(Drone buzzing) (bright upbeat music) - This is the DJI Mini 3 Pro and this drone is pretty incredible. So in this video, I wanna go through 10 different things that you need to know
about the DJI Mini 3 Pro, and I'm gonna show you why I think this is gonna be the go to drone for a lot of creators. So I'm sure some of you are wondering where this sits in DJI's lineup. Is it like a Mini 2 or is it more like an Air 2 or Air 2S? Well, I see it sitting
somewhere in the middle, because it's tiny, it's super small. It's the same size as the
Mini 2, completely redesigned, but the same weight class, but it has all the features of the Air 2, plus some extra features. So I wouldn't say that this is a complete
replacement for the Mini 2, but if you had limitations
working with the Mini 2, then this is gonna be the drone that you're gonna wanna get. Number one, let's talk about
frame rates and resolutions. So I shoot a lot of video content and this drone has 4K
60 frames per second. And the big thing for me is that the drone doesn't
crop in on the footage, when you switch it to 4K 60fps. On this drone, you get the same width no matter which frame rate or
resolution that you work with. Now, the majority of
what I've been flying in has been 4K 60fps and 4K fps. And in this drone in
4K fps, 25fps or 24fps, you have a high quality mode, so your footage is gonna look even better when you shoot in those frame rates. Number two is active track, and this is a huge one for me, because I like to go out and film myself and I'm usually solo, so I wanna have good tracking in a drone. Now, the drone that I've been
using up until this point has been the MaviC 3, and that one has awesome tracking. And in the Mini 2, you never
had access to real tracking. You could do it from a third party app, but it never really worked that good. I found some solutions that
could work with the Mini 2, but the Mini 3 Pro actually
has good tracking built in. And what I found is that when you maintain a clear line of sight
between the drone and you, the drone will stay locked on and it's gonna continue to track. And it has all the same tracking features that you can find in other DJI drones. You can move the drone around in the sky while it's tracking you and be able to reframe. And also you could track
from the front, from behind. You could do a full orbit around yourself while you're tracking, and you could also use the parallel mode, set it in any direction, and it's gonna continually track you with the drone facing
in that one direction. Now, because of the new controller, I haven't mounted this to my bike yet, but most of my tracking
has been hiking or walking and the tracking has worked great. One of the things that I'm gonna do is play around with this
tracking on faster moving objects and really test it. But from my experience, working with other DJI drones and working with the Mini 3
for the last couple weeks, the tracking works great, and it works just like the other drones. Now, one thing I've noticed
they've added in the menu is a way for it to auto select a person. So as you can see here on the screen, it knows that there's a person and then you can click the plus icon and it's gonna lock onto that subject. And it's easier to lock onto your subject than dragging corner to corner. Number three is obstacle avoidance. With active track, you need some sort of obstacle avoidance, because a lot of times your drone is gonna be
moving itself in the sky. And also when you're flying, you wanna have this sense of security, so that you don't hit an object. When I first got this drone, none of the obstacle avoidance was working because I was using beta firmware, and I crashed it a few times. (drone buzzing) But now that the obstacle
avoidance is working, I haven't run into anything. And this has been a huge
help when it's locked on and it's tracking me and I'm doing like a walk
and talk, walking forward. Well the Mini 3 Pro is
able to sense the trees and the ground moving up and down, and I've found that
it's worked really well in being able to avoid any obstacles. Now, one thing with this drone is that it only has obstacle
avoidance in the front, in the back and on the bottom, so you don't have those
side to side sensors. Now this comes into play if you're flying the drone sideways, or you're doing something
like an orbit around yourself. So you can track a
subject and spin in a 360, however, it might run into
something when you do that. You just have to pay attention that you're not gonna run into something on the side. The obstacle avoidance will
work well, if it's front to back or the ground moving up or down, but it's not gonna work side to side, because there's no sensors. Number four is the pro controller. This thing is pretty amazing, because it has everything that you need to control the drone, and it's in a small, lightweight package. It's got a screen on the
bottom, it's got your joysticks. You have custom buttons on the back and you have zoom and
gimble controls on the top, along with your shutter button for your video and your photo. Everything you need to
fly your drone is here. And if you go into the menu, you can set the two
custom buttons in the back to do some extra functions, so that you never have to
like dig into the menus when you're actually out flying. I've found that this
controller is lightweight. It's easy to hold, and it's just thought out,
like this works super well. Your thumb sticks go right in
the back of the controller. Nothing sticks out, so it's
easy to pack into a backpack and it's just super clean. Now you have a micro SD
card slot on the controller, so you can download your
footage from the drone, directly to your card in the controller, and you don't have to take
the card out of the drone. You could also do screen records, if you're making videos where
you wanna show your screen. Now this controller has
four hours of battery life. So you can run through multiple
batteries with your drone and you don't have to worry
about charging your controller. It just makes the whole
process super easy, working with this pro controller. Number five, let's talk about photography. So in this drone, you have the ability to
shoot a 48 megapixel photo. So there's two different modes, you could either do regular photos or 48 megapixel photos
which are much bigger. You could also shoot in JPEG or raw. So if you're someone who
shoots more photography, you get a lot of resolution
out of this little camera. And also one of the big features is now you can do vertical shooting. So DJI has redesigned the gimble to make it much more stable, so you don't have the horizon shift. But with this redesign, the camera can also flip vertically. So if you wanna shoot
more vertical photos, well now you can do it with this drone and you don't have to crop
in on a horizontal photo. Now, number six, let's talk about the controls
you have over your camera. So you have access to
auto or pro settings, which allow you to basically
control everything. ISO, shutter speed, white balance, you can do it all easily on the screen. Now, a huge advantage over the Mini 2 is that you now have access to D-Cinelike, and this is a mode that
flattens out your image, pulls out the saturation, so you have more ability
to do color grading in your editing software. With the Mini 2, you
basically have one look, you have the standard look. Now you could shoot
that way in this drone, and I've shot a lot of footage with this standard look
and it looks great. But if you are someone who wants to process your footage even more, well, you can set it in D-Cinelike, it's gonna flatten out your image which gives you a little bit more room for your dynamic range, so you don't blow out your highlights. And then you could create
a look for your footage, when you bring it through
your editing software. Now, this drone has a
fixed aperture at 1.7, but you can get ND filters. I don't have a set of ND
filters for this drone yet, so I can't speak on working
with them with this drone. But the lens itself is
very easy to pop off, so once they're available that's gonna be one
thing that I'm gonna get, so that I can bring down my shutter speed when I'm out flying. Now, one of the other
things that's coming out is a wide lens for this. So if you want an even
wider field of view, you'll be able to put it
on the front of this lens and be able to get a wider field of view. Once I have access to
those filters and the lens, I'll do a follow up video
to show how they work. Number seven, let's talk
about the flight time. So DJI states in ideal conditions this drone will last 34 minutes. And I found that when I'm out flying, it definitely feels longer than other drones that I've worked with, so it does push more towards
30 minutes of flight time. Now I need to go do
some side by side tests with the Mavic 3, the Mini 3, the Air 2S, and really
see how they all perform. But one thing that I've
noticed is when I'm out flying, I haven't needed to rush the drone back. Every time I look down at the controller, it'll have plenty of battery and I'll be able to stay up
there and get a lot more shots. I was flying out in the desert and I only had to switch the battery once, to get a ton of footage from this valley that I was filming in. Number eight is the 60
degree upward angle. With the redesigned of this
front end of the drone, you could actually tell there's
a notch cutout on the top, and that allows the camera to rotate up and you don't see the propellers. So you could get these shots, where you're looking
straight up at a building or straight up at a tree, because you could go 60 degrees up. It's pretty wild to be
able to have this ability to look straight down, and then
basically look straight up. You have a ton of
flexibility with this gimble. I think there's gonna be a
lot of creative potential with this ability to point
your camera 60 degrees up. Number nine is zoom features. So depending on the mode that you're in, you have access to
different zoom features. In 4K you could zoom up to two times. In HD you can zoom up to four times. And this gives you more
creative potential, because you can zoom in
and do some different shots with a little bit more
parallax in the background. Now this isn't an optical zoom, so it's not the lens actually zooming in, it's a digital zoom, but it doesn't look as good as if you just shot the
wide lens with a one X zoom. And as I said earlier
on the new controller, you now have access to zooming
on the controller itself. So you have a gimble
wheel and a zoom wheel, and this makes it a lot
easier to use your zooming when you're out filming. Number 10 is the redesign of the drone. With this drone it looks
completely different. You have these two big sensors, but then, like I said, you have this horseshoe cut out so you can point the gimble up. And then also on the bottom, you have your landing gear
right here on the body itself, so that your arms can be a
little bit further off the ground when you take off. And then for the battery,
it's just the whole back end, and you have this release
on either side of the drone, where you have to press in to pull out. So there's really no chance of the battery accidentally
popping out of this drone. I think overall this redesign makes it a
much more functional drone. So who is this drone for? I think there's a lot of creators who are gonna love the
features that this has. And it just gives you
more creative potential, especially having the obstacle avoidance, the active track, the D-Cinelike and of course the ability
to shoot high rise photos and vertical shooting. I think for creators to do
a lot of short form content, this vertical feature is
gonna be super useful. I know for me, this is probably gonna be the drone that I keep with me wherever I go. It packs super small in a backpack, and it gives me all the
features that I need when I'm out making videos. Now next, make sure you check
out this video right here, which goes through some
different drone moves that you can use when
you're flying the Mini 3. And I'm gonna show you exactly how to perform these moves
when you're out flying. I'll see you over there.
