I've done this numerous times and yes, waypoints are the key. One "gotcha" I've encountered: I launched from different locations, depending on weather/time of year/access and I made the unpleasant discovery that while the long/lat aspects worked...
Yes but you have to do the editing yourself. For instance, you could take 5 seconds from each waypoint flight. The first flight would be the first 5 seconds, the second flight would be the second five seconds and so on. The finished video looks...
I would recommend that you create a waypoint mission (perhaps 2 or 3 to get different perspectives). This way you get pretty much the exact same path every time. When done the editing fun starts. Take a couple of seconds of each flight (some...