It's one of the great things about the Avata. Turn it on and it starts recording. I think there is an on/off in the menus but I'm not sure. Dunno why they don't offer that as an option on other drones.
I rarely do video orbit shots (meaning spin the camera around 360 degrees?) because going at a nice reasonable panning speed that the viewer would enjoy (defined by me :) ) takes too long to complete the orbit and would be too much for any...
I use the tele lenses a lot including those on my Mavic 3 and Mavic 3 Pro so using Dlog M makes it very easy to ensure similar color grading but if I was only shooting with my Mav 4 I would probably shoot Dlog if I thought Auto ISO was not...
all I can say is it worked OK with my Studio Max 64. The files are so huge that rendering took a while but scrubbing through non-rendered files was flawless so no rendering needed till export. That's the huge difference between All-I and ProRes...