Putting DJI Avata 2 to the Test

golly oh goodness now I'm just going on an adventure I can look backwards weird looking I'm trying to I'm looking backwards what even is [Music] this [Music] hey [Applause] this is the allnew DJI Avada 2 in this video we're going to take you through all of the brand new things what I think about flying it use it in a professional environment and let you guys know everything you need to know about the DJI aada 2 there's a whole lot of things that I as a traditional fpv am not used to in the DJI abata 2 so first we're going to take it to the park and experiment and just get comfortable with the Drone itself oh hey didn't see over there got a DJI aada 2 here going to put it to the test for the first time I'm excited I'm really excited so I'll take one of our batteries out of the multicharger slap it in the back she should boot right up I missed the uh love the fpv I think they should bring that back we set this out over here all right so let's start her out with a little line of sight if I double press this button press and hold should whoa so it flies like a joystick that's kind of what I need to get used to as I go down I'm pushing forward and if as I'm pulling up I'm pulling back and then if I park it I just am looking around train over there we're going to avoid that you how you know yeah with practi this definitely can get pretty smooth with this controller it's fun it's definitely a unique experience well let's see if we can uh Precision landed here well I mean I still had half a battery that's pretty freaking Stellar man it's such a nice little package wish all fpv drones could be this good if I turn head tracking on please don't hit me drone and as I look to the side the whole drone turns and it kind of moves with me and if I look down the camera tilts up and down but but it's unlocked from where the stick is pointing so if I hit the trigger while I'm pointing straight out myself it's going to fly that way so I'm looking at me worried that as soon as I pull the trigger it's going to hit me in the face but what it's actually going to do is fly that direction so ready so it's uncoupled from where the camera is looking so you can see it's flying away so now if I kind of get out this way and I want to look to the right I look to the right and it keeps flying straight and if I look forward it's going to fly forward if I look left it's going to keep flying forward all right drone come back I want to fly you with a real controller suddenly the entire fire department rolls up and they're shooting water everywhere first flight full manual mode here we go I don't want to mess this up it's day one and I'm definitely in like 60fps mode so I might want to change that it's got a lot of power on honestly yeah it's like when I put it in 60fps for the camera for filming it's also displaying in 60 FPS where I'm kind of used to the 120 FPS of 03 or even regular DJI so impact detected it says there a minor impact don't worry I do like that I can throw it in regular mode just fly around like a DJI drone and if I climb up stick it back into manual mode center of the sticks the where it tells me to and it switches it to manual and now I'm back in manual and then when I switched back into manual mode it remembered the last angle of my camera thingies peekaboo yeah [Music] cool [Music] throughout my filming and testing in this video I just wanted to take the Avada into as many different kinds of circumstances as I possibly could to see kind of what its limits are the vast majority of the flying in this video was done in full manual mode but we did take advantage of the opportunities of the DJI is modes that the avat 2 has for you basically allows you to not think about maintaining Your Horizon and maintaining your altitude instead you can just focus on getting the shot I'm really happy with the results you can see them throughout this [Music] Compilation All new in the DJI avata 2 is the 04 transmission system we just got 03 I've got tons of 03 stuff in all of my bird so now if there might be an 04 transmission system coming I'm going to be really sad because I just spent a lot of money on those um but the goggles are backwards compatible with the O3 air units and with the original iata but we don't know if there is an independent 04 air unit coming yet hopefully we'll see so to test out the new 04 transmission I wanted to get some extra range and some extra distance so I took the entire DJI Ava 2 package with me on a commercial shoot in Salt Lake City to really push it to the limits I've got the uh Avada package here ready to so we're going to see if we can capitalize in the last couple minutes here of sunset in the mountains let's see if we can go capture some I'm like taking a lift to like a hiking spot because I don't have any other options so here we [Music] [Applause] [Music] go good thank you all right it's a little later than Sunset than we would really like but uh here [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] what do you think about the iada for Mountain diving it was uh a little sketchy especially like what would happen is I would get to the max altitude of the Drone which I set to its maximum available which is like 1,600 ft but I was like flying really low to the face of the mountain and like as soon as I got to the very tip it hit that back altitude and just like and like almost flew into the side of the M it was really scary [Music] so [Music] 04 transmission system is 2.4 and 5.8 GHz changeable DJI officially claims a 13 km range for those distances so in Freedom Units that's like 7 mil or so maybe a little bit more you can get 100 FPS back into your goggles at 1080p at a refresh rate of 90 HZ that means you're getting more information per frame in your eyes than you used to on the DJI 03 system the connection between the 04 and the goggles is now 60 megabits per second instead of 50 megabits per second so there should be in theory a little bit more detail a little bit more available information coming back it does look better when you're in the O3 goggles it's a great picture that extra information that's coming back should only help you fly better especially at the 24 milliseconds response [Music] rate well I think that uh rain is going to bring my Salt Lake testing to an end this particular spot was awesome because look at all the straggle and just flying it in like the regular DJI mode where it is kind of like in cine woo mode and it allows me to kind of keep a really good consistent low line through the entire flight which is really really cool so I don't know it's kind of fun to like find ways to use the modes that I didn't think I would want to use but gosh darn it is getting really sloppy up in here yeah I think we're going to get out of here head back to the airport head home thanks for coming on this uh mini Adventure so now that I've had a good bit of experience flying it on my own I needed to make sure that other people tested it out and talked about it in this video so let's head down to Louisville to catch up with Winston and Eddie I hate taking a look at things like this in a silo so I always have to make somebody else try it and fly it so I've brought the avat 2 down to Louisville to make Winston and Eddie fly this drone guys check it out what do you think this looks like a birth announcement it's a it's a drone dude that weighs nothing I know oh look at that lens I didn't see that that is huge this definitely looks like a nice upgrade to it it's a lot smaller now what I'm really interested in hey let's see some new dogs front faceing cameras battery in the back though which is convenient holy crap how do you do this Ed very comfortable actually dude they're like night and day more comfortable feel like it's hanging from my forehead there's no pressure on like the ridge your nose like The Originals holy crap okay hold on hold on hold on wait a second toggle button so much better than the touch interface that's so much better thank you are you guys ready to fly it absolutely all right let's do it who wants to go first you got it I don't know all right fine oh God giant head Paw here noticeably clear on the screen like the text you cannot see a single Pixel holy crap difference there's these two lenses straight on the front of it so like when he's looking at me it's really kind of disconcerting cuz it just looks like he's got these little bug eyes eyes yeah interesting hi it's like a magnifying glass oh man the future I have no idea what I'm doing with this controller so this is going to be interesting so what I like to do is use the uh that thumb stick to climb it so just hold up and it'll climb and kind of stay in place all right so you push the trigger to go forward and then to turn it you you rotate your wrist you don't turn your whole body I don't turn the whole body do I hold it out like this like I'm holding somebody at gunpoint dude it's really cruising okay I'm actually pretty impressed with your ability to fly that you should stop flying with the normal controller you're already way more in control dud this is wow this is fun byebye dude this thing rips that thing screams I was just thoroughly impressed by that dude it goes it's taking me a second to get used to it but it's not bad you're right very confidence inspiring that is so intuitive like that was super easy do you think it's a better tool for people to learn how to fly definitely this is almost better in certain ways the barrier to entry is nothing okay I'm going to turn on head tracking so we're doing head tracking with motion controls yeah dude oh goodness I'm not going to lead you on this I want you to kind of play with it so wait why is it still going that way oh you have to do okay okay so can do a little drive by like this and look to the side oh that's weird Paul you're an expensive friend to have you can look straight down that's what I'm saying dude all right so yeah this is like your little VR headset up in the sky Let's test the brakes skirt hold on let's do a Twan fly golly oh goodness now I'm just going on an adventure I can look backwards keep me going straight how far back can I look I can look backwards looking I'm try to I'm looking backwards what even is this oh this is weird yeah Park and look down just look around it's kind of fun the pivot mode all right you want to try it with the rc3 yes okay Eddie you want to go first since you're up yeah I already got gogs on all right try manual give yourself some altitude yeah of course should be some pretty chill rates he just goes crazy Zoom you can change your camera tilt on the Fly so just be careful with that if you do it the camera does not tilt in manual mode it's like just regular Acro Yep this thing does fly great though switch to manual mode I mean it feels locked in too we have two major complaints about the controller itself one is that it's really light which sounds like a bad thing to complain about but it's like it feels cheap um and then second thing is that the stock sticks are too short the throw is is not very good for somebody who pinches because your fingers bump up against the bulkhead of the controller yep so and like the whole time he's flying it around it's recording to its internal 60 something gig internal memory full 4K 60 so you don't have to worry about having a card on you and when that does fill up it transfers off really fast cuz it's just a solid state basically so you can still put an SD card in it if you want to it's really really cool to have that built-in onboard memory and then for it to be expanded from where it was Full Throttle orbit go go go aada go thoroughly enjoyable confidence inspiring Rock Solid does all the flippies and floppies that you wanted to I mean once you learn limits I'm sure you to fly the props off this thing I'm not even paying him for this ad that was that was pretty solid thank you thank you that was a lot of fun it's kind of like the motion controller you pick it up if you know fpv you can fly it like an fpv guy that was actually a lot more like flying a fast C whoop yeah that thing's fun man I think it's time to do some chasing so Eddie brought out his uh big old somewhat fast plane we'll show you what the Avada can do in terms of like its actual performance as a machine the sun did Peak which is really nice that means that exposure is changing so it's time to slap on an ND filter but you got your nice little case of ND filters I'm going to start with an nd6 here Clips right onto the front of the Drone just like that now we're eded up stop [Music] down Sky now [Music] so the new DJI avata 2 adds a 155° field of view camera that has a 1 and 1.3 in image sensor that means that it's basically got the same sensor as the DJI osmo 4 which looks absolutely incredible the experience of being in the goggles and having like the really really detailed picture and like seeing exactly what it's going to see like I feel like I'm seeing what the final product is going to be I'm actually having an experience right now I'm not just capturing footage like this is me actually enjoying myself quite a bit you shoot up to 4K at 60 FPS and down to 2.7k at 120 not only is the resolution of the camera high but it also uses 10bit color it basically means that you have a lot more color information directors directors of Photography really like to see 10 bit color at the minimum so that's a really big step up for this drone and I think that its color depth actually really shows in this footage I'm on the deck like I can't get any lower sick low right if I can low right oh no oh no upside down oh you're there too I'm hovering over top of you guys looking straight down at the Carnage and I'm pulling Up and [Music] Away all right ready whenever you are so now that we've had a chance to look at the image quality out of the camera with dji's modes I also want to line it up against several other cameras so first we need to test does it work with gyro flow and then let's compare it to GoPro Hero 12 dj3 so that we know what it looks like compared to those other profiles so I took all of this equipment to a local park where I spilled my coffee getting ready to set up for this shot there's the coffee spill okay so while that boils the next thing that I want to test is gyro flow so in my release notes there's a note that it is compatible the aada 2 with gyro flow so I'm going to get the Drone out I'm going to turn off all the stabilization settings and attempt to stabilize it on the computer here let's go ahead and test that out to see if gyro flow does indeed work on the abata 2 all right so we're going to start by turning off all of the stabilization switch it to video mode manual 4x3 4K 60 wide field of view Eis fully off dlog so let's go aad and fly this and we'll bring it back here plug it into gyro flow and uh see if it works at [Music] [Applause] [Music] all all right let's slap this on gyro flow and see what we get Auto register oh it pick something up DJI of a 2 DJI has leaked the uh avat too I didn't put that in there boom Oh yes so we can use this in gyro flow AATA 2 clearly does work with gyro flow which means that we can do a pretty fair comparison side by side between GoPro 12 and the Avada itself I think the iata camera is starting to look really really good it's got that DJI log for format it's very flat looking like I think it looks awesome lots of good dynamic range in here so I'm going to go ahead and also throw up the uh GoPro 12 we'll record that for gyro flow settings we'll set them up side by side and see how they look for you guys to decide so I'm going to record the GoPro and the goggles 3 that way you can see GoPro versus DJI 03 versus the Avada kind of allinone I'm going to fly the actual original Avada and record the camera here so that we can compare that to the brand new camera in the AV too because it's such an awesome upgrade and actually while we're talking about it pay attention to the loudness of this and the shrill sound like it's kind of brutal I forgot about that now switch it over to the other one that's so much more pleasant of a sound it sounds much better when we line up all of the footage of the avat 2 and the avat 1 and the 03 and the GoPro 12 I think that that dlog format really shines you can see how contrasty and harsh the GoPro and the 03 and the Ava 1 are compared to the Ava 2 you look for example at the back of trees that are in the sun you can see what's in there what's in that color what's in that detail in the Ava 2 when you can't see that on the GoPro 12 or even on the Ava 1 you look at the 03 and the GoPro 12 and you see how much darker and contrasty and harsh everything else else is and that just doesn't give you much wiggle room in terms of making it match with other cameras the Avada 2 will be easier to pair with other higher end cameras like for example this fx6 that I'm talking to you on right now is filming in SL log 3 so it's got that kind of wide dynamic range sort of goal and it makes it more cinematic makes it look better makes it easier to work with in posts I prefer the avat 2 footage over all of these because it just looks so much better in that dlog format so tell me what you guys think but for Me aat 2 Takes the Cake so now that we've compared the different cameras let's take a step back and look at some of the peripherals that come with the avat 2 like the brand new DJI goggles 3 there's a lot of good things about them there's a couple things I don't like about them first of all let's talk about this integrated battery from a convenience perspective it's really really nice to have this here right I don't have to go digging for the battery the battery's always attached to the goggles there's just no way to misplace it however runtime right the battery is not replaceable so I can't just put on a new battery on the previous version of the goggles the batteries would honestly be done before I was done recording a GoPro card on this it's lasted you know for probably 2 hours worth of actual flights and uh I haven't even worried about charging it so for me right now the batter is not being replaceable so far hasn't bothered me and uh these support fast charging so you know when you're between flights just plug it in if you're worried about it this does have a power button now so you can turn it on and off with the actual button here on the goggles rather than the button on the battery which I actually really prefer I love this when you're putting them on loosen them up get it over get it in place crank it down boom it's ready to go it's not quite as fiddly as like getting to a strap and like doing all that stuff I really really like that part of it my least favorite part is this it just feels really icky on my face like if I was sweaty at all it would just feel really nasty just the only other thing that I want to mention about this is with the ipd and the uh Focus adjustment in here when you change it it actually makes a change on the screen so you can actually spin it and find the number that matches your vision and be able to reset it back to that really quick or just leave it like that pretty cool I I I'm a pretty big fan of the new goggles really really good upgrades really like the integrated battery I'm worried that it's going to cause a problem later but for now I'm a pretty big fan of this whole setup altogether one thing that is really exciting about the DJI Avada 2 is that new big sensor should actually have a lot better low light performance so I took it out into some really low light environments I think that this footage looks absolutely incredible with the extra dnamic range of the dlog of the bigger sensor you get a lot less noise you can get a Brighter Image and I think that this just looks so good for low light footage out of a camera that is this [Music] small so in addition to just like updates to the camera and the flight performance the battery life is also supposedly a little bit better so got two drones I'm indoors FAA we'll see how much longer the Avada 2 goes than the Avada 1 [Music] I made the mistake of using my phone as the stopwatch and now I have nothing to do for the next 20 minutes now this isn't really a truly fair comparison because the uh Ava 2 the batteries are brand new the Ava 1 the batteries are about a year old it's kind of intimidating but uh they should be pretty [Music] similar I'm going to go get my coffee I'll be back [Music] oh another thing I wanted to note is that these guys are far enough off the ground that they shouldn't be getting any kind of ground effect or they're not getting the benefit of it rather other thing I should note is like I've got some glue on here from uh previous experiments with mountain GoPros to the iata one and there's some wires so it's technically a little bit above the weight that it's supposed to be whatever it's YouTube it's not science all right guys we uh now 7 Minutes in how do we feel so [Music] far windy got it how about [Music] you not very talkative group do you guys think I should build a Nevada out of these chunkers I don't even know what size this is it's too big what do you think [Music] I don't know what return to launch behavior is like hopefully it just lands so I guess I might have to be ready to take over on this one this one's blinking two no now it's down to one this one's still solid two blink two [Music] lights V two is still going pretty strong one light and one blinky light die I'm done watching you says uh critically low battery aircraft Landing in three two 1 zero with uh 11% remaining so I'm not sure totally where DJI is getting like the 23 minutes but it is longer than uh the Ava one so it's at least better but don't get me wrong I am not complaining about 17 minutes of flight cuz I'm used to 4 minutes with traditional fpv drones so but yeah flies a lot longer than the Ava one and then the final test that I wanted to do was kind of think through what would happen if I tried to get like my set of standard fpv action scene shots so me Winston and Eddie went on a kind of Adventure ride on our electric dirt bikes to kind of see if we could set up a little bit of an action sequence so check out us kind of mopping through the woods on these dirt bikes we're not really all that talented on them so I apologize that we're not professional athletes check out how good the Ia looks chasing these guys through the woods [Music] I really wish that I could get this at 2398 I think that would really enhance the way that this footage looks but we have to settle for that 60fps because of the limitations of the 04 transmission and I need to have that 60 FPS at minimum in the goggles [Music] that was absolutely a blast and this thing is a complete mess now we're just filled with dirt in there now we crashed it a [Music] bunch I changed one prop as was the only thing that I had to change on this but this thing took a beating I wasn't worried about it crashing or breaking at all all in all the V 2 it does an absolutely fantastic job DJI did provide the avat 2 to me free of charge but they are not required to watch this video before it goes out they have no influence over my opinion and what I say honestly my biggest gripe with it is that it doesn't support 2398 that's a pretty big oversight and I think we' get a lot of really cool footage altogether thinking about everything that this thing brings this whole bag set up for the fly more combo just sticking the Drone in there and having everything ready to get some pretty amazing shots like I didn't have to worry about how much stuff I was bringing with me it's all just combined into this one package and I can go out have a good time get some really cool shots and come back if you're looking at the avata 2 I absolutely would highly recommend it I wouldn't be pushing this if I didn't think that it was something that was really fun you can see that we all had a blast flying in the video and I think that the product the the results the footage speaks for itself in terms of what this thing is actually capable of so thank you very much for checking out the DJI of a 2 check the links in the description below if you're considering purchasing one CU that will support me making more videos like this all in all love this thing I will keep flying this thing and when I'm going on trips with my family or stuff where I'm not necessarily bringing a bunch of other equipment this is going in the bag this thing really knocks out of the park so thanks very much for watching this video thanks for checking out the Avada 2 and stay [Music] fly go

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Length: 30min 4sec (1804 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 11 2024