Thanks for great review @skyeboysteve! You're right that the gimbal speed may certainly affect the apps ability to track and maintain control over the gimbal to center the subject. Though the other culprit is also that as you get closer and closer to your subject, you're moving faster relative to the subject and that makes it a little more challenging for the tracking to maintain control. Definitely a fast device and a fast speed setting on the gimbal will help
The airspace feature requires you to use a second phone or tablet device on the subject you want to track. Not always possible if you're tracking something like a tree or a house far away or something you can't put a beacon on - like an animal. Further it only works when flying slowly and quite a distance from the subject. The benefit of visual tracking is that it is extremely versatile, but the trade-off is that it may not be as robust as you expect a GPS based tracking system to be. But given the nature of aerial shots - ( each scene lasts a couple of seconds / a minute), you'll get the shot you need most of the time.
As I have indicated before, I would also like to see a screen recorder. The purpose is to record telemetry, user actions, showing the tracking boxes, as well as what the camera is seeing. This is useful for reviews and often nice to include in the video. I have read that Apple does provide an API for this.
Currently the beta program to closed and only available to the original beta testers. But stay tuned as things progress.
Thanks for your input @2nd2non. One clarification is that DJI P4 tracking only tracking people, as it seems. The tested review on youtube is a pretty good indicator of it's performance. However, unlike us, all their tests and videos are on plain open green grass - which is an easy environment for tracking.
Actually no, ken (blade) posted new videos yesterday tracking a car driving around on a industrial complex with buildings and other equipment up to 25mph.
We're looking into adding support for different modes now. We actually didn't realize how may people use alternative stick modes. !Neil,
The app is hardwired to use stick mode 2 it seems. I myself have set the controller to mode 3 (swapped mode 2) and the moment i switch to 'f' and start using tracking the sticks are clears using a mode 2 control.
Could you make a setting to it for using other stick modes?. I reported this last year too, but i tried version 1.0 yesterday and it was very confusing
Menno
Hi @bogaair. We do realize that people would like to try the app before buying it and until now the app store and play store don't have a good way of natively implementing this. We're looking into enabling this on our side. Can I ask you, which feature are you most excited about ? Or give me a order of priority if you canI was planning on buying this for my android device but since i saw this post here can we still apply as beta testers? I'm a bit worried because unlike ios android apps sometimes does not work good on certain devices. If i could test and liked, I will purchase asap
If you still are offering it for testers my email is [email protected] thanks!
Oh i guess i shouldve read first. I'm gonna do my research first,purchase soon
ok good point. thanks for the tip. We know as much about P4 as you do, so I guess we'll see when people start using it.
I was actually interested at the tracking feature, something that the new phantom 4 is offering, it's good to know that we have a good alternative to be atleast one step at the same level as the new device.Hi @bogaair. We do realize that people would like to try the app before buying it and until now the app store and play store don't have a good way of natively implementing this. We're looking into enabling this on our side. Can I ask you, which feature are you most excited about ? Or give me a order of priority if you can
1. tracking
2. Walls (for safe flight)
3. dolly path design with tracking
