Hi All,
Apologies if this has been discussed here already. I bought litchi about a week ago and I've been having a play around with it. I'm going to be on a beautiful, winding coastal road in about a week and there's a specific shot sequence I'm really hoping to get, but it's relatively complex and I'd say, either impossible or fraught with danger to try to manage it manually. Hence enlisting the help of some robots.
To provide a very brief overview of the shot, the plan is to track a car, first flying backwards until the car overtakes the drone, then flying forwards with a several instances of flying sideways. There are a number of direction and elevation changes to capture different framing and to fly over hills and go below the the elevation of the cliff-top road. It looks fantastic in my head.
I've been testing a number of techniques to help capture the shot. The first was Litchi waypoints with POIs to focus the gimbal. Since it's going to be very difficult to anticipate where the car is going to be at any moment, POIs aren't much help. Track mode would no doubt do a reasonable job of tracking the vehicle, but I'm not confident in managing the elevation and direction changes manually because the framing won't allow me to see what I'm flying towards at all times, and there's a high chance I'd either crash or fail to get the shot I'm after because I'm worried about crashing. The solution that I've arrived at so far is to use a litchi waypoint mission to manage flightpath and elevation while managing aircraft rotation and gimbal pitch manually. This has produced reasonable results but has taken a pretty high number of takes because there are still a number of ways to make small stuff-ups, and the shot will only achieve the intended effect (wow factor) if I can pull it off in one continuous shot without cutscenes. The slightest jerk of rotation or miss-timing of the gimbal can ruin the whole shot. I've got all my sensitivity settings dialled down as low as practical, but it only takes the slightest little error to ruin a shot like this IMHO.
So my question is this: If I started a litchi mission and then jumped back into Go4 and put it into track mode, could I get the best of both worlds, or would an intelligent flight mode in Go4 cancel a litchi mission? Or would I be unable to set an intelligent flight mode in Go4 while flying a litchi mission? Or does litchi cancel a mission if I'm not within the app?
Obviously I could test this, but it's a Sunday night here and I probably won't get to fly until next weekend, so just wanted to reach out and see if any litchi super-users have any thoughts around this. If the two won't play together, does anyone have any thoughts on a better way to nail this shot than what I'm currently working with (and that doesn't involve buying an Inspire 2!)?
Thanks in advance.
K.
Apologies if this has been discussed here already. I bought litchi about a week ago and I've been having a play around with it. I'm going to be on a beautiful, winding coastal road in about a week and there's a specific shot sequence I'm really hoping to get, but it's relatively complex and I'd say, either impossible or fraught with danger to try to manage it manually. Hence enlisting the help of some robots.
To provide a very brief overview of the shot, the plan is to track a car, first flying backwards until the car overtakes the drone, then flying forwards with a several instances of flying sideways. There are a number of direction and elevation changes to capture different framing and to fly over hills and go below the the elevation of the cliff-top road. It looks fantastic in my head.
I've been testing a number of techniques to help capture the shot. The first was Litchi waypoints with POIs to focus the gimbal. Since it's going to be very difficult to anticipate where the car is going to be at any moment, POIs aren't much help. Track mode would no doubt do a reasonable job of tracking the vehicle, but I'm not confident in managing the elevation and direction changes manually because the framing won't allow me to see what I'm flying towards at all times, and there's a high chance I'd either crash or fail to get the shot I'm after because I'm worried about crashing. The solution that I've arrived at so far is to use a litchi waypoint mission to manage flightpath and elevation while managing aircraft rotation and gimbal pitch manually. This has produced reasonable results but has taken a pretty high number of takes because there are still a number of ways to make small stuff-ups, and the shot will only achieve the intended effect (wow factor) if I can pull it off in one continuous shot without cutscenes. The slightest jerk of rotation or miss-timing of the gimbal can ruin the whole shot. I've got all my sensitivity settings dialled down as low as practical, but it only takes the slightest little error to ruin a shot like this IMHO.
So my question is this: If I started a litchi mission and then jumped back into Go4 and put it into track mode, could I get the best of both worlds, or would an intelligent flight mode in Go4 cancel a litchi mission? Or would I be unable to set an intelligent flight mode in Go4 while flying a litchi mission? Or does litchi cancel a mission if I'm not within the app?
Obviously I could test this, but it's a Sunday night here and I probably won't get to fly until next weekend, so just wanted to reach out and see if any litchi super-users have any thoughts around this. If the two won't play together, does anyone have any thoughts on a better way to nail this shot than what I'm currently working with (and that doesn't involve buying an Inspire 2!)?
Thanks in advance.
K.