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All I want for Christmas is.... Waypoints for my Mini 3 pro...!!!! Merry Christmas to ALL.!!!!!

@davykelly1857

9 ай бұрын

Happy Christmas 🎅

Thanks for the update on a really cool feature Russ. Let's hope they bring it to even more drones.

Thank you for these incredibly useful tutorials. They're helping me gain confidence!

You and your channel are concise and loaded with valuable content. I had given up on waypoints for my Mavic 3 and didn't realize they had arrived until your channel notified me. Hope you had a Merry Christmas and may your New Year be better than the last few.

Hi Russ! Thanks again for this wonderful video. Coincidence or not, but today I’ve just used waypoints on my 3-week old baby, the standard Mavic 3. It makes this awesome drone even more awesome. Greetings from Romania and keep up the amazing work! 😎

I LOVE this. Thank u for making such an in-depth tutorial, gonna be using this information tomorrow at my shoot!

Great tutorial, thank you! I'm surprised more people aren't talking about waypoints, what a huge feature to now finally have!

Great video and I used the information today to get a great sunset. Thanks for the work you do.

It was nice to see Waypoints arrive to Mavic 3 with the latest round of firmware updates. And good tutorial on how to get started with Waypoints. Thanks for sharing Russ.

Excellent Tutorial Video On Waypoints. Thank You Russ.

Great information and great video. Thanks for sharing.

super helpful video thanks for sharing!

This was so helpful! Thank you for posting this tutorial!

Great tutorial. I just bought a Mavic 3 to replace my Phantom 4 so I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to more great information. Thank you!

Good video, I have a mavic 2 pro and I've used the waypoints and I thought it was included with all the mavic drones. Thanks for the tutorial

Great video! I went out and used them last week but didn't know how to use them! Thanks!

Great tutorial! Thank you.

Thanks for sharing, have a great week

Going to Thailand in February I will be using waypoints on the temples and the villages. So happy they are using waypoints again. Nice video keep up good work

great video

I sure wish there was a way to build the flight plan on the computer and transfer it to the remote later.

Thank you so much for such a great video

Thank you. Very clear explaination

Thanks Russ. In the field working on a Waypoint mission. I’m looking to edit a mission by adding a WP in between two WPs. Thanks for all your hard work and videos.

Tks for the tutorial!

I love waypoints, and have been deep diving into complex missions. One thing I am not super clear on is "Auto" for camera zoom... the app states "Auto calculated based on previous and next waypoints" -which seems to indicate a slow zoom to whatever setting, then slowly back to what it was previously, over time from the waypoint before to the one after. TIP: Stay organized. If you are setting speed, set it for all waypoints on the mission, it's easy to start jumping around changing this, then that, then the other. Don't do that, at least not on a complex mission, else I guarantee you will end up with a mess. Russ is 100% right... This is the single best thing DJI has done at least since Mavic 3 release!

Really Amazing video and really have learned a lot

Thank You!

Hi Russ, great video. Just an FYI, when planning a waypoint mission remotely, you do NOT have to power on the drone. You can plan it using the remote only.

@contrerasoj

Жыл бұрын

How do you do that?

@bobbarnes

Жыл бұрын

@@contrerasoj 1. Start up your remote 2. Tap "Connection Guide" in the lower right-hand corner 3.Tap "Camera view" on the upper right-hand screen 4. The screen will show as if the drone is in flight but there will be no camera image (screen is black). 5. Tap on the map (lower left) 6. Manually zoom into the area where you want to plan your mission. 7. Tap the waypoint icon and plan your mission. 8. save the mission. I hope this helps

@bobbarnes

Жыл бұрын

@@rodrigoardilha6959 I have a Mavic 3 Cine. Any Mavic 3 will have waypoints. However, you have to be running firmware version V01.00.1000 (Dec 9, 2022) or later and also have DJI Fly v1.9.0 or later.

Very interesting. Can't wait until I get my Mavic 3 Pro. Have a great day! 😀

Great tutorials, as always:)

Great video as always! As a sidenote, on a job site today, using white points for the first time… I would hit save an exit, and it wouldn’t. I thought, perhaps I was missing a step. So I watched your video again. No, didn’t miss a step. However, it still would not save… That is, until, I turned on my Wi-Fi hotspot connected my controller to the Internet. I found this to be a fascinating situation. Happy and safe flying.

Very nice. Thanls for this. :)

Thanks bro for a video. Was playing today with my pro 3...well...was practicing near a tree these way points...turned off obstacle avoidance...I did nice way points around a tree...wasn't following exactly same route I put on waypoints and stopped not going through some branches even having enough room to go through

This is the info I needed most.

Thanks, great walk thru…

Great Video young man. I really enjoy Waypoints, my issue is I have "OLD MAN EYEs" and can't see the screen, which is why I have used Litichi for years. I create missions in my desktop and load them via phone or tablet into the Mavic seamlessly.

Thanks for the video I'm still getting familiar with way points. I did something crazy with way points, but I probably won't do it again. I flew 5 miles, no signal, took a pic of my subject, and waited nervously for the drone to come back and it came back thank god

With the Air 3 now released yes it has waypoints and eager now to try it on mine ..been using litchi waypoint on my old mini 1

Thanks for this. Just upgraded to the M3 and was struggling to find a use case for this. Essentially(what I'm gathering) is for hyperlapse video, or videos that require a seamless transition from day to night, for example? I don't see myself integrating it as I only fly manually, but good to know!

I just checked to see if this was available of the Mini3 Pro and Air2S and the answer is YES and YES...YEAH. 1/2/23

on signal lost, if you set it to continue, you can have the drone fly behind an object that you know it will loose signal

ok cool now setting one up before getting there is awsome

I remember when you showcased the hospital when there was hardly any structures! I was following you when I bought my first drone, the M2P in September 2018.

I know, I'm late... 😄Great Tutorial 👍 and guess what... I'll try to work with waypoints in the future, too!

Hi there, thank you for another fantastic and instructional video. Can I ask you: why you don’t start from point 3? So you’re already there, saving battery. The POI on waypoint it’s genius! Love that feature

Really excellent video, thank you! One question: if for instance waypoint 1 is at 100 feet. Waypoint 2 is at 200. Will it smoothly move from 100 to 200 on the way between the 2 waypoints or will it reach waypoint 2 and then only move from 100 to 200 feet?

Thanks man. Great video. If I wanted to video a length of beach, looking for plastic, could I set waypoints at home and then have drone fly beach? Without actually walking there. I would be parked 1 mile inland I should think. From saftey point of view I am talking wilderness location. Thanks

I was just using this feature and it's great, wonder if they'll ever allow litchi on this new system.

Thanks for the tutorial! As you plan a waypoint flight off-site, the drone curves around the waypoint to the next one in a smooth line. I remember the Mavic 2 waypoints had an option to choose between 'arc' and 'polyline'. The polyline option would move straight to each waypoint without curving. I need this feature for mapping sites, where orthogonal pictures in a grid are made. Do you know if you can choose to have a polyline flight between waypoints too? Cheers!

Nice overview. We shall just hope that the waypoints are soon available to the Mini 3 pro. Been doing for years with Litchi and p3p, p4p. Mini 1. Or at least that dji releases the sdk so Litchi can be used at last for that matter. Why call it 'pro' if it can not emulate what we have been doing for years with older drones. Dji makes nice drones, but these software intended limitations are such a pain...

Thanks for the video. I'm not in front of it right now, but I'm curious, can you do interval timed photos between waypoints? In other words, set up a grid, with say a couple of dozen way points, and have it capture a photo every 2 seconds between all the way points?

I bought two different size EcoFlow power stations during black Friday to carry in my camper, and to have for backup at home. They can also be used for a safety power outage battery backup for a computer and router etc. I want to video the downtown skyline but I don't really feel safe, and would like to set my waypoints at home, then go near the area and fly the "mission". As I was writing my question, you answered it, now I just have to do it! Thank you... There is no such thing as something an app can't do if it is programable. Someone coded the original app, and they can modify it if they have the skill or knowledge and time. The Mavic 3 was released as an unfinished drone to beat Christmas sales, or another brand. It has been built over time quite well. I am glad they didn't wait until now to release it, because I have had a lot of fun with it, and made some nice videos. I just got the Mini 3 Pro to play with indoors and as a stealth drone when people are around.

Thanks for your tutorial. As always very clear and concise. DJI’s Waypoints isn’t everything that Litchi did, but it is pretty good! I have one problem when using this. I have my global settings as Imperial units, but in Waypoints the global speed shows as m/sec. Any thoughts on how to fix this?

This is by far the most powerful add on for this drone and really should have been there day one. But it's finally here and with that the value of the M3 doubles.. Now if we could just get the mobile SDK released!

sweeeet!

I use waypoints as well and this video is great. Help! How do you video shoot a building or structure and have the Mavic 3 pro just auto fly in a circle around the structure? The owner's manual is very vague. Thanks!

That looks like it be a very useful tool for route planning & help a flight be more efficient. One could only hope they make it available across the board. If not it may be time to upgrade from the mini 2 to one that has that function. 😎

@rkdbaj

Жыл бұрын

Mini 2 does waypoint missions on the litchi app & other apps i think. However i taped the bottom sensors & flew "blind" (on the dji app) & now mini 2 doesn't work at all. Don't think i'll cover the sensors on mini 3 pro. The sphere stitching errors are bad enough. Don't need the drone to error out completely!

So, basically Litchi. I cant believe they havent already done that years ago. Thanks for the video.

Hi, first of all, thanks for an amazing explanation, nevertheless I have a question. I wonder whether the Obstacle Avoidance function is working on the Waypoint mission or if I must turn it on manually whenever I fly with Waypoint? Thanks in advance

Great job Russ. I have MINI 3 PRO and need Waypoints like the MAVIC 3. Any predictions?

Great content. Is this level of granularity settings of Waypoints only available on Mavic 3. I don't see these option on my Air 2S ( not available on Air 2S ?

Hell Russ, This is a great video. I use waypoints all the time on my Mavic 2 pro/zoom. I recently switched over to litchi, as I found the mission hub to be very helpful when adjusting flights from my laptop at home. I also had concerns about the DJI waypoints only being on the device you set them on, and they aren't cloud based among all of your devices. So if I fly from my smart controller and then want to use my Ipad, the waypoints aren't there. I'm getting ready to purchase the M3E. Do you know if the waypoints work with the M3E? and do you know if they can be saved from different devices like Litchi?

Hello Russ. Great channel for drones man. I have a question for you. Is the wayppint features of the DJI Mavic 3 identical to the Mavic 2 Pro? Is it the same? Less or more? Thank you in advance.

I would like this for my older Air 2, but my guess is it requires side-facing obstacle avoidance sensors for safety reasons, so I doubt it will be released for any drones that do not have them. I could be wrong though, that did happen once 🙂.

Oh man great job thank you so much. Do you have a video on Drone Deploy if so please let me know I need to see it please

@51Drones

Жыл бұрын

No, but I need to. Billy Kyle has some.

Great video thanks. I want to video the main block of the main street in our small mountains town. However the top of the block on the main street is about 30 meters higher than the other end of the block on the lower end of the main street about 400 meters away. I want the drone to follow the contour of the street, not drop instantly at different weigh points. Weight Point1 & 2 could be either end of the street, but how to have the drone loose attitude smoothly and consistantly in the flight between WP1&2?

If I want to have a change in direction, altitude or whatever, is it performing that change linearly or in a smooth s-curve for example? I saw drone videos that looked horrible when sped up.

Hi! When a waypoint mission is saved is it possible to transfer it over to a different controller?

Russ, thank you for the wonderful tutorial. Very important question - if I am in the middle of a waypoint mission and a manned aircraft suddenly appears in my path, how do I cancel the mission so I can manually drop altitude to be completely safe and out of their way? The RTH function either follows a predetermined altitude until it is over home and then drops w/no way to manually drop altitude during the return process...or if quickest route is chosen it's still not possible to lower altitude manually, is it? I ask because just as I was preparing to take off the other day on a waypoint mission, out of nowhere a huge airbus appeared over my house. It was flying so low, I didn't think it was going to clear the 400 foot hill at the end of my street. Obviously it did and I have to assume it was higher than it looked, but I've been having nightmares ever since. What if I would have taken off, gone up to 400 feet and that happened? I need to know how to cancel the mission in just such an emergency during a waypoint flight. Thank you! (Oh for the record I did file a flight plan, checked both apps for clearance AND the screen on my controller of course. Nothing showed up to indicate any traffic in the area).

they must add a rule of third + waypoints + pan tilt method .where in every part of grid should change according to way points. for example waypoint rule of third 1 should be left heavy and first grid 1x 9 object tracking ,2 nd way point rule of third should be center grid 5x9 object tracking . another feature is depth of field tracking .

Do you need an SD card in the remote for this, or just the drone? Thanks 🙏🏻

Do you think it is possible to include a lens change as part of a waypoint mission on the Mavic 3 Pro?

Way Points are great. I use Litchi. Great software.

So much talk about waypoints and night mode with the Mavic 3 Classic. Does anyone know if both of those modes/capabilities are available for the regular Mavic 3 Pro?

Great content. Is it possible to edit waypoints on a mobile device? The screen on the controller isn’t very responsive and really lags during edits.

hi, can you send a link to your video for the DJI min 3 for the follow me option? i do camping, overloading so looking a best drone (of corse acceptable prices range, i'm not for the youtube videos), so driving truck and drone follow on top, slightly behind at high attitude, so film truck and all envromant around. Does it do that auto mode, so I don't need fly it, also to move drove a front of the truck, how would it work ?

Can the longer waypoint mission be done with multiple batteries on Mavic 3? Example:- After planning the mission it starts shooting, midway it gets below 20% so I do RTH, then swap battery then can it go to resume from where it returned from & continue shooting the mission further?

Can you get it to take pictures in certain intervals along the way like hyperlapse waypoint?

Great video....at the 8:46 mark you say you can hover over the POI and select that place. Is it the c1 button once you get to that spot. that is great if you can actually do that. NOW Christmas has come early adding both of those features (waypoints and c1 button POI) I don' think you tell us how to select POI flying over subject. Cheers.

@51Drones

Жыл бұрын

Yes, that is correct, the C1 button will set the coordinates of your current position/altitude.

Quick question: does Mavic Mini 4 pro have the exact same waypoint options as Mavic 3? In Mavic Mini 4 pro can you preset waypoints at home and then fly them on site? In other words, does Mavic Mini 4 pro have native waypoints or is it still virtual stick? If during waypoint mission you lose connection with Mini 4 Pro, is it going to complete the mission or return straight back to you?

Love how you have estimated 28 minutes left with less than 75% :P Definitely one of the benefits of having that longer flight times to have functions like this.

@51Drones

Жыл бұрын

Yes!

I remember pre-program the waypoints without being in the air with Mavic 2. Can the new waypoint do the same thing?

Hi Russ! Is it safe to using waypoints at night time around bridge & towers? Thanks

Can you make it just fly while you control the camera manually, similar to the Inspire 3 “3D Dolly”?

Hello- I hav enjoyed your productions so much. The variety you offer is great. Plus, I spent a few months in Minnesota last year, so selfishly, I always find it enjoyable watching your backdrops! My interest in this message is to see if you would consider making a video on the waypoints setting for the RC Pro remote when using the new Mavic 3 Enterprise drone. There are many video options for the waypoints setting used in the Mavic 3 Classic and Cine models but nothing on the Enterprise series. Unfortunately, the waypoints shown in the remote for the E series does not match the look on the standard Mavic 3 models…i.e. no squiggly icon on the flight view screen, nothing showing POI settings and other features you are showing in this waypoints video. I see how to use it on the 3 Enterprise with the RC Pro remote, but it’s not near as convenient or understandable as you display here. Maybe it is not possible to use waypoints as fluidly with the E series as it is with the standard models. I do hope this is not the case. Thanks so much for your time here, even if only to tell me I am out of luck. Chris

Great video ! I tried the waypoints for a time-lapse video: at sunset I flew the same route 3 times , once in full light, once in the blue hour, once in darkness... I wanted to "morph" the three shot to start from liught and ending in dark where only the street lights give some light. And Mavic 3 failed miserably. ALthough I obviously saved the waypoints and it was a simple movement ( 8 waypoints in total ), the drone didn't find theexact starting point , so the shots were different in angle and couldn'T be layered.... Do you have any experience or advice in this topic ? Thanks !

I wonder if you did this same waypoint once a week for next couple months if you could timelapse its construction...

Well done, Russ. Like others, I wish waypoints and cruise were available for M3P. I do find that SkyGrid works pretty well on my Mini 2 as a free mapping device.

@JoseArrom

Жыл бұрын

I think they just added them to Mini3P, or use Litchi or Map Pilot Pro, etc.

@freeforester1717

Жыл бұрын

@@JoseArrom Is there any way of confirming this, please? The reason I ask is that I bought a M3Pro about three weeks ago, and following the hype surrounding the launch of the update, coupled with my understanding of the desire ability of the function I went online and bought the lifetime option from the dji store, only to realise later that it was (then) actually only for the Mavic 3’s and not as yet available for the mini 3 pro. Any link or info gratefully appreciated, thank you, and have a great and hopefully flyable Christmas!

Hi i AM new un the drones area i just want to know exist a external screen i can attach to My arm or a screen only to see the camera dron?

Mavic 3 and Mavic Mini 3 Pro: What is the minimum and maximum distance rule for the Active Trak range operation. And if it follows a car, the control needs to be in that car, or what is the maximum distance of the controller from the aircraft? Thanks for your reply.

How many different waypoint missions can you save and how long can they be saved for? And how many waypoints can be saved within a mission? I need to cover a construction site with 7 different missions, once a week for a year

RUSS: The new Manual dropped for Mavic 3, we got v1.8 on 11-5 with Cruise Control and Night Mode, now V2.0 User Manual with Waypoints details. It answered my question about Zoom "Auto" setting. I can zoom from 1x to 3x as slow as the battery lasts if I want. Did 2 waypoints like this a kilometer apart, zooming soooo slooow! Lol. Also, automated Dolly Zooms. So freaking awesome 👌 👏 👍 FYI offline mission planning doesn't require the drone to be powered up, just save it and it uploads to Aircraft when you fly it. 😉

@michaelantcliff5906

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this advice about the latest Mavic 3 manual. I too was wondering about some of the more subtle points of the Waypoints operation. But regardless, waypoints is a brilliant addition to the Mavic 3. Thanks also for your input on the zoom function

@davelanders2887

Жыл бұрын

Russ do an auto dolly zoom video please

I tried to use this on my M2P last winter, but the POI I wanted to highlight (lighthouse) is not on the map b/c it's out in the water, and the map only shows land. Did not know there was a satellite view. I'd prefer if we could do this on a PC ahead of time at home due to the screen size, but that's the old man in me.

Excellent video Russ, but honestly, wouldn't you rather save time and enjoy the comfort of pre-planning these missions in the comfort of your own home using Dronelink or Litchi, instead of standing out there in the cold and wasting battery time flying to the way points to set them?

I have never used DJI WP until today. I used to use Litchi all the time. Can I adjust the speed of the drone while it is flying the waypoint? Can I adjust the yaw that the drone is flying during the mission. I want to be able to adjust where the camera is pointing at during the mission. Can I adjust the zoom levels during the mission? I want to do this because I want to set a waypoint along a road and then while it is flying the waypoint I want to follow the car. Using waypoints I can be assured that I will not hit a tree or power line because I can have the drone ascend when those obstacles approach and then descend. I don't use Active Track because, well, I don't trust it and I would need to lock onto the car when it is moving which active track cannot do.

Such a good story line and thanks for sharing it. I do like the extra added animation on your videos. Especially how you had your face shot pop up in a second screen. any chance you might do a video on that? It's nice to see that DJI is finally letting go with some of the good features these apps can do. I was about to get my next drone until some 3rd party fly ware came out. There's nothing like mission planning as well as way-point strategy. Why are they just making those features available to higher end drones? I have reviewed both Litchi, as well as the new Maven Lite fly available both android/ios. Both have made these same, if not easier features to the whole line of DJI including the mini 2. Maven Lite offers a copilot feature (extra 6.00) that turns a regular drone into a fpv like. It has surely changed the game...even for a mini 2 pilot.

@Bdzynes

Жыл бұрын

also...weird...for no extra cost both apps can be deployed via tablet or pc..mission planning while sitting at the desk..it's like playing roller coaster tycoon

So it's not possible to make a waypoint mission of straight lines? From point to point is always curved? With the Mavic 2 Pro using DJIGo4 app you had a choice of curved or not.

does obstacle avoidance work when it travels in between waypoints?