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Does the DJI mission app provide the ability to get cinematic footage autonomously?

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Thank you for that @swoermck ...but I am a nuts and bolts guy....I can take care of mechanical problems, and I get around on electronic stuff...but afraid of messing up the controller if I try any of this stuff...just not tech savvy enough to trust myself with it....and then afraid if I got this into the controller, how I would find it to use itshrug.jpg
 
Don‘t worry @MARK (LI) , you will only work in the waypoints folder of your controller, and worst thing what could happen here is that the waypoint mission you are touching may not work anymore afterwards.

The way the RC2 handles waypoint is very simple: for every new mission you create, the controller will create a subfolder in the waypoints folder with a name made out of letters and numbers. let‘s assume you create a new mission, then the controller will create a subfolder eg. „abcd-19Z“, and in this folder there will be a file named „abcd-19Z.kmz“. (folder and name of the kmz file will always be identical).

Now if you want to import your own KMZ file (converted from Litchi), only thing you have to do is to rename your kmz file on your computer to „abcd-19Z.kmz“ and replace the file in the folder „waypoints/abcd-197“ of the controller.

And that‘s it!

Only thing you have to figure out before is, what cryptic folder name corresponds to the waypoint mission you created. But that‘s also quite easy: just open the folders under the waypoint folder and check the time stamp (ok, you should know the date and time when you created the waypoint mission).

And if I am not mistaken, mounting the RC2 controller on a Windows machine is even easier (I heard that it will just pop up in the explorer as a new drive?), but this I cannot verify as I am only working on mac machines - maybe others here know how this works with windows machines?
 
One thing I forgot to mention: generic workflow how to upload your own KMZ file:

1) create a basic waypoint mission on the controller, two random waypoints anywhere on the map are enough (as we will replace this later anyway)
2) in the waypoints folder of your controller, figure out the cryptic name of the folder which was created (as stated before check the timestamp of the folder)
3) rename your kmz file on your desktop to the cryptic name (crypticname.kmz)
4) replace the kmz file on the controller with the one you created in step 3
5) now take your controller again and open the waypoint mission you created in step 1: this will open your imported mission from Litchi!

And if you did anything wrong here, worst case: the basic waypoint mission you created in step 1) with the 2 random waypoints will be empty.
 

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