Litchi jerky

[Pchantler]

I haven’t followed any Litchi/Mavic 2 posts in a while and wasn’t able to find my answer so if this is a repeat I apologize. Ran a litchi mission today, first in several months. When I look at the video it is quite jerky as though the gimble is not moving smoothly. I remember this being a topic back when the M2P was originally released but hadn’t heard if there was a solution. Any fixes or suggestions with this?

 

[Former Member]

I run it often, and so far, no jerkiness. What resolution are you shooting at? Is DJI Go 4 just as jerky.

When I saw the title of this thread, I thought Litchi was making jerky. Time for a Slim Jim.

 

[Pchantler]

I run it often, and so far, no jerkiness. What resolution are you shooting at? Is DJI Go 4 just as jerky.

When I saw the title of this thread, I thought Litchi was making jerky. Time for a Slim Jim.

Shooting at 24 FPS f2.8. I recall others having this issue back last year soon after litchi was updated for the Mavic 2 series and someone had contacted litchi and they were aware and a fix was in the works. Go 4 is perfectly fine and smooth. Gimble, IMU etc all properly calibrated and it seems to occur when flying in a straight line as the gimble is adjusting to compensate for the flight and the POI. All software is up date and I’ve adjusted gimble movement speed etc. If it was a setting issue I would assume Go4 would produce similar results.

Sorry for the confusion about the jerky LOL... if you like I’ll pass along my recipe!!

 

[squashpile]

Still known issue with M2P way points in DJI GO and Litchi app. DJI will have to resolve this.

 

[Pchantler]

Still known issue with M2P way points in DJI GO and Litchi app. DJI will have to resolve this.

Okay thank you. At least it’s just not me

 

[Bill Ludwig]

Still known issue with M2P way points in DJI GO and Litchi app. DJI will have to resolve this.

Agreed, it’s still an annoying issue with DJI. You’ll find that it’s especially noticeable when flying automated curved turns when shooting fairly close to your point of interest.

 

[NorthGADronePilot]

As others have said, this continues to be a major bug in the Mavic 2 firmware. The same behavior is present with Waypoints 2.0 in GO4. This bug is so bad, in my opinion, that waypoint based video is unusable with Mavic 2.

It's a real shame that DJI continues to ignore this.

 

[squashedant1970]

The known issues with Litchi is apparently not DJI's problem and they will not be fixing the problem their end as they do not recommend flying their drones through any third party app.

 

[Bill Ludwig]

The known issues with Litchi is apparently not DJI's problem and they will not be fixing the problem their end as they do not recommend flying their drones through any third party app.

It’s not only third party apps that are jerky....DJIs Go4 has the same issue.

 

[squashedant1970]

It’s not only third party apps that are jerky....DJIs Go4 has the same issue.

I can only report what DJI have told me regardless of litchi saying dji needs to fix or dji saying litchi needs to fix it, DJI are having nothing to do with the app.

 

[Bill Ludwig]

I can only report what DJI have told me regardless of litchi saying dji needs to fix or dji saying litchi needs to fix it, DJI are having nothing to do with the app.

So, why don’t they fix their own Go4 app???

 

[NorthGADronePilot]

The known issues with Litchi is apparently not DJI's problem and they will not be fixing the problem their end as they do not recommend flying their drones through any third party app.

That's 100% false. It's a firmware issue. This is not specific to Litchi -- the exact same behavior is prevalent (and well documented) with Waypoints 2.0 in the Go 4 app.

 

[ff22]

Following this thread...

 

[squashedant1970]

That's 100% false. It's a firmware issue. This is not specific to Litchi -- the exact same behavior is prevalent (and well documented) with Waypoints 2.0 in the Go 4 app.

Well I can only say what DJI said to me I'm afraid.

 

[NorthGADronePilot]

Well I can only say what DJI said to me I'm afraid.

Then please tell DJI to fix their own app. It exhibits the exact same problem. Linking the issue to Litchi gives DJI an easy out clause, but it has nothing to do with Litchi and everything to do with Mavic 2.

 

[marklyn]

Wish I would have known this before I invested in a M2Pro and waited until this was fixed. This is very noticeable and now that's all I see when I'm making turns. If this really is a software fix then I don't understand why DJI is sitting on it. When you really think about it, it's all about the video since that's really the true end product.

 

[squashedant1970]

Then please tell DJI to fix their own app. It exhibits the exact same problem. Linking the issue to Litchi gives DJI an easy out clause, but it has nothing to do with Litchi and everything to do with Mavic 2.

Feel free to do that yourself pal, many hands and all that!

 

[NorthGADronePilot]

Feel free to do that yourself pal, many hands and all that!

You assume I haven't...

 

[squashedant1970]

You assume I haven't...

Well if you have then 'well done you' [emoji1303]

 

[parkgt]

Please feel free to add on to this thread:

Jerky Waypoint footage? Fixed

Dear DJI please address this issue. You know it is there but have yet to fix it in close to a year. Many would like to use Waypoint missions for video but the resulting footage with curve turns is next to unusable. How come no other DJI drone has this issue yet one of your newest and most...

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