Matthew Dobrski
First Officer
Flight distance : 1831050 ft
Canada
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Mavic 2 Pro is a wonderful flying camera and she's executing Litchi's waypoint missions charmingly. Here's what I'll suggest to try:
1. Purchase Litchi app for your device (approx. 35 USD?)
2. Make sure M2P connects to this app and you have full control of the bird and camera. Practice flying a bit in default FPV mode.
3. Study at least Waypoint tutorials, both official and YT. Learning curve is rather step ...
4. Launch Litchi app on your desk and start planning the waypoint mission for your project on satellite
map display.
5. Open Mission Settings dialog, Set as follow:
a. Heading: Custom.
b. Finish Action: RTH.
c. Path Mode: Straight Lines.
d. Cruising speed: default 28.8 km/h
e. Max Flight Speed: default 28.8km/h.
f. Photo Capture Interval: Disabled.
g. Default Curve Size: 0%
h. Default Gimbal Pitch Mode: Focus POI.
i. Rotation Direction: Manual (I believe).
Close Mission Settings dialog.
6. Tap the padlock icon to lock (top right of screen), drag the map to a site, unlock the padlock, tap to set W1, most likely above your parking spot. Default altitute is 30m.
7. Drag the map to set W2 (the position of your virtual tripod).
8. Set POI in the middle of construction site plan view.
9. Tap W1 icon, go to a bottom of settings dialog and tap blue + dot. Make sure no actions of any kind are to be performed starting from that point. Close the dialog.
10. Tap W2 icon, set Altitude to a desired camera height. My wild guess is 150m. Set Point of Interest to #1. Set Action #1 to "Stay for" and choose 5 sec. This will allow the drone to stabilize the position after stop at W2 before shot. Set Action #2 to "Take Photo".
11. Save the mission, go to a site, load the mission and test image framing, adjusting waypoints and POI parameters to your liking.
Shot RAW 3:2 format, eventually AEB. In theory this mission should deliver identical framing every time. In reality minor framing discrepancies are unavoidable. Once the sequence of images are imported into the timeline of video editor, Warp Stabilizer effect should do the trick of eliminating shaky time-lapse.
I hope you're aware how gargantuan job is this? You'll have to take several hundred images to get 10-15 seconds of 30fps video! Perhaps, try to take - say - 30 images with 1 sec interval at W2? This may render more palatable time-lapse ... Good luck anyway! |
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