How to operate
A Drone Camera
Beginner's Guide Part 1 - DJI Mavic Pro
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how's it going everybody and Richard
here and today we're talking about the
Maverick Pro adds a new Matic Pro owner
so when I first got the drone I read up
on it I watched some videos but there
were a lot of things that I kind of also
learned after the fact that I wish I had
known at the beginning so today what
we're going to do is act like I just got
this drone and kind of go through the
initial procedures the initial settings
and the initial practices that you want
to start incorporating into your routine
your habits with flying this we have the
battery in we're going to take our arms
and flip them out and we are going to
take off our plastic gimbal cover and
also the clamp that holds the gimbal on
now right now I see I actually have a
gimbal filter you guys probably won't
have one just yet and if you do we're
going to fly without it so take off the
gimbal filter if you have one and we're
just going to fly standard drone out of
the box first thing we do and this is
kind of like maybe the first thing on
your checklist if you want to make one
for yourself well make sure the
propellers are in working order that
they're all on securely the battery is
in securely the gimbal is facing
somewhat so at least and snot off to one
side or looks like it's maybe snapped
out of its little mechanism there and
also make sure at the back and
everything all this is unimpeded because
there is a fan inside so we'll make sure
that there's nothing you know blocking
the fan intakes and out ticks also make
sure that your SD card is in motion have
a close come with their own SD card I
have upgraded to a 64 gigabyte they
usually come with a 16 gigabyte and make
sure that little switch is set to RC and
not Wi-Fi we are not flying in Wi-Fi
mode today
also make sure your lens is clean
because you don't want fingerprints that
might show up in your video
okay the drone looks good so we're going
to take our controller here it's fully
charged spread our little arms out and
then also take our antennas now the
first time that I got this controller I
found it really difficult to pull these
antennas apart I think it's because it
was new and so it had never been done
before really so unsnapping these and
moving them upward was really
bit of a challenge but since I have
worked it probably a hundred times by
now it comes apart really easily
normally I fly with an iPad but we're
going to use my phone today just like I
used to when I first got the drone and I
think that probably 90% of you guys will
be using a phone anyway we're going to
use the table and I'm going to plug it
in the bottom of this controller because
they're just the way that my phone is
shaped I can't actually utilize the
small chords that they gave me that
would fit on the sides here so instead I
have a longer USB to micro USB cord here
and that's how it fits with my phone now
the proper order for turning on all your
stuff here is remote first and then now
that your remote is on we're going to
turn on the drone in both of these
instances you press twice on the power
buttons once quickly and then hold it
the second time and then you'll see the
device boot up when you power on the
drone you will see the prompts all kind
of move just a little bit you'll also
see the gimbal move and that's just kind
of finding its Center it's not a true
gimbal calibration we're going to do
that in just a second in the app once
the controller connects with the drone
you will see atti mode turn on then gps
mode and then once everything is all
ready it says ready to go now we're
going to go into your phone and we're
going to go to the DJI go for app and
once everything is ready and you have
the app booted up and you have your
phone connection to your controller
which is also connect through the drone
it should say go fly now at this point
I'm going to start recording on my phone
with a program called a mobizen that's
how I record on my Android device I'm
also going to adjust my phone's
brightness I'm going to stop the auto
brightness function because I want to be
able to see this very clearly I'm going
to probably use my battery a little bit
faster because of that okay so now that
everything is on and we're connected in
the goal app and we see an image which
is important we want to make sure that
we see an image we're going to do our
calibration these are kind of the first
out-of-the-box calibrations that you'll
want to do first of all on the upper
left you'll see the DJI logo and then to
the right of that you see ready to go in
the Android version and I think most
other versions as well
you can click on ready to go and it will
bring up aircraft status and then here
what you can do is you can look at your
compass and your IMU status it may stay
normal the same time because we've never
actually started this drone before we're
going to calibrate our compass and our
IMU let's start with the IMU so let's
get out of that menu and go to GPS you
see up there on the top and the very
center of the screen GPS with a little
quadcopter logo scroll down all the way
to advanced settings and then scroll
down to sensors States here you have I
new calibration and compass calibration
you see my compass actually is in the
yellow so it's not good right now so I
am you calibration click on IMU and now
it says dismount propellers first so it
was important to get to this menu but
what we're going to have to do is
basically fold up our drone and take our
propellers off to to calibrate the
enemies let's do that real quick
so the drone is still on but we're not
going to touch it with the controls
you're simply going to start to the IMU
calibration will hit start and it says I
need calibration place the aircraft on
drawing plane ground as indicated so
just having it this way we've already
gotten the first step done now we move
it on to it's right side let it
calibrate and then the left side and go
through all that it's asking for and
when it's done we'll move on to next
calibration so we have a successful IMU
calibration once the IMU has been
calibrated you're going to have to shut
off the drone and restart it and our
next step is to calibrate the compass
spread the arms back out by this point
you probably feel that the drone is
getting warm and that's actually a good
thing because if we just turned it on
and start flying without it warming up
that's not always a good thing for the
components inside and the motor all
right let's put the propellers back on
now if you got the drone new you would
have had to do this anyway so perhaps
this is a good for us to be doing this
on video whatever I would like to just
address the fact that it's like 80
degrees right now and I'm getting eaten
by mosquitoes and it's only the
beginning of February back to our phone
and calibrate compass so it says make
sure no magnet or metal objects are
within 5 feet of the compass so I think
that actually the steps I'm on may be
reinforced with some sort of metal so
what I'm going to do is walk over here
and we're going to do the spin that
they're asking for rotate aircraft 360
degrees horizontally now my phone is not
showing this very well because I'm also
recording a little too much for the
capabilities of my phone so I am getting
a little bit of chewed-up image here but
rest assured and when you do this you
should have a much better image if you
have a phone that's not an antique like
mine now let's calibrate the gimbal
we're go back into the GPS quadcopter
menu there and at the bottom right
before the
three little dot you'll see the camera
this is the gimbal settings so we are
going to auto calibrate gimbal there at
the bottom
check the aircraft is level and nothing
is obstructing the gimbals range of
motion check okay let's begin and you'll
see that it's going to go through a
couple of movements it's basically going
to give us our progress throughout the
test and this is trying to figure out
what's level what it should be at this
point you can also do remote calibration
if you feel like it's necessary my
calibration for my remote was pretty
decent already but you do have the
remote controller settings here and you
can do remote controller calibration if
you feel like something's a little wonky
oh by the way see that magnetic field
interference there that that warning
message that means that yeah there must
be some metal in these steps we'll move
away when we want to actually take off
let's go into the the main settings here
the MC settings and let's go down to the
sensors so one step down from the
quadcopter icon on the left you will see
that little sensor icon for word
obstacle sensing this is good
so when forward optical sensors detect
an obstacle the aircraft will slow to a
stop
maximum speed using obstacle sensing is
22 miles per hour so basically has a 60
degree horizontal by 54 degree vertical
view sensing what is in front of it and
it will try and stop the drone for you
if it senses something coming up tap to
fly allow horizontal obstacle avoidance
if activated aircraft will automatically
fly around detected objects I don't want
it to automatically fly around things I
don't trust it I would much rather it
stopped so I'm not going to allow it to
try and move to the side or whatever
because since it doesn't have that field
of view directly to the left to the
right if it tries to avoid something in
front it could very well hit a tree or a
wall or something that's off to the side
so I'm not going to have that on that
seems like that's a bad idea
enable backwards flying this is
basically only if you're tracking
something and you're moving toward the
drone will it move away and kind of
follow you at the same distance moving
backward that's fine because if you're
tracking normally you already know where
the drone is and you can always kind of
control
with your own movement enable obstacle
avoidance if activated aircraft will
avoid obstacles horizontally otherwise
it will flow to the stop again off you
can turn that on if you feel like you
need to but you're going to have to
really know where your drone is in space
advanced vision settings enable downward
vision positioning yes let's keep that
on landing protection aircraft we'll
check the landing area when landing
protection is enabled sure we'll keep
that on precision landing that will
automatically collect landing
information during takeoff yes we'll
talk about that more in a second and
turn on smart return to homes
if obstacles is objected during smart
return to home aircraft will ascend to
avoid it you might have to turn that on
or off depending on where you are you
know if you're in a forest or something
you don't necessarily want it to go
higher to return to home because it's
going to crash into the canopy of the
trees and by the way return to home is
where your drone originally took off
from and it's sort of an automatic
feature to return to home if you have a
little battery or a disconnect finally
let's go back to emcee settings and
we're going to adjust return to home
altitude 60 meters I have that's going
to clear anything around here it's going
to go higher than any tree maximum
altitude 122 meters I have it set at so
in the United States
the FAA limits us to flying higher than
400 feet it's actually not allowed it's
illegal we can get fined or whatever so
122 meters is roughly 400 feet so that's
just really easy for you to not go above
that threshold by setting your maximum
altitude distance limit as well I have
it set to 200 meters I will never have
to go further than 200 meters I will
never have to send the drone out that
far away from me if I ever do I'll know
what to adjust setting to allow me to do
that okay so we have the drone in the
grass we're just going to do a quick
little takeoff now there's two ways to
take off you can either click on the
left side of the screen you see that is
actually a take-off button so we can do
that and slide to takeoff and it will
rise to about 4 feet now I'm not going
to do the slide to takeoff instead I'm
going to do the left thumb down left
right thumb down right we do it together
and then up on the left joystick which
is to raise the drone up and there we
are we're hovering now so it's that
simple if we want to land all we have to
do is press the drone or press the left
stick down and wait for it to initiate
its landing sequence and hold it until
it stops spinning now let's go into our
video settings so over there on the
lower right you will see a little
sliders along with the playback button
all the way at the bottom right I'm
going to click on those little sliders
in icon and you will see your ISO and
your shutter now it's kind of cloudy
today and kind of overcast but what
we're going to do is try and get a good
shot a good exposure out of what we're
working with today the higher the ISO
they're brighter the image the lower the
ISO the darker the image now with the
shutter speed it's the opposite the
lower the shutter speed the brighter the
image the higher the shutter speed the
darker the image so between the shutter
and the ISO you can kind of combine the
settings to get a good exposure what you
want to do is have the lowest ISO
possible for any given image and then
adjust your shutter now of course there
are filters and that sort of thing that
will also help you darken your image
without having to raise your shutter so
much but for today we're going to talk
about as the drone comes stock out of
the box so we're going to set our ISO to
100 and our shutter speed to 150th that
actually looks like a pretty good image
to me if we're looking out at the grass
in the trees
I'm also going to set my white balance
to cloudy because that's what it is
today it's very cloudy I talked about
style and colorization and that sort of
thing in another video so I suggest you
look at that I will be shooting in full
4k at 24 frames a second because I just
like that look so there we are we're
going to tap the center of the screen to
get a focus on those trees far away the
home base is where we just took off
front so directly underneath the drone
now considered home if it loses signal
or if it you know somehow has a low
battery critical message or whatever it
will return back to its home location
the best it can one way to improve that
return to home accuracy is to raise the
drone at least thirty feet maybe even
forty feet and that actually enables it
to create a downward positioning image
in the drone to figure out where it has
to go back as it returns to home and it
utilizes that precision landing sensor
that we turned on earlier on in the
sensor menu so let's say we're done with
the shoot and we want to land there are
two ways to do that you can either do
the land function here land aircraft now
and it's going to say ok or cancel but
what I usually do is hit the thumbstick
down the left thumbstick just like we
use the left thumbstick to raise it up
to ascend we're going to descend into a
land and it's going to stop and hover
there two feet or so keep pressing and
there we go it's finally initiated its
landing sequence you keep pressing down
to descend and fill those blades stop
now what we're going to do is turn off
the drone and let it cool down for just
a minute or two before we put it back in
the bag let's put the gimbal clamp back
on I find that it's easy to tilt the
drone forward a little bit to allow the
gimbal to kind of swing forward
ultimately you will see a drone nestled
in just like that you'll see that the
gimbal has its own little notch now they
also gave me a cover that prevents this
plastic from getting scratched and
smudged I don't really use that because
I don't fly with this anyway so I don't
care if this gets scratched always try
not to do is not fly with the gimbal
cover things that could happen if you do
it could actually prevent the drone from
cooling yourself properly because right
now you see you're actually blocking the
air intake if I take this off there's
actually an air intake for that fan
within the inside so if you're doing
this you're blocking that air and say
can you drone might overheat well thanks
so much for watching guys I hope this
was informative I have another video
coming out where we're going to actually
look at how we process some of the Matic
footage that we shoot
using premier and APC so if you have
premier and a PC or you plan to get one
check out that video might help you with
some editing strategy and how to process
Matic footage or really any footage that
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