Loading and viewing drone data in Eagle Eyes Mirada
This walkthrough takes you from a full SD card to reviewing the footage: load the media, let Mirada organise it, then view it in the media viewer, on the map, and along the timeline. Bookmarking what you find is covered in Running the detector.
Load the media
Section titled “Load the media”Everything comes in through Add Data — the + button in the header.
workflow-sd-card-importChoosing Sync from SD Card and watching the media land in the sidebarFrom an SD card (desktop app). Choose Sync from SD Card. Mirada copies the media off the card and loads it in one step. You can limit the import to a time window — the default is the last 12 hours, with presets down to the last hour or a custom range. Media is de-duplicated by content hash, so re-syncing the same card won’t create duplicates, and a continuous recording that spans the edge of the window is kept whole rather than cut in half.
From a folder or files. Choose Load Folder to scan a folder and all its
subfolders, or Load Files to pick individual files. Mirada reads DJI and
Autel media — still images, image sequences, videos, and panorama (360°)
folders — along with the per-frame telemetry DJI stores in .SRT sidecar files
or Autel embeds in the video track. Your files are read in place; Mirada does
not move or modify them.
Images, video and 360s all load the same way — Mirada recognises each type and handles it automatically, so there’s nothing extra to do for a mixed card.
How the side panel organises it
Section titled “How the side panel organises it”As media loads, the sidebar on the left fills in as a tree that follows how the footage was captured: Day → Record → Channel.
workflow-sidebar-treeA day, a record, and its visual / thermal / source channels in the sidebar tree- Day — a calendar date, with the number of files captured that day. Expand it to see the records.
- Record — one capture session. A drone that records visual and thermal at the same time produces both in a single record.
- Channel — a single media stream: an image sequence, a video, a 360 panorama, or a livestream. Click a channel to make it active and load it in the media viewer. Visual, thermal and source channels from the same moment are shown together under the record.
Anything that couldn’t be read collects in an Errors section at the bottom instead of interrupting the import.
View a frame
Section titled “View a frame”Click a channel to open it in the media viewer — the main display in the centre of the window.
Zoom and pan to inspect detail:
| Control | Action |
|---|---|
| Z / X, or the scroll wheel | Zoom in / out, toward the cursor |
| C | Reset zoom to fit the window |
| Double-click | Zoom in on that point |
| W A S D | Pan when zoomed in |
| F | Fullscreen (press F or Esc to exit) |
360 panoramas open in a dedicated viewer you can pan and tilt; press F for a fullscreen view.
See it on the map
Section titled “See it on the map”The map sits alongside the viewer and shows where the drone was. As you move through a channel, three things track the current frame:
- The flight path shows where the drone flew.
- Camera Field of View draws the current frame’s ground footprint — the patch of ground the camera is actually looking at.
- Show draped image projects the current photo onto that footprint over the terrain, so you see the picture laid onto the map. It’s on by default for normal still-image sets.
These toggles live in the Camera Field of View group in the sidebar (and in the map’s Layers panel). As you cycle through images, the draped image and the field-of-view footprint move across the ground frame by frame, so you can watch the search sweep the terrain.
workflow-map-fov-cycleCycling images while the draped image and field-of-view footprint move across the mapCycle through images and switch data types
Section titled “Cycle through images and switch data types”Use the media viewer’s playback controls, or step frame by frame, to cycle through an image sequence.
To switch between the different streams of the same capture — visual, thermal, and source — use ↑ / ↓, or click the matching channel row in the sidebar. The visual (V), thermal (T) and source (S) channels sit together under their record, so you can compare the same moment across spectra.
Scrub the timeline
Section titled “Scrub the timeline”The timeline runs along the bottom and lays out every channel as a bar, positioned by the time it was captured. Use it to find and organise imagery by when it happened:
- Scroll to zoom in and out; the zoom stays centred on the cursor.
- Drag to pan left and right through time.
- Click a bar to select that channel and move playback to the moment you clicked.
- An icon on each bar shows the content type — still, image sequence, video, livestream, or panorama.
- The Reset zoom button at the right edge zooms back out to fit all your data.
When bars sit very close together they merge into a chunk; click a chunk to expand it into a popup that stacks its channels into rows so you can pick out each one.
Read an image’s metadata
Section titled “Read an image’s metadata”Right-click a frame in the media viewer for View Metadata. This opens the frame’s details — capture time, GPS position, camera settings and the rest of what the drone recorded. The same menu also has Copy Path, which copies the file’s location on disk.
workflow-image-metadataView Metadata on the right-click menu, and the panel it opensExport a single image
Section titled “Export a single image”To pull one image out, right-click it in the media viewer and choose Download Media. That saves the current frame as a file you can attach to a report or send on. (These recorded-frame actions appear for imported media; a live stream with no recording shows a reduced menu.)
Next: Running the detector covers running the detector and bookmarking what you find.