when you look down on the controller there's a button on the right hand side and a jog wheel on the left hand side the jog wheel allows you to control your gimbal up and down so while you're flying if you need to move the gimbal up or down to get a different shot well that's you'll use the jog wheel here on the controller and that allows you to move that gimbal now on the right is your start and stop record or take a photo button so depending on what mode you're in now the last thing on this controller is on the bottom there's a USBC and this is how you charge the controller so pretty basic but a lot of functionality with just a few buttons and this is what you use when you add your phone it works great I've been using this controller for a long time you don't need the newer controller with the screen built in it's more of a convenience and it does have some extra functionality so this is the DJI RC now on the back of it you have your two thumb sticks now you're going to pull these out and you're going to screw them in on the front now this controller has a screen built in so basically everything that's on your phone is built into this controller it's an all-in-one system and it's lightweight and it's not that much bigger than the standard controller I actually really like working with this one now looking at the front it's a very similar setup you have your two joysticks that control how you fly the Drone you have your home and pause button on the left your power button on the right and then cine normal and sport mode in the middle which again is slow medium fast for flying your drone in the air now looking down at the top you actually have some different buttons you have a record button on the left and a photo button on the right so no matter which mode you're in when you're out flying you can hit the record button and it's going to start recording video and vice versa if you hit the photo button it's going to switch to photo and take a photo so there is no button that switches back and forth between photo and video mode like on the other controller on the front right hand corner and also when you look down at the top you have two jog Wheels one is for your Gimbal and one is for your zooming and so your left one is for your gimbal just like on the other controller but now this added right one is for zooming so the Mini 3 can zoom in two times when it's in 4k up to four times in 1080P and so you can use this Zoom to do smooth zooming motion when you're out flying now on the back where your thumb sticks are underneath there's now two buttons that are customizable C1 and C2 so in the menu I'm going to show you where you can customize these buttons but you could add two different things that you need access to on the controller and it makes it much easier than having these functions somewhere on the screen or in the menus where you have to actually dig for these functions now on the bottom of this controller you'll see a USBC this is how you charge the controller and also this is how you connect it directly to your computer now there's also a flap and underneath this flap you'll see a Micro SD card slot and this is how you can record and also download your photos and videos from your drone to the SD card that's in your controller and then there's another USBC that says host and on dji's website it says this is for connecting at the DJI cellular module which will need to be purchased separately so a super simple controller but more functionality than the other controller and you have the built-in screen foreign [Music] [Applause] so now we're going to go into everything about the DJI fly app and so I'm going to show you a screen record so you can see how everything works and we're just going to talk through what every button does all right so now I have a shot of myself here on the Ridgeline I'm just doing an orbit and we'll go through everything on the screen so let's start clockwise in the upper left hand corner and work around so I'm going to go back to the main screen and so this is what you're going to see when you first turn on the Drone you'll see in the upper left hand corner it's going to show your positioning and then underneath that you'll see that it says fly safe update required now this is where updates will pop up with your drone so if there's new firmware for the Drone for the controller for anything else you'll see this update here and so when you're out flying you just want to make sure that you always update your drone to the newest firmware to make sure that there's no issues when you're out flying now in the upper right hand corner there's going to be some tutorials and some information about the Drone in the lower left hand corner you have your album which is where you'll see all the footage that's both on the controller and on the Drone you have Sky pixel which is dji's social media platform and then you have your profile with all all your user account settings so whenever you want to go fly you'll see this screen and you want to hit the button in the lower right hand corner that says go fly and then when you go to the fly screen this is what you're going to see so let's start in the upper left hand corner and work our way around clockwise upper left hand corner you have your back button that goes back to that screen we just looked at now next to that it says end mode now in the center of your controller we have cinemode normal mode and sport mode this is the speed at which you're flying so when you change this I'm going to switch it over to cine mode we're going to both put up a pop-up that shows what mode you're moving into and then it's also going to say it in the upper left hand corner so if you're ever wondering what mode you're in just look up there in the upper left hand corner now next to that it just says in Flight if there's any issues with your Drone say it's not connecting to GPS or anything like that it's going to pop up right here but because mine is fully connected to GPS and everything's working properly it just says in flight now you can click this button and it's going to bring up some information about the Drone this is where you could see your flight status mine is normal so everything is working well if there's any issues you'll see it pop up right here now the next item down is return turn to home altitude so this is the height at which the Drone will return back to where it started so whenever you take off your drone it's going to set a home Point wherever you're at in the earth and when you hit return to home on the controller or in the app it's going to go to this altitude that you set right here fly back to you and then descend so make sure that this height is a height that makes sense for the location that you're filming in I'm on top of a mountain so it doesn't really matter I can keep this pretty low but if you're somewhere with trees or if you're down low and there's some Rolling Hills around you you'll want that to go higher than the highest thing around you before it flies back because the last thing you want to do is to fly into something when it's returning to home now the next option is flight protection you have Max altitude so this is the highest that the Drone will go and max distance so right now mine is set to 393 feet high and 6 500 feet distance now when you're flying you don't want to fly outside of line of sight so you're probably never going to hit your max distance but that's where you can set how far you want it to go and put limits so if you want to make sure that you're not flying higher than say 200 feet you would add a limit here and say I only want to go up to 200-ish feet and that way the Drone will never go above it and the controller will stop you if you're trying to fly Beyond these limits now underneath that you'll see your SD card it's showing that mine has 113 gigabytes left so I have a ton of footage left on this SD card and you can also format this right here so if you click the format button it's going to completely erase your card so make sure that you want to erase your card if you're going to hit that format button so tap anywhere outside the screen to get out of this menu and then we'll keep going around the controller so the next button it shows it says 66. this is your battery percentage so right now I have 66 percent left on this battery and you can click this and when you click this it's going to show you when the Drone is going to return to home and when it's going to do a force landing and then it shows you the complete time until the battery is fully done fully depleted so ideally you want to be coming back around that return to home time because you want to make sure that you have plenty of time to bring the drum back and land it safely without the battery being completely depleted and if you run the battery all the way to the end until you have like one percent well the Drone could fall out of the sky technically so ideally you want to make sure that you always have the Drone have enough battery to land safely so that you don't have your drone fall out of the sky next to the 63 it shows the time left now this time is going to fluctuate depending on how you're flying so if you're in sport mode flying super fast or it's windy you'll start seeing this number drop down faster but I'm just hovering so it's not going to drop down as fast it's just a general idea of how much time you have left on the battery so you just want to make sure you look at your percentage in time and then fly back with enough time to land safely now next to that it shows your RC strength so you could click on that and it shows that my RC signal is strong and so that's the signal from the controller to the Drone and so if you go behind an object like a building or a mountain you'll see this start to drop or if you're flying too far away you'll also see this drop and you'll just want to make sure that you have a strong r signal so that you don't lose connection from your drone to the controller now next to that is your satellite if you click on that it's going to show that I have a strong GPS signal I'm connected to 24 satellites so these drones need enough satellites to be able to position itself on the earth and so if you only have like say eight satellites connected it's not going to have a strong enough connection to set your home point so you'll see this number fluctuate and if you rush to take off your drone and it doesn't have enough satellites connected it's going to limit you on how far you can fly but also it's not going to be able to use the GPS to keep its location on the earth so right now I'm not touching the controller the Drone is just staying up there in the sky and not moving because it's using GPS to triangulate where it is on the earth if I didn't have enough satellites connected right now it could just drift one way or the other with this little bit of Breeze that's pushing on the Drone and so it's important to make sure that you have enough satellites before you take off and you start flying now the next button in the upper right hand corner is three dots this is your deeper menu and I'll go through all of these settings in a little little bit but let's continue on this screen now underneath that you have all your camera options so right now I'm recording I'm going to stop the recording and you're going to see this little film strip because I'm in video mode you can click that it's going to show you where photo mode is video quick shots and panoramic so in photo mode you're going to have the options of a single photo an aeb photo which takes a series of exposures and then a Time shot so if you want to set it to like 10 seconds and then it takes a photo you can use the time shot for video it's just video on this menu for quick shots it's going to set up a quick shot menu which I'll go through when we start talking about quick shots later on in this video and then at the bottom you have panoramic which I'll talk about in the photo section so let's go back to video and keep going down underneath the film strip on the far right is your record button this is going to start and stop recording and it's also going to do things like start your quick shot or take your photo now next to that you have three options on the top this is where you rotate the camera from horizontal to Vertical so I click this button it's going to rotate the camera and give you a vertical image I'm going to click this back so the camera physically rotates so that you can have a vertical image if you are someone who does shoot vertical content now underneath that you have a zoom so I'm in 4k if I click this button I could do a two times zoom and you can see me there in the distance now if I bring this down to 1080p you have option to go all the way to a four time zoom and there you can see I'm pretty far away but with the four times Zoom you can zoom in pretty close to your subject now the issue with the zoom on this camera is that it's not an optical zoom so you're basically just punching in on the footage digitally so your quality is not going to be as good when you use this zoom function and then underneath that is your autofocus and manual focus so if you want to manually focus your image you push it over to MF press and hold this and you can adjust your focus far or near personally when I'm flying I typically just shoot with autofocus but if you need to use manual focus this is where you do it now underneath the record button or the photo button that's where you're going to see your library of content that you've already shot so you can see here I have all of my photos and videos that I've shot already and I can download them to the controller by clicking the little download icon in the upper left hand corner if you have this connected to your phone it works the same way and it will download to the storage on your phone but in this menu you can view your photos and videos and you can also bring them on to whatever device you're flying on now next underneath that is your camera settings right now mine is set to Auto I can click this button and it goes to Pro so this is where you could take full manual control of your shutter speed your ISO your white balance everything if you click Auto it's just going to do all of those settings for you automatically and just give you the best image that the Drone thinks looks good I'm going to keep it in Auto and just show show you how you use Auto and the different options that you have so next to the auto button there's an EV button you click this and you'll see this menu pop-up where you can go plus or minus so let's just go plus so I can show you what it does if you say plus three it's going to take what the Drone thinks is the best exposure and add three stops of light to it so if your image is a little bit too dark or a little bit too bright you can use this exposure compensation to take the Drone what it thinks is looking good and adjust it slightly so there are times where the image might be a little bit too bright and I'll bring it down to negative 0.3 or negative 0.7 just because I think that looks better for the exposure or if it's darker situation I might bump it up to plus three or plus 0.7 you just gotta play around with it and figure out what looks best for the exposure that you're going for but if you just keep it at zero oftentimes this is going to look good out of camera now next to that you're going to see resolution and frames per second you can click on this and this is where you can change all of your modes so let's go over to 4K 30 frames per second so you'll see that there's an HQ so the h Q means that your footage is going to have the HDR look so when you're flying with this drone in 30 frames per second or lower it shoots this HDR quality where the highlights are going to be a little bit more muted and the Shadows are going to be a little bit more lifted so that you can get better exposure overall so for this scene here where you have a bright sun and a really contrasted foreground you're going to see a little bit more in that foreground and a little bit more of the sky whereas if I go to 2.7 K and put it up to 60 frames per second you're going to have more contrast so you won't see as much of this HDR quality which means that your shadows are going to be a little bit darker and your highlights are going to be a little bit brighter so if you're shooting at 48 50 or 60 frames per second you don't have access to this HDR but if you're shooting at 30 frames per second or under it's going to automatically have this hdr on the footage so that's just something to keep in mind with this drone 4K 30 frames per second is your max whereas if you're in 2.7 K or 1080 you can go up to 60 frames per second so next to your resolution and frame rate you have your storage and when you click this it goes from how much data you have and how much time you have left so I have 110 gigabytes on this card which equates to 2 hours and 36 minutes so that just shows you how much data you have left now if we click this Auto button in the corner and go to Pro mode now we have access to change all of our settings right here in the menu so if I click on any of these settings it's going to pull up an additional menu the little aperture icon on the right changes all of your exposure settings and the three lines with the dots changes the other camera settings so I could go through and change my ISO or I could change my shutter speed and this is all manual now if I click the three lines with the dots I could change my white balance I could go from Auto to manual and change my white balance I could change my resolution my frames per second and I could also see information about my SD card and then when I want to get out of manual mode I just click the pro in the lower right hand corner and it goes back to auto mode now on the far left of your screen this is going to be some data that tells you what's going on with your drone in the sky where it says zero miles per hour on top of the height and distance this is is how fast the Drone is moving in that direction so if I was to go up into the sky you could see that now the miles per hour is going to be going up I'm going four miles per hour into the sky whereas if I descend and as I descend you'll see that it goes to a negative now if I go forward you'll see that it's giving me a positive miles per hour on the above the distance and then as I move backwards it's also a positive so it's going to be a positive whether you're moving forwards or backwards or left or right but if you're going up into the sky you're going to see a positive on that left number and you'll see a negative when it's coming down that's just to give you an indication of how fast you're moving up down forwards back left right all the direction now underneath that where it says H that's your height that's how high you are above where you took off from so this isn't how high you are above sea level it's above where you took off from and next to that is your distance away from your home points so home point is right here where I took off from my drone is 170 feet that direction so you can just always have an indication of where you're at in the sky by looking at your height and your distance now in the lower left hand corner is your radar you can click this and you can see where the Drone is where I am and where home point is and so as I move the Drone around you'll see the little triangle move in relation to me and in relation to the home point now if you click the little map icon in the lower left hand corner it's going to bring up a map of where you're at so right now it's not showing anything because I don't have a map loaded here on this controller but if you're connected to your phone you can see your streets and everything else that's around you so that you can see where you're flying on a map now if you click the little arrow in the lower left hand corner it's going to minimize the radar or the map that you have in this lower left hand corner all right so I have a low battery it's starting to beep it says I have 20 left and I have five minutes remaining this beep will continue until you return to home so I'm going to bring it back and I'm going to swap out the batteries so you'll have this pop-up screen pop up whenever the Drone is going to automatically return to home all right so I'm going to do a battery swap just pull the two tabs pull it out put the new battery in wait for it to click press once hold ready to start flying again all right so as soon as I power on the Drone I'm just waiting for the screen to pop up you'll see the go fly pop up here in a second all right so I'm going to hit go fly and you'll see that it's showing zero satellites are connected and that's where you'll now see a warning it says take off with caution no GPS so I'm going to take off put it kind of above us and I'm just gonna wait till these satellites connect so it's giving me a Max altitude which is just right up there it's about 10 feet in the sky and I'm just waiting for the satellites to connect satellites connected it's over 12. it's now at 13 so it's going to connect now I can fly all right so the last button on this main flying screen is this H with the arrow so if you click this it's going to have a land button and a return to home and to work this you just press and hold and so I click the return to home it's going to fly to the height that I have set for return home fly back and if at any point you want to cancel your return home you just press the X now the other button that you have is land so as soon as you have the Drone hovering somewhere right around here you can press and hold the Lan button and it's going to automatically land for you so you don't have to worry about Landing all right so my drone's over there on the path there's no bikers coming so it's not going to crash I'm going to press that button hit land and now it's going to slowly descend until it's safely on the ground all right the Drone has landed now if you want to take off using the same technique you press this little arrow with the circle on the left hand side and then press and hold and the Drone will automatically take off and you're good to go so that's everything on this main flying screen let's dig into the deeper menus and let me show you what else you have access to so you click these three dots in the upper left hand in the upper right hand corner and it's going to bring up this Advanced menu so you have safety control camera transmission and about under the safety you'll see the same auto return to home altitude Max altitude max distance we already went over those you have compass and IMU this is where you can calibrate your compass and your IMU you'll probably never need to touch this but if there's any error you might have to go through and hit calibrate and your drone will tell you when you need to do that now there's an unlocked Geo Zone feature so if you want to fly somewhere that is not allowed on the map that you're at well this is where you're going to be able to unlock that Geo Zone and I would refer back to the DJI website to learn more about how to unlock a geozone if that's something that you need to do now underneath that you have find my drone if you click this button and it's going to show you a map and it's going to show you where your drone was last seen you could start flashing and beeping in the lower right hand corner and the Drone will start flashing its lights and actually beeping and then you have a few options here on the side for the maps to show you where you're at where the drones at where True North is and then you can also use different styles of maps the standard a satellite or you can do a mixed so let's press back in the upper left hand corner next underneath that you have your battery info and then you have advanced Safety settings so let's click advanced Safety settings so first you have what happens if your signal is lost that's between your controller and your drone you could either return to home descend or hover right now I have returned to home so if the Drone signal is lost and it's just flying by itself without connected to the controller it's going to return to home that's probably the safest in most situations however there might be other situations where you want to make sure that you descend because you don't want it to stay up in the air if there's something else going on in the air that could cause issues and then last is hover if you just want the Drone to stop and hover and not move you would want to keep that last option now underneath that you have a propeller stop so if you bring both your sticks inward or outwards it's going to stop all the propellers now that's only for a complete emergency because if you do that well the Drone is going to fall out of the sky so this is just telling you and then last on the safety menu there is a payload mode so if you have an accessory like your propeller guards and the aircraft is in a wind-free environment you might want to turn this on it's a setting that I personally have never used let's go back next you have control so under control this is about the Drone itself so first you could set your units I'm in the US so I use Imperial but this is where you can set it to metric underneath that you have your gain and Expo tuning so this is where you can fine tune your cine normal and sport mode how fast the Drone moves and how fast the Drone feathers in and out of movements and depending on how you want to fly your drone you might adjust these a little bit to make it slower or faster in each of the modes cine is the slowest mode normal is kind of medium and then sport is really fast so play around with this if the normal configuration doesn't work for you and it's a little bit too fast or a little bit too slow now next underneath that in the control you have your gimbal mode so right now mine's in follow mode I could switch that to fpv mode so as I fly in fpv mode I just put it in sport you can see that the camera now tilts left and right like an fpv drone so as I move you're flying it's going to have this kind of arcing motion as if it's flying fpv follow mode is going to keep your horizon always level so it just depends on the style of flying that you like when you're out filming next you have gimbal calibrations so if you're having any issues with your gimbal you could go through and calibrate your gimbal here again it's not something that you want to do unless you're having issues with the gimbal now you could also re-center the gimbal here which if you press that button it's going to go from 90 straight down or 90 straight up now underneath that you have your remote controller modes I keep mine in mode too but if you want to change your controller configuration of how the Drone flies this is where you change it now you also have button configuration so this is where it shows you all the different buttons that you have set up and you could configure these to do different things so on this controller I have C1 and C2 C1 I have set to snapping the gimbals from straight down to straight up and C2 sets the vertical versus horizontal now you also have your zoom function which is in the upper right hand corner but also you could press C1 or C2 and adjust your shutter speed or ISO if you press and hold C1 or c two and then use the zoom rocker in the upper right hand corner and you could change all of these to do different things so you could go into your menus and play around with what configuration you want best for the features that you need when you're out flying now at the end of the control menu you have your flight tutorial which is going to give you more instruction on how to fly your drone all right so let's go over to the camera all right so let's go over to the camera menu you have anti-flicker I just keep mine on auto you have your histogram when you turn this on it shows you all your exposure values from the darkest to the brightest I typically like to fly with this on so I could see my exposure when I'm out flying and if you have this on you could drag it to anywhere on the screen or click the X to get rid of it you could also set up your peaking level so if you're using manual focus it shows you what is in focus by outlining the objects that are in focus in Red so I could turn this on high and you can see that when I put it into manual mode everything is in Focus I'm going to turn that off because I don't need that you have over exposure warning so that's turned on and that's going to show you these zebras which is what is completely over exposing in your footage so right now what's completely overexposing is the sun because it's the brightest object in the sky so you could use this to see where your image goes completely white now next you have grid lines which is something that you can add on your footage so you could put say a cross and it shows you where your Center Mark is and it goes across all the way on the footage now this isn't recording this is just guides for when you're out flying so that you could have better compositions in your shots so a lot of times it might be useful to have a center Mark or the thirds up so that you could see where your third is which is a so when you're flying you can see exactly where say your left third is and you can put your subject right there next underneath that you have your white balance so you can put this on manual and you can adjust your white balance here in the menu or you could keep it on auto now the last options that you have in this camera menu is your SD card your auto sync HD photos cash when recording and Max cash capacity so when you're flying the controller can record a backup version of whatever your film mean this is your cash recording and so you can set how much data you want cached on the controller and also it could auto sync your HD photos to your phone so say you take a photo it's automatically going to sync that photo to your phone when you're out flying now you can go to transmission this is going to show all your transmission for your signal right now I just use dual band I just leave this on auto and then the about section is all the information that's about your drone so that is everything that you need to know about the DJI fly app now I know it may seem pretty confusing with all of these buttons and all this data but it's all super important it's all going to help you when you're out flying foreign [Music] [Applause] so you're ready for your first flight and ideally what you want to do is find a space where you could have a lot of room to play around and you're not going to run into anything so I'm up here in these Hills there's nothing around me it's a great spot to fly the Drone and play around with it and what you'll want to do is just find an easy place to take off and land from so just nice open nothing in the way and ideally when you start you want to make sure that you have a full charge on your controller and a full charge on your drone now since I've been making this video I've been draining the battery of my drone so you'll see it's at 48 but for your first flight make sure that you have a complete charge on both your controller and your drone because you don't want to take it up and then run out of battery right away you want to have some time to play around Now to turn on your drone you press once and then hold and all the lights will light up and then you'll hear a chime and that's when the Drone is turned on and the same thing with the controller you're going to press the power button once and then hold until all the lights turn on and then you hear the chime and then both your controller and the Drone are turned on now out of the box they're paired so you shouldn't have any issue with the Drone connecting to your controller but if they're not paired you go into your menu setting where we showed you earlier and you've repaired the Drone now you're ready to take off both the controller and the Drone are powered up you're at a good spot and the Drone is ready to go there's two ways that you can take the Drone off from the ground the first is the easiest on the left hand side of your screen the little arrow with the circle you press that it's going to pull up this menu that says take off and basically what it's going to do is the Drone is going to ascend into the sky and hover so I'm going to hold that button in the center until the green is full and then the Drone is going to take off into the sky now the drone's just going to hover there until I start using the thumb sticks so if I want to land the Drone I could do the exact same thing so I can click that little H icon with the arrow and then hold in the center and the Drone is going to descend down to the ground find where it's going to land and the propellers will turn off so for the first time you're flying I would suggest do this take it up let it hover for a minute bring it back down just to make sure everything's working now the second way which is the way that I normally take off and fly is I just pull both joysticks inward that's going to start the rotation of the propellers but it's not going to take off it's just spinning there on the ground now I pull up on the left joystick and the Drone will Ascend into the sky and if I let go of the joysticks the Drone will just sit there and hover and that's one cool thing about these kind of drones is that if you don't touch the joysticks when it has a strong GPS signal the Drone will just sit here in this one spot and now if I want to bring the Drone down and land it I just pull down on the left joystick and I just keep holding the down on the left joystick until the Drone fully goes down to the ground and the propellers shut off and then I can let go of the controller so those are the two ways to take off and land foreign [Music] how the Drone actually flies in the sky so I'm going to pull both joysticks inward I'm going to start the propellers I'm going to pull up on the left joystick it's going to fly up into the sky and let's go over how these joysticks work remember I'm in mode two so if you're flying in a different mode your joysticks are going to work different but I suggest flying in mode two so let's get a shot of these arches so you can see what I'm doing so on the left joystick if you press up the Drone is going to go up into the sky now if you pull it down the Drone is going to descend down I pull left on this left joystick the Drone is going to rotate in a circle now if I pull right the Drone is going to rotate the other direction to the right so you could think of your left joystick like the Drone is in a single spot on the earth and then it rotates so it can only go up and down that single spot and then it could also just rotate that's all the left joystick does now let's point at this Archway again now for the right joystick if I push forward the Drone is going to move closer to where those arches are and it's going towards that tree now now if I pull backwards on that right joystick the Drone is going to move backwards and you're going to see The Arches come into frame and the Drone is going to move back and past us over there now if I pull left on that right joystick the Drone is going to move that way so it's like sliding to the left and then if I pull right on that right joystick the Drone is going to move that way so it's sliding to the right so you could think of your right joystick as moving away from that center point so wherever that Center Point was if you push forward it's going to move that way forward away from it it's going to move backwards away from that point or left or right so the easiest way to think about these two joysticks is left joystick singular Point rotate around right joystick it's going to move out and Away in any direction and then the last thing is you can point these joysticks in a 360 around so if I wanted to push up and also Spin To the Left well I could put to the upper left hand corner and you can see how this drone is moving up and rotating and now if I pull right on that right joystick the Drone is also going to be moving to the right and you're getting this big arching Helix motion so you could really get fancy with your combinations and there's a lot of different ways that you can move this drone into the sky to be able to get some different looking footage and at the end of this video I'll link to another one of my videos that goes through a hundred plus drone moves that you could use and I go through all these different moves that you can make using these two joysticks and also your Gimbal and your zoom and so the last thing that I want to go over is how you use your gimbal so let's fly back to towards where we are I'm going to use both joysticks to kind of position myself away from us as you can see the structure in front and me out here in the distance so the left jog wheel is controlling your gimbal if you pull that left the gimbal is going to rotate down and if I pull right on that jog wheel the gimbal is going to move up and the cool thing about this drone is that gimbal can move up to 60 degrees looking up so you could have the gimbal pointing straight up into the sky now with the controller with the screen built in the other jog wheel if you pull right it's going to zoom in and if you pull left on that jog wheel it's going to zoom out and so that's all the different ways that you could use this controller to move your drone and the camera in the sky foreign [Music] okay so let's dig into quick shots because quick shots are the only automation that you have in this drone you have no active track but if you get to a cool spot like this and you just want to get an awesome automation mode enough to think about controlling your drone well quick shots are the way to go so you're going to click the film strip and you're going to find quick shots which is the little reel icon and it's going to pull up this menu where it shows droney rocket Circle helix or Boomerang and each one of these is going to give you a different style of shot and it actually shows you what that's going to look like on the screen here on the left so let's just start with a drony I'm going to minimize this screen and you can see that it finds me with a plus icon so I could either draw a box around Myself by making a box from left to right corner like that and it's going to grab me you can click the X at any time and exit out or I could just click the plus icon and it's going to grab me so there's two ways to set up this quick shot now in terms of resolution and exposure you could set everything like you would if you're normally flying without using the quick shots so you could set up Auto versus manual on all your exposure settings and then you could also change your resolution and frame rates I'm going to keep mine at 4K 30 frames per second on auto I'm going to set my distance away so you could go up to 360 meters away but I'm just going to do the shortest which is 120 meters and then all you have to do is click Start it's going to give you a countdown and then it's going to automatically do the move so here is the droney it's just going to keep me centered and fly up and away foreign [Music] now once the shot is finished you'll see that the Drone is flying back to the original start position and once it finally gets to that spot then you'll be able to set up another quick shot or start flying and take photos or videos alright so now the Drone is back so you can just click the button and change and do a different move I'm going to do the rocket and so the rocket is going to fly straight up from this part spot [Music] thank you now one thing to note when you're using quick shots and you hit go it's automatically going to start recording as soon as it starts the quick shot so it's just going to give you a complete file end to end you can't just let the Drone record as you fly it's basically going to start and stop every time you start a quick shot so let me just show you what each one of these quick shots looks like so you can get a sense of how you could use them so this one is the circle foreign [Music] is the helix [Music] and the last one that you have access to is called the boomerang [Music] thank you [Music] now these quick shots are super useful to get good looking footage easily it's an automation now the one thing that you can do is while you're actually in a quick shot mode you can move a little bit and the Drone will track you very limited tracking though so if I put it on say the circle and I wanted to follow me I could click the plus icon all the way to the left I'm going to walk this way and you'll see that it does track me a little bit as you do the quick shot it's simple though it's not a ton of tracking so this is almost like a fake tracking shot that you could get for a few seconds but you can see as soon as it pulls in front well the shot's not going to look that good so really it's basically for just making sure that you're centered so if you do move around a little bit it's going to keep you centered with whatever you're doing but it's not really tracking all right so next let's dig into some of the photo features that you have access to on this drone [Music] so let's go over all of the photo modes that you have accessible to you on the mini 3. so I just got the Drone up to a point where you could see me on this Overlook I can kind of see everything from the mountains over there to the ocean out there so first you have to go into photo mode and if you're not in it already you just click the button here it's going to open up with all your different modes and you'll go to photo mode and you have three different photography modes that you could use when you want to take a photo you have single aeb and time shot so let's just do a single a single is just a photo just a single photo you can either click the button on top of your controller to take a photo or you can click the white button on the screen to take a photo now depending on how you have your settings set up you can either take jpeg or raw and so if you want to change your mode you just look at the bottom of your screen where it says format click the jpeg where it says JPEG and switch it to jpeg plus raw so when you switch it into jpeg plus raw you're getting both a JPEG and a raw photo you can't just shoot only raw so it's either jpeg only or jpeg plus raw so I just switched over to jpeg plus so I just switched over to jpeg plus raw take a photo great and the raw photo is going to give you just a lot more information that's going to make the photo easier to edit so I always shoot raw and I edit all my photos in Lightroom alright let's check out some of the other modes and if you want to shoot vertical photos you just click the vertical button like I showed you in video and you could do the same thing you could just take a photo with the camera rotated 90 degrees let's go back to horizontal now you could do aeb so when you click aeb what it's going to do is it's going to Auto bracket your photos so what that means is it's going to take photos that are brighter and photos that are darker so that when you bring them into your editing software you can combine them together to be able to change your exposure and account for both highlights and the shadows of a photo so here it takes three photos it takes one normal exposure what the camera thinks is best exposure because I have it on auto and then it takes a photo darker and it takes a photo brighter and you can bring these into your photo software and be able to combine find them or if you're not sure how you want to capture the scene it just gives you flexibility to give you a range of exposures for the place that you're shooting at so let's click over to the photo menu one more time and you have time shot so when you click on time shot it's going to bring up another menu that goes from Five Seconds all the way up to 60 seconds so let's just go to five seconds and then when you take your photo it's going to wait five seconds and then it'll take the photo and with this mode it'll keep taking a photo every five seconds or however many seconds you have set until you stop it so you could set this to 60 seconds and it'll take a photo every minute whereas if you have it five seconds every five seconds you can hear it it's taking a photo and then when you want to stop it you just click the photo button again or the photo button on the screen now the other mode that you have for photography is panoramics so if you go back to that main menu scroll down to where it says Pano click on Pano and you have three options you have sphere 180 and wide angle and so these are just different styles of panoramics let's click sphere and when you click the photo button it's going to take a bunch of different photos in a spherical format so you just have to wait for all the photos to be taken and it shows you a percentage on screen of how many photos it has left to take the sphere one takes a lot of photos because it's creating a 360 degree photo as if you have like a 360 camera up in the air so it's just going to take a little while to get through all these photos but then it automatically stitches them all together with all of these panoramic modes I'm it's going to automatically Stitch the photos together but then you also have all the individual photos if you want to stitch them together yourself in your own editing software now the other modes you have is 180 so that's just a wide panoramic so it's going to take a series of photos in a line and then the last mode you have is wide angle so when you click the wide angle it's going to take a series of photos and a line but also a few up and a few down so it's just three different styles of panoramics that you can use if you want a wider shot of the scene that you're in now that's it for photo options on the DJI Mini 3 and it gives you a lot of different things that you can do when you're out flying your drone [Music] so are you someone who wants to just take photos or are you someone who wants to shoot video and then also you have to ask yourself well what are you going to use this video for I think the Trap that a lot of us will get into is getting to a really pretty spot and then just grabbing a bunch of footage or a bunch of photos without actually having a plan of what you're gonna do with that footage or those photos but the vast majority of us want to use this for a specific purpose so the biggest question you need to ask yourself is what is the end goal so what do you want to achieve using this camera when I first got into flying drones I would just shoot a lot of pretty shots put it together but it ended up being pretty boring when you just see a bunch of shots strung together with no real reason of why they're together so when I'm going out to fly I always try to have a purpose before I actually take the Drone off and start flying for me personally I'm either shooting for clients or I'm shooting for videos on my channel and I'm not going to just use a drone just because it looks cool I'm going to use it to help tell my story or to help enhance the video that I'm creating so when I approach what I'm filming I think about it in terms of how do I want to use this footage for the story that I'm telling so recently I went up to Death Valley and I was shooting a project with my buddies around driving through this area in California and the different obstacles that we were encountering now Death Valley is National Park so you can't fly a drone that is one thing you have to keep in mind you have to look at your local laws and regulations however for this story we actually started in BLM land before and after the park so I actually used the Drone to set the stage and shoot the first scene and then to shoot the final scene when we were leaving it was a great way to open and close this video and I used the shots to set the scene of where we're at to show someone this part of California and what it looks like so so a good way to use your drone is to set the scene to show areas from this perspective that you can't get with other cameras show these big open Landscapes it's a great way just to capture the view and really show this unique perspective now another project I recently shot I was out in Utah and I was in BLM land so I could fly the Drone pretty much anywhere for the majority of this trip now there was an area that we were at that had this crazy landscape it was all these weird colorful mountains and I used my drone to create a sequence so instead of just being a few shots to open or close the scene I created an entire sequence out of my shots to progress someone through us actually interacting with the space great way to go about creating a sequence is think of it in seven shots two wides two mediums two close-ups and one that's kind of unique and something different and the good thing about drones is you can easily get that unique and different shot by just putting the Drone straight up above and looking straight down a perspective you can only get with a drone so think of how you could get two different wide shots from a scene think of how you can get two different mediums and think of how you can get two different close-ups and with that think about movement so how are you going to move the Drone are you going to be moving it left to right up down forward backwards are you going to spin around there's so many Dynamic shots that you can make with your drone and when you start stringing these together and you have your subject moving through the scene progressing from point A to point B well you'll be able to create a sequence for so for this seam we were climbing these mountains and the final shot is us getting to the summit and looking at the landscape it's a very simple storyline us getting to these mountains climbing up and then being at the top but I shot it with this progression in mind and I was able to cut together this little sequence in the video that feels a lot more engaging than if it was just a few shots of the pretty landscape so one of the biggest things that you can do when you're working with your drone is think how can I use this tool to show my audience this area that we're at in a different view from a different perspective so if you're shooting photos what's a different shot than just putting the Drone up and looking out over the landscape so for example I have three photos here up on my wall that I've taken they're all the straight down perspective and I really love this shot with a drone because it's so unique and when you get the Drone up in the sky you can see the landscape from a completely different perspective also think about Shadows Shadows are going to completely change when you're up above looking down at objects you can see how they interact with the Landscapes differently and you can get unique shots that you just don't get using other cameras and the more that you fly the more that you'll get used to finding these different shots and figuring out ways to use the Drone that will feel more creative than just putting the Drone up and looking straight out over the landscape so what's next after this video well this video was all the technical side of flying the Drone and just being able to use everything with the camera from here you need to figure out why you're shooting and what you're going to shoot using this drone so one thing that you're going to want to dive into is cinematography and the types of shots that you're going to get using your drone I have two videos here on my channel one goes through a bunch of different shot ideas and the other is a drone filmmaking beginner's guide which are both good ones for you to watch after finishing this video now editing is a skill that you should pick up so you can string your videos together and make them more interesting and if you really want to change the color and look of your videos then I would suggest checking out some color grading tutorials that are really going to show you how to make a better look out of your footage now I appreciate you sticking around till the end of this video because I know it was a long one and one thing I could ask from you is can you go down and click the Subscribe button also click the thumbs up if you like this video on this channel I teach a lot of technical videos like this about how to use your cameras but but I also dig into a lot about how to tell stories and how to make videos that your viewers are going to want to watch and personally I shoot a lot of Adventure Style videos I like to do documentaries of what I call vlogumentaries so I teach a lot about how to make that style of content here on this channel and next you should check out this video right here which is your drone filmmaking beginner's guide which goes through all the topics we didn't cover in this video but are more focused on cinematography and better shots with your drone I'll see you over there

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you welcome to your complete beginner&#39;s guide for the DJI mini 3. this video is going to go through everything that you need to know to get up and flying with this drone fast so whether you are a first time pilot or you&#39;re just interested in all the features and all the capabilities of this drone this video is going to go through everything that you need to know about the DJI mini 3. now before we dive into the content for this drone I just want to go through everything that you&#39;re going to learn in this video so first we&#39;ll do an overview of the Drone itself then we&#39;ll go into the two controller options that you have for the mini 3. from there we&#39;ll dig into the DJI fly app and I&#39;ll show you what every button does and how you actually use the app to get better shots when you&#39;re out flying then we&#39;ll go into your first flight some things that you need to think about we&#39;ll go into how you fly a drone just so that you can have an understanding of how to move your drone in the sky and get better shots then we&#39;ll explore the quick shots and what you can do with some of the Automation and last we&#39;ll talk about all the different photo modes that you can use in this drone when you&#39;re out flying so I know there is a ton to unpack in this video so let&#39;s get started on your beginner&#39;s guide to the DJI Mini 3. [Music] all right so let&#39;s just talk about the Drone itself and everything that&#39;s on this drone so it comes completely folded up and the bottom legs fold forward and the top arms fold back now on the front of your drone you&#39;re going to have a guard this is protecting your camera and your gimbal so you never want to fly with this on because it&#39;s holding your camera in place if you fly with this on it could ruin the motors that are attached to the gimbal so to take this off there&#39;s a little latch on the bottom and you just pull this down and out and away and it&#39;s going to release the camera now the camera can move in three directions it&#39;s a three axis gimbal so that allows it to be completely stabilized when you turn it on and then on the back of the Drone is where you&#39;re going to put your battery so when you get the Drone it&#39;s going to be empty and you&#39;ll just slide your battery in until you hear the click now when you&#39;re looking straight down on the Drone you&#39;ll see a button on the back to turn on your drone you press once and hold until all four lights turn on and then the Drone will do a little motion you&#39;ll hear a sound and that means the Drone is on to turn it off you press once and hold and all the lights will turn off now looking at the front of this drone you&#39;ll see your camera the three axis Gimbal and then you&#39;ll see the two areas in the upper left and right Corners these are not sensors these are just air intake vents to cool down the Drone you&#39;ll also see back by the power button there&#39;s two other vets and also right behind the camera behind the gimbal so these are just areas to keep the Drone a little bit cooler now there&#39;s no obstacle avoiding sensors on this drone however on the bottom you&#39;ll see that there&#39;s these two sensors that tell you the distance from the ground to the Drone and so this is useful when it&#39;s takeoff and Landing so that it can sense where the ground is now on the back of the Drone you&#39;ll see that there is a USBC port and there&#39;s a Micro SD card slot so when you&#39;re filming or taking photos you&#39;ll want to make sure sure that you have a card in here because this is where you&#39;re going to be recording your media now you can also record your media that&#39;s coming to the controller however that&#39;s going to be a lower res file than what&#39;s going to be recorded here on the Drone so you want to make sure that you have a big enough micro SD card to be able to capture enough footage when you&#39;re out fine I typically fly with 128 gigabytes in my micro SD cards now to take out the battery there&#39;s two tabs on either side of the battery you just press in pull out it&#39;ll release the battery just make sure when you put your battery in that it clicks so that you know it has a firm connection and that it&#39;s not going to fall out when you&#39;re flying now when you look down on your drone you&#39;ll notice there&#39;s actually two different types of propellers and the difference is the markings on the tips and also there&#39;s this little line on the right front one and the back left one and you&#39;ll also see that same marking on the arm and this is because there&#39;s two different styles of propellers on your drone and you need to make sure you put the right one in the right place if you&#39;re replacing one now to replace these propellers you&#39;ll get a little screwdriver you unscrew it take it off put the new one on unscrew it back on so you&#39;ll need to make sure that you&#39;re carrying the little small screwdriver with you whenever you&#39;re out flying in case you break a propeller now if you ever see cracks or damage on the propellers you&#39;ll want to make sure that you replace it because even though the Drone will probably still fly if it does have a crack it could break mid-flight and then your drone could fall to the sky whenever you&#39;re about to fly you inspect all your propellers and make sure there&#39;s no major cracks or no damage and that way you&#39;ll be able to make sure that your drone will always stay in the air now last thing let&#39;s talk about the camera lens because you can actually take off this front lens element you twist it counterclockwise and pull it straight off and now you have the lens removed from the camera this is where you can add additional accessories like ND filters or polarizers they just replaced this front lens element now when you&#39;re replacing your lens or changing it out you just want to make sure that you&#39;re in a clean environment and that no dust is going to get in there now that&#39;s everything about the Drone itself so next let&#39;s check out everything about the controllers foreign [Music] options for the mini 3. you have the traditional controller which you would put your phone into and then you have this new one which has the screen built in now I personally have been using the one with the screen because it makes it a lot easier but both of these controllers work great with the Mini 3 and I&#39;ll show you the differences between both of them let&#39;s first go over the standard RC which is the main controller that you put your phone into now you open up the controller on the top and then you connect your phone with the cable that&#39;s inside mine has the lightning port on it but if you&#39;re using an Android device you just switch this cable out and so you put your phone in the little grooves that are on top of the controller and then plug it in now on the bottom of your controller is where the two thumb sticks are so you&#39;re going to pull these out and you&#39;re going to screw them into where they go on the front of the controller okay so now we&#39;re set up with the controller to start flying now looking at the front what you see are a few different buttons the two joist sticks are going to control all the directionality of your drone and later in this video we&#39;ll talk about how you actually fly in the sky and what you do with both of these thumbsticks and how you can use them to control your drone now in the upper left hand corner you&#39;re going to see an FN button this is a function button and in your menu you can change this to do different things now in the upper right hand corner you have a camera switch button now this button changes from video back to photo so this is where I&#39;ll switch between both just using the controller you can also do it on the screen in the app but this is a physical way on the controller that allows you to flip quickly between photo and video now in the middle you have two buttons and the switch on the far left you have a return to home and also a pause button on the far right you have your power button and then you have these three modes in the middle you have cine normal and sport mode and this allows you to go slow medium fast and in the menu you can actually set what each one of these are and I&#39;ll show you that when we get to the section all about the app now when you look down on the controller there&#39;s a button on the right hand side and a jog wheel on the left hand side the jog wheel allows you to control your gimbal up and down so while you&#39;re flying if you need to move the gimbal up or down to get a different shot well that&#39;s you&#39;ll use the jog wheel here on the controller and that allows you to move that gimbal now on the right is your start and stop record or take a photo button so depending on what mode you&#39;re in now the last thing on this controller is on the bottom there&#39;s a USBC and this is how you charge the controller so pretty basic but a lot of functionality with just a few buttons and this is what you use when you add your phone it works great I&#39;ve been using this controller for a long time you don&#39;t need the newer controller with the screen built in it&#39;s more of a convenience and it does have some extra functionality so this is the DJI RC now on the back of it you have your two thumb sticks now you&#39;re going to pull these out and you&#39;re going to screw them in on the front now this controller has a screen built in so basically everything that&#39;s on your phone is built into this controller it&#39;s an all-in-one system and it&#39;s lightweight and it&#39;s not that much bigger than the standard controller I actually really like working with this one now looking at the front it&#39;s a very similar setup you have your two joysticks that control how you fly the Drone you have your home and pause button on the left your power button on the right and then cine normal and sport mode in the middle which again is slow medium fast for flying your drone in the air now looking down at the top you actually have some different buttons you have a record button on the left and a photo button on the right so no matter which mode you&#39;re in when you&#39;re out flying you can hit the record button and it&#39;s going to start recording video and vice versa if you hit the photo button it&#39;s going to switch to photo and take a photo so there is no button that switches back and forth between photo and video mode like on the other controller on the front right hand corner and also when you look down at the top you have two jog Wheels one is for your Gimbal and one is for your zooming and so your left one is for your gimbal just like on the other controller but now this added right one is for zooming so the Mini 3 can zoom in two times when it&#39;s in 4k up to four times in 1080P and so you can use this Zoom to do smooth zooming motion when you&#39;re out flying now on the back where your thumb sticks are underneath there&#39;s now two buttons that are customizable C1 and C2 so in the menu I&#39;m going to show you where you can customize these buttons but you could add two different things that you need access to on the controller and it makes it much easier than having these functions somewhere on the screen or in the menus where you have to actually dig for these functions now on the bottom of this controller you&#39;ll see a USBC this is how you charge the controller and also this is how you connect it directly to your computer now there&#39;s also a flap and underneath this flap you&#39;ll see a Micro SD card slot and this is how you can record and also download your photos and videos from your drone to the SD card that&#39;s in your controller and then there&#39;s another USBC that says host and on dji&#39;s website it says this is for connecting at the DJI cellular module which will need to be purchased separately so a super simple controller but more functionality than the other controller and you have the built-in screen foreign [Music] [Applause] so now we&#39;re going to go into everything about the DJI fly app and so I&#39;m going to show you a screen record so you can see how everything works and we&#39;re just going to talk through what every button does all right so now I have a shot of myself here on the Ridgeline I&#39;m just doing an orbit and we&#39;ll go through everything on the screen so let&#39;s start clockwise in the upper left hand corner and work around so I&#39;m going to go back to the main screen and so this is what you&#39;re going to see when you first turn on the Drone you&#39;ll see in the upper left hand corner it&#39;s going to show your positioning and then underneath that you&#39;ll see that it says fly safe update required now this is where updates will pop up with your drone so if there&#39;s new firmware for the Drone for the controller for anything else you&#39;ll see this update here and so when you&#39;re out flying you just want to make sure that you always update your drone to the newest firmware to make sure that there&#39;s no issues when you&#39;re out flying now in the upper right hand corner there&#39;s going to be some tutorials and some information about the Drone in the lower left hand corner you have your album which is where you&#39;ll see all the footage that&#39;s both on the controller and on the Drone you have Sky pixel which is dji&#39;s social media platform and then you have your profile with all all your user account settings so whenever you want to go fly you&#39;ll see this screen and you want to hit the button in the lower right hand corner that says go fly and then when you go to the fly screen this is what you&#39;re going to see so let&#39;s start in the upper left hand corner and work our way around clockwise upper left hand corner you have your back button that goes back to that screen we just looked at now next to that it says end mode now in the center of your controller we have cinemode normal mode and sport mode this is the speed at which you&#39;re flying so when you change this I&#39;m going to switch it over to cine mode we&#39;re going to both put up a pop-up that shows what mode you&#39;re moving into and then it&#39;s also going to say it in the upper left hand corner so if you&#39;re ever wondering what mode you&#39;re in just look up there in the upper left hand corner now next to that it just says in Flight if there&#39;s any issues with your Drone say it&#39;s not connecting to GPS or anything like that it&#39;s going to pop up right here but because mine is fully connected to GPS and everything&#39;s working properly it just says in flight now you can click this button and it&#39;s going to bring up some information about the Drone this is where you could see your flight status mine is normal so everything is working well if there&#39;s any issues you&#39;ll see it pop up right here now the next item down is return turn to home altitude so this is the height at which the Drone will return back to where it started so whenever you take off your drone it&#39;s going to set a home Point wherever you&#39;re at in the earth and when you hit return to home on the controller or in the app it&#39;s going to go to this altitude that you set right here fly back to you and then descend so make sure that this height is a height that makes sense for the location that you&#39;re filming in I&#39;m on top of a mountain so it doesn&#39;t really matter I can keep this pretty low but if you&#39;re somewhere with trees or if you&#39;re down low and there&#39;s some Rolling Hills around you you&#39;ll want that to go higher than the highest thing around you before it flies back because the last thing you want to do is to fly into something when it&#39;s returning to home now the next option is flight protection you have Max altitude so this is the highest that the Drone will go and max distance so right now mine is set to 393 feet high and 6 500 feet distance now when you&#39;re flying you don&#39;t want to fly outside of line of sight so you&#39;re probably never going to hit your max distance but that&#39;s where you can set how far you want it to go and put limits so if you want to make sure that you&#39;re not flying higher than say 200 feet you would add a limit here and say I only want to go up to 200-ish feet and that way the Drone will never go above it and the controller will stop you if you&#39;re trying to fly Beyond these limits now underneath that you&#39;ll see your SD card it&#39;s showing that mine has 113 gigabytes left so I have a ton of footage left on this SD card and you can also format this right here so if you click the format button it&#39;s going to completely erase your card so make sure that you want to erase your card if you&#39;re going to hit that format button so tap anywhere outside the screen to get out of this menu and then we&#39;ll keep going around the controller so the next button it shows it says 66. this is your battery percentage so right now I have 66 percent left on this battery and you can click this and when you click this it&#39;s going to show you when the Drone is going to return to home and when it&#39;s going to do a force landing and then it shows you the complete time until the battery is fully done fully depleted so ideally you want to be coming back around that return to home time because you want to make sure that you have plenty of time to bring the drum back and land it safely without the battery being completely depleted and if you run the battery all the way to the end until you have like one percent well the Drone could fall out of the sky technically so ideally you want to make sure that you always have the Drone have enough battery to land safely so that you don&#39;t have your drone fall out of the sky next to the 63 it shows the time left now this time is going to fluctuate depending on how you&#39;re flying so if you&#39;re in sport mode flying super fast or it&#39;s windy you&#39;ll start seeing this number drop down faster but I&#39;m just hovering so it&#39;s not going to drop down as fast it&#39;s just a general idea of how much time you have left on the battery so you just want to make sure you look at your percentage in time and then fly back with enough time to land safely now next to that it shows your RC strength so you could click on that and it shows that my RC signal is strong and so that&#39;s the signal from the controller to the Drone and so if you go behind an object like a building or a mountain you&#39;ll see this start to drop or if you&#39;re flying too far away you&#39;ll also see this drop and you&#39;ll just want to make sure that you have a strong r signal so that you don&#39;t lose connection from your drone to the controller now next to that is your satellite if you click on that it&#39;s going to show that I have a strong GPS signal I&#39;m connected to 24 satellites so these drones need enough satellites to be able to position itself on the earth and so if you only have like say eight satellites connected it&#39;s not going to have a strong enough connection to set your home point so you&#39;ll see this number fluctuate and if you rush to take off your drone and it doesn&#39;t have enough satellites connected it&#39;s going to limit you on how far you can fly but also it&#39;s not going to be able to use the GPS to keep its location on the earth so right now I&#39;m not touching the controller the Drone is just staying up there in the sky and not moving because it&#39;s using GPS to triangulate where it is on the earth if I didn&#39;t have enough satellites connected right now it could just drift one way or the other with this little bit of Breeze that&#39;s pushing on the Drone and so it&#39;s important to make sure that you have enough satellites before you take off and you start flying now the next button in the upper right hand corner is three dots this is your deeper menu and I&#39;ll go through all of these settings in a little little bit but let&#39;s continue on this screen now underneath that you have all your camera options so right now I&#39;m recording I&#39;m going to stop the recording and you&#39;re going to see this little film strip because I&#39;m in video mode you can click that it&#39;s going to show you where photo mode is video quick shots and panoramic so in photo mode you&#39;re going to have the options of a single photo an aeb photo which takes a series of exposures and then a Time shot so if you want to set it to like 10 seconds and then it takes a photo you can use the time shot for video it&#39;s just video on this menu for quick shots it&#39;s going to set up a quick shot menu which I&#39;ll go through when we start talking about quick shots later on in this video and then at the bottom you have panoramic which I&#39;ll talk about in the photo section so let&#39;s go back to video and keep going down underneath the film strip on the far right is your record button this is going to start and stop recording and it&#39;s also going to do things like start your quick shot or take your photo now next to that you have three options on the top this is where you rotate the camera from horizontal to Vertical so I click this button it&#39;s going to rotate the camera and give you a vertical image I&#39;m going to click this back so the camera physically rotates so that you can have a vertical image if you are someone who does shoot vertical content now underneath that you have a zoom so I&#39;m in 4k if I click this button I could do a two times zoom and you can see me there in the distance now if I bring this down to 1080p you have option to go all the way to a four time zoom and there you can see I&#39;m pretty far away but with the four times Zoom you can zoom in pretty close to your subject now the issue with the zoom on this camera is that it&#39;s not an optical zoom so you&#39;re basically just punching in on the footage digitally so your quality is not going to be as good when you use this zoom function and then underneath that is your autofocus and manual focus so if you want to manually focus your image you push it over to MF press and hold this and you can adjust your focus far or near personally when I&#39;m flying I typically just shoot with autofocus but if you need to use manual focus this is where you do it now underneath the record button or the photo button that&#39;s where you&#39;re going to see your library of content that you&#39;ve already shot so you can see here I have all of my photos and videos that I&#39;ve shot already and I can download them to the controller by clicking the little download icon in the upper left hand corner if you have this connected to your phone it works the same way and it will download to the storage on your phone but in this menu you can view your photos and videos and you can also bring them on to whatever device you&#39;re flying on now next underneath that is your camera settings right now mine is set to Auto I can click this button and it goes to Pro so this is where you could take full manual control of your shutter speed your ISO your white balance everything if you click Auto it&#39;s just going to do all of those settings for you automatically and just give you the best image that the Drone thinks looks good I&#39;m going to keep it in Auto and just show show you how you use Auto and the different options that you have so next to the auto button there&#39;s an EV button you click this and you&#39;ll see this menu pop-up where you can go plus or minus so let&#39;s just go plus so I can show you what it does if you say plus three it&#39;s going to take what the Drone thinks is the best exposure and add three stops of light to it so if your image is a little bit too dark or a little bit too bright you can use this exposure compensation to take the Drone what it thinks is looking good and adjust it slightly so there are times where the image might be a little bit too bright and I&#39;ll bring it down to negative 0.3 or negative 0.7 just because I think that looks better for the exposure or if it&#39;s darker situation I might bump it up to plus three or plus 0.7 you just gotta play around with it and figure out what looks best for the exposure that you&#39;re going for but if you just keep it at zero oftentimes this is going to look good out of camera now next to that you&#39;re going to see resolution and frames per second you can click on this and this is where you can change all of your modes so let&#39;s go over to 4K 30 frames per second so you&#39;ll see that there&#39;s an HQ so the h Q means that your footage is going to have the HDR look so when you&#39;re flying with this drone in 30 frames per second or lower it shoots this HDR quality where the highlights are going to be a little bit more muted and the Shadows are going to be a little bit more lifted so that you can get better exposure overall so for this scene here where you have a bright sun and a really contrasted foreground you&#39;re going to see a little bit more in that foreground and a little bit more of the sky whereas if I go to 2.7 K and put it up to 60 frames per second you&#39;re going to have more contrast so you won&#39;t see as much of this HDR quality which means that your shadows are going to be a little bit darker and your highlights are going to be a little bit brighter so if you&#39;re shooting at 48 50 or 60 frames per second you don&#39;t have access to this HDR but if you&#39;re shooting at 30 frames per second or under it&#39;s going to automatically have this hdr on the footage so that&#39;s just something to keep in mind with this drone 4K 30 frames per second is your max whereas if you&#39;re in 2.7 K or 1080 you can go up to 60 frames per second so next to your resolution and frame rate you have your storage and when you click this it goes from how much data you have and how much time you have left so I have 110 gigabytes on this card which equates to 2 hours and 36 minutes so that just shows you how much data you have left now if we click this Auto button in the corner and go to Pro mode now we have access to change all of our settings right here in the menu so if I click on any of these settings it&#39;s going to pull up an additional menu the little aperture icon on the right changes all of your exposure settings and the three lines with the dots changes the other camera settings so I could go through and change my ISO or I could change my shutter speed and this is all manual now if I click the three lines with the dots I could change my white balance I could go from Auto to manual and change my white balance I could change my resolution my frames per second and I could also see information about my SD card and then when I want to get out of manual mode I just click the pro in the lower right hand corner and it goes back to auto mode now on the far left of your screen this is going to be some data that tells you what&#39;s going on with your drone in the sky where it says zero miles per hour on top of the height and distance this is is how fast the Drone is moving in that direction so if I was to go up into the sky you could see that now the miles per hour is going to be going up I&#39;m going four miles per hour into the sky whereas if I descend and as I descend you&#39;ll see that it goes to a negative now if I go forward you&#39;ll see that it&#39;s giving me a positive miles per hour on the above the distance and then as I move backwards it&#39;s also a positive so it&#39;s going to be a positive whether you&#39;re moving forwards or backwards or left or right but if you&#39;re going up into the sky you&#39;re going to see a positive on that left number and you&#39;ll see a negative when it&#39;s coming down that&#39;s just to give you an indication of how fast you&#39;re moving up down forwards back left right all the direction now underneath that where it says H that&#39;s your height that&#39;s how high you are above where you took off from so this isn&#39;t how high you are above sea level it&#39;s above where you took off from and next to that is your distance away from your home points so home point is right here where I took off from my drone is 170 feet that direction so you can just always have an indication of where you&#39;re at in the sky by looking at your height and your distance now in the lower left hand corner is your radar you can click this and you can see where the Drone is where I am and where home point is and so as I move the Drone around you&#39;ll see the little triangle move in relation to me and in relation to the home point now if you click the little map icon in the lower left hand corner it&#39;s going to bring up a map of where you&#39;re at so right now it&#39;s not showing anything because I don&#39;t have a map loaded here on this controller but if you&#39;re connected to your phone you can see your streets and everything else that&#39;s around you so that you can see where you&#39;re flying on a map now if you click the little arrow in the lower left hand corner it&#39;s going to minimize the radar or the map that you have in this lower left hand corner all right so I have a low battery it&#39;s starting to beep it says I have 20 left and I have five minutes remaining this beep will continue until you return to home so I&#39;m going to bring it back and I&#39;m going to swap out the batteries so you&#39;ll have this pop-up screen pop up whenever the Drone is going to automatically return to home all right so I&#39;m going to do a battery swap just pull the two tabs pull it out put the new battery in wait for it to click press once hold ready to start flying again all right so as soon as I power on the Drone I&#39;m just waiting for the screen to pop up you&#39;ll see the go fly pop up here in a second all right so I&#39;m going to hit go fly and you&#39;ll see that it&#39;s showing zero satellites are connected and that&#39;s where you&#39;ll now see a warning it says take off with caution no GPS so I&#39;m going to take off put it kind of above us and I&#39;m just gonna wait till these satellites connect so it&#39;s giving me a Max altitude which is just right up there it&#39;s about 10 feet in the sky and I&#39;m just waiting for the satellites to connect satellites connected it&#39;s over 12. it&#39;s now at 13 so it&#39;s going to connect now I can fly all right so the last button on this main flying screen is this H with the arrow so if you click this it&#39;s going to have a land button and a return to home and to work this you just press and hold and so I click the return to home it&#39;s going to fly to the height that I have set for return home fly back and if at any point you want to cancel your return home you just press the X now the other button that you have is land so as soon as you have the Drone hovering somewhere right around here you can press and hold the Lan button and it&#39;s going to automatically land for you so you don&#39;t have to worry about Landing all right so my drone&#39;s over there on the path there&#39;s no bikers coming so it&#39;s not going to crash I&#39;m going to press that button hit land and now it&#39;s going to slowly descend until it&#39;s safely on the ground all right the Drone has landed now if you want to take off using the same technique you press this little arrow with the circle on the left hand side and then press and hold and the Drone will automatically take off and you&#39;re good to go so that&#39;s everything on this main flying screen let&#39;s dig into the deeper menus and let me show you what else you have access to so you click these three dots in the upper left hand in the upper right hand corner and it&#39;s going to bring up this Advanced menu so you have safety control camera transmission and about under the safety you&#39;ll see the same auto return to home altitude Max altitude max distance we already went over those you have compass and IMU this is where you can calibrate your compass and your IMU you&#39;ll probably never need to touch this but if there&#39;s any error you might have to go through and hit calibrate and your drone will tell you when you need to do that now there&#39;s an unlocked Geo Zone feature so if you want to fly somewhere that is not allowed on the map that you&#39;re at well this is where you&#39;re going to be able to unlock that Geo Zone and I would refer back to the DJI website to learn more about how to unlock a geozone if that&#39;s something that you need to do now underneath that you have find my drone if you click this button and it&#39;s going to show you a map and it&#39;s going to show you where your drone was last seen you could start flashing and beeping in the lower right hand corner and the Drone will start flashing its lights and actually beeping and then you have a few options here on the side for the maps to show you where you&#39;re at where the drones at where True North is and then you can also use different styles of maps the standard a satellite or you can do a mixed so let&#39;s press back in the upper left hand corner next underneath that you have your battery info and then you have advanced Safety settings so let&#39;s click advanced Safety settings so first you have what happens if your signal is lost that&#39;s between your controller and your drone you could either return to home descend or hover right now I have returned to home so if the Drone signal is lost and it&#39;s just flying by itself without connected to the controller it&#39;s going to return to home that&#39;s probably the safest in most situations however there might be other situations where you want to make sure that you descend because you don&#39;t want it to stay up in the air if there&#39;s something else going on in the air that could cause issues and then last is hover if you just want the Drone to stop and hover and not move you would want to keep that last option now underneath that you have a propeller stop so if you bring both your sticks inward or outwards it&#39;s going to stop all the propellers now that&#39;s only for a complete emergency because if you do that well the Drone is going to fall out of the sky so this is just telling you and then last on the safety menu there is a payload mode so if you have an accessory like your propeller guards and the aircraft is in a wind-free environment you might want to turn this on it&#39;s a setting that I personally have never used let&#39;s go back next you have control so under control this is about the Drone itself so first you could set your units I&#39;m in the US so I use Imperial but this is where you can set it to metric underneath that you have your gain and Expo tuning so this is where you can fine tune your cine normal and sport mode how fast the Drone moves and how fast the Drone feathers in and out of movements and depending on how you want to fly your drone you might adjust these a little bit to make it slower or faster in each of the modes cine is the slowest mode normal is kind of medium and then sport is really fast so play around with this if the normal configuration doesn&#39;t work for you and it&#39;s a little bit too fast or a little bit too slow now next underneath that in the control you have your gimbal mode so right now mine&#39;s in follow mode I could switch that to fpv mode so as I fly in fpv mode I just put it in sport you can see that the camera now tilts left and right like an fpv drone so as I move you&#39;re flying it&#39;s going to have this kind of arcing motion as if it&#39;s flying fpv follow mode is going to keep your horizon always level so it just depends on the style of flying that you like when you&#39;re out filming next you have gimbal calibrations so if you&#39;re having any issues with your gimbal you could go through and calibrate your gimbal here again it&#39;s not something that you want to do unless you&#39;re having issues with the gimbal now you could also re-center the gimbal here which if you press that button it&#39;s going to go from 90 straight down or 90 straight up now underneath that you have your remote controller modes I keep mine in mode too but if you want to change your controller configuration of how the Drone flies this is where you change it now you also have button configuration so this is where it shows you all the different buttons that you have set up and you could configure these to do different things so on this controller I have C1 and C2 C1 I have set to snapping the gimbals from straight down to straight up and C2 sets the vertical versus horizontal now you also have your zoom function which is in the upper right hand corner but also you could press C1 or C2 and adjust your shutter speed or ISO if you press and hold C1 or c two and then use the zoom rocker in the upper right hand corner and you could change all of these to do different things so you could go into your menus and play around with what configuration you want best for the features that you need when you&#39;re out flying now at the end of the control menu you have your flight tutorial which is going to give you more instruction on how to fly your drone all right so let&#39;s go over to the camera all right so let&#39;s go over to the camera menu you have anti-flicker I just keep mine on auto you have your histogram when you turn this on it shows you all your exposure values from the darkest to the brightest I typically like to fly with this on so I could see my exposure when I&#39;m out flying and if you have this on you could drag it to anywhere on the screen or click the X to get rid of it you could also set up your peaking level so if you&#39;re using manual focus it shows you what is in focus by outlining the objects that are in focus in Red so I could turn this on high and you can see that when I put it into manual mode everything is in Focus I&#39;m going to turn that off because I don&#39;t need that you have over exposure warning so that&#39;s turned on and that&#39;s going to show you these zebras which is what is completely over exposing in your footage so right now what&#39;s completely overexposing is the sun because it&#39;s the brightest object in the sky so you could use this to see where your image goes completely white now next you have grid lines which is something that you can add on your footage so you could put say a cross and it shows you where your Center Mark is and it goes across all the way on the footage now this isn&#39;t recording this is just guides for when you&#39;re out flying so that you could have better compositions in your shots so a lot of times it might be useful to have a center Mark or the thirds up so that you could see where your third is which is a so when you&#39;re flying you can see exactly where say your left third is and you can put your subject right there next underneath that you have your white balance so you can put this on manual and you can adjust your white balance here in the menu or you could keep it on auto now the last options that you have in this camera menu is your SD card your auto sync HD photos cash when recording and Max cash capacity so when you&#39;re flying the controller can record a backup version of whatever your film mean this is your cash recording and so you can set how much data you want cached on the controller and also it could auto sync your HD photos to your phone so say you take a photo it&#39;s automatically going to sync that photo to your phone when you&#39;re out flying now you can go to transmission this is going to show all your transmission for your signal right now I just use dual band I just leave this on auto and then the about section is all the information that&#39;s about your drone so that is everything that you need to know about the DJI fly app now I know it may seem pretty confusing with all of these buttons and all this data but it&#39;s all super important it&#39;s all going to help you when you&#39;re out flying foreign [Music] [Applause] so you&#39;re ready for your first flight and ideally what you want to do is find a space where you could have a lot of room to play around and you&#39;re not going to run into anything so I&#39;m up here in these Hills there&#39;s nothing around me it&#39;s a great spot to fly the Drone and play around with it and what you&#39;ll want to do is just find an easy place to take off and land from so just nice open nothing in the way and ideally when you start you want to make sure that you have a full charge on your controller and a full charge on your drone now since I&#39;ve been making this video I&#39;ve been draining the battery of my drone so you&#39;ll see it&#39;s at 48 but for your first flight make sure that you have a complete charge on both your controller and your drone because you don&#39;t want to take it up and then run out of battery right away you want to have some time to play around Now to turn on your drone you press once and then hold and all the lights will light up and then you&#39;ll hear a chime and that&#39;s when the Drone is turned on and the same thing with the controller you&#39;re going to press the power button once and then hold until all the lights turn on and then you hear the chime and then both your controller and the Drone are turned on now out of the box they&#39;re paired so you shouldn&#39;t have any issue with the Drone connecting to your controller but if they&#39;re not paired you go into your menu setting where we showed you earlier and you&#39;ve repaired the Drone now you&#39;re ready to take off both the controller and the Drone are powered up you&#39;re at a good spot and the Drone is ready to go there&#39;s two ways that you can take the Drone off from the ground the first is the easiest on the left hand side of your screen the little arrow with the circle you press that it&#39;s going to pull up this menu that says take off and basically what it&#39;s going to do is the Drone is going to ascend into the sky and hover so I&#39;m going to hold that button in the center until the green is full and then the Drone is going to take off into the sky now the drone&#39;s just going to hover there until I start using the thumb sticks so if I want to land the Drone I could do the exact same thing so I can click that little H icon with the arrow and then hold in the center and the Drone is going to descend down to the ground find where it&#39;s going to land and the propellers will turn off so for the first time you&#39;re flying I would suggest do this take it up let it hover for a minute bring it back down just to make sure everything&#39;s working now the second way which is the way that I normally take off and fly is I just pull both joysticks inward that&#39;s going to start the rotation of the propellers but it&#39;s not going to take off it&#39;s just spinning there on the ground now I pull up on the left joystick and the Drone will Ascend into the sky and if I let go of the joysticks the Drone will just sit there and hover and that&#39;s one cool thing about these kind of drones is that if you don&#39;t touch the joysticks when it has a strong GPS signal the Drone will just sit here in this one spot and now if I want to bring the Drone down and land it I just pull down on the left joystick and I just keep holding the down on the left joystick until the Drone fully goes down to the ground and the propellers shut off and then I can let go of the controller so those are the two ways to take off and land foreign [Music] how the Drone actually flies in the sky so I&#39;m going to pull both joysticks inward I&#39;m going to start the propellers I&#39;m going to pull up on the left joystick it&#39;s going to fly up into the sky and let&#39;s go over how these joysticks work remember I&#39;m in mode two so if you&#39;re flying in a different mode your joysticks are going to work different but I suggest flying in mode two so let&#39;s get a shot of these arches so you can see what I&#39;m doing so on the left joystick if you press up the Drone is going to go up into the sky now if you pull it down the Drone is going to descend down I pull left on this left joystick the Drone is going to rotate in a circle now if I pull right the Drone is going to rotate the other direction to the right so you could think of your left joystick like the Drone is in a single spot on the earth and then it rotates so it can only go up and down that single spot and then it could also just rotate that&#39;s all the left joystick does now let&#39;s point at this Archway again now for the right joystick if I push forward the Drone is going to move closer to where those arches are and it&#39;s going towards that tree now now if I pull backwards on that right joystick the Drone is going to move backwards and you&#39;re going to see The Arches come into frame and the Drone is going to move back and past us over there now if I pull left on that right joystick the Drone is going to move that way so it&#39;s like sliding to the left and then if I pull right on that right joystick the Drone is going to move that way so it&#39;s sliding to the right so you could think of your right joystick as moving away from that center point so wherever that Center Point was if you push forward it&#39;s going to move that way forward away from it it&#39;s going to move backwards away from that point or left or right so the easiest way to think about these two joysticks is left joystick singular Point rotate around right joystick it&#39;s going to move out and Away in any direction and then the last thing is you can point these joysticks in a 360 around so if I wanted to push up and also Spin To the Left well I could put to the upper left hand corner and you can see how this drone is moving up and rotating and now if I pull right on that right joystick the Drone is also going to be moving to the right and you&#39;re getting this big arching Helix motion so you could really get fancy with your combinations and there&#39;s a lot of different ways that you can move this drone into the sky to be able to get some different looking footage and at the end of this video I&#39;ll link to another one of my videos that goes through a hundred plus drone moves that you could use and I go through all these different moves that you can make using these two joysticks and also your Gimbal and your zoom and so the last thing that I want to go over is how you use your gimbal so let&#39;s fly back to towards where we are I&#39;m going to use both joysticks to kind of position myself away from us as you can see the structure in front and me out here in the distance so the left jog wheel is controlling your gimbal if you pull that left the gimbal is going to rotate down and if I pull right on that jog wheel the gimbal is going to move up and the cool thing about this drone is that gimbal can move up to 60 degrees looking up so you could have the gimbal pointing straight up into the sky now with the controller with the screen built in the other jog wheel if you pull right it&#39;s going to zoom in and if you pull left on that jog wheel it&#39;s going to zoom out and so that&#39;s all the different ways that you could use this controller to move your drone and the camera in the sky foreign [Music] okay so let&#39;s dig into quick shots because quick shots are the only automation that you have in this drone you have no active track but if you get to a cool spot like this and you just want to get an awesome automation mode enough to think about controlling your drone well quick shots are the way to go so you&#39;re going to click the film strip and you&#39;re going to find quick shots which is the little reel icon and it&#39;s going to pull up this menu where it shows droney rocket Circle helix or Boomerang and each one of these is going to give you a different style of shot and it actually shows you what that&#39;s going to look like on the screen here on the left so let&#39;s just start with a drony I&#39;m going to minimize this screen and you can see that it finds me with a plus icon so I could either draw a box around Myself by making a box from left to right corner like that and it&#39;s going to grab me you can click the X at any time and exit out or I could just click the plus icon and it&#39;s going to grab me so there&#39;s two ways to set up this quick shot now in terms of resolution and exposure you could set everything like you would if you&#39;re normally flying without using the quick shots so you could set up Auto versus manual on all your exposure settings and then you could also change your resolution and frame rates I&#39;m going to keep mine at 4K 30 frames per second on auto I&#39;m going to set my distance away so you could go up to 360 meters away but I&#39;m just going to do the shortest which is 120 meters and then all you have to do is click Start it&#39;s going to give you a countdown and then it&#39;s going to automatically do the move so here is the droney it&#39;s just going to keep me centered and fly up and away foreign [Music] now once the shot is finished you&#39;ll see that the Drone is flying back to the original start position and once it finally gets to that spot then you&#39;ll be able to set up another quick shot or start flying and take photos or videos alright so now the Drone is back so you can just click the button and change and do a different move I&#39;m going to do the rocket and so the rocket is going to fly straight up from this part spot [Music] thank you now one thing to note when you&#39;re using quick shots and you hit go it&#39;s automatically going to start recording as soon as it starts the quick shot so it&#39;s just going to give you a complete file end to end you can&#39;t just let the Drone record as you fly it&#39;s basically going to start and stop every time you start a quick shot so let me just show you what each one of these quick shots looks like so you can get a sense of how you could use them so this one is the circle foreign [Music] is the helix [Music] and the last one that you have access to is called the boomerang [Music] thank you [Music] now these quick shots are super useful to get good looking footage easily it&#39;s an automation now the one thing that you can do is while you&#39;re actually in a quick shot mode you can move a little bit and the Drone will track you very limited tracking though so if I put it on say the circle and I wanted to follow me I could click the plus icon all the way to the left I&#39;m going to walk this way and you&#39;ll see that it does track me a little bit as you do the quick shot it&#39;s simple though it&#39;s not a ton of tracking so this is almost like a fake tracking shot that you could get for a few seconds but you can see as soon as it pulls in front well the shot&#39;s not going to look that good so really it&#39;s basically for just making sure that you&#39;re centered so if you do move around a little bit it&#39;s going to keep you centered with whatever you&#39;re doing but it&#39;s not really tracking all right so next let&#39;s dig into some of the photo features that you have access to on this drone [Music] so let&#39;s go over all of the photo modes that you have accessible to you on the mini 3. so I just got the Drone up to a point where you could see me on this Overlook I can kind of see everything from the mountains over there to the ocean out there so first you have to go into photo mode and if you&#39;re not in it already you just click the button here it&#39;s going to open up with all your different modes and you&#39;ll go to photo mode and you have three different photography modes that you could use when you want to take a photo you have single aeb and time shot so let&#39;s just do a single a single is just a photo just a single photo you can either click the button on top of your controller to take a photo or you can click the white button on the screen to take a photo now depending on how you have your settings set up you can either take jpeg or raw and so if you want to change your mode you just look at the bottom of your screen where it says format click the jpeg where it says JPEG and switch it to jpeg plus raw so when you switch it into jpeg plus raw you&#39;re getting both a JPEG and a raw photo you can&#39;t just shoot only raw so it&#39;s either jpeg only or jpeg plus raw so I just switched over to jpeg plus so I just switched over to jpeg plus raw take a photo great and the raw photo is going to give you just a lot more information that&#39;s going to make the photo easier to edit so I always shoot raw and I edit all my photos in Lightroom alright let&#39;s check out some of the other modes and if you want to shoot vertical photos you just click the vertical button like I showed you in video and you could do the same thing you could just take a photo with the camera rotated 90 degrees let&#39;s go back to horizontal now you could do aeb so when you click aeb what it&#39;s going to do is it&#39;s going to Auto bracket your photos so what that means is it&#39;s going to take photos that are brighter and photos that are darker so that when you bring them into your editing software you can combine them together to be able to change your exposure and account for both highlights and the shadows of a photo so here it takes three photos it takes one normal exposure what the camera thinks is best exposure because I have it on auto and then it takes a photo darker and it takes a photo brighter and you can bring these into your photo software and be able to combine find them or if you&#39;re not sure how you want to capture the scene it just gives you flexibility to give you a range of exposures for the place that you&#39;re shooting at so let&#39;s click over to the photo menu one more time and you have time shot so when you click on time shot it&#39;s going to bring up another menu that goes from Five Seconds all the way up to 60 seconds so let&#39;s just go to five seconds and then when you take your photo it&#39;s going to wait five seconds and then it&#39;ll take the photo and with this mode it&#39;ll keep taking a photo every five seconds or however many seconds you have set until you stop it so you could set this to 60 seconds and it&#39;ll take a photo every minute whereas if you have it five seconds every five seconds you can hear it it&#39;s taking a photo and then when you want to stop it you just click the photo button again or the photo button on the screen now the other mode that you have for photography is panoramics so if you go back to that main menu scroll down to where it says Pano click on Pano and you have three options you have sphere 180 and wide angle and so these are just different styles of panoramics let&#39;s click sphere and when you click the photo button it&#39;s going to take a bunch of different photos in a spherical format so you just have to wait for all the photos to be taken and it shows you a percentage on screen of how many photos it has left to take the sphere one takes a lot of photos because it&#39;s creating a 360 degree photo as if you have like a 360 camera up in the air so it&#39;s just going to take a little while to get through all these photos but then it automatically stitches them all together with all of these panoramic modes I&#39;m it&#39;s going to automatically Stitch the photos together but then you also have all the individual photos if you want to stitch them together yourself in your own editing software now the other modes you have is 180 so that&#39;s just a wide panoramic so it&#39;s going to take a series of photos in a line and then the last mode you have is wide angle so when you click the wide angle it&#39;s going to take a series of photos and a line but also a few up and a few down so it&#39;s just three different styles of panoramics that you can use if you want a wider shot of the scene that you&#39;re in now that&#39;s it for photo options on the DJI Mini 3 and it gives you a lot of different things that you can do when you&#39;re out flying your drone [Music] so are you someone who wants to just take photos or are you someone who wants to shoot video and then also you have to ask yourself well what are you going to use this video for I think the Trap that a lot of us will get into is getting to a really pretty spot and then just grabbing a bunch of footage or a bunch of photos without actually having a plan of what you&#39;re gonna do with that footage or those photos but the vast majority of us want to use this for a specific purpose so the biggest question you need to ask yourself is what is the end goal so what do you want to achieve using this camera when I first got into flying drones I would just shoot a lot of pretty shots put it together but it ended up being pretty boring when you just see a bunch of shots strung together with no real reason of why they&#39;re together so when I&#39;m going out to fly I always try to have a purpose before I actually take the Drone off and start flying for me personally I&#39;m either shooting for clients or I&#39;m shooting for videos on my channel and I&#39;m not going to just use a drone just because it looks cool I&#39;m going to use it to help tell my story or to help enhance the video that I&#39;m creating so when I approach what I&#39;m filming I think about it in terms of how do I want to use this footage for the story that I&#39;m telling so recently I went up to Death Valley and I was shooting a project with my buddies around driving through this area in California and the different obstacles that we were encountering now Death Valley is National Park so you can&#39;t fly a drone that is one thing you have to keep in mind you have to look at your local laws and regulations however for this story we actually started in BLM land before and after the park so I actually used the Drone to set the stage and shoot the first scene and then to shoot the final scene when we were leaving it was a great way to open and close this video and I used the shots to set the scene of where we&#39;re at to show someone this part of California and what it looks like so so a good way to use your drone is to set the scene to show areas from this perspective that you can&#39;t get with other cameras show these big open Landscapes it&#39;s a great way just to capture the view and really show this unique perspective now another project I recently shot I was out in Utah and I was in BLM land so I could fly the Drone pretty much anywhere for the majority of this trip now there was an area that we were at that had this crazy landscape it was all these weird colorful mountains and I used my drone to create a sequence so instead of just being a few shots to open or close the scene I created an entire sequence out of my shots to progress someone through us actually interacting with the space great way to go about creating a sequence is think of it in seven shots two wides two mediums two close-ups and one that&#39;s kind of unique and something different and the good thing about drones is you can easily get that unique and different shot by just putting the Drone straight up above and looking straight down a perspective you can only get with a drone so think of how you could get two different wide shots from a scene think of how you can get two different mediums and think of how you can get two different close-ups and with that think about movement so how are you going to move the Drone are you going to be moving it left to right up down forward backwards are you going to spin around there&#39;s so many Dynamic shots that you can make with your drone and when you start stringing these together and you have your subject moving through the scene progressing from point A to point B well you&#39;ll be able to create a sequence for so for this seam we were climbing these mountains and the final shot is us getting to the summit and looking at the landscape it&#39;s a very simple storyline us getting to these mountains climbing up and then being at the top but I shot it with this progression in mind and I was able to cut together this little sequence in the video that feels a lot more engaging than if it was just a few shots of the pretty landscape so one of the biggest things that you can do when you&#39;re working with your drone is think how can I use this tool to show my audience this area that we&#39;re at in a different view from a different perspective so if you&#39;re shooting photos what&#39;s a different shot than just putting the Drone up and looking out over the landscape so for example I have three photos here up on my wall that I&#39;ve taken they&#39;re all the straight down perspective and I really love this shot with a drone because it&#39;s so unique and when you get the Drone up in the sky you can see the landscape from a completely different perspective also think about Shadows Shadows are going to completely change when you&#39;re up above looking down at objects you can see how they interact with the Landscapes differently and you can get unique shots that you just don&#39;t get using other cameras and the more that you fly the more that you&#39;ll get used to finding these different shots and figuring out ways to use the Drone that will feel more creative than just putting the Drone up and looking straight out over the landscape so what&#39;s next after this video well this video was all the technical side of flying the Drone and just being able to use everything with the camera from here you need to figure out why you&#39;re shooting and what you&#39;re going to shoot using this drone so one thing that you&#39;re going to want to dive into is cinematography and the types of shots that you&#39;re going to get using your drone I have two videos here on my channel one goes through a bunch of different shot ideas and the other is a drone filmmaking beginner&#39;s guide which are both good ones for you to watch after finishing this video now editing is a skill that you should pick up so you can string your videos together and make them more interesting and if you really want to change the color and look of your videos then I would suggest checking out some color grading tutorials that are really going to show you how to make a better look out of your footage now I appreciate you sticking around till the end of this video because I know it was a long one and one thing I could ask from you is can you go down and click the Subscribe button also click the thumbs up if you like this video on this channel I teach a lot of technical videos like this about how to use your cameras but but I also dig into a lot about how to tell stories and how to make videos that your viewers are going to want to watch and personally I shoot a lot of Adventure Style videos I like to do documentaries of what I call vlogumentaries so I teach a lot about how to make that style of content here on this channel and next you should check out this video right here which is your drone filmmaking beginner&#39;s guide which goes through all the topics we didn&#39;t cover in this video but are more focused on cinematography and better shots with your drone I&#39;ll see you over there

Transcript for:Beginner's Guide to DJI Mini 3

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Beginner's Guide to DJI Mini 3