Organize Photos and Videos in Sync for DJI

Our ultimate goal is to help you choose best-looking photos and videos in the fastest way. For this we have adopted the best practice from Lightroom software - we implemented Picked and Rejected Heart flags altogether with Color Labels.

Color Labels and Heart Flags

Flags are set for Media items in the Storage or DJI device Tabs. Once media items are organized, you can filter to display and work on photos that you’ve labeled with a particular flag or a particular color label. Also, you can use Quick Tools (such as Download Picked Media or Delete Rejected Media) to streamline your organization workflow.

Organize Media in the Previewer

Do the following:

• In the Storage or DJI device Tab enlarge photo or video;

• Tap and hold on the Heart icon or the Color Label icon and choose the needed flag or color label;

• Swipe to the next item and apply new Heart flags and color labels if you wish;

Organize Media in multi-select mode

Do the following:

• Select multiple items in the grid;

• The bottom panel contains available actions. Tap and hold on the desired action to apply flags or labels all at once;

Heart Flag states and Color Labels are not saved to file itself. They are not visible or available outside of Sync for DJI.

Geek fact: Sync for DJI contains database where we store all meta information regarding each ever available media file on your DJI devices(drone and Osmo).

How to filter the grid with a particular Flag or a Color Label

Do the following:

• Open the Filter screen;

• Choose needed Color Label(s), Heart Flag(s);

• Tap on Apply;

• Now the grid displays only filtered photos and videos.

Also, you can filter by Media type: Video, Panorama, Photo, and so on.

Note: To reset Filters - open the Filter screen and tap on SHOW ALL in the top right corner.

How to use Quick Tools

Do the following:

• Open Main menu;

• Choose desired Quick Tool;

For more information about Quick Tools - please, read this article.

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Quick Tools - Head Start with Picked and Rejected Media

DJI Mavic Air

Quick tools are available for everyone. These one-tap actions provide powerful, easy-to-use organization tools along with media edit. Use quick tools to streamline your workflow with connected DJI drone or Osmo. Today, we are going to talk about Delete rejected and Download Picked Media.

Before you begin

General information and tips for organizing taken footage with Color Labels and Picked/Rejected Hearts you can read here.

Update your app to the latest version (2.0.4) to make sure that you're using the latest version of Sync for DJI.

To ensure that all of your quick tools are available - connect your device to iPhone (or iPad).

Get started

To open Quick tools, tap on the menu icon, then choose a needed Quick tool.

Tap on Menu icon

Choose Quick tool

1. Download Picked Media

This Action allows to download all 'Hearted' (analogy with Picked Flag in Lightroom) media from DJI device. 'Heart' items mean media that you picked during previewing footage.

How to use:

1. Open Sync for DJI.

2. Open Main Menu and choose 'Download Picked Media'.

3. Download will start immediately.

Pay attention that this action works only if drone or Osmo is actually connected.

2. Delete Rejected Media

This action works for both libraries - Storage and Device. For DJI devices deletion takes some time for each file. That is why this action might streamline your review process - you just do not distract to UI interruptions.

How to use:

1. [optional] Review your taken footage and reject media you do not like.

2. Open Main Menu and choose 'Delete Rejected Media'.

3. Media files are deleted quietly in the background.

Pay attention that deletion happens to Storage and connected DJI device.

Quick Tools: 'Stitch Panorama' and 'Make Timelapse Video' are coming soon.

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'Share' delivers better quality than DJI Go 4

Today we consider and discuss surprising fact about Sync for DJI. Strange as it may seem, iOS DJI Go 4 provides lower quality of 'Share photos' than the actual file stored on SD card. 'Sync for DJI' allows you to share files without any compression and get the original quality of your pictures.

So let's look at some examples. Here is our demoscene — two ancient scrolls with a picture of a tiger, beautiful Asian beast; and dragon - mystical, powerful creature. We made pictures with DJI Mavic Air with best settings and 4K dimension, JPEG output. A lot of details and colors should help us find quality problems.

Dragon and Tiger scrolls in our office

We shared this image to our iPhone X with 'Sync for DJI' and DJI Go 4 and downloaded original jpeg file from SD card. Below you can find the results. All files have 4056x3040 dimensions, but file shared with DJI Go 4 was compressed to 3022 KB. Whereas file, shared with 'Sync for DJI,' has its size 4947 KB (*1). Original jpeg on SD card — 5065 KB.

Sizes of photos: 5.1mb / 4.9mb / 3.1mb

Full resolution comparison you can find here. As I see, the difference is subtle and mainly affects details on the edges of different colors. Also, I can pay attention to the slightly poor gradation of the same color(look to tiger's eye).

Again, this happens only if you share the file from DJI Go 4 directly. SD card has the full quality 5.1mb image on board. However, what if you do not have Mac or PC? Why do we buy better and better drones with improved matrices and lenses(almost not visible to the human eye) and we lose quality on the road to social posts and sharing? Right! This case is exactly why we created Sync for DJI.

P.S. This is true for iOS and at the moment of writing the article(May, 29). With further updates of 'DJI Go 4', Share logic may be changed without notice.

P.P.S. For comments and feedback you can find same post on Facebook.

(*1) The photo was shared with watermark in the corner. That's why the size of it is slightly different from the file on SD card. If you have PRO mode - Share delivers exactly same file without compression.