I’ll be doing some aerial filming with her and SS Shieldhall when they meet in the Solent later in September.
Hope you have better results with active track on the Shieldhall , Waverley seems not to fit dji notions of a ship
I’ve never used active track on anything to be honest. All my sea flying and video footage is captured manually.
Cudos to you for that, curious as to why one would not try a paid for feature which if works could make life easier
Honestly can’t think of a single time where I’ve tried Active Track and it hasn’t, at some point during the flight, decided to do a big, obvious framing adjustment that ruins the shot.
Ah, thought I was missing a trick not using the feature (last season) , but having had on numerous occasions same experience as @JoeC describes, had presumed as in the advice of Steve Jobs that I must be ‘holding it wrong’ or that paddle steamers diddn’t fit dji’s model of a ship
Exactly that! I tend to capture very fast moving vessels and doing everything in manual mode works a treat for me and improves my flying moves.
Don’t get me wrong… even when I’m tracking manually my own impatience means I quite often do a big, obvious framing adjustment myself that I end up wishing I hadn’t 
I tried active track the other day for the first time. I selected a large, slow moving object in the centre of the frame (me!) I lumbered off, following a straight, level, well defined pathway with no obstructions on either side and could hear the Mini4 following.
When i reviewed the footage the drone had followed in the general direction but with a few hops, skips and jumps of its own.
So I think I’ll stick with manually following things like cars and boats, hopefully increasing my flying skills while doing so 
Yep Active Track is useless when you’re following a Class 120 offshore racing boat at very close distance as I was doing and capturing over the weekend for the Cowes-Torquay-Cowes race.
I’m the same. When I’m filming it doesn’t look bad but on a rewatch I’m shouting at myself to take it slower/smoother.
She’s a surprisingly fast vessel for a steamer around 14 knots. I’ve seen her a couple of times take on a rough Solent and slice through it.
Indeed she is , be slender too were in not for the sponsons . From monday managed this
Hi @ianr I’ve edited your post to include the OneBox preview.
To do this just paste the YouTube link into a new line on its own with no spaces etc.
No need to use the insert hyperlink button in the message composer or any embed code, its all done automatically for you if you follow the above.
www.youtube.com/justlikethis
I don’t really do that much of YouTube but this was my footage from 2023 when she was on her Solent excursions.
