By Ava Tien for the Just Drones team — updated 20 May 2026
Quick verdict: If your colour pipeline is ProRes end-to-end, the Cine combo earns its keep on the first paid job. For anyone delivering to social or YouTube, its a thousand dollars of feature you wont touch.
Specs at a glance
| Weight | 958g (same as standard M4P) |
| Cameras | 4/3" main + 70mm + 166mm tele |
| Codecs | ProRes 422 HQ, ProRes 422, H.265 |
| Internal SSD | 512GB |
| Flight time | 51 minutes |
| Approx. AUD | $5,099+ |
DJI Mavic 4 Pro Cine review
What’s good about it
ProRes 422 HQ delivers real grade headroom
10-bit 4:2:2 at full main-camera resolution. On a recent client job for the Just Drones team — exterior architecture shoot, half in shade half in afternoon sun — the H.265 of the standard combo would not have held the recovery. ProRes did.
512GB SSD writes faster than the old M3P Cine's 1TB
Bench tests on our team unit consistently pulled clips at ~1.5GB/s sustained over USB-C. For a billable workflow where offload time is unbillable time, this matters.
RC 2 Pro screen is finally readable with polarised sunnies
A stop brighter than the standard RC 2, and no polarised lockout. Marcus has been wanting this on the M3P for 14 months.
Bundle includes what serious shooters end up buying anyway
512GB SSD, RC 2 Pro, three batteries, NDs and a hard case. Saves the $800 of accessory-creep that hits you with the standard combo.
What’s not so good
$1,200 over the standard M4P is steep if you don't deliver in ProRes
Most YouTube and Instagram work delivers H.264 anyway. If thats the pipeline, the Cine is a thousand dollars of feature you wont touch.
512GB fills up faster than you'd think
ProRes 422 HQ at 5.1K is ~1.7GB/min. Internal SSD lasts about 5 hours of continuous record. Carry a USB-C SSD for multi-day.
The Cine workflow assumes a laptop on shoot
If you offload via phone, ProRes files wont fit phone storage fast or in size. Standard M4P actually fits a phone-led workflow better.
ProRes recording resets when you swap a battery without saving
Have been bitten three times now. Same firmware oversight as the M3P Cine. The setting should be sticky. Its not.
Who should buy this
You shoot for a living, your edits go through ProRes, your camera ecosystem already runs the same colour pipeline.
Who should skip
Your deliverable is H.264. Buy the standard M4P and put the saved cash into spare batteries and ND sets.
Heads up: the buy button above goes to Amazon Australia with the Just Drones team’s affiliate tag drones02-22. Costs you nothing extra; pays for the gear we crash during testing.
