Take full advantage with Active Track

Mavic Pro Active Track Beginner Tutorial. In this episode, we will take a closer look the Active track flight mode included with DJI Mavic Pro. Active Track is one of the intelligent flight modes that can help you record great looking footage.







Welcome to the series of basic tips to record smoother video with your Mavic Pro. If you stick with me to the I will reveal details about one of the tracking options that most other tutorials leave out.

Great looking movie scenes involves a complex movement of the camera to create the cinematic feel that everyone is going for. Making these complex movement where both sticks on the controller have to be operated with razor sharp precision is not easy and will require great skills from the pilot. Luckily DJI has included Active Track that will make this task at lot easier. Active Track is an intelligent flight mode that can be selected in the DJI GO app under Advanced flight modes.

Active Track is unlike other drone tracking system vision based, you point out your target on screen through the App, confirm and the drone follow you based on what is sees through the camera. You can even leave the remote behind (not recommended). It can even see if the tracking object is a human, dog, or car.

Active Track has 3 options: TRACE / PROFILE / SPOTLIGHT

I will explain what is the difference

TRACE with Active Track

With TRACE Mavic follows you when you move. Make Mavic circle around you clock or anti-clockwise in the speed you decide with the camera pointing at you. You can have Mavic fly in front of you, but be aware this mean it flys backward and you won’t have obstacle avoidance. Enable backward flying from the menu. Active Track is enabled when you mark the object you want to trace and hit confirm. Normally Trace is the default option selected in the menu on the right.

PROFILE with Active Track

With PROFILE you can make a dolly shot from the side where the Mavic matches your speed when moving forward. You position the drone, mark the object you want to track and then hit profile in the menu on the right. Then off to the races

SPOTLIGHT with Active Track

The last option is Spotlight and this is pretty cool as this is like an eye in the sky. Place the drone somewhere in the sky, marking the object you want to trace and hit confirm. Mavic will follow your movement while holding its position.

I promised you, in the beginning, to reveal a detail about one of the flight modes that is often let out in other tutorials I have watched. You can fly Mavic in Spotlight and it will still keep you in the spotlight on you. There are plenty of opportunities to make some interesting footage with the spotlight option.

The additional stuff:

In general, you get the best results in calm conditions and with an object that has high contrast difference to the background.

Multiple objects with same color and size will confuse the system.

You need to be cautious about your own speed, wind conditions. These things can affect the Mavics ability to trace you.

But DJI has come very far with this and in general. It works very well and I can’t wait to see what the future holds for us. I’m impressed.

Let look at some additional test footage recorded with Active Track.

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