ActiveTrack seems to be a bit rubbish. Is this to be expected?

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My first experiment with Trace type ActiveTrack with the Mini 4 Pro

(Excuse the sniffing - it was a cold day and my hands were full with 2 dogs who couldn’t understand why they weren’t getting off the lead and a remote controller. Access to handkerchief was tricky!)

I would’ve had a longer sample but forgot to press “Record” until I was at the end of the field…

Anyway, all along the way the drone was dancing and lurching, giving a pretty rubbish result. I wasn’t shooting into the sun and there wasn’t much to obscure me in the foreground. I’ve seen quite a lot of YouTube videos with jerky motion like this too. Is this to be expected? Any way to improve things?

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I also tried active track on a Mini 4 with similar results to you. I walked slowly, in a straight line and there wasn’t any other moving person or object in frame. It was a fairly quiet day windwise, cloud cover meaning no dark shadows.

The thing wandered all over the place! I don’t think active track is too clever, yet. :slight_smile:

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The bulk of you is a similar colour to the background so its going to struggle.

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I’m not sure it is struggling to pick me up, as the green box tracks well on the screen recording from the controller. The actual subject tracking is consistent but the manoeuvres are erratic despite this. It would’ve been more understandable if it had been losing me.

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I’ve used it a few time and not had any problems at all. In one test, probably fortunately not recorded, I ran around a sports field (running of sorts!) and my Mini 4 Pro seemed to track well. It might not help although I wonder if it’s worth recalibrating the gimbal?

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Not sure what happened with my previous post. I think I clicked the wrong button.

I was going to suggest changing the obstacle avoidance setting because in general flight I tend to find my Mini 4 Pro and Mini 5 Pro are more jittery in ‘Bypass’ mode than when in ‘Brake’ mode but then I realised that, in ActiveTrack, the drone will bypass obstacles no matter what the setting so that’s no real help, sorry!

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Thanks for the suggestions. I’m a bit reluctant to recalibrate the gimbal as it is currently level and I don’t want to jeopardise that! Changing the obstacle avoidance sounded good until your caveat :slight_smile:

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If a gimbal recalibration doesn’t make the camera level every single time, there’s something wrong.