I don’t like the corp. Adobe, but having lived as a pro photographer (less so today), I can tell you there is nothing to beat Lightroom and Photoshop, especially today with the AI features. When time and quality are priorities, they are unbeatable.
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...