- All right, so today we're talking all about the DJI FPV drone. This is probably the first
FPV drone to go mainstream, so no surprise, there's a ton
of questions about this thing and we are gonna go
through a lot of details, so this video is gonna be a long one. Sit back, grab some popcorn
and use the bathroom now if you need to because we're
gonna be going in deep. And there's actually a lot of questions that I don't have answers to, so DJI is meeting us here and
they're gonna be helping us answer some of these questions. But first, let's try to
get a quick flight in before they get here. (upbeat music) I know you guys have mentioned that there's a cinematic mode coming. What can you tell us about that? - Gonna be a 24 frames mode with the ability to run a 1/48th shutter. - If it's gonna be 1/48th of a shutter, is it going to be overexposed? At that point, do you need ND filters or, there's no aperture
control in the lens, right? So would that be countered
with ISO going really low or is ND filters gonna
be a thing that's needed? - So that's a scenario where
ND filters are definitely gonna become necessary when
you're shooting in bright light. - I know right now, Freewell
is making some ND filters. Are you guys gonna be making some as well? - In many cases, we'll have ND filters that kind of follow the drone but because of the type
of drone that it is, it's less of a priority. So like, just like with the other drones, other manufacturers, third-party stuff, tend to happen much faster. - Now crashing is a big part of FPV. What's covered under DJI Care and what are some of the repairs
you can make on your own? - Sure, so first off,
DJI Care is a service that you can purchase for 199 bucks. And what that gets you is two replacements at a lower cost, you know, with
sort of no questions asked. You'll send it in, they'll take a look, they're gonna replace it right away, it'll come right back out to you. - If you do need to go in and
get a complete replacement, there's a deductible? - Kind of like, you
know, AppleCare, right? So if you get the two free replacements, your first replacement is $259. Your second full replacement is $279. You're still paying something,
but it's significantly less than if you had to rebuy yourself. - When it comes to repairs
that you can do at home, what are the components that
we can just buy parts for and swap it out on our end? - Three components that
you can replace yourself, if you were just gonna
purchase from the website, that's the top shell, the gimbal camera, and the landing gear. - So when you say landing gear, you're talking about these
two front feet right here? Okay, I see. So this is separate from the arm itself. And the camera just pops
out and the top shell. And of course propellers. All right, now I've seen
some people hand catch these drones instead of landing them and flipping it upside down. Is this is a thing that
you're allowed to do or is it something that people just do? - People are gonna do
what they're gonna do but we would never recommend that. Right? I mean, it's obvious. You have spinning propellers that you're putting your hand close to. So in no the circumstances
would we ever recommend that. - Okay cool, yeah, I would never do that. I would, no, no. Traditionally, landing an FPV drone, you get it as close as
you can to the ground and just disarm, drops it
and let it skid a little bit. (drone pilot grunting) It's very hard to disarm
this drone in FPV mode but you guys actually
recommend not landing it in full manual mode. - The recommended way to land DJI FPV is in normal or sport mode because you have the
benefit of all the sensors and the auto leveling,
which will put you down exactly the way that it's designed to. You can come in and land traditional FPV if you really want to be hardcore about it and use the double tap to
start and stop the motors, but it's definitely not the
recommended way to do it. - And taking off is much easier, but especially if you're not
used to this quad just yet, than probably taking off in normal mode and then once you get
it to a nice, safe spot, that's when you would
flip it into manual mode. Is that what you would recommend? - You can if you're comfortable
and you're, you know you know what you're doing,
you can absolutely take off in manual mode and blast off the ground like you would with an FPV drone, but for those people who
are getting used to flying, which is the majority of people that are gonna be flying this drone, you definitely want to
take off in normal mode. Again, you have the
benefit of all the sensors and everything helping you. - If you're gonna go
fly with other people, I know one of the rules
is you're not supposed to just show up and just plug in your goggles or else you could kick other people off of their radio frequencies and all of a sudden they lose
control off their FPV drones. But I know the digital system has simplified that process quite a bit and there's some safety
measures to make sure you're not kicking
people off their signals, 'cause that'd be the worst thing ever. If you're flying with
friends with the DJI drone, how many people can you fly with safely? - The official answer
we got was four people. In a scenario like that, if the RF started to get
really saturated or whatever, somebody came in and
plugged in another drone, one of the great things
about DJI FPV is you have that return to home switch,
that air brake switch, so the drone's not gonna
fall out of the air like a traditional FPV drone would. It will return to home and land safely. - One of the unique things
about this FPV drone is that there's sensors on it,
on the front facing direction and on the bottom. Which modes utilize the sensors and which modes completely ignore it? - In normal and sport mode, you have what's called obstacle slowing. So this is not the
traditional obstacle avoidance that you're used to with the Mavic product where it will actually stop you. If you really wanna fly into an object, it will allow you to do that but it will slow you
down and let you know, in normal or in sport mode,
that there is an obstacle there. So that's designed to not
take away from your experience but to let you know, and to give you time to make an adjustment so that
you don't crash your drone. - Even when you have the
obstacles slowing off, it still is gonna tell you how far you are from the ground. - I actually find that very useful because with the goggles, a lot of times, it's really hard to tell if
you're a foot off the ground or three feet off the ground. I love be able to just look
at the bottom of the screen and it turns red when you
get low in full manual mode. And it's like, you're three
feet off the ground right now. All right now time for some
questions from the audience. William asks, "How far does it go?" - Ocusync 3.0 and DJI FPV
will give you 10 kilometers. That's line of sight, uninterrupted
in a low RF environment. So obviously those specs are, you know, based on a perfect environment. - How's the image
quality from the goggles? Well, I can answer that one. It's really good, but it's
not as good as the footage that you get out of the memory card. So I'll put a little
split screen up right here to compare the two. It's plenty to fly with but if you're gonna upload
it or edit it into a video, you definitely want to
pull that memory card and use the stabilized
footage out of there. - When it's processing that footage, some of that processing happens after you're seeing it, right, so like the rock steady
electronic image stabilization, so you're seeing just the
raw image without that. But then on that memory
card is the fully processed, so it's gonna look way more stable. - Does it have active track? - No. (laughing) - Okay. - I've seen some of those
questions too, of like, "Could this be my everything drone?" Kind of, but that's not
really what it's for, right? Like, it's about that
flight experience, you know, and like a combination of
you're getting cool FPV footage or you just enjoy flying. If you're looking for, you
know, normal cinematic footage, where you're not really paying attention to the way it moves, then
you're still gonna want a regular Mini 2, Mavic
Air 2 or Mavic 2 Pro. - All right, now let's talk
about image quality for a bit. Daniel RP says, "I want to know
everything about the camera. Specs, frame rates, and resolutions." - So you get 4K at 50 and 60 frames and at 1080, you get
50, 60 and 100 and 120. There's, I believe, two
different color profiles. There's the normal and
then there's D-Cinelike for a flatter profile to get just a smidge more of
dynamic range for video. - [Gene] What are your
settings, personally? - I mean, for me, I want
the most latitude in post, so I shoot 4K 60 for everything. And I shoot in the
D-Cinelike color profile because I want as much color
information as possible. If you just want the
best image out of camera and you don't want to do any post work, then you probably want to
use the normal color profile. Some people shoot in the 50 frames mode because they want it to be a
little bit slower frame rate. But for me, if I want motion
blur, I'm gonna add it in post. I would prefer to have
the option for myself, so I want it as sharp as possible and high resolution as possible and then I can tweak it any
way I want in post-production. - These are all settings we have right now but then, of course, the cinematic mode will eventually come out,
which will give us 24, so that's something
I'm looking forward to. Margo asks, "Can you
tilt the camera smoothly while flying in a straight line? An example, for a chase speeding up?" - On the remote controller,
you have two options. You have preset angles, so there's a switch on the right side that will put you like level minus degrees and then positive degrees. But you also have a rocker wheel that gives you full tilt control. So anything that you're chasing or anything you're trying to keep up with, you can fly and that's on the left side, designed so that with your
finger on the throttle control, you can still tilt the camera up and down. - Gavin says, "How cinematic
can the FPV footage get?" Well, this one's kind of tricky because FPV is very much skill-based. - I think really that
question is about smoothness and kind of like the flow style of flying, which we consider it to be that kind of cinematic way of flying. And as Gene said that has a
lot to do with the pilot skill. There's different settings and stuff, like sport mode is sort
of designed as a hybrid, so you can get those fast
cinematic looking shots but in manual mode, so much
of that is throttle control and the smoothness of the operator. - Now, speaking of flying smooth, I know one of the first things that people tend to start
customizing is the rate, so how fast do you go
through your pitch or rolls and all that. Now there was a kind of a traditional way of adjusting it with
super rates and all that. But I notice with this FPV drone, it's a whole different set of adjustments. Can you tell us a little bit about those? - So we have three settings under rates. You have your center stick sensitivity, which is about literally
how sensitive the stick is when it's in the center position. So if you want to be able to fly with a lot of precision,
meaning like very quickly, and you don't want to have
to move the sticks very far, that's what center stick sensitivity is. If you want it to react really
quickly to your movements, then you're gonna adjust that
center stick sensitivity. Max rate is the rate that the
drone responds on each axis to your stick input. When I go to do a flip or a
roll and I'm pushing the stick, it's either moving too fast
or too slow for my feel , the way that I want it, then that's what that
max rate setting is for. So that will specifically control how quickly the drone
responds on each axis. And it's broken down on each axis for you. So if you want to specify
which axis you want, maybe you just want the yaw
to be a little bit slower, a little bit smoother, you can adjust just the
rate on just the yaw axis. And then the final setting
is the expo setting. So you could think of
it as an overall setting that will affect both the
center stick sensitivity and the max rate setting. - So if you were to raise the expo then it starts off slower and
then gradually gets faster and faster as you reach
the end of the stick, is that how that works? - That's the easiest way to explain it. The recommended way to
do it would be to change one axis, one rate parameter at a time. And it does take a lot of time to kind of get into the exact stick
feel that you want, but that's the great
thing about having rates is it's infinitely customizable
to your flying style. - What about low light
performance of this drone? - For most people flying FPV, you're gonna want to be
flying in bright daylight. That's also how the drone is designed, how the sensors are designed. So it has a 1 x 2.3 inch sensor, which is the same size sensor
as a lot of action cameras, so it's not really optimized
for low light performance. Having said that, I have
definitely shot in low light and at night, and in those situations, it's all about subject matter. So if you're shooting a
lot of lights, for example, at night, it does a
great job of doing that. But for the most part, yeah, it's designed to be in bright daylight. - Now Ross says, "Do you get motion
sickness with FPV goggles?" That's actually a good question. And actually my girlfriend, Carrie, she actually does get motion sickness. So she could only fly a few packs and then she's like, okay, I gotta, or take Dramamine right
beforehand. (chuckles) - So when you're first starting out, I would highly recommend using a chair. That seems to help a lot of newer pilots avoid motion sickness. - That actually does make a
big difference is sitting, especially when you're first learning. I'm constantly like "Whoa!" So definitely don't go and
stand at the ledge of a cliff. Only an idiot would do that and fly. (static crackling) (drone whirring) Why don't they make them in bright colors so if they do get lost in the woods, you'll have a better chance finding it? Well, look at this, they've got different
colored shells like that, and also there is a Find My
Drone option in the goggles which will show you the last
few seconds before the crash, but also, there's ESC beeper on there too. Check it out. (drone beeping) See how much it helps? (drone beeping) Also, I heard that there's
a turtle mode, now? - So turtle mode, AKA
flip over after crash, it's designed so that if
you're in a situation, let's say that you're flipped over and you're up on top of a
rooftop or a high obstacle that you can't get to. With turtle mode, It actually reverses the way the props spin so that the drone, if the drones upside down like a turtle, it will flip itself over,
and then you can take off and fly back to where you are. - Steve says, "Can I win this drone, even though there is no giveaway?" Well actually, in this video, we are doing a giveaway
with the FPV combo thingy. So if you wanna enter to win,
you just have to let us know what kind of FPV drone you
want DJI to release next. Me personally, I would
love to see something that's maybe sub 250 grams, something just like really light. - What would you like this
drone to do that it doesn't do? Like that would be super valuable for us. Are there any features or is there something that
you wish this drone would do? Because that's absolutely,
we love to hear that stuff 'cause that helps us
develop the next product. - Let us know what you think would be cool down in the comments and
Sam will pick out a winner. Now with the motion controller,
how acrobatic can you be? Can you do flips while
using the motion controller? - So the way that the motion
controller is designed is for two specific modes, it's for normal and for sport mode. It's the most fun in sport mode but really it's for people
that are just starting out and the mode two controller is maybe a little too complicated
or a little too daunting. So this is so that you can get
into that flight experience right out of the box. And it's a more kinetic style, like the way that you're moving your hand translates directly into
the way the drone flies. It does not work in manual mode because I think that in manual mode, if you were trying to
use kinetic controls, it would actually be, you'd
be more likely to crash or end up in a bad situation. - The way I see it, it's
the easiest one to fly. If you've never flown a drone before, that's the easiest one to take off and then immediately
just instinctively go, "Okay this way is forward,
and let me turn this way." - Other benefit that's
outside of regular folks, like there was a gentleman
who didn't have use of one of his hands, and so it was like the first
time he was able to fly a drone was with the motion controller. Which is something I hadn't
even really thought about but it's kind of true, right? So that's a new experience
for some people that, maybe in the past, couldn't even operate a
normal remote controller. - The first time I flew it
with one hand, I'm like, "What am I doing with my other hand? Like, this is so strange."
It is a really weird feeling. - It's definitely a weird
feeling, but for the people that have never used any
sort of control mechanism, I think it actually
makes more sense to them than a radio does, whilst for
me, it makes way less sense. It was a lot weirder getting
used to the motion controller because I've been flying
with a mode two radio for so many years. - We also got some comments about these propellers being in the shot. So right here on the bottom and right. There's a few ways to get rid of it. One is how angled you are. So the faster you're gonna
fly, the more you can angle up. And right now I'm about 24 degrees and it seems like it
completely crops it out there. Now let's go into our
advanced camera settings and there's three image
stabilization options. There's the EIS, electronic
image stabilization, distortion correction and
image roll correction. Now, the electronic image stabilization is the first thing I'D turn on and it's going to crop into
the frame a little bit. Now, it doesn't actually
affect what I'm seeing through the goggles,
but the recorded footage inside of the drone is gonna
be slightly cropped in. So even if we want to have
the camera tilted down more, we're less likely to see as much of it but it will still poke into frame. There's also the option to
turn on distortion correction, which crops in a little bit further even. And in that case, it's very
rare to see any propellers and you could choose to have it apply to aircraft and goggles,
aircraft only or goggles only. I like to actually have
it on just aircraft only because I like to view the
wide angle on my goggles, but the recorded footage, I would prefer for the edges to have
that distortion removed. And then we have image roll
correction, which is kinda nice because this is only a single axis gimbal, so if you're rolling like that, that's gonna come across in the image. So if you're flying in
normal or sport mode then it kind of makes it look more like you're flying a Mavic, where
it digitally compensates for that roll, but I
wouldn't recommend using that in acro mode because you actually
do see that stabilization happening in your goggles. If you're doing any sort of
flips or anything like that, it's going to overly try to stabilize it until you roll enough and
then it's gonna pop out. It's just strange, and also
it makes it much harder to fly because you are monitoring something that is being roll
corrected in the goggles. So I definitely recommend not using that unless you're flying in
normal or sport mode. But the image roll correction
crops in even further, so with all three of those
stabilization options on, you'll probably never see the props. Can the motion controller
and regular remote be used at the same time? Like when letting a second person fly it and you can take over
with the other controller to prevent an accident? I'm gonna go ahead and assume no, but I do see what you're saying about having a second person take over because I've tried
teaching people how to fly and it's very kind of scary
if they start losing control and they're like, "What
do I do? What do I do?" What's nice about this
controller is that at any point you could be standing next to them, and if you see that they're
starting to panic or anything, you just go, boop, and that's it. You just say, "Let go of the controller." which you can't do with
a traditional FPV drone because they don't hover. Can you use two goggles at the same time? - Yes you can, so this is
what's called audience mode. It works a little bit
differently now than it did with the HD FPV system
where you could kind of just tap into somebody's channel. Now you actually have to turn on a setting in the master goggles to
broadcast your signal. And then in the second set of goggles, you'll see that channel pop
up and you can connect to it. - And what's also cool about this is that you can also plug
your phone into your goggles and you can actually
broadcast through your phone, which is nice because if anyone
wants to see you flying live that's now an option,
but will there eventually be an option to be able to view the screen on a phone in the other mode, let's say, you're flying
a homemade FPV drone? - So the current Air Unit, there are no plans for that, right? Like it's things that use the DJI Fly app. So like, will that work
with future DJI drones that aren't just DJI FPV? Probably. Most likely that will be true, especially if they're on the DJI Fly app, but right now for the Air
Unit, the existing one, no, no plans for that. - Okay cool, 'cause I
bought the smart controller just for that, so I
didn't waste like $800. I still have a purpose for it, sweet. Justin asks, "After now
having yours for some time, would you recommend any
accessories out of the gate besides prop guards or anything you would have wished you got or will now be ordering?" When it comes to accessories, I think accessory number
one is a chair. (laughing) This is game-changing. Also the prop guards are real nice. We also have a new one, braces. So this is interesting,
it's very minimalistic so I imagine it's not
gonna affect flight at all, but the idea of this is to make
the arms more robust, right? - It is another option to
make things more rigid. If you do have a crash,
especially probably a minor crash, it's going to be more rigid,
and there might be cases of extreme crashes where it
might not be that helpful but you would probably
be in rough shape anyway. And the feedback that I've heard so far is that it doesn't affect
flight performance. So I think it could be a good option for a little bit of extra peace of mind. - I think the idea behind it is that you're distributing
the energy from the impact to now spreading it between two arms instead of just one arm. Fly More Kit comes with three batteries and that's, I would say is a must, and then also there's a bag or case. Now, there's plenty of bags out there that are specifically designed for FPV, which is nice 'cause then it's modular and depending on what accessories
you want to carry around, it's nice but there's
also some hard cases. - Yeah. I have just my big FPV bag, but I believe Go Professional
does make a case, a hard case, specifically for DJI FPV. - I must say what's nice about
transporting these, though, is how fast you can
pull off the propellers because traditionally you have
to unscrew a bunch of things to take off the propellers. So these do actually fit
into bags pretty nicely. Or you can also take some camera bags that have hooks on the outside so you can strap it to the back that way but definitely get yourself a solid bag that's gonna protect the elements and not bend the propellers
and all that stuff. A question about the simulator, "Do you know if there's any way to access the DGI FPV simulator
through the DGI Fly app before owning the drone? Might be a cool way for DGI to help people into their FPV experience?" Well, actually the simulator is separate from the Fly app, right? - The app is called the DJI Virtual Flight and it's completely free,
really simple to use. When you fire it on the first time, there's a screen where it says like, well, how are you using it, and you can choose just with my smartphone and that'd be if you
didn't have anything yet. - It is designed to work with the gear, so the goggles and the controller, to give you the actual flight experience. You can control the drone with using your fingers
on the touch screen, but I don't know that that's the best way to kind of get into the experience. But if you were just trying
to get like a general idea of what it feels like to fly FPV, you could do that with
the simulator app, yes. - And as of filming this video , the internet's kind of freaked
out over the last day or two because there's news that the Air Unit, which is what is put into a lot of the traditional FPV
drones, has been discontinued. There's word floating
around that it's like "Oh my god, DJI is
abandoning the FPV market! And they're just forcing everyone
to go into the DJI drone." What's going on here? - This is just, I think,
unfortunate communication, right? The existing Air Unit that we have, there's a particular component that has become very difficult to get, so instead of us continuing
the Air Unit as a whole, a partner is going to
be producing it instead, and they're gonna have that available I think probably mid-April. The goggles, the RC, those
will continue to be available, and we are staying in
the digital FPV system, you know, kind of what we're referring to. So like there will be developments
there, new iterations. We are absolutely not pulling out of that and going to DJI FPV, to our own drone. So again, just poor
communication of discontinued but all that actually
means is just the Air Unit will be made by a partner and
that will be available soon. - Quick little tip. If you're finding yourself
having to bind the FPV goggles, you could always take a little thumb stick from this controller and the
tip of it is just skinny enough to fit in right there to press the button. Another thing to keep in mind is you never want to just
leave your goggles outside, like that, where the sun
can directly hit that because that can cause
damage to your goggles. So I always just try to keep it in my bag. Some people have like a little cover that you can use to cover
this, to protect it. Do you have any tips for us? - I would say to get the
most out of this drone, you just want to make sure that you use it the way
it's designed to be used. So start with the simulator, think of the rest of the
modes, really, as steps. So normal mode is for
your brand new flyers or your Mavic flyers, sport mode is kind of that
hybrid mode between the two, and then there's still two more steps. So when you switch into full manual mode, you actually have to go into the settings and you're gonna go into the control menu and you're gonna remap
the switch at the bottom from sport mode to manual mode. So that's step one. It's still not gonna allow
you to roll and flip, it's just to give you an idea of what full manual mode feels like. And then once you're really ready to take on full manual manual, there's a limiter,
attitude limiter toggle, that needs to be turned off, turn that off and now you will actually
have full manual control. But the best advice I can give
for people learning to fly is take your time with
each one of those steps. A chair is a really great thing to have if you're not sure if you're
gonna get motion sick. Fly in an environment
where you're comfortable, where you know you're
not gonna be interrupted, people are not gonna sneak up on you and just go through a lot of
packs and have fun with it, get really comfortable, and that's just gonna
make you a better pilot. - Yeah, that's interesting,
is that attitude limiter, when you go into full manual mode, you really just can't push it upside down, which at first is a little bit strange, especially if you're already
used to flying manual, then that's gonna feel a little bit weird. But if you're learning and it's your first time flying in manual, it is actually nice 'cause you don't really
want to flip upside down until you really know what you're doing. But if you're already
used to flying manual then go ahead and just shut that off or else you're gonna be
stuck at a certain angle. Finally, another question we got is, can you hit the air brake while the drone is upside down? The answer is, yes, I'll
show you that right now. (drone whirring) These bracers, I feel
like it might've protected this drone today 'cause I've had a few
pretty intense crashes. And I was like, ah, it's gonna
be a broken arm or something, but so far so good. Thank you for tuning in and
hope you learned a thing or two. And that's just about it. Let's go ahead and cut to the outro. (gentle upbeat music)
