Phantom 4 compares Yuneec Typhoon H on Flight Features for Filmmaking

Drones are an amazing new tool for content creators at all levels. In the past, only skilled operators could capture the best shots and 2 operators are often needed, one for the drone and one for the camera. Using intelligent flight features, a second operator is not always necessary.

To give you an idea of the intelligent flight features that are out there, let’s look at the features available on the DJI Phantom 4 and the Yuneec Typhoon H.

Point of Interest

Both the Inspire and Typhoon have the Point of Interest feature. This will allow the user to orbit around a subject at a predetermined speed and height. This is a very difficult more for an inexperienced pilot. Try adjusting the height in flight for an amazing spiral effect.

Waypoints / Curve Cable Cam

With these features, you can create a pre-determined fight path so that concentration can be focused on the camera. Once the points are set, the drone will continue to fly the path over at over at the set speed. This can allow for multiple takes with exactly the same drone path.

Following a Subject

This is one area where the Phantom 4 clearly prevails. With the Phantom’s ActiveTrack mode, the user can drag their finger over any subject, such as a person that is walking or biking, and it will follow that object. The Typhoon H only has Orbit Me mode which will orbit around the operator, which is typically not what would be needed for a creative film unless it is about a drone pilot.

Collision Avoidance

The two drones both have technology built-in to avoid obstacles. The Phantom 4 and the Typhoon H have sensors in the front and on the bottom. Though the Typhoon employs RealSense technology that they have developed with Intel, the Phantom 4 in practice has performed at a much higher level.

Course Lock / Home Lock

The Phantom 4 also comes with features Course Lock, which keeps the drone pointing in the same direction, and Home Lock, which makes it easier to fly further and closer to the home point. The only comparison on the Typhoon H is Journey which flies the drone out to a set distance instead of the variable distance that the Phantom 4 allows.

Return to Home

Lastly, these drones have safety features that allow them to come back to where they started at the push of a button or if signal is lost. DJI now puts a Home button in all of its products.

Overall, while there’s no substitute for a good pilot, intelligent flight features make it much easier to capture incredible shots with minimal effort. By mastering these features, you’ll be miles ahead of most filmmakers. Just be sure to always fly safely and use technology wisely to create great projects. As Toy Story Director John Lasseter said, “the art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.”

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Yuneec drone image quality lapses a function of data flow

Problems with connections likely account for Yuneec drone image quality complaints.

Yuneec drone users often find perceptible differences in image and video quality compared to DJI models and many of the problems are linked to problems with the internal WiFi card that makes data transfers glitchy.

Yuneec has attempted to fix some of the data issues by offering to solder a new antenna onto some Yuneec drone versions, such as the Yuneec Q400 4K, and address other issues such as upgrading firmware, but persistent complaints about missing frames or out-of-color video even with Yuneec Typhoon H models and the Yuneec Typhoon actioncam are hard to ignore.

Some comments from Seachange01 draw sharp attention to the image problems on the Typhoon H camera feed and raise an issue that is fairly important, whether or not they can be fixed under warranty.

“Like many of you, I really want to do a lot of video making with this, it’s not just a fun flying toy for me. That being said, I seem to see a LOT of issues of “washed out color” in the many videos I have seen posted by Typhoon H users online,” Seachange01 said, when talking about the large Yuneec drone, a hexacopter.

“I am wanting to see if anyone here has gone through that issue, and if there was much that could be done to fix that problem shy of spending hours at the computer doing video editing. I know in many cases, people just leave settings on ‘auto’ to make life easier, and while I am no photography guru, I would happily invest the time in learning how to manually set the camera if it was definitely going to fix the issues and give me a far superior quality of video. I guess if it’s not something that is realistically able to be fixed, then the Typhoon dream is likely to end for me.”

One review from Base Bundle was even more to the point in a posting on another Yuneec drone, the Yuneec Q500.

“I was just solely disappointed with the aircraft stability and image quality in comparison to other drones on the market like DJI,” Base Bundle said. And Kevin McRae who liked other features on the Q500 Yuneec drone repeated the complains about “washed out color” noted by Seachange01.

“The camera on the other hand can produce overly warm photos/videos and I feel like the camera on the Phantom was slightly better at producing the right colors,” McRae said.

One reason for these recurrent Yuneec drone problems is that the WiFi feed has to exchange data with the controller in packets that can drop in transmission. This can lead to delays in sending and receiving images and the color and blurry edge conditions often noted by users.

Unlike these different Yuneec drone models, DJI uses a proprietary Lightbridge or Lightbridge 2 technology that avoids these data transfer glitches and that sets it apart from other UAV drone manufacturers like Yuneec.

Many users also complain of a cumbersome process to get parts fixed and upgraded that might mitigate the issues with Yuneec drone models and that is particularly the case with transmission issues that affect a number of in-flight parameters.

That leads to a fix-it-yourself mindset among many first-time Yuneec drone  users — a plan of action that can end up voiding any remaining warranty.

 

 

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