Shutter Button (Press to take a photo)

friar · Mar 30, 2016

Hello,
Still waiting for my P4 to be delivered next week.
Q: While recording video, in order to take a still photo do I have, to stop video, change over to photo, press shutter button and then change back over to video, press record button, to continue recording video??? or as I am recording video by pressing the photo shutter button it will do all this on its own????
A: ???,

Air Ontario · Mar 30, 2016

Unless things have changed recently, you have to switch. Only one or the other at a time.

You can extract a photo from a video frame in post editing software.

Patrick · Mar 30, 2016

friar said:
Hello,
Still waiting for my P4 to be delivered next week.
Q: While recording video, in order to take a still photo do I have, to stop video, change over to photo, press shutter button and then change back over to video, press record button, to continue recording video??? or as I am recording video by pressing the photo shutter button it will do all this on its own????
A: ???,

next time i go out flying my P4 ill give it a shot for you.

TWP723 · Mar 30, 2016

I belive you still have to switch the camera from video to photo. Maybe someone that knows for sure will chime in.

friar · Mar 30, 2016

Air Ontario said:
You can extract a photo from a video frame in post editing software.

Have already done this, also shot photos with the P3S and there is some difference. Still photos are better for printing. P3S sold gone so cannot test it myself, have to wait for the P4 to arrive.
Thanks anyway.

friar · Mar 31, 2016

Ergonomics
Reading the manual on page 9 there is a description of the Remote control. It reminds me of British motorcars where all the switches are randomly thrown in and not working half off the time.
I don’t like the positioning of the Shutter Button (11) and the Intelligent Flight Pause Button (10).
I would preferred them the other way round so they correspond with the ones on the left hand side.
That is
Near left = Camera video
Near right = Camera photo
and
Far left = Flight mode
Far right = Flight pause

Another probably even better arrangement could be for the pause button to change places with the video button so flight controls would all be on the left side and camera on the right.
As far everything else is concerned I am still waiting delivery of my P4.

Alpinekiwi · Mar 31, 2016

You don't have to change over as such, but you have to stop recording. You can't take a photo while videoing.

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Patrick · Mar 31, 2016

was doing some activetrack videos today in 4k and couldn't snap stills while filiming. i seem to remember someone mentioning litchi or another 3rd party app could do it though, anyone know? i don't believe any 3rd party apps work with p4 yet, so its a moot point anyway.

Phantom Juice · Mar 31, 2016

You don't have to switch. I've given it a try already.

Patrick · Mar 31, 2016

Phantom Juice said:
You don't have to switch. I've given it a try already.

Wierd , looking into my flight records it didn't capture my photos when i was using active track and recording video in 4K, were you using the same settings?

Sim597 · Apr 4, 2016

Patrick said:
was doing some activetrack videos today in 4k and couldn't snap stills while filiming. i seem to remember someone mentioning litchi or another 3rd party app could do it though, anyone know? i don't believe any 3rd party apps work with p4 yet, so its a moot point anyway.

Really? Autopilot and Litchi aren't working for the P4? That I find crazy, I thought you could even change remotes between a pro/adv and a 4. I'm expecting mine soon and was hoping to get autopilot.

Remorhaz · Apr 5, 2016

Patrick said:
Wierd , looking into my flight records it didn't capture my photos when i was using active track and recording video in 4K, were you using the same settings?

I believe when he indicated that you don't have to switch he probably meant you don't have to switch from video mode to still mode (in the DJI app) to use the hardware button on the remote to take a still image.

However you do have to stop recording video to take a still image. i.e. I've found you can't be recording a video and press the hardware camera still image button and take a still image.

Hippie · Apr 17, 2016

I used Autopilot on my P4 today, updated a couple days ago to work with P4.

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Uptowndisco2 · Apr 17, 2016

Litchi works fine on my P4

Sim597 · Apr 17, 2016

Hippie said:
I used Autopilot on my P4 today, updated a couple days ago to work with P4.

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Hippie, I got confused the other day. I swear I read this but now, not so sure. I thought I had read that I had to download AutoFlightLogic firmware to the bird and the remote? But that isn't the case is it?
Btw I'm only a beta tester, still new so haven't had the guts to make a flight with it, but just spending a couple hours on the flight school part has been an in depth read I'll tell ya!

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