I had another couple of flights and showed it off a little to some friends, but then also had a few issues that I thankfully figured out later that night.
When I first launched the drone, the video switched to vertical filming and I should have landed it and checked my settings since you can choose 16:9 or 9:16 ratio and I must have changed it the night before going through the settings from the first flights. Duh.
I wanted to get the sound of the room, not necessarily us talking about how awesome it is, but to hear the quality, but when you use the smartphone as the controller, you pretty much cover the mic with you hand. Duh.
The weirdest thing though is just before I got to the last room, you can hear it say “Flight distance reached”. I couldn’t hear that when I was flying it but it didn’t want to go through the doorway. I’m not sure why it didn’t want to keep going, possibly the musical equipment coming up made it freak out, but I landed it in my hand and walked through to start filming the ramp area. After looking up the warning, it’s not supposed to say that unless it’s at the furthest reach from the controller and the wi-fi signal, but I was standing right behind it the entire time. Weird.
I didn’t want to be super annoying while everyone skated so I just panned around a little bit to see what it would look like and I think a wider lens would be better. Similar to most of these types of cameras, they need a lot of light to look good.
It was still very cool to have a tiny drone to show everyone and to continue my little adventure with it.
When I got home to download the clips, I connected the drone to the app and selected the videos to save to my phone like you’re supposed to. I knew 2 of the clips were kind of long and expected it to take a few minutes, but the progress bar went away and I thought it was done and I powered down the drone. I noticed on my phone though that the video was still trying to transfer in the background but I didn’t realize it and I broke the connection. I tried multiple times to download those clips but it wasn’t letting me and really wasn’t giving me any information as to why not. I tried connecting the drone directly to my Mac and it wasn’t recognizing the drone at all until I realized I need to use a USB C cord directly to my USB C port on the computer. It did not work with a USB A to C cord. I was then able to grab all of the clips, much quicker too, and I could stop fretting that I was not going to get to use the clips for my award winning video above. Phew!
FYI: There is 22GB of memory inside the drone that is NOT physically accessible. You format it within the DJI Fly app after you grab the clips, but there is no card that you can remove or replace.