r/djimavic

Got a Mavic3E flew some with it now it's time to recharge the batteries. In the charging dock, only one of the batteries is flicking the rest are like either low powered or hibernating. Do i need to power on the others? See atached pic

Hi all — I help maintain dji-drone-metadata-embedder, an open-source Python tool that bakes DJI telemetry from .SRT files into the matching MP4 (subtitle track + GPS metadata) and exports flight tracks to GPX / CSV / JSON. Mini 3/4 Pro, Air 3, Avata 2, and Mavic 3 Enterprise are already first-class.

We've surveyed the post-2024 lineup and none of the new models has a publicly available SRT we can write a parser against. So we're asking the community: if you own one of these and can spare a couple of minutes, you'd unlock first-class support for the model in our next release.

Models we'd love samples from (any of them helps):

• DJI Mini 5 Pro
• DJI Air 3S
• DJI Mavic 4 Pro
• DJI Neo
• DJI Flip
• DJI Avata 360

What we need:

1. Enable "Video Subtitles" in DJI Fly before you record (Settings → Camera → Video Subtitles). Without this no .SRT is generated.
2. Fly a brief hover — 10–30 seconds is plenty. No sensitive location needed; we don't need beautiful footage, just a clean SRT with all telemetry tokens populated.
3. Upload the raw .SRT to Google Drive / Dropbox / GitHub Gist / Pastebin (raw) and share the link in a comment or DM. ⚠️ Do NOT paste the SRT contents into a Reddit comment — Reddit's markdown silently strips the delimiter spacing and breaks the format. The file has to arrive byte-exact.

Bonus asks (only if convenient):

• Air 3S: one clip in D-Log M and one in Rec.709 — helps us map the color-profile token.
• Mavic 4 Pro: change focal length (zoom) mid-clip — exposes the dynamic focal-length token.
• Anyone: if your drone also writes a .LRF or .DAT next to the MP4, those help end-to-end validation but are not required.

Privacy: GPS coordinates can be anonymised before the file is committed as a test fixture if you prefer — just say so. Your handle will be credited in the changelog unless you'd rather stay anonymous.

Thanks! Even one good sample meaningfully moves a model from "best-effort" to "fully tested with golden fixtures."