So this has been going on for a while but never got on the forums to ask the question. A few months ago, I did some Active Track POI moves in the parking lot of a fire station. Now it was dark outside with only the firetrucks illuminating the area with their lights but, I noticed the drone's radius was always drifting to the outside from the original imaginary radius. In fact, the drone almost hit their flagpole because I was being blinded by the red and white strobes.
Well I just did an inside drone shoot for a motorcycle museum and had the same issue where the drone would slowly drift to the outside no matter where the camera was positioned and or how slow the crab. Sometimes I had to abort the track as my drone was getting too close to other bikes around it and most of those are worth more than my life.
Now the fire trucks were 15-30 feet away from the drone versus the motorcycles that were most times just few feet away from so to me, that rules out the drone having to move away to keep the target in frame. I've attached both videos to show you the framing and moves and although they're edited videos that don't show the drift, you can at least see the difference in distance and framing. Any ideas?
Fire Trucks:
Museum:
Well I just did an inside drone shoot for a motorcycle museum and had the same issue where the drone would slowly drift to the outside no matter where the camera was positioned and or how slow the crab. Sometimes I had to abort the track as my drone was getting too close to other bikes around it and most of those are worth more than my life.
Now the fire trucks were 15-30 feet away from the drone versus the motorcycles that were most times just few feet away from so to me, that rules out the drone having to move away to keep the target in frame. I've attached both videos to show you the framing and moves and although they're edited videos that don't show the drift, you can at least see the difference in distance and framing. Any ideas?
Fire Trucks:
Museum: