The DJI Neo is an impressive drone for enthusiasts, but the brand-new DJI Neo comes with many settings. You need to adjust 15 specific settings to enhance the drone’s performance. Every drone user should be familiar with these settings and make the necessary changes for the best experience with the new DJI Neo Settings, as it significantly improves the overall performance.
Table of Contents
1. Follow Distance
The drone’s tracking distance while following you must be adjusted based on the environment. To do this, pair your smartphone with the DJI Neo. First, turn on the Neo, then download and install the DJI Fly app if you haven’t already. Open the app, and tap the small Connect icon on the bottom left. After a few seconds, your phone will pair with the Neo. Once connected, you can preview the camera feed, switch between Quick Shot modes, and select the desired mode.
Go to Settings > Follow > Follow Distance
2. Follow Height
An important DJI Neo Settings , You’ll want to set the altitude high so the drone flies higher and reduces the risk of hitting obstacles while tracking you. Additionally, the footage tends to look better with a higher perspective outdoors. Both of these follow settings are crucial to adjust based on your flying location, ensuring a safe flight and capturing the best possible shots.
Go to Settings > Follow > Follow Height
3. Custom Quick shot
The setting is custom setting now no the top of the Neo there are six quick shot modes but the last one is a mode called custom and the reason it’s called custom is because you can change what actually happens when you use that mode now
Go to Settings > Custom > Direction Track
4. Video Resolution
The video quality from this drone is adequate at best. To ensure you’re getting the best quality video possible, go into the camera settings and set the resolution to 4K at 30 FPS. To capture slow-motion footage, lower the resolution to 1080P and increase the frame rate to 60 FPS. This will allow you to slow your footage down by around two times. However, keep in mind that 1080P is relatively low quality. For most scenarios, it highly recommend keeping the resolution at 4K.
Go to Settings > Camera Settings > Video quality
5. Aspect Ratio
For the aspect ratio, This highly recommend changing it to 4:3, as this allows the Neo to capture an image using the full size of the camera sensor. Now, suppose you want an image in 16:9. In that case, you’re still better off capturing the initial image in 4:3. This gives you more vertical space in your photo, providing greater flexibility when cropping it down to 16:9. This extra space allows for easier reframing of your subject.
Go to Settings > Camera Settings> Aspect Ratio
6. Audio Recordings
Another important setting is internal storage space. You can access the smartphone app and enable a feature called “audio recording settings.” To maximize the 20 GB of internal storage, I recommend using it exclusively for videos and photos.
Go to controls > Microphone Icon > Star
7. Electronic Image Stabilization
These are crucial settings if you’re flying with the Goggles 3. The first is the electronic image stabilization (EIS) setting. The DJI Neo Settings only has single-axis mechanical stabilization, so stabilization is done electronically using a feature called “Rock Steady.” You need to make sure this is enabled in your goggle settings. In the settings menu to enable to Settings > Camera> EIS, you’ll see a setting called “EIS,” which stands for electronic image stabilization.
8. Grid Lines
I recommend enabling the gridline setting. You will notice we have the gridline option available now. I personally suggest turning on the first option, which is the ‘beg X.’ When you return to the camera view, you’ll see this gridline superimposed over the camera preview. Please note, this gridline won’t be saved in the final footage—it’s simply overlaid on the video preview to help with framing.
Go to Settings > Camera > Gridlines
9. Image Adjustment
The Neo has quite an over sharpened, digital look. To make the footage appear more natural, you can adjust the image settings, specifically the sharpness. There are two image adjustment settings: sharpness and noise reduction. Lowering the sharpness to 1 will reduce the over sharpened look, making the footage appear more natural and, to my eye, much better. This adjustment will particularly help you achieve better shots, especially when flying manually using the drone’s joystick controls.
Go to Settings > Camera > Style
10. Button Customization
The button customization settings, you can map the log exposure functionality to the FN function button on the front of the controller. This allows you to activate it with a simple tap of the button. To do this, then navigate to Settings > control > Button Customization
11. Controller Settings
When flying the Neo with the DJI Neo RCN 3 controller the interface changes to resemble that of other DJI drones. It’s important to double-check that key settings like resolution, FPS, and aspect ratio match what you set in the smartphone-only app. Don’t assume that settings, such as 4K resolution, will automatically carry over. Otherwise, you risk recording in 1080P instead. After connecting the controller for the first time, ensure the resolution is set to 4K and the aspect ratio is 4:3.
Go to Settings > Camera
12. Auto RTH Altitude
Another important setting is the auto return-to-home altitude. With the controller attached to your phone, or using the Goggles 3, go to the settings menu under Safety to adjust this. This setting determines the height the drone will rise to once return-to-home is activated. The DJI Neo lacks obstacle avoidance sensors. If the return-to-home altitude is set lower than obstacles like tall trees, the drone could crash into them on its way back. Always ensure the altitude is set higher than any surrounding obstacles for a safe return.
Go to Settings > safety > Auto RTH Altitude
13. Exposure Compensation
Another important DJI Neo settings, you can set this DJI Neo settings to overexpose highlights, especially on bright Often, the sky will appear completely white. You can use the exposure compensation feature by pressing the small EV icon on the bottom right of the controller screen. Adjusting this value helps the drone expose the footage slightly darker or brighter in better footage. You’ll capture a more evenly landscape, avoiding the harsh contrast between a bright sky and a darker foreground.
14. Lock Exposure
The Neo can have quite a large exposure chef and if you’re moving from a dark area to a light area or vice versa and these large exposure shifts can look quite jarring to your viewer so before you hit
record. you log the exposure now you can do this by pressing and holding on the screen until you see a padlock symbol up here and
what this means is as you fly around the Neo will no longer automatically adjust the ISO and shutter speed so your
exposure will not change and this results in much better looking footage now.
15. Manual Mode
For the FPV Remote Controller 3, you can fly manually, but this option is disabled by default. The reason is to prevent beginners from accidentally switching into manual mode without understanding its function and crashing the drone. When you’re ready to fly manually, you can enable the option.
Go to Settings >Control > Remote Controller > Button Customization > Custom Mode
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