Yes. One defines waypoints and the place (waypoint at which to start recording). So for instance you take off 50 yards from where you want to begin recording. When you launch the lichti mission the Mavic will fly to the first GPS waypoint and orient itself in the direction you define in the Mission Planner. Then it will begin video recording if you have planned that in the mission. Then fly to the next waypoint while either pointing itself towards the next waypoint OR slowly interpolating its orientation to the next waypoint and direction it should be pointing. (its a really cool feature to have the mavic pivot its camera smoothly between waypoints) Its hard as a manual operator to have every bit of the pan be smooth as silk as fingers on controllers are only so accurate. The mission uses exact GPS waypoints so they are pretty darn accurate and are flown AUTONOMOUSLY. So even if the Mavic looses signal to the controller the mission is still flown from start to finish.
Of course your last waypoint should be setup in the mission to be close to your take off location so the bird will fly back to you and allow you to take control and begin the landing process.
Go to
Mission Hub - Litchi Create an account under Missions} New to begin creating missions.
Its the mission hub that allows one to plan missions. Then check out the Phantom Film School link in the lower left hand side. Its free to view and experiment with. If one wants to download the missions to thier chosen device to actually fly them then they will need to pay for the Lichti App. Its on the Play Store and I think on the Apple Store as well.
The beauty of this approach is being able to replicate with great accuracy a flight that has been flown in the past. By saving the mission and reflying it.
