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[@giovanidronesaerocinematog834]

Amazing ! I believe that even the guys from DJI don't know this hack ! ! !

[@PETERFRITZPHOTO]

Brilliantly done. Thanks!

[@my2cents198]

Boom 💣 💥... this is gold !! You have the best backdrop to shoot drone footage... spectacular scenery 👌

[@_Richard_F___]

Quality and straight to the point. Thanks

[@34Media]

Always helpful tips mate appreciate it !

[@Al-Kwadrone]

Very helpful tips, Stewart! 💪🏼👊🏻👍🏼

[@andyairshots]

Awesome as ever..thank you..

[@MoviesSam]

Great video; very helpful and beautiful scenery.

[@tommystravels64]

Awesome tutorial! Thanks for sharing pal!!

[@room403band]

Excellent video. Such great value! Thank you!

[@parrotheadstx]

Awesome video!! Thank you mate!

[@DavieLangham]

this is a great one. well done guys. keep killing it.

[@streetpigeonmtb]

Thank you. A massively helpful video 👍

[@mendelevium950]

Thanks for the tips! Really a great way to get nice focus shots. Keep it up!

[@chalknaht9032]

Amazing content. Beautiful shots

[@lynsmith1096]

Great tips and video Stuart.

[@IGATECK]

Great tips, Thank You

[@mervfer1162]

Super idea! I've not been particularly pleased with the Active Track on the Mini 3. I will try these tips. Thanks! And that last downward crane reveal was spectacular!

[@stanc846]

I'll be going out and practice these hacks. Thank You!

[@anzonventuresaccount]

Love your videos Stewart. You de man!

[@pablomaresca]

Aaaaamzing!!! I’ve been flying for months without knowing it! Thank you! Love your videos. Super useful.

[@djduane1]

Outstanding, Stewart!!! Haven't seen these tips before but they are spot on! Love the idea of selecting an inanimate object instead of a human subject so you get better stability and smoother track!!! Cheers!

[@EMPERORTANG]

Best tutorials by far, thanks for sharing.

[@jamessimmons3615]

Brilliant . . . simply brilliant!!!

[@gilbertguerin9080]

Nice one again Stewart!

[@oneworldvideo]

This is one of those videos you have have stop watching halfway through.... to give it a HUGE LIKE!!! Great idea!

[@pradeepgurung9200]

absolutely awesome... 👍👍👍👍thanx for sharing,,

[@jimthorleydronefootage]

Fantastic tips bud will be trying that out 👍

[@stuartwhiteworth2925]

Very clever, thanks for the really helpful ideas and sharing and demonstrating. Cheers Stew!

[@grumpyclark]

Brilliant! Thank you :)

[@geoffheith]

Great share! Love that idea way better than subject tracking!

[@FarmerTorque]

Now this was really useful Stuart - thank you 😊

[@TrueNorthOutdoors.]

Wow! Great video and info 👍🏻

[@JohnViolette]

Great tips!

[@DroneUpp]

Thanks for sharing! I haven't used Focus Track much but after my last few boring flights, I can see that I need to start again. Thanks for the demonstrations and encouragement. I'm on it!!!!

[@mr.korsakov]

amazing! thank you

[@f-godz3342]

So simple yet so clever 👌

[@kyrgeorge]

Supert tip. Thanks!!!

[@tjcuneo]

Great tip. Thanks

[@PaulMcBreen]

Awesome, most useful DJI drone video I have seen in years.

[@Azzurro650]

Wow! Thank you very much! 👍🏻😃

[@thegaardians]

Your a rock! Thanks for the great suggestions

[@niallgardens]

This is a great tip / hack! Properly useful and something I hadn’t thought of. Thanks!

[@dalemawby8717]

Another great video from you2

[@SoulMedia1]

Wow! Thanks for that !! Awesome hack !

[@hellobobby]

Great tutorial - thanks for taking the time to film and share. Keep it up, my friend!

[@divinedotmedia]

Discovered and used this for an establishing shot in our latest video for a sign maker. Such a great way to combine 2 or more shot types as well!

[@recideas]

Great Hack/Tip! Thx for that! Shots are great!👌🏻

[@dychui]

Wow this is a fantastic tip - thanks for sharing it !! Wonderful production and video

[@dimondcrafts1]

Awesome content❤

[@CuzzyWuzzy]

Wow, brilliant. I have never tried that, cant wait to get out and give it a go for myself 😁

[@grahamniven]

Brilliant video, explains how the system works and how to get the most out of it. Far and away the best tutorial on these tracking features I’ve seen, and I’ve seen plenty because months into ownership still can’t get them to work properly. Thanks Stewart and Alina. 👍

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Thanks Graham!

[@6minutemedia543]

Very worthwhile getting to know these tips. Thanks for a great explanation. Loved the last shot of "Man having a pee atop a large rock" ... or is it just me??

[@Phuong.Nguyen-]

Thanks for sharing awesome video 😊

[@apjumindroneshots3242]

Thanks, really useful

[@dutcher777]

Very nice video Dude, thx !

[@dc.aerial]

Interesting! 👍👍 thanks for that

[@harshjinwala4790]

This is really usefull stuff🙌

[@maxandhetty]

thank you very much!

[@dronejourneynz]

Well, there you go... genuine, no nonsense damn good tip! Thanks!

[@RonaldBrown59]

Great tip, this really does work well. I discovered this recently by accident, and have doing it ever since. But I don't have the epic landscape of Highlands like you do to film at. Great video Stewart, thanks for sharing.

[@paragontim]

Fantastic tips - thanks! I downloaded your free ebook.

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Great to hear!

[@dayankkumarasinghe]

Damn... this is so goooooood !!!!

[@BoReynolds]

Buddy, THIS IS GOLD! I would have NEVER figured that one out! THANK YOU for sharing it. I'm grateful. Bo

[@princesfpvdrones]

Well, you have solved that very issue! You the man!

[@GoTravelPlanet]

Epic, Stewart I just followed your advice in Nazare< Portugal and managed to get an epic take, thanks mate! Always following you to get some good advice for my filming

[@vtk_jnr]

Brilliant hack. Never thought of that.

[@ShamesWorthyMedia]

awesome tip!!

[@HikeFly22]

Nice video an tips

[@bigal4969]

Brilliant started using follow me last week on a hike drone was all over the place . Need to try this great work Stu.

[@bibleteacher76]

Another great tip, guys! I didn’t know you could change the subject lock to a point lock of sorts. Thanks again.

[@JoseFernandezLife]

Uaaaaa is incredible 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@ambientdrone]

Brilliant work as always stewart, i use the same method with my Mavic 3 cine!!

[@Diantane]

Clever tricks!

[@clarksvilledroneguy3113]

Thank you so much! I switched to the Air2S for my job, and it was driving me crazy losing the pin on real estate shots. Can't wait to get back to my drone to give this a shot!

[@themadears]

thanks for sharing this! i thought this would be some basic knowledge that everybody knew already

[@RONALDSCHULTE]

Thanks very much Stewart, this is a very valuable tutorial and I use this all the time now. I had already seen that the pointer is much more stable than the cross but never knew how to go from cross to pointer, now I do and that is welcome. What I still have problems with is when you are tracking a boat, for example, and that boat gets closer and thus gets bigger and turns away, then the tracking can't handle it anymore and falls away from the target. I usually solve that by flying on cine and just flying out of hand, with the stick smoothness at maximum you can also fly nice epic out of hand. Greetings from the Netherlands and I am jealous of the beautiful scenery at your place!

[@AmanChowdhury888]

Good one, Stewart! Cheers! Much appreciated")

[@TranquilDji]

Great tips mate 🇮🇪📍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@lambo_drives]

I still don't use these auto settings as well as I should. Thanks for the continued inspiration !

[@fabiocordon1]

Thank you sooo much ! I'm already a follower of your channel but I didn't watch yet this very , very useful video !

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Glad you're finding some of the older videos!

[@DroningaboutIreland]

This combined with cruise control 👍

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Need to try it out!

[@normannutbar424]

It’s like watching the Lord of the rings!

[@brianbracherphotography]

Brilliant tip, I have been having similar problems with focus track. So obvious, once someone shows you how! 😂

[@vcmovie1]

💪💪💪Dji M3 classic review ???

[@elwingy]

Great Video! Out of curiocity why is the obstacle avoidance unavailable for such shots? Feels weird when active tracking has obstacle avoidance available

[@jakeraptor1346]

Beautiful. Please explain how you get that smooth speedramp. Mine seems jerky. Thanks.

[@Cbermeo75]

Great video, Stewart. Can you say where this was shot? I will be in Scotland in two weeks and would love to see this place with my own eyes. Thank you in advance.

[@br011075]

Nice video. Is it possible to track a steamlocomotive using Active Track?

[@stevestrasser6833]

Great tips here! This is very helpful and the footage is much more stable! Thanks! We notice that our Mini 3 Pro constantly changes the camera settings back to default - mp4/normal/h264. Does this happen after firmware updates? Do you have any insight on this?

[@user-rs4qk6qy3x]

Dude! THANKYOU so much!! I love using the quick shots but the random choppiness annoyed me. Will be doing this all the time from now on

[@GuidoValdata]

this video... is very good! made me imagine some new ideas for a sequence, and your framing / cinematography is really quite good! keep it up! P.S. where were you filming? can you share the locations? the look of some of those landscapes is really foreign to me =) tnx

[@1984ansar]

nice tips yo..but how did you get there?

[@josefrennleitner2178]

Hi Stu love how exciting you are 😀 on this awesome landscape,but I don't see anything.how to get there, do you parachute in .LOL. JOJO San Diego

[@alfonsoramundo6390]

Thank you! Awesome video and trick! Can you share the location of where the video was shot? It looks stunning!

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Hey! It's the Scottish Highlands at a mountain called Foinaven.

[@mikesimcox7932]

Hi Stewart, excellent video and very inspirational, did you shoot this using a Mini 3 Pro or on a Mavic 3 Classic ? Best Regards Mike

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Hey! This is the Mini 3 Pro. It was very windy but as you can see the drone is still going a great job.

[@slippyu1]

very clever!!!!! liking this 💪 could you do a video of how not to crash into a pier and then into the water please? 😂 (oooops)

[@silverlightphotoco]

Wow. Really nice. Side question, what drone is the one you are using for this video?

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Good point, Mini 3 Pro!

[@jeffellis6544]

Hey Stewart. As always really helpful video. I’ve been trying this out for a bit. And when I get the gps point locked it’s great. But often I struggle with getting the Spotlight box to change to the Point. Is there a preferred movement to get it to switch quickly?

[@DroneFilmGuide]

Hey! Not really as far as I can see. Sometimes it changes quite quickly and sometimes it takes a lot more movement of the drone to get it to switch. But no, I haven't identified a strategy as such.

[@a_g_n_a_0o]

what drone did you use for the video?