The Mavic Pro Drone: Shooting Photos and Video

The Mavic Pro may be small, but its packed with power. Learn how to shoot great photos and capture beautiful video with Scott Kelby and Terry White, as they take you through everything you need to know to get up and flying safely. In this class you’ll learn what you must do before you take your first flight, how to operate the drone safely, all the key settings for still and video capture, how to perform a pre-flight check, how to safely land, and a whole lot more. Don’t forget to download the accompanying PDF to take that pre-flight checklist with you everywhere you go.

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Scott Kelby

Release Date: 2017-03-01

Lessons

Before You Start

Join Scott and Terry as they introduce the class and get you up to speed with what you need to know before you start.

Duration: 6 mins 27 seconds

Setting Up Your Mavic Pro: 1

Learn the things you need to do to set up your Mavic Pro for its first flight.

Duration: 3 mins 33 seconds

Setting Up Your Mavic Pro: 2

Terry and Scott finish up the steps you need to take to get ready to fly.

Duration: 8 mins 16 seconds

Safety Tips

You can’t be too safe when operating a drone, and these tips are designed to keep you out of trouble.

Duration: 6 mins 1 seconds

Launching the Mavic Pro

Duration: 7 mins 35 seconds

Shooting Stills

The whole point of flying the drone is to make photographs. Here are settings to get the best results.

Duration: 10 mins 37 seconds

Video Capture

The Mavic takes amazing footage, and here are the settings you’ll want to use.

Duration: 5 mins 14 seconds

Maneuvers

Here are some great tricks you can do with your Mavic.

Duration: 4 mins 8 seconds

Landing the Mavic Pro

When your flight is over it is time to prepare for landing.

Duration: 5 mins 20 seconds

Protecting the Mavic Pro

Keeping yourself, other people, and property is important, but you also want to protect your Mavic from mishaps and fly aways.

Duration: 2 mins 37 seconds

Pre-flight Checklist

Scott and Terry provide a handy pre-flight checklist to go over before flying.

Duration: 5 mins 25 seconds

Wrap-up

Here are the things you want to do when the flight is done and you are ready to wrap up.

Duration: 4 mins 16 seconds