Beginner's Guide Part 1 - DJI Mavic Pro

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 you take all right guys like the video subscribe because I'm doing more videos like this a lot and also give me a comment or a suggestion or something like that if you have something to say until next time thanks for watching guys [Music]

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Length: 17min 8sec (1028 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 10 2017