Trying to shoot a hyperlapse on my Mavic Air and I want it to cover about 250 metres in 15 minutes, which equates to 1 km/h.

Is it possible to set such a slow flight speed on the Mavic Air in any way?

TapFly is obiously the best mode but, if I'm not mistaken, the lowest possible speed in TapFly is 4 km/h.

Any help is appreciated!

Use Tripod mode, that should work.

Wachtberger Posted at 2018-9-13 14:45
Use Tripod mode, that should work.

thanks for the reply, but in that case I'll still have to fly it myself using the joysticks, which will make it more difficult to fly in a perfect straight line. I hope you understand what I'm trying to say.

DWade9 Posted at 2018-9-13 14:46
thanks for the reply, but in that case I'll still have to fly it myself using the joysticks, which will make it more difficult to fly in a perfect straight line. I hope you understand what I'm trying to say.

Ok, I understand. But flying yourself makes it your true footage and not the one of a robot. Just practise would be my recommendation.

Wachtberger Posted at 2018-9-13 14:50
Ok, I understand. But flying yourself makes it your true footage and not the one of a robot. Just practise would be my recommendation.

sure, I understand that, but in this particular case (Hyperlapse), it is necessary to be super steady at a constant speed, which is nearly impossible to do 15 minutes straight manually in my opinion.

If you want lower speeds than 4 km/h you can use Litchi and put a waypoint mission in a straight line. The lowest speed you can choose there is 0,4 km/h (~ 0,1 m/s!!!) which is extremely slow. I use it, too and it's really good when you want lower speeds. but also Litchi is superior to DJI Go so I'd recommend everyone to use it anyway.

DWade9 Posted at 2018-9-13 15:08
sure, I understand that, but in this particular case (Hyperlapse), it is necessary to be super steady at a constant speed, which is nearly impossible to do 15 minutes straight manually in my opinion.

Litchi.
How do you propose to take the images, with what setting?

DWade9 Posted at 2018-9-13 14:46
thanks for the reply, but in that case I'll still have to fly it myself using the joysticks, which will make it more difficult to fly in a perfect straight line. I hope you understand what I'm trying to say.

There is the waypoints option for hyperlaps, have you tried that? I didn't have time yet to play with it.

Wachtberger Posted at 2018-9-13 22:32
There is the waypoints option for hyperlaps, have you tried that? I didn't have time yet to play with it.

I have a Mavic Air, not a Mavic 2, so I don't have the hyperlapse feature on my drone... I have to do it manually

Charissa Posted at 2018-9-13 22:09
Litchi.
How do you propose to take the images, with what setting?

3 second interval

saviour Posted at 2018-9-13 21:28
If you want lower speeds than 4 km/h you can use Litchi and put a waypoint mission in a straight line. The lowest speed you can choose there is 0,4 km/h (~ 0,1 m/s!!!) which is extremely slow. I use it, too and it's really good when you want lower speeds. but also Litchi is superior to DJI Go so I'd recommend everyone to use it anyway.

sounds interesting, might have to try that!

Thanks!

DWade9 Posted at 2018-9-16 04:54
I have a Mavic Air, not a Mavic 2, so I don't have the hyperlapse feature on my drone... I have to do it manually

Oh sorry that I had overlooked that.