If I have an SD card in the controller, do i still need one in the drone?

Hi there, thank you for reaching out. With regard to your question. Yes, you need to have an SD card since all the recorded and captured photos/video will be stored on the SD card of the Aircraft. If you have any question or concern feel free to reach us back.

Hello.

I have the Smart Controller (SC) and a Mavic 2 Zoom.

I'm  trying to save the pictures taken in flight with the drone into the SD  card of the drone AND also in the same time into the SD card of the  Smart Controller (SC), is this possible? Or just directly to the Smart  Controller (SC) SD Card.

I tried to follow the steps explained in the Smart Controller (SC) User Manual (DJI Smart Controller User Manual V1) but never success whereas the option « Auto Sync HD Photos » and « Download footage to external SD card » are enable.

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The Smart Controller (SC) User Manual (DJI Smart Controller User Manual V1) says that:

Appendix

Changing Storage Locations for Images and Videos

After  linking, you can use DJI GO 4 to select to store images and videos on  the aircraft. Users can also use DJI GO 4 to select to store images and  videos to the Smart Controller or on the microSD card in the Smart  Controller.


Auto Sync HD Photos:
Power on  the remote controller and the aircraft, and make sure they are linked.  Run DJI GO 4, and enter the camera view. Tap > and enable “Auto Sync  HD Photos”. All images will be stored in high resolution to the microSD  card in the remote controller at the same when the microSD card in the  aircraft stores the images.


Store to Smart Controller:
Power on the remote controller and the aircraft, and make sure they are linked. Run DJI GO 4, and enter camera view. Tap > :
To cache images and videos to the remote controller, enable “Cache Locally When Recording”.
To store images and videos to the microSD card in the remote controller, enable “Download Footage to External SD Card”.
When  “Download Footage to External SD Card” is enabled, all the selected  images will be downloaded to the remote controller's microSD card when  downloading the images to the remote controller in playback.
The “Cache Locally When Recording” and “Download Footage to External SD Card” are disabled by default.
To enable “Download Footage to External SD Card”, make sure a microSD card is inserted into the remote controller.

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There is always nothing in the folder "Storage/external_sd/DJI/dji.go.v4/DJI Album".

Why isn’t it working?
What  is the exact way to save the pictures taken with the drone in the same  time into the Smart Controller (SC) SD Card, or at least  just directly  to the Smart Controller (SC) SD Card?
Or is it impossible?

Nociferyon Posted at 6-28 04:10
Hello.

I have the Smart Controller (SC) and a Mavic 2 Zoom.

Havn't seen this workflow work before.

hoss__ Posted at 7-5 14:28
Havn't seen this workflow work before.

You still have to manually select the media you need to download from the UAV, the option save to external SD is to specify where to save downloaded content on the RC ( after you manually selected the content ).

AR_AirPrecision Posted at 7-6 00:54
You still have to manually select the media you need to download from the UAV, the option save to external SD is to specify where to save downloaded content on the RC ( after you manually selected the content ).

And how do you do that?
So there are no ways to automatically save pictures taken with the drone to the RC?
Then why are there settings in the RC/drone that say: « Auto Sync HD Photos »

Today I received another reply from DJI Support saying only JPG option was working for auto-saving the files taken with the drone to the RC…
It means that if like me you’ve selected RAW or RAW+JPG nothing can be automatically synchronized between the drone and the RC…

Nociferyon Posted at 7-11 21:26
Today I received another reply from DJI Support saying only JPG option was working for auto-saving the files taken with the drone to the RC…
It means that if like me you’ve selected RAW or RAW+JPG nothing can be automatically synchronized between the drone and the RC…

It makes somehow sense, just to understand why is this posted in the "Pro"/Enterprise section?

For me, it makes no sense to upload media to RC from drone/payload as the volume of data captured is sometimes insane ( over 100Gb ). On the phone, I could understand to "share" or quickly process it.

AR_AirPrecision Posted at 7-11 23:24
It makes somehow sense, just to understand why is this posted in the "Pro"/Enterprise section?

For me, it makes no sense to upload media to RC from drone/payload as the volume of data captured is sometimes insane ( over 100Gb ). On the phone, I could understand to "share" or quickly process it.

For me it has as I'm only taking pictures and never videos, and as I'm always flying over the sea if something (bad) happens (like some weeks ago when I crashed my drone into the water)  I would like to have a copy/backup of the pictures otherwise all will be lost (which was laso the case as I lost the drone and the pictures)