do you need to send high quality video with extremely low latency over great
distances well with this you can this is
the DJI transmission combo and with it
you can wirelessly send a video signal
up to six Flippin kilomet oh and monitor
it that's right you could operate a camera from over 3 mes away we can work
from home now at least that what DJI says and I
sure hope it works because they sponsored this video so if it doesn't
work this is going to be really really
awkward I haven't had a chance to play with this yet so I am really excited to
see it in action fundamentally it's pretty straightforward your video input
goes here either via HDMI or SDI and
then boop boop with these anten is it goes wirelessly flipping 6 km away now
my first question is how does DJI address little details like walls and
roofs what's that 6 km based on it's um
6 km free line okay got pretty much line
of sight cuz the thing is unlike a lot of dji's cameras this thing isn't going
to be you 300 met up in the air so there
could be obstacles H airom that's a that's a bod now that's a nich use case
if I ever heard one on that subject the fact that the tx3 video transmitter
doesn't need to be strapped to a drone is a big part of how DJI is getting so
much performance out of it they had already gotten to the point where they
needed to develop their own silicon in order to achieve both their quality and
their latency goals they actually wouldn't tell us much about their silicon other than that if they strap a
whole bunch of cooling and power to it you can get some really amazing
performance out of it oh also we're going to strap on a couple of other
things these antennas pretty okay these
antennas pretty extra okay okay what
kind of range do we get out of the regular antennas I was in Bill Corner
and the camera was set up over there and I run into the rear door and you know
the signal didn't cut off so concrete wall metal door good but we're still
going to go High Gain just for the sake of pushing it to the limits yeah these
are hilarious I would have thought they were the
antenna already at this point in the process now just a second here do I
actually need the extensions or can I just put the High Gain antennas straight
onto the device I think I do both I guess they're both options okay what I
suspect is that the video transmitter
you wouldn't want this hanging off of it if it's on a camera no okay let's
definitely prefer to have like the smaller antenna yeah let's do do the
smaller paddle shaped ones this is my
monitor then this plugs into my station
wherever it is that I'm set up with my remote controls of Zoom or you know my
gimbal or whatever the case may be and then this straps to my camera so you
want to control your camera you need this oh okay there's more pieces yeah
more pieces Onin 4D hand grips
combo I'll share one impression so far none of this feels cheap it's got that
re uring we didn't have to worry about flight time on a drone wait to it you
know and it's filming gear so nothing is really that cheap uh clearly this is not
everything where does this clip to so clip on the side of this oh is Sol in
and locked joycons of the camera not bad
yeah okay feels solid I could play switch from so far away I can play
racing game you know okay now what we
have this the RS 3 Pro and the R3 so I
guess we'll go with the going to go with the pro yeah this is a new gimbal so
that we can actually strap this thing to it cuz you just said it doesn't fit with
the rs2 then right it fits with the ring cuz the ring is not from DJI it's from
TTA oh okay so that's their ecosystem but it's the gimbal it's the gimbal that
we're replacing it got it okay this is our current solution we basically just
hang this on the back of the car and two shoot cars and you have full full of
focus control and you have have the wireless transmission thing here right
and you just monitor with your phone but the problem is Wi-Fi base you know
sometimes thing will cut and uh particularly around here where we have a
lot of 2.4 and 5 GHz in are you going to
mount this thing I want to play with it yeah I will I will yeah quit talking
Andy Mount the camera I I desire a
Nintendo now you're probably wondering why the first thing that we're doing is
playing a retro video game as opposed to to hooking it up to a camera or
something like that and the answer to that is that this is a game that I have
personally played a lot and I have a good feel for when it's running with
really low latency so I'm going to try and play it on here the frame rate's
definitely a touch lower looks very favorable even in next to a very good
display there is a bit of noise in it you can see a little bit of blocking but
that is pretty clean seriously though I
am playing on a wireless display right now now you obviously this isn't you
know an endgame level or anything like that but I am able to time my jumps
pretty much perfectly whoops pretty much
oh this is cool you might have noticed there's menu buttons and like arrow keys
and stuff like that here that's not actually to control this device that's
all through the hamburger menu down here this is to control the device that you
are connected to like a Sony camera for example what's beneficial with the SD
card slot is you can load custom lot in there so if let's say if you're shooting
log and you know those kind of like gr out type of video format then you can
wiel the thing in Rec 79 or bt2020 if
you prefer to it's actually surprisingly
usable it's on top of being emulated too I know right I do have one frame of run
ahead so it's like pretty ideal but okay
if I can nail to 50 then woo
hey I'm getting one for gaming well okay let's not get ahead of ourselves this is
really the best way to tell though looking at them right next to each other
Alex you said you know what the claimed latency on this is right y can I guess
sure I am going to say 20
milliseconds 60 to 100 actually no way
that's 100 milliseconds no way that's 60
well but they're also talking about is that total though that's total and
that's like from your camp okay now to be clear when I said 20 I meant 20 more
so given that like a typical even gaming display is somewhere in the neighborhood
of 25 to 40 at any rate that's really impressive something to note if you're
trying to compare dji's solution to one of the others on the market is that
you'll see companies advertise zero latency for these kinds of wireless
video transmission solutions that is literally not real that is impossible so
yeah 8200 milliseconds it's a noticeable amount of latency but it's it's really
good I can see now that we're a little bit farther away the data rate is going
down so instead of being around 32 or at around 22 Megs oh shoot to be able to
mount this underneath the roning gimbal you just install this thing um now you
can slot it in and then makes
sense you took the battery off Andy yeah because you have power from the gimbal
who needs battery right oh and what's cool about the R S3 gimbal is you turn
it on automatically unlock every access oo
like this is so good like right you turn it off automatically lock everything so
it's not going to be like during Transportation it's not going to break
your like Gimbal and it's not going to fry your motor as well so big FR okay
best feature ever hey see this 69%
battery nice oh nice that's sick now you have full
control hey check it out look it's Dan why you do this Andy okay
no what's the maximum speed wow you can really haul hi Alex hello before we do a
long range test we're going to walk around our office a little bit but there's a really important tool for us
to look at first this is their Channel selector so you can do this manually but
I'd recommend leaving it on auto what it does is it will scan all the nearby
channels and then jump around to whichever one is best and particularly
in an environment like this where we have 11 access points over 140 Wi-Fi
connected devices and a total of 300 computers on our Network at this time
there is a ridiculous amount of interference and it causes us legitimate
problems in our production like say for example with our wireless lavalier
microphones that's why we have to wear these backups that record locally so
Andy you're going to take the camera and shoot Alex yes but but you have to
control the camera okay lonus try and track me while you're over wherever you
are oh whoa what's it trying to do oh the G the gimbal wanted to go that way
oh we lost our connection we're through a lot of walls right now boys the large
penis uh concrete wall to 105 killed it
what about now we're back on ShortCircuit oh there we go yeah I've got you
okay by as a first time gimbal operator
this is actually surprisingly not that
hard to deal with okay he's going into the bedroom set it would be nice if Al
had any light on oh oh oh there we go something Alex
said I should mention is that DJI tuned their they said can you nod
oh it's noding nodding yeah nice
something Alex said I should point out is that DJI tuned their compression to
not drop frames to not increase latency so they'll drop bit rate they'll drop
the actual image quality but you will always have an image that's the idea
behind it I can't tell how Andy's holding it a lot of the time so it's
like yeah he's like going through a door so it's I'm pointed up at the ceiling
what is going on lus is behind the camera no he's not he is are we on a
video right now yeah live oh he's firing
you through the camera right now yeah I bet he is you're a fire Colton you're a
fir get out of here hey boys hello hello
see you I lost gimbal control a little while ago though so that's why I'm just
looking up and to the left all the time I see uh do we have any idea what
happened there gimball lock is or unbalance motor's in sleep mode well
there's your problem quality is flipping amazing though like what so we shouldn't
have any like singal cut off issue for car shoes yeah it's crazy but it even
looks so good even though I know the bit rate's not that high cuz it says right
on it that it's you know a fifth of what it was before look at this though like
freaking what and yeah we're right next to but it was still usable even when we
were what like a solid 100 met away through at least five walls and you know
what is the crazy part the price I'm guessing I don't want to see it yet just
for the transmitter piece yeah transmitter piece and plus the monitor
the monitor the 7in monitor we have for our uras yeah that was like 1,800 Buck I
don't know why don't you just tell me $24.99 2500 bucks for the entire combo
that you can just monit stuff from 6 km away that's amazing they have a USD
price then they have a Canada USD price
but also a Canada Canadian dollars price the RS3 combo is like a way better price
in Canada hey thanks DJI Canada never gets better pricing on
anything I see all the Americans complaining about gas prices I'm
like have you seen ours we're like
almost $9 per gallon for like the cheapest gas we got way better prices on
Korean cares but we don't have to go anywhere anymore
yeah I mean I guess it's time for us to do a range test hey yeah now before we
go crazy and just send the truck off into the sunset and see how far this
thing can transmit we want to do something a little bit more reasonable
this is our setup for shooting car videos we have the Hydra alien it's a
awesome thing we can set the whole thing up in about 30 minutes and down below we
have the RS3 with our camera the only
problem is when we've been shooting car videos we've had trouble transmitting
video from here to the passenger seat I
don't think it's going to be a problem now but we're going to test it out now we have the driver necklace and uh I'm
in the car controlling the gimbo you can also get this module which has SDI and
HDMI and also a DC in so you don't have
to use the DJI battery if you don't want
to you can use vmount go Mount however
battery you like I got to say the zoom control on this new system is a lot
smoother than the previous one oh my God
this is so smooth how does it feel Andy
it feels so smooth The Driven eye system we can't really do like Smooth Doom uh
unless we really try to but like this one like a smooth Zoom just easy like
here and I haven't really got any singal cut off issue right now because of the
signal cut off issue I used to have to
sit in the rear seat now I don't have to
I can just be on the side of like Nicholas then we can communicate better
we can do crazy or fancier movement you
know all right 3 2 1 accelerate into
US perfect yeah every control of this
thing is more refined compared to our old system like
I I I don't feel any latency to be honest are you making line of buy one I
mean if we can't really keep them then let's buy
one 3 two one coming
back 3 two one come
back it's very responsive like I I I I
won't say the last shot was the best shot but like I was trying to save the
shot I can totally do that you got a branch like underneath your car
so when you don't have a parking camera then you can just mon system like that
so problem solved the $10,000 backup
Canam yes okay now it's the real test
we're going to have our interior camera plugged in into this and then we're
going to replace the antenna with the longer boy and probably just tape it on
the back side of the truck the reason why we're taping the antenna outside of
the truck because this thing is a big metal box and we don't really want to
have any sort of interference from metal things um I think that's the best
solution and since we have the extension core why not just use
them and cable in there success if this
works I'm going to be absolutely shocked honestly let's hope I really hope so 6
km let's
go while discussing the best way to get a really long range shot one of the main
things that DJI said is to go somewhere that has very little like Wi-Fi or cell
interference uh we're right beside a
Wireless Wi-Fi dish that's what like 10
gbit it's the best we've got I'm sorry guys these antennas probably also
supposed to go super high in the air I don't know we can just get already to
hold them up or something sorry wait sorry do you still see us no
how far part uh less than half a kilometer yeah
I'm on the edge of the roof and it's essentially line of sight and it's just not working at all oh no
DJI oh there it is well it just came
back uh that's not good
though that's 10 m I think now the plan
is we just go to the field if it doesn't
work we're screwed
how the signal right now guys it's gone like immediately the bed
you only got like 100 m okay what about now now you guys
should have like uh the right left side I can see you going
along but I can't see on the screen yeah I think this is a we need to call DJI
and figure out what's on the go okay
yeah let's go to the office I'll call DJI this evening although last time it
was a of success things are looking up this is the first beautiful day in
Vancouver of 2022 and we get to spend it on the beach what could be better we
have new firmware on our transmitter and our receiver antenna's up nice and high
the transmitter antenna is also up nice and high Andy has just the most sus
setup ever he's going to rip around on a e scooter but we should have line of
sight for over 6 km we did some testing
with the new firmware in our old location we're able to get about 2 2 and
1/2 km of transmitting we weren't quite happy with that there's just too many
like farms and trees in the way for us to get super far today though I think we
can do it all right let me show you my setup so I'm the antenna man right now
and I have the antenna mounted over there and I have a backpack and I have
power here and uh the GoPro in front of
my chest is connected to the receiver so
Alex over there can you know monitor it
from 6 km away hopefully I believe see
you guys
later ah snake oh did he actually leave
the camera isn't quite set up this might be bad one thing we mentioned before but
didn't really show is just how freaking bright this screen is it is as bright as
it can be outside in the direct sun and uh I can see it perfectly like I could
even do like you know exposure and color
balancing and stuff it's so vivid right here
oh it was our first little bit of blockiness there he is in some trees
over there this will probably be one of the more challenging areas cuz there is
just a lot of crap once it gets a bit further I think it's going to come back
a bit oh yep there we go he came out
past those trees and our signal quality just improved so
much Hello Alex do you still see
me yeah it's actually even stronger than it was
before oh wow I was like slightly worried cuz like on that side there's
like bunch of trees yeah the trees C causes some
problems but it's like really working right now all right two kilm confirmed
and she's working great I should have brought binoculars or something pretty
soon I should be able to see him just way off in the distance over
there okay I'm going to turn on airplane mode right there I had a tech come in
and it got all blocky for a second and now that that stopped it's beautiful
again he has to be over 3 km now and
it's coming down almost as well as it was when he was like right over there
that's incredible when you have line of sight with this thing across an open
space holy frig she does work Alex is probably like over in that area but I
see nothing do you still see me oh yeah it it's working great like
incredibly clear at the moment you see in front of me there are like bunch of
trees I'm going to go into the forest and then we'll see hope hope the best oh
wait how how good is the range for the radio I don't know we might run out of
radio range before we run out of DJI transmitter range and he is way over
there see uh can I point no I can't it's
pretty freaking far away
tree should have brought some snacks my antenna is too high I'm hitting Trace
okay signal quality is dropping now that he's in that big bit of trees it is
holding though he's at least 3 km away right now probably more oh I might have
lost it he's back he came out through the trees oh my God he's so far away
just past 3 and 1 12
km our radios don't work anymore he's
going to run out of battery life on that GoPro though my guess is that every time
that it blocks out Andy's phone is probably doing something your GoPro is
at 1% she's about to die swamping
back it's back I see
it oh man and he just completely chopped a
cycle list on his little scooter that must be
embarrassing video quality at this point not the best but at the same time it's
very usable like if we had a grown in at the moment and I needed to control it I
could probably over 4 and 1/2 km away at this
point okay he just went up on some buildings is that the Delta Heritage
Park hello Andy Delta Heritage Air Park
all right 5.2 km confirmed holy crap I'm
going to keep going let's see how far this thing can
go yeah just keep on trucking let get
getting real blocky she's struggling yeah so the next spot that you're going
to come across is a little pony spot and
that is 6.9 km away from where I am
right now nice 6.9 let's go the fact
this is working though I have dozens of pixels at the moment but I'm pretty sure
that he's arriving at Pony Pal's therapeutic riding spot if I if I'm
calling you is the singal off yeah it's not quite working but at the same time
it's like barely working anyway when we weren't having a call actually I wonder
if I go to the channels and I switch it to something just completely different
while we're on the phone here's what I'm trying out DFS basically the DJI
transmission is able to use radio frequencies that are reserved for things
like small planes Emergency Services helicopters and so on because these
frequencies are reserved there can be way less interference on them now the
General Public is allowed to use these frequencies but if you want to you need
to listen to them for one minute and if no traffic is detected you are good to
go can this help us out Channel 17 looks
pretty good oh wow it came back oh wow damn we
hit 6.9 I think we can call it there that is fraking impressive that's nice
yeah very holy frig all right I can't believe it
honestly I I did not think this would work nice let's head back to the studio
then y welly's on his way back I just want to
Shell our water bottles for a second this thing's been in direct sunlight for
over an hour and I'm guessing this is still just nice and
cold oh yeah that's under 10° right now
beautiful ow
high five that was a nice one one final
thing we want to show off is broadcast mode so we have Anthony here our talent
he's getting filmed and we have one screen that's able to control stuff in
the camera and then we have two more that are just for broadcasting this is
purely just a video feed or instead of broadcast mode I think most of the time
it's going to be overbearing client mode so let's go to the other room one
second hello Anthony
sup can you thank DJI for sponsoring this video well thanks DJI for
sponsoring this video Brandon can you change the focus a bit I don't think
it's quite right the exposure too please okay it's
starting to look pretty good uh Anthony can you give us another sponsor read
thanks to DJI for sponsoring this video
Brandon you screwed up the focus again okay uh one second can we do this wait
you want me to do it again yes but I want to feel feel it in the loins right
now you're just kind of saying it I get it I get it okay thanks to DJI
for sponsoring this video oh beautiful
that's a cut all right thanks thanks oh beautiful are you rolling I want to play
a third person video
game o o oh man this game has really good
camera controls this is really trippy look I'm playing a third person
video game ow oh Andy you all right y