Frame Rates
Hi Jim. Hope all is well. I’m Still loving the App and I’m trying to continually to educate myself over time to do more intricate or complex missions. A few months and it’s amazing what this app can do.
I tried to run a simple Orbit the other day with 1080 video. It was for another post regarding some pilots with jerky or not smooth video when Orbiting so they could compare my video to see if theirs was the same. I’m sure you saw my lengthy comments but I’m trying to help others. The Orbit runs fine but it’s the FPS which is the question. I had to change the FPS to the default of 29.97 to get it to run. I tried at 24, 25, 30 and even up to 60 FPS. The missions fails with the message to correct the resolution and frame rate. The MA2 is capable of all these frame rates so I’m just curious why they won’t work. Im guessing it’s either DJI’s SDK or maybe a feature you can add. I know 240 FPS was added recently but I don’t know anything about writing programs so not sure if it’s DJI or something you can do.
They all run all the way through when using the “simulator” to check the plan and confirms “mission accomplished” every time.
I’ll just use 29.97 FPS for now but, some situations were I can use a faster FPS may be useful in the future. Otherwise it’s not that big of a deal.
If you are able to add these yourself then I can put a short post in feature requests if needed.
Thanks Jim,
Mike......
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Correct, Dronelink just shows all the possible values that the DJI SDK exposes, and then blindly issues the command without any knowledge about which ones will work with which drones (this is up to you, the mission planner).
The simulator has no knowledge about which drone you are going to eventually run it on, and even if it did, we would have to program a profile for every single drone from every single manufacturer for every single combination of commands + values for the commands. Not going to happen any time soon as it would be incredibly time consuming, and we don't have every single drone that DJI has ever made anyway.
Mike:
FWIW I have successfully executed plans with 4K and 2.7K with setting both at 30FPS (29.970) and 60FPS (59.940). The Resolution & Frame Rate command does require the decimal values in parentheses.
Thanks Jim. Wow, DJI blindly does things. What a shocker. Lol. The Simulator isn’t a big deal. I assumed it didn’t check everything but was I curious. No big deal and I appreciate the info. Quick responses as always and customer support is a huge deal for me. You must work your tail off. Thanks again Jim.
Thanks David. I noticed it does need to be the 29.970, not 30 FPS. I tried 1080 last night with 60 FPS and it failed. I’ll try the 59.940 on all resolutions at some time since you said they work.
Enjoy, Mike.....
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