Mavic Pro will not shoot in 4K

jacobjohnson82 · Feb 25, 2021

Hey guys, every time I try to record in 4K with my mavic pro it just automatically reverts the footage to 720P. I try to reset my camera settings and when I click on 4K I get this message: Image transmission format under this resolution will be switched to 720P. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

lannes · Feb 25, 2021

Check your "image transmission settings" in DJI Go 4, HD and Smooth mode will not allow the MP to record in 4k. The MP's processing is not powerful enough to transmit 1080p video back to the RC as well as record 4k video on the SD card.
Choose "normal mode" in image transmission settings to enable 4k recording.

Dave Maine · Feb 26, 2021

Don’t try to transmit 4K images. Use the 4K video from the sd card, and use the 720 feed just to fly the drone.

jacobjohnson82 · Feb 26, 2021

The problem is it is recording 720P on the sun card.

lannes · Feb 26, 2021

jacobjohnson82 said:
The problem is it is recording 720P on the sun card.

Does it do this when you select "normal mode" in the image transmission settings ?

Dave Maine · Feb 26, 2021

You need to make sure that the settings for recording the movie is set correctly. The transmission settings have nothing to do with what format is recorded to the SD.

jacobjohnson82 · Feb 26, 2021

Dave Maine said:
You need to make sure that the settings for recording the movie is set correctly. The transmission settings have nothing to do with what format is recorded to the SD.

What settings need to be set for recording?

jacobjohnson82 · Feb 26, 2021

lannes said:
Does it do this when you select "normal mode" in the image transmission settings ?

Yes my drone is always in normal mode and it still does it.

lannes · Feb 26, 2021

jacobjohnson82 said:
Yes my drone is always in normal mode and it still does it.

Try a different or faster SD card (Class 10 or UHS-1 is the minimum)

Dave Maine · Feb 26, 2021

Inside the camera settings for video there will be a choice for video image size, what video codec to use, how contrast is handled, ISO, and the overall exposure bias. All those are user choices depending on what you are trying to do. All these settings control how the SD card video file is created.

There are soma additional settings like sharpening etc that you can mess with, but I prefer to make those adjustments in post processing, as the NLE controls for these operations are much more powerful. The one’s mentioned in the first paragraph all get baked into the recorded video and cannot be effectively changed later.