Anyone else having trouble sending Skydio 2 footage to Mac.

MichaelH26 · Sep 1, 2020

Hello, I recently got my Skydio 2 and it has been incredible so far. My only problem is when I connect the usb cable to my MacBook to upload the footage I end up with about half of the video with no sound on photos/Imovie. I can see the footage WITH sound when I view through the App on my iPhone. Is this just a Mac thing? Do I need a better editing program? I am new to this and any help would be appreciated. Thanks

skydioconvert · Sep 2, 2020

Don't know if this helps but the reviewer in the attached video touches on some oddities of the S2 when it comes to its audio recordings.

Lifeisfun · Sep 2, 2020

MichaelH26 said:
Hello, I recently got my Skydio 2 and it has been incredible so far. My only problem is when I connect the usb cable to my MacBook to upload the footage I end up with about half of the video with no sound on photos/Imovie. I can see the footage WITH sound when I view through the App on my iPhone. Is this just a Mac thing? Do I need a better editing program? I am new to this and any help would be appreciated. Thanks

For now, get used to it, known problem, if you reset the drone it will start working again and 3 flights later it will usually not save the audio again. The audio file is simply missing on the SD card.

Reported to Skydio, only solution they found is to reset the drone.
Could be helpful if you upload your logs Skydio and report it.
Make sure all devices (beacon or controller) you used for the particular flight are connected when creating the log.

VEGASROBBI · Sep 2, 2020

I thought this was odd, I don't use the audio from the Skydio SD card. The other day put the SD card in my PC as usual and saw the MP4 files. There were no audio files showing. I didn't have time to download the files so I put the SD card back in my S2, did a couple more flights and when I put the SD card back into my PC the audio files showed up for the first flights.

Lifeisfun · Sep 3, 2020

VEGASROBBI said:
I thought this was odd, I don't use the audio from the Skydio SD card. The other day put the SD card in my PC as usual and saw the MP4 files. There were no audio files showing. I didn't have time to download the files so I put the SD card back in my S2, did a couple more flights and when I put the SD card back into my PC the audio files showed up for the first flights.

Yeah, it's spotty, and inconsistent, perhaps that's why is so hard to find the problem.
I'll try not to wipe the card next time if it will act the same.

ag2prcntr · Jan 18, 2021

Just wanted to see if you ever got this resolved. I got my S2 a couple of days ago. Any video longer than 5 minutes 20 seconds freezes up when I download it to my Mac into the Photos app. This is consistent, from the app I can watch the whole video. Let me know if you ever got this resolved. So frustrating...

MichaelH26 · Jan 19, 2021

I found that if I removed the sd card from the skydio and loaded the footage to my Macbook with an sd card reader I no longer had issues. I then use Imovie to edit the footage. I haven’t used the photos app much except for watching short clips I saved from the S2 app and sent to my IPhone/Macbook. For some reason when I connected directly to the MacBook from the S2 the video and especially the audio were corrupted. I would have to power off and on the S2 and try several times before the whole video would load without freezing after 5 minutes or missing audio.

ag2prcntr · Jan 19, 2021

MichaelH26 said:
I found that if I removed the sd card from the skydio and loaded the footage to my Macbook with an sd card reader I no longer had issues. I then use Imovie to edit the footage. I haven’t used the photos app much except for watching short clips I saved from the S2 app and sent to my IPhone/Macbook. For some reason when I connected directly to the MacBook from the S2 the video and especially the audio were corrupted. I would have to power off and on the S2 and try several times before the whole video would load without freezing after 5 minutes or missing audio.

I can't get the SD card out, it's seated in there pretty good and no matter how hard I push on the card to have it eject it just kind of "squishes" in there. Feel like I'm going to break the card.