34 Must Know DJI Mini 4 Pro Tips & Tricks | DJI Fly App Settings & Guide

0:00 in today's video I've got my 34 must know tips and tricks for the DJI Mini 4 Pro hello beautiful internet family my name is Dan Davis and I'm the creative director here on Dan tube.tv which is Australia's number one ranked drone YouTube channel I'm also the course creator over on The Fearless drone Academy which is the ultimate online drone course for beginners you can use the code Dan tube to save 10% over there and become a Fearless drone pilot I'll have some different menus that I'll be showcasing throughout this video and the first menu is the profile menu and I've got two tips and tricks in this area here so basically when you launch your drone it should automatically take you into the camera view so you'll actually

0:46 see what the Drone is seeing what I'll get you to do is in the top left corner press that back arrow to take you back to the main menu once you've done that you'll see in the bottom there there is a section that says profile click on that and then you want to click on device management now in here this is actually where you can see a bunch of different information relating to the drones that you have I'm just going to go to a different drone here because I don't have mine updated but if I go to the DJI mavic 3 you can see that I've got a flight distance of 106 km flight time of 7.81 hours you get some other information there that is sensitive to the aircraft but this is a really good place just to see how much time you've Ed the Drone for it's also handy to know this information if you're going to sell the Drone privately people always ask that question now moving on to tip number two and if you're using something

1:33 like the DJI rc2 in this situation this is where you'll really need to get your head around the offline maps now with the DJI rc2 it doesn't have internet connection so you have to connect it to Wi-Fi or you have to hotspot it to your phone so in this scenario here I've hotspot to my phone and then I go to that profile menu that I was talking about and I click on the offline map section now as long as you're connected to Wi-Fi or your phone or whatever it is that you're using you can go into different parts of the map and you can actually download that map as an offline map that means that when you are actually out on the field you don't have to worry about then hotspotting to your phone this is a really good thing to plan ahead of time especially if you're going to check out a new location and you don't want to have to deal with connecting it to your phone or having any sorts of issues like that you can while you're at home on your Wi-Fi

2:19 network zoom into a different location on the map and then have that area downloaded so that you can utilize it when you're on the field this is where it comes in handy to have that extra storage on the DJI rc2 we get 32 GB of internal storage you can also expand that with a Micro SD card and this is where it comes in really handy to be able to download offline maps if you are interested in the Mini 4 Pro you want to upgrade you want to get your first drone potentially and the Mini 4 Pro is you know in your Crosshair then I do have some awesome deals for Aussies through the D1 store I've got exclusive subscriber bundles or Fearless flyer bundles packed with everything you need as a drone pilot you get the Fearless drone Academy drone course you get all those accessories you need you get a combo with extra batteries just a really really great deal so check that out I've got a few for the Mini 4 Pro a few

3:05 exclusive combos whether you want the standard batteries or the plus batteries and then I've also got a bunch of other bundles as well available for different drones so check those out as well I've got so many cool bundles worthwhile checking out before you upgrade and if you do want to save you can use the code Dan tube on their website save a little bit of extra money on the accessories and items whatever it is that you're picking up through their website if you are an international viewer then I will also have links as well to check it out through dji's website directly that global Shipping option as well as Amazon we're now going to move on to the flight menu and this menu is basically when you see the camera feed so you see the camera feed you see the record button you see everything else here and for tip number three I've got the pre-flight checklist so in the top left corner you'll see it says takeoff permitted it

3:51 might say something different there though depending on if you've got satellites connected if you have any errors or anything like that it might display something slightly different but if you you tap on that it will actually bring up the pre-flight checklist or the flight checklist and you can adjust the return to home altitude Max altitude max distance and you can also format the SD card as well so really handy to come in here if you need to format any internal storage or adjust any of those basic settings on the fly so tip number four in the flight menu is the battery information so in the top right corner you'll actually see a little circular icon with a number inside of it so that will basically indicate what percentage of battery you have if you press on that while the Drone is on the ground you actually won't get any information it'll say zero for everything but once you launch the Drone you can then press on that battery icon and it will give you

4:37 some really important information at a glance so you'll get the option to view when it will return to home so it will give me a time it'll say 20 minutes until it's going to return to home 24 minutes until it's a forced landing and then 27 minutes until the battery is completely depleted and it falls out of the sky so really important information to know you obviously want to avoid the force Landing as well as the battery depletion with the force Landing you need to make sure you Overland so that's why I always make sure that you return to home when you're around the 30% Mark and fly locally before you land the Drone moving on to tip number five which is the Waypoint on the left hand side of the screen you'll see that little arrow with a kind of squiggly line with little dots and those little dots would be the way points so you press on that and we

5:23 got a few different options of how we can plan out Waypoint the first option is you can actually go into the map interface you can actually do this when you're at home if you want to plan out a mission before you go somewhere you can then just press on different points of the map to set up the way points that you're looking to have you can also then set the point of interest you can adjust everything like where the way points are going to be facing you know the distance between everything the height everything you can really customize it here with that map interface the one thing here though is it is a little bit of a guessing game because you don't know exactly what it's going to look like when you're doing it through this map interface and then you can actually launch the Drone go into the Waypoint mode and then while the Drone is flying you can actually add waypoints as you get to each location you can program one of the customizable buttons on the back maybe make it the C1 button so then it

6:10 just literally when you press C1 it's going to add a waypoint then you can fly to a new spot see1 add a new Waypoint this allows you to really set up the framing and the distance and everything with more of a visual aid because you can see exactly what the Drone is seeing and as you take each screenshot it actually shows you the screenshot of the framing so this is a really nice way to set it up and probably the more preferable way to make sure that you're going to have an accurate mission that you're looking for moving on to tip number six and this is the attitude indicator so you either have the map interface or if you press the uh attitude indicator button then it'll actually take you through to a new interface that looks similar to accomplished and then as you start moving around depending on what one you have it set up either you can have the Drone as the focus or the controller as

6:55 the focus but you'll see as I start turning around the icon will actually go from a blue when it's not pointing towards the Drone to then a green when I'm facing the Drone so you can also see almost like a wind indicator so as the drone's flying forward and back and left and right you'll see that little line that will kind of move with the wind it will let you know how the Drone is working against the wind to keep the footage nice and stable uh so you can see I'm kind of moving it at different times and you can't really notice because the gimbal is obviously countering that but that just lets you know how the Drone is moving and straight when you're flying in the air this is very handy to know great information to know at a glance moving on to tip number seven which is how to enable the focus track mode basically all you have to do here is you have to draw a box on the screen I'll show you

7:41 another setting a little later on that will make it a little easier if you're having issues with that but very easy to just draw a box over a subject it'll bring up the focus track mode and then from there you can go between active track 360 point of interest and the spotlight mode keep in mind that with active track 360° or any active track mode it needs to recognize either a person a vehicle or a boat so the icon underneath the thing that you're tracking needs to come up as whatever it is that you're tracking if it's just a general tracking point it won't allow you to go into the active track mode and also while the drone's on the ground you also can't enable the focus track mode so you have to be in the air to then draw that box over the subject moving on to tip number eight and this is relating to the touchscreen controls you can actually use the touchcreen to control your camera system a very underrated

8:28 feature that not enough people are using but basically all you have to do to enable this is you press and hold on the screen and then drag your finger either down or up and that will start moving the camera it's actually quite an organic way of moving the camera system it just feels very natural um and if you're not liking the the scrolling wheel if you're finding that that's a little bit tricky for you play around with the touchscreen controls uh some drones you can look left and right with this feature so you can press and hold on the screen and then drag your finger left and right while you're still holding on the screen and that will actually allow the camera to look left and right Mini 4 Pro doesn't have that control it's pretty much just up and down but it does give you a lot of control here and makes it a lot easier for people who aren't enjoying the scrolling wheel tip number nine is the pro mode so in the bottom right corner

9:13 by default it will probably be set to Auto for you if you press on that auto little camera icon it will take you into the pro mode and this is where you can really customize everything that you want to do here ISO shutter speed you can adjust the EV as well you have some options as well to change like color profiles in here so it is really nice you can leave everything on auto if you want and just kind of see what the camera system is automatically doing on the other menu you can actually adjust the white balance you can play around with resolution and uh frame rates you can also choose the different storage options if you want to go with a SD card a Micro SD card or go to the internal storage you can adjust the uh the color as well so you can go normal hlg or dlog M you got some coding format options and a few other things in here so it makes

9:59 makes it nice and easy to adjust things on the fly without having to go into another menu and then into the camera menu so for tip number 10 we've got the autofocus and manual focus controls so if you press AF on the screen it will take you into MF which is manual focus but you can also press and hold on either AF or MF and then drag your finger up and down and you'll see that it'll actually adjust the focus point so you can have full manual control if you really want to focus on something in the foreground or in the distance you know you can get a little bit of that Boker effect it isn't phenomenal with a drone because it is more of an infinite focus camera system but um yeah for those little subtle shots if you want to have something in the foreground and focus you can do that and you can do that by either pressing and holding and

10:45 then dragging your finger up and down or just pressing to go between manual focus and autofocus I do find the pressing and holding gives you a lot more control though moving on to tip number 11 which is relating to the digital Zoom option and it's a similar story here when we're talking about the autofocus manual focus and then coming over to digital Zoom you can press where it says one times and it will take you to two times and then into three times depending on what mode you're in but what you can also do is you can press and hold on that one times drag your finger and it will go between 24 mm 48 mm and 72 mm so it will let you know the different focal length when you're zooming in and gives you some more control if you want to zoom into different I guess iterations of that Zoom point so you know you can go in between like 1.4 2.3 like whatever it is

11:31 that you need to go to it can really make it a lot more subtle for tip number 12 we've got the vertical video mode now the icon above where it says one times is how you change the camera orientation between either portrait or landscape and the thing that's really cool about the vertical video mode is that you can capture 4K 60 frames per second HDR video you can also enable Focus tracking mode you can go with you know waypoints cruise control any sort of tracking mode that you wanted to go with all of the quick shot modes and it's just a fully fledged offering here where you can pretty much do everything you need to do but while in the vertical mode so that's basically how you enable it and just some tips there that you can use pretty much all of the the features I'm pretty sure you can use every single feature that you can use in portrait as well as

12:16 in landscape so just keep that in mind and now we're moving on to the safety menu and this is the first time we're going into an actual menu system on the mini 4 Pro so in the top right corner press those three dots and it will take you straight through to the safety menu and now for tip number 133 this is the obstacle avoidance this is how you enable obstacle avoidance and see all the different options that are available so you either have the option to turn it completely off you can have it as break so it will break when it notices an obstacle or bypass which means that it's going to continue following you or following a subject and that's where you actually get the true active track 360° option because it's going to continue following you and continue the path uh while it's tracking a subject and then from there you can adjust either normal or Nifty mode with that active track when you're in bypass normal is the one I would recommend Nifty can get a little

13:03 bit sketchy and it's definitely quite Nifty so just keep that in mind if you want to have a bit more of a risk Nifty is the one to go with but normal definitely is a lot more reliable and stable tip number 14 is the optimal return to home option so this is a really cool one basically you can have it as preset so that means that it will go to a predetermined height so in this scenario it's 90 M it will go up to that height the Drone will and then it will return to you where optimal will basically figure out the environment figure out where you're located it will plan out an optimal route home to make sure that you're getting home as quick as possible and with the AR features being able to see the actual like augmented reality path is a nice one cuz it will let you know what the drone's going to do if it's going to go over trees if it's sensed what's in the environment um but yeah optimal is

13:50 definitely worthwhile to save you a little bit more battery life and to add on to that we're going to move on to tip number 15 which is the AR settings which basically stands for augmenting reality we've got some really cool augmented reality options here with the Mini 4 Pro and basically in the AR settings you can disable them or enable them and there's a few different options when we go into it and this is something that is worthwhile getting your head around the first one is the home point and this is a huge one especially when we're looking at the rc2 cuz if you don't have the offline maps and if you don't have you know your device your controller connected to a phone or Wi-Fi you're not going to know exactly where the home point is it makes it quite hard and confusing on the map interface but to see something in augmented reality that actually tells you that's the home Point that's where you took off from is

14:36 immensely helpful it just takes away the worry of trying to figure out where you took off from and especially in an area where it's densely packed and there's a lot going on or it looks very similar this is very handy we've got the return to home route which is the next option in the AR settings and this is a really cool one because it lets you know the path that the drone's going to go on to return to home it will let you know if it's going to increase in altitude if it's coming down if it's trying to move around things it lets you know ahead of time what the Drone is doing and then as the Drone comes into to land it will actually point the camera down and it will show you a shadow of the aircraft to let you know where it's going to land that you can prepare if there is anything underneath the Drone tip number 16 is the battery information and this is more of the Advanced Battery information so I showed you the basic battery information when you're in the

15:21 flight menu but this one just gives you a few more details so it's more of an advanced battery settings so when you click on it it'll actually show you the health of the cells and this is really important because if a battery starts getting overloaded or if you're starting to have damage in the cells it will let you know so you want to see all those bars matching up you want to make sure the voltage isn't significantly different there and it's really handy to have that information and then from there you can see the battery temperature the voltage the cells uh you can also see the Cycles as well and that's where you find your battery SN uh which if you ever have to return a battery that's probably the information they're going to need to know tip number 17 still in the safety menu is the auxiliary light and this is basically an LED underneath the Drone that lights up

16:07 whatever's below it so if you're about to land and it's a low light scenario or if it's getting close to dusk or whatever it may be it gives you a chance to actually light up the area below you can leave it on auto and the Drone will sense when it's too dark and turn on that light if you put it onto on it will stay on at all times even while you're flying that's not ideal or you can turn it completely off if you don't want it on at all I would say Auto is the one to go with but if you ever need to turn it on manually because it just hasn't sensed it or it hasn't turned on this is where you find that setting and then the final setting for the safety menu is tip number 18 and this is the advanced Safety settings and this is relating to what happens when you lose signal with the controller when you lose signal with the Drone so you go right down to the advanced Safety settings you press on that and it'll bring up a few options

16:53 here you can have a look through these but the signal lost is the one you want to see here you've got the option of return to home descend or hover now descend is a bit of a worrying one because you don't know exactly where the Drone is hover could be a good one in certain scenarios where you feel like you are going to get that connection back return to home is the ideal one because as the Drone is returning to home you'll probably then start getting the connection back and then when it comes in close enough you can then control it manually so just keep that in mind cuz if that is changed to something else not a good scenario to be in I would say return to home is the best one to go with though so now we're moving on to the control menu which is just on the right hand side of the safety menu and for tip number 19 we have got subject scanning so for tip number 19 we've got subject scanning this is a really cool feature by default it's not turned on so

17:39 if you turn your drone off go out to a new location the day after by default it's going to be turned off again every single time it's going to be turned off so you need to manually turn this on you can't turn it on when the Drone is on the ground though you have to launch the Drone and then turn it on my understanding is that it would take a lot of processing power to figure out all the things in the environment that it can start tracking so this is something that you have to manually turn on and this basically allows you to quickly and easily start tracking a subject so you'll see as I start flying there are a bunch of different pluses on the screen it's recognizing all of the cars and I can just tap on one and it will start automatically tracking that car and it will know that it's a car that means that I can go into that active track mode like I mentioned earlier on for tip number seven you know if you draw a box and enable Focus Track

18:25 by drawing on the screen it might not recognize it as as a active track ready subject so it might just recognize it as something it's tracking as opposed to a person a car or a boat so when it's in that tracking mode that's when you can actually go into active track that's why subject scanning is great cuz it recognizes that's a car I can start tracking it and then you can Chuck it straight into active track mode tip number 20 is just below the subject scanning and it's Focus track settings so Focus track is like I said earlier on Focus track encompasses active track point of interest and Spotlight but for this example here it actually gives us control over active track 360° which is at the time of me doing this video exclusive to the Mini 4 Pro and in here we can adjust the outer and the Inner Circle we can adjust how the

19:10 Drone is going to operate how it's going to function you can adjust the height you can adjust the inner and outer radius and a bunch of other settings in here so this is where you can really get the most out of active track 360° I've got a full video dedicated to these settings and also active track 360° so check that out that will be linked somewhere or just go to my channel and check it out really good video to get your head around like how it all works what these settings can actually do for you and how to get the most out of your drone and now for tip number 21 this is the gain and Expo tuning now this is a really handy setting I don't know why they've called it gain and Expo tuning it's so misleading for a lot of people out there it should just be clear and obvious the way they've worded it but it basically gives you control over your aircraft and your gimbal controls so

19:57 this is way you adjust all those gimbal movements as well as the movements of your aircraft and you can do it for normal cine and sports mode so that means for the three different modes you can adjust it individually right down the bottom you can reset it so definitely play around with this reset it worst case scenario back to default but you can control so much here you can adjust the Tilt uh the Tilt smoothness the uh Max control speed you can change how fast that gimbal moves you can adjust the your speed as well the actual aircraft for how fast it kind of yours on a plane um you can just so much in here so I'd recommend playing around with all the different settings here cuz again you canjust adjust it for the um three different modes here so you can adjust it for the sports C and normal mode so definitely play around with these and see what you can get out of it I definitely prefer a smoother gimbal

20:43 movement because that basically allows you to not have that jerky awkward movement as you're trying to control the gimbal movement it just makes it look a little bit more cinematic less jerky and uh overall a lot more usable tip number 22 is the fpv mode and this is really cool the gimbal actually follows the movement of the aircraft and gives you more of an fbv style shot so as you turn a corner the camera will bank with it it won't actually counteract that movement and it'll almost look like it goes on an angle as it's turning around a corner creates more of a a fast pace effect I guess it makes it look like you're almost like in a race car or in an fpv drone uh and it just makes it unique you know so you can kind of figure out scenarios where this would be useful for most scenarios you want to stick in follow mode cuz it's more usable and you

21:28 know is just a prettier shot overall but the fpv mode is something fun to play with and can give you a new effect you know if you want something a little bit more unique you want to add in a bit more flare in your video the fpv mode makes it a little bit more fun tip number 23 is the button customization and this is where you can adjust a bunch of different settings you can as you can see there are so many options here for the scrolling wheel for a combination of button and scrolling wheel for just the buttons there's just so much that you can do in here you can make it so the right dial for example Zooms in and out which is very handy and uh yeah super useful for a lot of people you can make it so a button turns on the auxilary light if that's something you want or you can make it so it changes from portrait to landscape just a bunch of options here so play around with that and see what works best for you and see

22:14 what's most usable for you and then tip number 24 is within the button customization and this is how you enable cruise control mode which is a feature exclusive to the mavic 3 air3 and now the Mini 4 Pro range really cool offro you basically just enable cruise control with the C1 button and then straight when you're flying your drone you can literally press the C1 button so let's say you're flying off to the right hand side as you're pulling the Drone up so you're increasing altitude as you're moving along like a really cool Coastline you can then press that C1 button and it will just continue the exact same movements everything you've put into the Drone all those inputs it will basically keep it locked so it's cruising at that point and very useful extremely useful and something that is a little underrated again so definitely play around with cruise control we're

23:00 now moving into the camera menu and for tip number 25 we've got the color options so this is how you enable either the normal color mode hlg or dlog M this is how you get that 10bit video option and really useful so if you're in dlog M it's a flatter profile gives you so much more control later on in post production but you can also enable that color display assist you got normal you got hlg and you've got dlog M so many options here definitely play around with it and uh yeah don't just get comfortable with normal because if you want to really get the most out of the image you're really going to want to play around with it in postproduction so hlg and dlog M are worthwhile for that for tip number 26 this is the color display assist and like I just said before dlog m is a very flat profile so

23:46 in a lot of scenarios when you're flying the Drone extremely flat profile it's hard to kind of gauge what the framing is looking like what the colors are looking like so what you can do is you can enable color display assist it will make it a more usable experience for you as the user you can see the colors a bit more vibrantly but then the video that you're capturing is going to be that flat profile so when you put it on the computer it's not going to have all those colors it's going to be flat but while you're flying the Drone it gives you the option to display those colors so you can truly see what's going on tip number 27 is the histogram this is something I always enable it basically just lets you know how much light is coming into the sensor so if it's Overexposed it will let you know if it's underexposed it'll let you know you kind of want that perfect bell curve to let you know that everything like everything

24:32 in the frame is perfectly lit the white balance is nice it will just let you know what's going on so if you adjust like I adjust the iso here you can see it's extremely blown out very white and it just crushes the histogram you can't even see any information in it but as I start to pull it back you can see that the information starts coming in that's what those little lines are it's telling you there's information in the image and as we start to lose that and we go to the extreme where it's just white everywhere you can see we're not we don't have as much information and we're not going to be able to play around with it in post production as much tip number 28 kind of complement the histogram and this is the overexposure warning so this basically just gives you the zebra patterns and it will let you know what is Overexposed sometimes it can be a little misleading because it will just tell you a cloud is Overexposed because

25:17 the cloud is very white um but just keep that in mind you know as you're adjusting ISO here this is where you see as I've shown you before you can now tell it's Overexposed so all that information is getting lost and you're going to have a very very tough time in post- production uh pulling that back so overexposure warning is just a handy one to have as long as everything's set up perfectly you won't even really notice it it's only if you have issues in like an auto mode for example it will just show you when things are Overexposed tip number 29 is the frame guide and this is a really cool thing this is relatively new it's not on many other drones um but it basically just gives you a guide for your framing so if you want to go with that vertical video option but you are capturing uh just normal kind of landscape stuff it gives you a frame so it actually lets you know okay this is

26:02 where the 9 by6 is which is like Tik Tok real content you know YouTube shorts any of that vertical video stuff so it will record the video for you as normal so you can still use that video as you would but then it gives you a guide so that means that if you want the action to be right in the center and then you want to crop your video for socials you can still do that but instead of just putting all your eggs in one basket going pure vertical video then you can't use it as a landscape video as well so this is really nice to have frame guide you can even go with one by one which is the Instagram stories and sorry not Instagram stories Instagram post uh which is nice to have so this just let you know this is the safe area where you're going to be able to post and it's not going to crop it on a social network or whatever it is there's mobile options film so this is a really cool one and useful for a lot of people tip number 30

26:49 is the style and this is actually a drop down option where you can adjust the sharpness and the noise reduction so I can increase the sharpness up to two that's the max I can go or I can then you know pull it down so with noise reduction Max can go to one both of them can go down to min-2 so if you want to remove the sharpness a bit remove the noise reduction you can and if you want to pump it up you can noise reduction maxes out at one sharpness maxes out at two some people notice that with some of these camera systems they add more sharpness to it so sometimes it's nice to reduce the sharpness and then in post reduction add some more but again this just gives you a bit more control to make it work with your workflow and now we're moving on to the transmission menu and for tip 31 this is how you view the interference so if you're noticing that

27:34 your range is terrible this is how you view the interference in the area so you can just come into this menu here the transmission menu and you can see exactly what's going on so by default it's going to be on auto and it's going to be on Dual Band which is what I would recommend in most scenarios but this will actually let you know what's happening in the area so very handy to be able to see the interference the Drone has to be on the ground though keep that in mind if your drone is flying you can't see this you have to be on the ground to access this little interface here and then for tip number 32 this is how you change to the manual channel selection so where it says Channel mode you can go from Auto into manual and then when that graph is you can actually press and hold and drag your finger along to adjust the channel that you want it to be set on this is really handy if you are having a lot of

28:19 issues with interference like I said in most scenarios keep it on Dual Band Auto but this just lets you customize it if for whatever reason having major issues now we're moving on to the about menu and we're moving on to tip number 33 and this is how you check for updates you can see there's a few different blue pieces of text there that you can press on to check for updates you got the fly safe data and you've also got aircraft firmware you can press on those and it will manually search for updates if you're not getting prompted to update your drone or the fly safe data and now for tip number 34 and the final tip of this video here this is how you reset or clear your data a really good thing to do if you are selling your drone if you're concerned about any of that getting transferred over you can reset all your settings so if you've played

29:06 around with all these settings and you're a bit confused with what you've done you can reset it back to factory default or factory reset which will just give you a fresh Light to start again and then you also have the option to clear all data so that will clear data in aircraft internal storage and SD card it will clear aircraft logs unlocking licenses and other user data stored on the aircraft so again great if you're going to sell your drone or if you're sending it in um for some sort of repair or something like that and you're a little bit nervous you can clear everything off the Drone so anyway those are my 34 must know tips and settings or tips and tricks for the DJI Mini 4 Pro a phenomenal drone with so much going on for it check out all my other videos on the channel to get the most out of this drone and yeah I really hope that you gained a lot from this I love doing these tips and settings videos cuz I see

29:52 how much uh help it gives people how helpful it is for people and how much people get out of it but thank you so much for watching let me know if you got any other tips tricks settings anything like that in the comments below leave your feedback down there and I will chat in the comments and I'll talk to you in the next video [Music] peace a