Tight orbital radius video

[SteveW]

Trying to find a way to circle (orbit) vehicle in a car lot taking exterior footage at a height of 3 -4 feet. This would be for car sales/marketing purposes so can’t stick fly it and look right (not with my skill set anyway). Autopilot maybe? Height restrictions there? Negative altitude possible to defeat limits ? Any help appreciated.

 

[Bunny Too]

Trying to find a way to circle (orbit) vehicle in a car lot taking exterior footage at a height of 3 -4 feet. This would be for car sales/marketing purposes so can’t stick fly it and look right (not with my skill set anyway). Autopilot maybe? Height restrictions there? Negative altitude possible to defeat limits ? Any help appreciated.

That is too low for any of the automated flight modes, any way to raise the vehicle?

 

[2nckayakers]

You can do it smooth manually you just need to practice.

 

[rfc]

Trying to find a way to circle (orbit) vehicle in a car lot taking exterior footage at a height of 3 -4 feet. This would be for car sales/marketing purposes so can’t stick fly it and look right (not with my skill set anyway). Autopilot maybe? Height restrictions there? Negative altitude possible to defeat limits ? Any help appreciated.

I thought you could start a POI shot, then during the orbit, lower the altitude manually.

 

[Simmo]

Don't know if Drone Harmony has a lower flight limit or if its a firmware function of the Mavic itself?
You could try flying higher, with a wider orbit a lot further out and zoom in to max.... that might give you the shot /perspective that you are after??

 

[colinfowler]

Trying to find a way to circle (orbit) vehicle in a car lot taking exterior footage at a height of 3 -4 feet. This would be for car sales/marketing purposes so can’t stick fly it and look right (not with my skill set anyway). Autopilot maybe? Height restrictions there? Negative altitude possible to defeat limits ? Any help appreciated.

6feet min altitude

 

[Keule]

That's a task which should be done by Osmo or a Ronin.

 

[Xtreme Drone Pilot]

Trying to find a way to circle (orbit) vehicle in a car lot taking exterior footage at a height of 3 -4 feet. This would be for car sales/marketing purposes so can’t stick fly it and look right (not with my skill set anyway). Autopilot maybe? Height restrictions there? Negative altitude possible to defeat limits ? Any help appreciated.

Two possibilities:

A. Tripod mode, much easier to be smooth and precise. You can always speed up in post.

B. Just hold the Mavic folded and walk around (you don't even need Katana).

 

[Keule]

If you want to use your DJI aircraft for this job, use Autopilot. Here are the minimum operation altitudes:
(Take care when operating your aircraft at these low altitudes)

 

[SteveW]

That is too low for any of the automated flight modes, any way to raise the vehicle?

Can’t really raise it

 

[Bunny Too]

Can’t really raise it

I like @Xtreme Drone Pilot idea of just holding the mavic folded and walk around.

 

[SteveW]

If you want to use your DJI aircraft for this job, use Autopilot. Here are the minimum operation altitudes:
(Take care when operating your aircraft at these low altitudes)
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I will dig around in AutoPilot settings and check these adjustments. There is one of me and many cars to handle so while my Osmo would work just fine I have to shoot it myself and this slows me down. I just want to drive a car to an open spot engage drone to orbit get out of car move next car to queue and repeat process over and over. Thanks for sharing.

 

[2nckayakers]

That's a task which should be done by Osmo or a Ronin.

Yep that low to the ground is definitely something you can do better with something hand held. There are all kinds of things you can use to build a dolly and then just do a standard dolly shot. Put some swivel casters on a tripod and roll it around, use a wagon with some big rubber wheels and put the tripod in it, even put someone in a wheel chair and roll them around the car using a standard camera or yep you can old the MP in your hand and use all of the above. There are all kinds of possibilities other than trying to fly a tight orbit. Using the MP by hand you could even open the doors and get fly through shots. Or if you have a hatch back you could rig something up on a arm and fly the camera through the rear. Watch some of the videos people have posted on real estate and look at the interior work. There are a lot using the MP hand held for that kind of work.