DJI Broadcasts Encourage 3 Cinema Drone
by DRONELIFE Workers Author Ian M. Crosby
Immediately, drone and digital camera know-how chief DJI introduced the DJI Encourage 3, a full-frame 8K cinema drone designed for top-level film productions. Its built-in design incorporates a 161° ultra-wide FOV night-vision FPV and the O3 Professional transmission and management system. DJI’s first and solely cinema-grade drone, the Encourage 3 helps each RTK-powered Waypoint Professional and omnidirectional sensing to conduct safer and extra correct flight missions.
“The Encourage 3 is the professional-level aerial platform all filmmakers have been ready for,” mentioned DJI Artistic Director Ferdinand Wolf. “It empowers customers to totally maximize the potential of any shot as they’ll file in cinematic-grade picture high quality beforehand solely accessible with giant and clunky digital camera programs. We’re wanting ahead to seeing how the Encourage 3 will push aerial cinematography to a totally new stage.”
The totally redesigned Encourage 3 incorporates a compact, strong airframe built-in with an FPV digital camera, visible sensors, positioning antennas, and storage card slot. The mannequin helps the newly added Tilt Enhance and 360° Pan buildings. Upon reducing the touchdown gear, the gimbal allows obstruction-free 80° upward-angle capturing. The brand new hot-swappable TB51 clever twin batteries grant as much as 28 minutes of flight time. Its propulsion system gives a flight pace of as much as 94km/h, 8m/s ascent and descent pace and dive pace as much as 10m/s.
Encourage 3 Options
The Encourage 3 makes use of the lightest ever full-frame Zenmuse X9-8K Air Gimbal Digital camera, that includes DJI’s CineCore 3.0, supporting inside recording of as much as 8K/25fps CinemaDNG video in addition to 8K/75fps Apple ProRes RAW video. In S&Q mode, X9-8K Air helps inside recording of as much as full-frame 4K/120fps ProRes RAW video with out cropping, enabling better artistic modifying choices.
Lens, DL mount, Gimbal
The X9-8K Air helps twin native ISO, providing EI 800/4000 at full-frame 30fps and under, and EI 320/1600 at above 30fps. It covers over 14 stops of dynamic vary, with excessive dynamic vary permitting better prospects for post-editing. The X9-8K Air is appropriate with an extra 18 mm F2.8 full-frame ultra-wide lens and a brand new telephoto lens specifically made for 8K aerial cinematography, in addition to full-frame 24, 35 and 50mm lenses. With the DJI Cinema Colour System (DCCS), the X9-8K Air is ready to retain genuine colours and provide seamless coloration matching between X9-8K Air and ground-based cinema cameras just like the DJI Ronin 4D.
The included DJI PROSSD 1TB affords as much as 1100MBps write pace and as much as 900MBps learn pace and will be linked on to a pc through USB-C cable for straightforward file sharing and seamless workflows.
Encourage 3 leverages high-precision RTK positioning know-how for extra steady flights and extra exact flight-route planning. The built-in 3 GNSS System (GPS + Galileo + BeiDou) ensures correct flight maneuvers even in difficult environments. Activating the RTK community or establishing a D-RTK 2 Cell Station gives customers with exact positioning and inside orientation with out the necessity for extra modules or compass calibration.
The Encourage 3 options 9 visible sensors for superior omnidirectional impediment sensing. Horizontal, upward, and downward impediment sensing can every be enabled or disabled independently, and an impediment alert vary will be set manually for various eventualities. With lively avoidance off, customers can nonetheless view the gap from an impediment on the navigation show in real-time and obtain an audio alert when an impediment is inside a set vary with out the plane performing an computerized maneuver.
The Encourage 3’s 161° FOV extremely wide-angle FPV lens incorporates a 1/1.8-inch night-vision sensor with 3μm pixel dimension and as much as 1080p/60fps stay feed for a steady, ultra-low latency view of 90 ms for situational consciousness and improved flight security. The mannequin’s new O3 Professional Transmission helps a transmission vary of as much as 15 km with one controller and as much as 12 km in dual-control mode. The 4K/30fps stay feeds are additionally supported with a decreased 5km transmission vary, assembly the demand for an ultra-HD output and livestreaming on set. The twin-control mode permits two distant controllers to obtain transmission and management hyperlinks from the drone independently, enabling the pilot and gimbal operator to stay at totally different areas.
Encourage 3 FPV lens
The Encourage 3 comes with the DJI RC Plus with a 7-inch 1,200-nit high-brightness display. The interior battery affords as much as 3.3 hours operation time, extending to six hours with an exterior hot-swappable WB37 battery. The system additionally options an HDMI out port and customizable buttons and dials on the entrance, again, and prime. The DJI Pilot 2 app grants customers a quick startup time and intuitive person interface with simply accessible features.
Encourage 3 additionally options Timesync Assist via a 3.5mm jack for high-precision management on set. The system will be paired with one RC Plus and one Excessive-Vibrant Distant Monitor. The monitor serves as a hyperlink to the DJI Professional Ecosystem, supporting merchandise just like the DJI 4D Hand Grips and DJI Grasp Wheels. The DJI Three-Channel Observe Focus may also be linked to the RC Plus, permitting for Distant Focus and Iris Management on the Zenmuse X9-Air digital camera.
DJI Care Professional can be accessible for DJI Encourage 3, providing complete safety for unintended harm with limitless free repairs throughout the protection restrict, in addition to two free replacements for brand new batteries annually and Flyaway protection.
Priced at $16,499, DJI Encourage 3 can be accessible for buy from retailer.dji.com and from licensed retail companions by the tip of June. The bundle comes with the DJI Encourage 3 Plane, Zenmuse X9-8K Air Gimbal Digital camera, RC Plus distant controller, 6x TB51 Clever Battery, Charging Hub, PROSSD 1TB, Trolley Case, 3x Foldable Fast-Launch Propellers (Pair), Lens Carrying Field, RC Plus Strap, and extra.
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Ian attended Dominican College of California, the place he obtained a BA in English in 2019. With a lifelong ardour for writing and storytelling and a eager curiosity in know-how, he’s now contributing to DroneLife as a workers author.
Miriam McNabb is the Editor-in-Chief of DRONELIFE and CEO of JobForDrones, knowledgeable drone companies market, and a fascinated observer of the rising drone trade and the regulatory surroundings for drones. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles targeted on the business drone area and is a world speaker and acknowledged determine within the trade. Miriam has a level from the College of Chicago and over 20 years of expertise in excessive tech gross sales and advertising for brand new applied sciences.
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