Skydio's New Cinematic Keyframing Tested: 15 Things to Know! 

Definitely need to try this one out. Congrats on 300k 🙌🙌🎉🎉

Yet another fantastic video Ray! Thank you for freezing out there to bring us your amazing content ;) It’s like watching myself (well kinda) as I love cycling, drones & Amsterdam. Just checked out your Skydio 2+ video a minute ago. Hopefully you’ll get that bird up in the sky soon. Love your work.

Yet again. Great work as usual. Love that last key frame composition with you riding/ running thru. Looking forward to my skydio2+

Great video. And answered a lot of questions that I had especially on the limitations.

great in detail video thank you

Great introduction to Keyframe. I can see the reason for moderating the speed between keypoints, particularly if they are close, or involve complex moves, as basic physics can make a particular route unachievable at higher speeds. My hope is that as they develop Keyframe, you'll be able to bump up the speed commensurate with the distance between keypoints and vary from fast to slo-mo, point-to-point.

Keyframes looks like it might be a very useful feature for the Skydio 2 plus, once they get all the bugs worked out. Great video Ray, thanks for sharing.

Would be really cool if keyframing and active track were integrated so the camera would orient and swivel to follow a subject while executing the keyframe maneuver.

Great video….thanks!

Great job! Thank you for addressing doorways. I was wondering if it could handle that. That sucks

The shot at 13:30 is beautiful! I don't know why you tend to talk down the video quality of the Skydio. It may be average compared to DJI, but it certainly is capable of some very above average captures! Thanks for all you do, Ray. Cheers!

Great video! Love the indoor shooting idea and I was wondering about the light issue. Could an ND filter fix the flickering?

Another great review Ray. Seriously Skydio is miles ahead of the competition on their tracking, so it is odd they set such a low speed limit on this new keyframing feature. I think if it can get to around 30-45km/hr even just in bursts this will be a killer feature for adventure sports videographers. Will be keeping my eyes pealed for your update when they make it happen 😉

A new function to try. After owning my Skydio for about 9 months I still struggle with it, probably because I am a novice drone pilot and am trying to make the Skydio do things its not designed for. I have a few times where the drone just does its own thing (like flying down and stopping along a cliff), which I then have to manually recover and always think I will lose the drone. I also find its hard to get long distance shots, even when using the beacon. The drone is a bit heavy, particularly with 3 batteries, which makes it a clumsy when I take it along for cycling, MTB, and running. For that reason I just purchased a DJI mini. But for tracking its awesome. Get great shots on MTB. I do find it time consuming to change batteries, which then requires to reconnect everything - drone, phone, beacon, and GPS. Be nice is there was some way to do a hot swap. Keyframes looks interesting, but like cable it will take me a will to figure out and master. And drain my 3 batteries each time in the process.

Interesting finds 👍🏻

Just want to let you all knwo that for case landing you need to tap on the yellow circle or it wont land on the case even if it says so. Skydio told me this after my drone hit the side of the pro case.

Thank you ! - happy new year ! So can you build a waypoint session offline first and next fly the prepared route as well?

Great review, and I guess having the camera pointing to the beacon through the route is not possible (future function?)

Great video!!!! I can’t wait to download update and us the key frame. feature!!!! ! 👍🏼👍🏼🇦🇺🇦🇺

Excellent

Wow, it’s a bit of a set up effort but the results are amazing!

Great video, How do you get these Skydio's to the Netherlands? I had to go thru a lot of trouble to get it on my desk here in Holland.

my question is if you can save your flightpath for later. For example, at our Lunar New Year’s celebration, we have a shot where the building’s staff lines up (Rockette’s style). The drone does a low flyby so that the entire staff gets some facetime with a good wave. The drone then climbs and does some cinematic maneuvers around our building and the immediate surroundings (not just circling but a bit more complex). I can’t expect the staff to wait around while i plan the shot. I’d like to plan it the day before or so and then on the day of, the staff gets in place and I execute the maneuver.

I appreciate the information. How does key frames compare to way points? Unless I was not providing enough input, way points only got from point A to B without useable footage in between. On a side note, did skydio just rebrand the parrot controller?

Diemen & the Rijnkanaal sure gets a lotta Drone action 😁

Great video, I am sure Skydio will fix these small things if possible. How did you get the Skydios? I am in Austria now and if I want to order, there is no option. So I guess I need to ask a friend over in the USA to buy it for me and ship it?

Very cool.

Thank you for this. I live in Oregon and the weather is not optimum to say the least so I haven't got my Skydio 2 out yet, but is Keyframing a free feature through an update? Anyway, I see the benefit of Keyframing but why not create the Keyframe course as actual waypoints. Waypoints that can then be programed individually to tell the Skydio 2 to do anything from change the direction of the main camera, to speed and whether to take a picture or a video? You could also display these points on a map or aerial photo from Google Earth and manipulate the course there. This is easy to do I believe because other companies have done it and without some ridiculous requirement to buy some $2000 software unlock. Parrot does it with their ANAFI line. The original ANAFI. Anyway, I'll look forward to seeing more about this and the new 2+ from you! P.S. How did you get your Skydio 2 and 2+?

A terrific video. Very well done and informative. Until, they get the speed up during the keyframe shots, I see this not really being a part of the Skydio 2 core competency.

How could you order the skydio for Europa ? Bravo for your brilliant videos ! Always rich

crazy how far tech has come in recent years

Omg- you uploaded superb video-work,see you on my side! DC,

3DR Solo's multipoint cable cam, but with obstacle avoidance and a nifty graphic on the UI. It's an incredibly useful feature and should be _way_ smoother than a person on the sticks

As a hiker, sounds like keyframe would be perfect!

Cycle faster and nail that keyframe, or wait missed it, but the running was on track ;-) I sold my Skydio 2 last month, and not sure this feature makes it worth buying again but glad Skydio keep on innovating!

Still blows my mind

Can you make comparison with dji mavic 3 waypoint with skydio 2 keyframe

As always a great video. Thank you. The Skydio footage shows a jitter. It doesn’t appear to be fluent. Is this caused by the upload or does the key framing impact the smoothness?

this is insane skydio have defiantly used there game can not wait to see what the skydio 3 brings

Hi Ray, First thank you for the great video's your manking. I life in The Netherlands also i am Dutch 😉 and i like to buy the skydio do you now a dealer in The Netherlands where is can buy one? Regards, Erwin

Thanks for always in depth vid! The thing that sucks with Skydio, is that it got promoted by consumers and not business, and for free! suddenly, after they have become famous they have turned to the big business forgetting or rather neglecting us consumers, that actually brought them fame. Now allot as you, yourself described in the vid, there are things you can do with the enterprise edition software, that we ordinary consumers dont get in the app. I get it that they need to differentiate between the enterprise solution and the private consumer solution, but not by functions that should be available to us private consumers as well. We helped them become popular and in demand in the business area, now I feel to put it mildly they give us the middle finger!

@11:00 , in enterprise when using keyframing the obstacle avoidance switches back to standard and so does also not allow the 11 cm or even 0 cm.

I saw they added a new gimbal control feature for keyframe but I don’t see that option?? I have 2+

I would like you to review your t-shirt. It's amazing.

Can you still do Traditional map waypoint.

does it have mount for Action 2 camera?

Oh man, would love to have this in Europe...

very windy! The shot a the end are not bad! You could also slow down on your bike to arrive in time to get perfect shot.

antana added. Is the signal still that bad on the preview?

I don't see the keyframe option on my skydio 2 and the app says that the software is up to date. What should I do? 😰

Crazy complex. This is why Artificial Intelligence is becoming so powerful in the World of consumer electronics.

Very windy! It must be a huge challenge for canal traffic.

Does it fly in low light now ?

Aub zou je mij willen helpen waar kan ik kopen in Europe skydio 2+ ???

Can tge skydio 2 use key frames

What drone do you enjoy flying the most, skydio 2+ or the dji 2 s?

Maybe I missed something, but does the drone need constant contact with the remote to finish the route?

Why is the video from the drone so choppy? It's like it stutters everytime a new video keyframe is loaded. Is this a compression problem with the drone, a video editing artifact, or a RU-vid issue? The parts of you look fine.

WHERE IS THE LINK

It almost but precisely sound like if you know how to edit 360° footage, using the keyframe feature will be a cake walk

Does the key frame only work with the remote?

I think, I’ll hint my friends on the new world of my upcoming birthday and have them mail me one.. If regulations do allow flying Skydio in the EU

Thank you for the truth! Every other video regarding the new skydio and its features only shows all the praise not the truth. The truth is it's a new feature and it's good but not great

It took long enough for a company to implement something like this again... Remember 3dr drones that used to do this... That the main reason I wanted to buy one.

Hi! What is all the jerkyness in the footage? is that something that was created when uploading to you RU-vid? I see this a lot of drone review footage lately. Not sure if it a bitrate thing? Hmmm...

Couple of questions, why is the footage so full of stuttering? It regularly (about 2 times a second) is jumping ex 11:22 Also why is the controller feed SO bad??

👍👍🥂

If they made a better controller,foldable,and a better app so i can fly it also like a normal drone like the mavic series its probably the best drone in its price range.

the ONLY thing holding me back is the Parrot controller, Range, and Camera. Controller sucks when comparing to DJI's controllers. Range, self explanatory. Camera - not enough dynamic range, no s-log, and frame rates - its soooo choppy!

Wish this drone was legal in my country

Nice but not available in Europe…..

WHY DO YALL NEVER SAY THE PRICE AT TIME OF VIDEO....

Ba8c

😭 I would like to burn my Mavic 3 in protest.

Talking to fast.

I'm selling my skydio now. No trade in for existing customers is so rude. this drone isn't very reliable to begin with as skydio lied about every stat of the drone. Range is terrible amd connectivity is a joke

This is a gimmick. Takes too much time