DJI Inspire 3 Drone

Master the Unseen

The DJI Inspire 3 represents the pinnacle of aerial cinematography, providing an unparalleled combination of workflow efficiency, camera capability, and creative freedom. Designed as an all-in-one 8K camera drone, it enables professional filmmakers to fully unlock the potential of every shot and capture images that were previously impossible to achieve.

The Definition of Power and Performance - Sleek, Integrated Design

The DJI Inspire 3 is a professional camera drone that has been carefully designed to reduce air resistance and improve performance. The sleek and fluid new design takes aerodynamics into consideration, resulting in a drone that is both efficient and aesthetically pleasing.

The Inspire 3 boasts impressive speed, with a max dive speed of 10 m/s and vertical ascend/descend speeds of up to 8 m/s, providing filmmakers with even more flexibility and control.

Powerful maneuverability allows for responsive and accurate control, making it easy to capture the perfect shot. With an extended flight time of up to 28 minutes, filmmakers can focus on their creativity without worrying about running out of battery.

The FPV camera, visual sensors, positioning antennas, and storage card slot are all seamlessly integrated into the airframe, resulting in a minimalist look and modern industrial aesthetics that are sure to impress.

The Inspire 3's all-new design supports 360° Pan and Tilt Boost structures, enabling cinematographers to capture strikingly innovative shots. Additionally, when the landing gear is lowered, the gimbal supports obstruction-free 80° upward-angle shooting, further expanding the creative possibilities. Every detail of the Inspire 3 has been carefully optimized, both in terms of its outer design and internal structure.

Spacial Intelligence Beyond Boundaries - High-Mobility Precision Flight System

Centimeter-Level RTK Positioning

The DJI Inspire 3 is a professional camera drone that incorporates high-precision RTK positioning technology, which is widely used in industries such as architecture and surveying. This technology enables the drone to achieve centimeter-level accuracy, unlike traditional meter-level positioning supported by Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). This not only makes flying more stable but also enhances flight-route planning accuracy, significantly improving creative efficiency.

The Inspire 3 features RTK antennas built into the airframe with a new stacked ceramic design that enables three types of GNSS (GPS, BeiDou, and Galileo). This delivers dual-frequency positioning down to the centimeter level. By activating an RTK network or setting up a D-RTK 2 Mobile Station, users can achieve highly accurate positioning without the need for any additional modules. The integration of high-precision RTK technology provides cinematographers with unprecedented levels of control and accuracy in their aerial cinematography.

Dual-Antenna Orientation

Inspire 3 features built-in stacked ceramic antennas on both the front and the rear, enhancing anti-magnetic-interference capability to ensure precise and safe flights.

Waypoint Pro

Waypoint Pro is a specialized feature of Inspire 3 designed for aerial cinematography, enabling users to plan flight-routes and shots with a wide range of customizable settings. With innovative features like Repeatable Routes and 3D Dolly modes, users can achieve an automated shooting experience with ease.

The integration of RTK centimeter-level positioning ensures precise flight-route planning and execution, enhancing the overall efficiency of the filming process. Whether working solo or in a professional crew, Waypoint Pro allows users to master even the most complex scenes.

Repeatable Routes

With Inspire 3's Repeatable Routes mode, you can effortlessly create a professional-quality one-take shot or a time-lapse video of long-duration transitions such as day to night or season to season. The aircraft automatically flies on the same route while maintaining all preset parameters, including altitude, speed, gimbal angle, and camera settings. By eliminating the need for repeated manual input of the same settings, cinematographers can now easily recreate difficult shots or capture different times of the day in the same place.

3D Dolly

The Inspire 3's 3D Dolly mode offers a unique advantage for aerial cinematography. Unlike traditional cranes, cablecams, and dollies used on film sets, 3D Dolly has no physical limitations. Once a flight route is planned, the cinematographer can manually control the aircraft to move along the route, back and forth, while adjusting parameters like speed, gimbal angle, and more, to achieve the desired shot. This innovative technology allows for complex camera movements to be performed with ease and efficiency, enhancing the quality of the final product.

Spotlight Pro

Inspire 3 is an upgraded version of Inspire 2 and it offers more shot possibilities to solo creators. With the help of powerful machine-learning algorithms, Inspire 3 supports automated subject recognition and locking for people, vehicles, and boats with greater accuracy than its predecessor.

Spotlight Pro is a feature that enables the aircraft and gimbal camera to orient towards the same direction and remain locked on the subject when using Follow mode. As a result, the pilot can get circling shots without manual framing adjustments. In Free mode, Inspire 3's 360° gimbal pan allows the gimbal camera to stay locked on a subject, while a solo pilot uses the FPV camera to check their surroundings and control the flight route more responsively to achieve complex camera movements more easily.

Omnidirectional Sensing System

Inspire 3 boasts an advanced safety feature that ensures a comprehensive protection while flying with its robust omnidirectional sensing system. This system comprises nine sensors that can detect obstacles in all directions, providing reliable obstacle avoidance.

Furthermore, each of the four landing arms of Inspire 3 is equipped with a fisheye camera, which helps to prevent obstruction from the airframe when the landing gear is raised. This camera also enables horizontal obstacle sensing when the landing gear is lowered, improving safety and reducing the risk of collisions.

Customizable Obstacle Sensing

Inspire 3 comes with a new customizable function that offers more creative freedom and enhanced flight safety. It allows users to independently enable or disable horizontal, upward, and downward obstacle sensing, and set an obstacle alert range that suits their specific scenarios.

Even when the active avoidance mode is off, the navigation display provides real-time distance from the obstacles, and an audio alert is sounded when an obstacle is within a specified range. This enables professional aerial teams to explore new possibilities and create more complex camera movements without sacrificing safety.

Ultra-Wide Night-Vision FPV Camera

Inspire 3 comes with a new 1/1.8-inch-sensor FPV camera that has a 3μm pixel size and a wide DFOV of 161°. This camera can transmit live feeds at up to 1080p/60fps, making it much more advanced than the previous model. The DFOV is also doubled compared to its predecessor, providing pilots with a wider field of view to capture more details in their surroundings.

Moreover, the new FPV camera features enhanced light-sensing capability, which enables pilots to see their surroundings more vividly and clearly, even in low-light conditions or at night. This level of visibility helps ensure a higher degree of flight safety and enables pilots to fly with greater confidence.

A Stunning New Aerial Perspective - Full-Frame 8K Imaging System

Tailormade 8K Sensor

DJI's Inspire 3 drone comes equipped with the X9-8K Air, the lightest-ever full-frame three-axis gimbal camera from DJI, which is custom-built for the Inspire 3 to take drone cinematography to the next level. It features DJI's latest image processing system, CineCore 3.0, which supports internal recording of up to 8K/25fps CinemaDNG video as well as 8K/75fps Apple ProRes RAW video. This feature makes the X9-8K Air capable of meeting the needs of top-class film and television productions.

With the X9-8K Air's ultra-high-resolution footage capability, Inspire 3 can capture aerial footage that retains true-to-life texture close to what the human eye sees, with clarity that stuns audiences when displayed on larger screens. The RAW feature brings the X9-8K Air's sensor fully into play, providing ample space for visual effects and color grading. The S&Q mode of the X9-8K Air supports internal recording of up to full-frame 4K/120fps ProRes RAW video without cropping, giving the cinematographer more creative editing options.

Dual Native ISO

The X9-8K Air also supports dual native ISO, which offers EI 800/4000 at full-frame 30fps and below, ideal for 24fps in film productions and 25fps in commercial and television productions. At above 30fps, EI 320/1600 is available, resulting in exquisite image details and minimal noise, even in low-light cityscapes or beaches. This feature places X9-8K Air on par with professional ground-based cinema cameras.

14+ Stops of Dynamic Range

The X9-8K Air, DJI's latest three-axis gimbal camera, comes with 14+ stops of dynamic range, which enables the capture of rich highlight and shadow details in complex lighting conditions such as sunrises and sunsets. Its high dynamic range provides greater possibilities for post-editing, preserving authentic colors even after significant exposure adjustments.

DL Mount Lenses

The DJI X9-8K Air is a revolutionary drone camera that takes aerial cinematography to the next level. This device features DJI's proprietary DL mount that allows it to be compatible with a range of lenses, including an additional 18mm F2.8 full-frame ultra-wide lens and a new telephoto lens that will be released at a later date.

In addition to the previous full-frame lens selections of DL 24/35/50 mm F2.8, the X9-8K Air's custom-made lenses are specifically designed for aerial cinematography. Whether you're capturing landscapes, action shots, or aerial footage, these lenses offer unparalleled precision and image quality.

But that's not all. The housings of these lenses are made of lightweight, monocoque carbon fiber. This means that even the heaviest lens weighs just 178g, which meets Inspire 3's requirement for ultra-high maneuverability. So, no matter where your aerial adventures take you, the DJI X9-8K Air has got you covered.

DJI Cinema Color System (DCCS)

The DJI X9-8K Air is a state-of-the-art drone camera that revolutionizes the way we approach aerial cinematography. With the DJI Cinema Color System, this device is able to retain authentic colors that redefine the look of aerial cinematography.

Thanks to DJI's mature color science and technology, the X9-8K Air is capable of capturing natural settings and urban landscapes with remarkable accuracy. Additionally, it can also capture skin tones in different environments and lighting conditions, ensuring that your footage looks its best no matter the situation.

What's more, the DJI Cinema Color System ensures effortless color matching between the X9-8K Air and ground-based cinema cameras, such as the DJI Ronin 4D. This feature delivers consistent color style from air to ground, which meets the needs of film-production post-editing workflows.

With the DJI Cinema Color System, you can be confident that your footage will always look its best, with colors that are accurate and true-to-life. So, whether you're a professional filmmaker or simply an aerial photography enthusiast, the DJI X9-8K Air is the perfect tool to take your work to the next level.

Multi-Camera Timecode Sync

The DJI X9-8K Air has a 3.5mm port for timecode sync between equipment in the air and on the ground. This simplifies the editing process when dealing with multiple cameras and an abundance of footage.

Interconnected Ecosystem - O3 Pro Video Transmission and Control System

DJI RC Plus

The DJI Inspire 3 is a professional-grade drone that comes equipped with the DJI RC Plus remote controller. This controller features a built-in 7-inch 1,200-nit high-bright screen, making outdoor monitoring a breeze. The controller also has an HDMI out port, along with several buttons and dials on the front, back, and top for fast and intuitive operation. Users can customize the button functions to fit their habits, delivering a smoother operating experience.

The built-in battery of the RC Plus provides an operating time of approximately 3.3 hours, which extends to 6 hours with an external WB37 battery. Battery hot-swapping is also supported, improving creative efficiency.

In addition to the classic flight control interface, the DJI Pilot 2 app for Inspire adds a cinema-grade monitoring interface. This feature allows for simple and convenient checking of information like camera exposure, video specifications, focal length, and gimbal angle. The monitoring interface easily meets the monitoring requirements of gimbal operators and DPs.

Lastly, professional accessories such as a strap and waist support are included for more comfortable and efficient long-duration use.

Cinema-Grade O3 Pro Video Transmission

The DJI Inspire 3 is equipped with DJI's latest cinema-grade video transmission system, the O3 Pro, which allows for a max transmission distance of 15 km in single control mode and 12 km in dual-control mode. Both the gimbal camera and FPV camera support 1080p/60fps live feeds with an ultra-low latency of 90 ms.

The O3 Pro represents a generational leap in transmission distance, latency, and overall stability when compared to the Lightbridge video transmission system of the Inspire 2.

For the first time, the Inspire 3 supports 4K/30fps live feeds with a max 5km transmission distance, making it perfect for UHD monitoring and livestreaming on set.

Independent Links for Dual Control

The dual-control experience of the DJI Inspire 3 has been significantly upgraded compared to its predecessor, the Inspire 2. Two remote controllers can now receive live feeds and control the drone independently, allowing the pilot and gimbal operator to be at different positions on set. This breaks Inspire 2's limitations of binding the primary and secondary control links.

If the pilot loses aircraft signal, the gimbal operator is now able to take control of the aircraft to safely return it home or land directly, increasing overall safety and control during flight.

Compatible with the DJI PRO Ecosystem

Inspire 3 supports the use of DJI High-Bright Remote Monitor, which can be paired directly with Inspire 3 to receive live feeds and control gimbal and focus when the Ronin 4D Hand Grips are attached. HDMI and SDI ports on the remote monitor can also output live feeds to other monitoring devices.

The new DJI Three-Channel Follow Focus, another member of the DJI PRO ecosystem, can transmit control signals to Inspire 3 via the O3 Pro transmission system, allowing the focus puller to achieve accurate remote focus control and stepless aperture adjustments.

Additionally, DJI Master Wheels can be used to control Inspire 3's gimbal, providing a gimbal control experience on par with Ronin 2 when paired with DJI High-Bright Remote Monitor as the intermediary to the PRO ecosystem.

By using DJI Transmission, Inspire 3 can provide more efficient on-set monitoring. Simply connect an RC Plus to a DJI Video Transmitter with Broadcast mode enabled, and you can transmit live feeds to an unlimited number of remote monitors, allowing for enhanced coordination.

Built for All-Day Shooting - Efficient Full-Scenario Operation

Inspire 3 comes with an upgraded dual-battery system, featuring the new TB51 batteries, which offer optimized reliability and performance using the latest battery chemistry technology. These batteries are smaller, lighter, more streamlined, and provide a higher voltage compared to their predecessor, the TB50. The TB51 batteries provide a maximum flight time of 28 minutes and support hot-swapping, thanks to a redesigned battery release that enables effortless continuous operation.

The dual-battery system also features an auto-heating function that maintains adequate flight performance even in temperatures as low as -20° C (-4° F) by triggering when the battery temperature falls below 18° C (64° F).

For added convenience, the new foldable battery charging hub accommodates up to eight batteries and strikes the optimum balance between charging efficiency and storage size. It supports fast charging, allowing two batteries to charge up to 90% in just 35 minutes, and eight batteries to reach a full charge in 160 minutes. The hub also includes a 65W USB-C port for charging the RC Plus.

As part of the package, Inspire 3 includes the DJI PROSSD 1TB, which supports a maximum read speed of 900Mbps. The footage stored on the PROSSD can be read on a computer directly through the provided USB-C to USB-C cable without the need for a card reader.

The newly designed trolley case for Inspire 3 is equipped with an extendable handle, two side handles, and four 360-degree-movement wheels, making transitions and transportation effortless. The case features two numbered locks for added safety and can store one aircraft, one X9-8K Air gimbal camera, two RC Plus remote controllers, four lenses, twelve batteries, two battery charging hubs, three sets of propellers, and other items. The foldable quick-release propellers are easy to store and don’t require re-installation before each flight.

With Inspire 3's upgraded dual-battery system, fast-charging hub, and high-capacity PROSSD, you can enjoy longer flight times and worry-free storage and transitions, making it a reliable and efficient tool for professionals in the filmmaking industry.