I got some time to go and fly this afternoon, the weather gods were smiling on us here. Decided to investigate some of the fancy video modes that come built in to my Air2S, in particular “ActiveTrack”. Unfortunately the good weather didn’t last long and storm clouds started to gather, but limited to just over where I was standing. There was harsh language , talking to the controller, pleading with the drone etc.
I have seen quite a few videos talking about the ActiveTrack feature and they all say “just press on the screen and then draw a green box around your target”. Could I get it to do this? No, I (expletive) could not. Most of the time when I presses on the screen (I was generally the target) or long pressed on the screen, a yellow box would appear telling me that auto exposure had been locked (it even had a small padlock in the lower right of the yellow box).
I kept at it and sever times did manage to get the green box to appear, and then select Activetrack and test it out. BUT, I have no idea what I did differently to get it to work. It seemed that some times I needed the video submenu to be onscreen, other times, maybe not.
Not having an Air 2s I’m not sure, but if it’s anything like in the go 4 app you need to activate that flight mode in the controller settings. Then do the rap and draw bit.
I am perfectly content to be called daft should it be necessary. But following numerous videos showing someone just touching the screen to activate this feature, it seems likely that the description is missing step (s).
I’m hopefully out with the Air2s tomorrow. I’ll have another look but i do remember it wasn’t the easiest thing to do.
I’m not recommending it at all (i have only just started using it, so don’t feel able to do so ) but Litchi will do what you want regards Tracking from what I’ve seen on the t’internet.
I have only recently started using Maven and it’s brilliant. I will look at whether it has a tracking feature, but DJI advertise ActiveTrack for their drones and I would love to learn how to use it without having to resort to a workaround.
I have found two ways of activating it the first is to draw a square on the screen and if it recognise the object it will put a green square round it.
The second method is to turn on subject scanning under the control menus, you will then see little green plus signs to objects you can select on the screan.
You then have to select 1 of the 3 options Active track , spotlight or poi
Thanks for this @Acedrone I will go take another look. I am pretty sure I have “subject scanning” turned on, but given the other videos I have seen am obviously getting something wrong.
You are in video mode and not photo mode when your drawing the box?
I use spotlight mode all the time with my Air 2 and you just go to the video mode and drag a box around the target this activates spotlight mode (the eye symbol at the bottom of the screen) this mode locks your target in centre frame and allows you to manually fly around objects super smooth while the drone does all the work keeping the subject framed.
Maybe this will help you:
The 2nd video I posted is all about spotlight mode in the above
this may be a problem with the height above the subject combined with how well the subject stands out from the background. Found that drawing the box normally works ok, but the drone wasn’t always finding the subject as it couldn’t discriminate from the background.
Try having someone with a bright coloured item of clothing or dropping your height / angle to see if that makes a difference. Once it’s locked on it’s usually pretty stable and will just go into hover mode if it looses a lock.
So it seems like “Subject Scanning” is the setting to go for. I thought it was turned on, but it was not. When I turned this on I was able to select myself and then have all the features of ActiveTrack available to me. Did a couple of tests and it was good as gold.
Just look at this craziness.
Now, the equivalent in Maven, well let’s say I need to go look at the tutorials again, cause I couldn’t get it to work at all.
This was from last night using point of interest, lock was maintain for a long time up to a hight of 112m .
You can also use poi in camera mode to follow a subject to keep it in centre frame before taking a shot but only works on slow moving objects.
, talking to the controller, pleading with the drone 
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