Thank you for watching. I like the Litchi website for mission planning. Maven has the ability to do the waypoint by flights. Didn’t know you could do that in the native DJI app
Excellent video as always, I have just taken the plunge with Litchi and will use you video series as a guide. One thing I will probably add to my process is something you included in your crash analysis and is also featured in the video "Visual Mission Planning with Google Earth", this being the ability to import your planned mission in to Google Earth. This gives a clearer view of any potential hazards. I have not used that approach before. The last leg of your mission had the camera focus on the Town Hall (is that what you said it was?) - so was the drone flying backwards for the return leg of this journey?
Thank you! When the weather improves I will work on more Litchi videos. On the last leg, because I had the drone facing waypoint on the city hall building, the drone was flying backwards on the way to the home point.
Thank you for watching. I primarily use Maven, but the process is the same. The first thing is to try to minimize the jerky movement when filming. This can be done in a couple of ways. Litchi and Maven both use a "virtual stick" system, where the app simulates stick movment to move the drone. I find that flying when winds are calm or low speed helps a lot. Additionally, slowing the drone speed and increasing the radius of turns tends to smooth out the movement. If these methods are not possible, the footage has to be corrected in post. I use Davinci Resolve Studio for all of my editing. One method is to use the stabilization tools to smooth out some of teh jerky motion. I find that most of the movement issues happen in turns or orbits. If I find a really noticable jerk I will place a cut or a transition at that point. In an orbit, I would remove the bad footage and cut to a different angle or cut out the offending frames and add a cross disolve to smooth it out. I am planning a longer video where I will go through the entire process of shooting a cinematic video; from premission planning, preflight tools, creating and flying the mission and editing, including sound design and music. Hope this helps.
I did find that when I had curves enabled, even the first way point action never initiated. Not just the way points it never hit. For now keeping curves off - not sure why curves didn’t work for me.
Thank you for watching. I prefer Maven. I like the website mission builder and the interface on Litchi. That being said, I have found the iOS version Maven to be much more stable and user friendly.
In Litchi and Maven, altitude changes between waypoints are linear. For example, - Waypoint A is at 200ft - Waypoint B is 400ft from A - Waypoint B is at 100ft The drone will descend evenly between the waypoints. So at the midpoint between A and B, the drone will have lost half the altitude. If you want the drone to stay at the initial altitude until it reaches the second waypoint and then descend, you can add an additional waypoint between A and B, near B, with the same altitude as A. Waypoint A = 200ft altitude Waypoint B = 200ft altitude Lateral Distance between A and B = 300ft Waypoint C = 50ft altitude Lateral Distance between B and C = 0ft Drone will stay at 200ft between A and B then descend when it reaches B Hope this helps
Hey man, great video! I was just wondering, i have the dji controller with the built in screen. If i just want to fly a pre planned route, do i need to buy a seperate controller meant for phone use? Or can i just use the phone without any controller? Thanks!
This version of the app won’t work with the mini 3. It looks like they have another app that is supposed to work. Check out their website at flylitchi.com/help. There is a link to the Litchi Pilot app on that page
Thank you! Recommend you take a look the Maven app, Maven Pilot for DJI Drones ua-cam.com/play/PLrrWag-Aw0tZSRp_IOUwCnkZhYKc5UuJe.html The interface is not as polished but I find I use it more than Litchi
Thank you for watching. Because both the Maven and Litchi apps use a “virtual stick” method, where the app simulates the sticks moving, you will get jerky motion if the app has to apply aggressive stick motion. I use Maven more often than Litchi. In Maven, I have found that slowing the drone’s forward motion, increasing the arc radius on turns and trying to fly when the wind is lower helps smooth out the jerky motion.
New to drones myself and to the Litchi app but I believe selecting the INTERPOLATE option rather than the Focus POI option may solve the jerky movement. Motion interpolation or motion-compensated frame interpolation (MCFI) is a form of video processing in which intermediate animation frames are generated between existing ones by means of interpolation, in an attempt to make animation more fluid, to compensate for display motion blur, and for fake slow motion effects.
Litchi is an aftermarket app for DJI drones. You can set it to, on connection loss, hover, land or return to home. It tried the follow feature in this video, ua-cam.com/video/HlI1n6X08to/v-deo.html. I had it set to RTH. Still not sure why the sensors didn’t stop it
H,i and thank you for posting these videos, so my question is when you created the mission, and you elected the dom,e it came up with a height of 3 feet is that height above the dome or the ground level, thank you in advance
Thank you for watching! When you select a Point of Interest (POI) the elevation indicates the point, above the ground, where the gimbal points. You can adjust this if you want the camera to focus higher or lower.
Good video and well explained. Bought my first drone 2 months ago. The DJI Air 2s and today I bought the Litchi app. Got a question though. Actually two questions. 1. At 10:17 How did you get your map/screen to switch views...and 2. Have you used your camera's Screen Recorder to capture your mobile device Litchi App video..
Thank you for watching. I believe, to switch between views, you tap the smaller window. I will verify when I fly next. I have used both the built in iPhone screen recorder and the Litchi in app screen recorder. To access the Litchi screen recorder, tap the menu in the upper left and scroll down an tap “Record Screen”
great video, so i tried to use waypoint today for the first time and put POI on each waypoint but my camera did not capture the point of interest it just looked straight to the course? any reason why?
Thank you for watching. If I understand correctly, you placed a POI at each waypoint. Think of POI as where you want the camera to point and WAYPOINTS as where you want the drone to move and perform actions. As a test, set a POI and then set 4 waypoints at 50 feet from the POI, one to the North, East, South and West. Make sure to set the action on the first waypoint to START RECORDING and one on the last waypoint to STOP RECORDING. The drone should fly to the first waypoint, orient itself to the POI and start recording. It will then move through each waypoint while maintaining its orientation to the POI in the center. I hope this is what you were looking for.
Hello… greetings from Bali… I have a question… how can I lock exposure using litchi? I know using the Dji app I just need to press twice on the screen and it will lock it but I haven’t been able to do it with litchi … I did find the exposure menu (Sunny, cloudy, auto, etc) but not a way to lock it … please help … thanks in advance 🙏🏻
Thank you for watching! The only way I know to do this: 1. Tap the gears in the upper right hand corner 2. Scroll to the KEYS section. It is all the way to the bottom of the settings menu. It is a LONGWAYS down. 3. You can change the settings for the C1, C2, C1 long press and C2 long press. 4. Set one of these to AE Lock/Unlock I have my keys set as follows C1 = Recenter Gimbal C2 = Pause/Resume Flight C1 Long Press = Bottom Light C2 Long Press = AE Lock/Unlock Hope this helps
@@WaddleAero Thanks for the info. But I read that the spark only has 2 customizable buttons : Fn and C … so I wonder which is C1 and which is C2… for some reason the spark and another Dji drone did not come with C1-C2 buttons 🙈🙈🙈… I will try and play around with them with the drone on the ground to see which works… thanks
The Mission Hub is great !!!! Plan your missions on desktop and they will be there to load and fly at any time. ... or on site in app - and the mission is synced to Web for access at desktop. I have just also purchased Maven - for the GeoFence feature - younger kids can fly freely - but within limited 3D area for safety !!
I'm glad I found your series. I picked up Litchi today on Black Friday 11/24/23 to have for my boy who's getting a Mimi 2 for Christmas. It'll be fun to plan missions with him.
Awesome! How old is your boy? The Maven virtual geofence is great for teaching kids to fly safely. You can build a box with a maximum and minimum altitude and side parameters and the drone will not fly outside the box. You can then let the kids fly without having to worry about them crashing into stuff
Hey J C, I’m unaware if your talking about maven or litchi but they both should be about the same. On litchi before you run the mission there should be a screen that pops up saying “run from waypoint __” you can change this number to whatever numbered waypoint through there, hopes this helps.
Great video and Litchi is looking good.
Thank you!
I am still learning Litchi. Right now, I am much more familiar with Maven. Maven is amazing!
great demo and narration works well
Thank you!
Pretty cool.. They should implement it like the way DJI has it where you can fly to the way points and mark them
Thank you for watching. I like the Litchi website for mission planning. Maven has the ability to do the waypoint by flights. Didn’t know you could do that in the native DJI app
Excellent video as always, I have just taken the plunge with Litchi and will use you video series as a guide. One thing I will probably add to my process is something you included in your crash analysis and is also featured in the video "Visual Mission Planning with Google Earth", this being the ability to import your planned mission in to Google Earth. This gives a clearer view of any potential hazards. I have not used that approach before. The last leg of your mission had the camera focus on the Town Hall (is that what you said it was?) - so was the drone flying backwards for the return leg of this journey?
Thank you!
When the weather improves I will work on more Litchi videos.
On the last leg, because I had the drone facing waypoint on the city hall building, the drone was flying backwards on the way to the home point.
Question. What process are you using in post processing to fix the somewhat jerky camera movement to make it more smooth? Thanks in advance?
Thank you for watching. I primarily use Maven, but the process is the same.
The first thing is to try to minimize the jerky movement when filming. This can be done in a couple of ways. Litchi and Maven both use a "virtual stick" system, where the app simulates stick movment to move the drone. I find that flying when winds are calm or low speed helps a lot. Additionally, slowing the drone speed and increasing the radius of turns tends to smooth out the movement.
If these methods are not possible, the footage has to be corrected in post. I use Davinci Resolve Studio for all of my editing. One method is to use the stabilization tools to smooth out some of teh jerky motion. I find that most of the movement issues happen in turns or orbits. If I find a really noticable jerk I will place a cut or a transition at that point. In an orbit, I would remove the bad footage and cut to a different angle or cut out the offending frames and add a cross disolve to smooth it out.
I am planning a longer video where I will go through the entire process of shooting a cinematic video; from premission planning, preflight tools, creating and flying the mission and editing, including sound design and music.
Hope this helps.
I did find that when I had curves enabled, even the first way point action never initiated. Not just the way points it never hit.
For now keeping curves off - not sure why curves didn’t work for me.
Hi Sir, I want to start and use Either Litchi or Maven. From your experience which one will you recommend as the better one?
Thank you for watching.
I prefer Maven. I like the website mission builder and the interface on Litchi. That being said, I have found the iOS version Maven to be much more stable and user friendly.
“Freedom units…” 😂
‘Murica!
@@WaddleAero 🇺🇸
Hi friend, great channel and interesting material. I am asking you to add a translation of the text into Polish, there will be a sub 😉
Dzięki za oglądanie! Zobaczę, czy uda mi się ustalić, jak dodać napisy w języku polskim
Create video, except the freedom unit, in medicine we use metric. In science and research we use metric. 👍
Thank you! Metric makes more sense, I’m just too old to make the change in my brain 😀
If I have a home Way-point A set at 200ft, and a Way-point B set at 55ft, at what point will Litchi drop the altitude? Over Way-point B?
In Litchi and Maven, altitude changes between waypoints are linear.
For example,
- Waypoint A is at 200ft
- Waypoint B is 400ft from A
- Waypoint B is at 100ft
The drone will descend evenly between the waypoints.
So at the midpoint between A and B, the drone will have lost half the altitude.
If you want the drone to stay at the initial altitude until it reaches the second waypoint and then descend, you can add an additional waypoint between A and B, near B, with the same altitude as A.
Waypoint A = 200ft altitude
Waypoint B = 200ft altitude
Lateral Distance between A and B = 300ft
Waypoint C = 50ft altitude
Lateral Distance between B and C = 0ft
Drone will stay at 200ft between A and B then descend when it reaches B
Hope this helps
@@WaddleAero I guess I should have thought of that but I wasn't aware that Litchi flys a linear path. Thank you very much!
Hey man, great video! I was just wondering, i have the dji controller with the built in screen.
If i just want to fly a pre planned route, do i need to buy a seperate controller meant for phone use? Or can i just use the phone without any controller? Thanks!
Thanks for watching! I believe you can install Litchi on the DJI Smart Controller. This article explains the process… flylitchi.com/dji-monitors
@@WaddleAero amazing, thanks so much!
Will this work on the mini 3 / mini 3 pro DJI RC Controller ?
This version of the app won’t work with the mini 3. It looks like they have another app that is supposed to work. Check out their website at flylitchi.com/help. There is a link to the Litchi Pilot app on that page
@@WaddleAero Thanks for that link, as I did not know about the pilot version.
Freedom Units. LMFO. So isolated…
Protect your precious bodily fluids!
What are the white numbers in the black boxes between way points?
Thanks for watching!
The white numbers in the black boxes are the distances between the waypoints.
@@WaddleAero Thanks
Excellent tutorial. After all these years of flying drones I’m just now looking into getting into this app. Great job, great voice.
Thank you! Recommend you take a look the Maven app,
Maven Pilot for DJI Drones
ua-cam.com/play/PLrrWag-Aw0tZSRp_IOUwCnkZhYKc5UuJe.html
The interface is not as polished but I find I use it more than Litchi
@@WaddleAero Thanks. I’m in the playlist right now. It does seem more user friendly.
Thanks for great demo. I'd be interested to know, how do you fix the jerky movement.
Thank you for watching.
Because both the Maven and Litchi apps use a “virtual stick” method, where the app simulates the sticks moving, you will get jerky motion if the app has to apply aggressive stick motion.
I use Maven more often than Litchi. In Maven, I have found that slowing the drone’s forward motion, increasing the arc radius on turns and trying to fly when the wind is lower helps smooth out the jerky motion.
New to drones myself and to the Litchi app but I believe selecting the INTERPOLATE option rather than the Focus POI option may solve the jerky movement.
Motion interpolation or motion-compensated frame interpolation (MCFI) is a form of video processing in which intermediate animation frames are generated between existing ones by means of interpolation, in an attempt to make animation more fluid, to compensate for display motion blur, and for fake slow motion effects.
Is this loaded on to the drone? For example if the remote loses connection with the drone, will it continue the mission or return to home?
Litchi is an aftermarket app for DJI drones. You can set it to, on connection loss, hover, land or return to home. It tried the follow feature in this video, ua-cam.com/video/HlI1n6X08to/v-deo.html.
I had it set to RTH. Still not sure why the sensors didn’t stop it
H,i and thank you for posting these videos, so my question is when you created the mission, and you elected the dom,e it came up with a height of 3 feet is that height above the dome or the ground level, thank you in advance
Thank you for watching! When you select a Point of Interest (POI) the elevation indicates the point, above the ground, where the gimbal points. You can adjust this if you want the camera to focus higher or lower.
Good video and well explained. Bought my first drone 2 months ago. The DJI Air 2s and today I bought the Litchi app. Got a question though. Actually two questions. 1. At 10:17 How did you get your map/screen to switch views...and 2. Have you used your camera's Screen Recorder to capture your mobile device Litchi App video..
Thank you for watching. I believe, to switch between views, you tap the smaller window. I will verify when I fly next.
I have used both the built in iPhone screen recorder and the Litchi in app screen recorder. To access the Litchi screen recorder, tap the menu in the upper left and scroll down an tap “Record Screen”
great video, so i tried to use waypoint today for the first time and put POI on each waypoint but my camera did not capture the point of interest it just looked straight to the course? any reason why?
Thank you for watching.
If I understand correctly, you placed a POI at each waypoint.
Think of POI as where you want the camera to point and WAYPOINTS as where you want the drone to move and perform actions.
As a test, set a POI and then set 4 waypoints at 50 feet from the POI, one to the North, East, South and West.
Make sure to set the action on the first waypoint to START RECORDING and one on the last waypoint to STOP RECORDING. The drone should fly to the first waypoint, orient itself to the POI and start recording. It will then move through each waypoint while maintaining its orientation to the POI in the center.
I hope this is what you were looking for.
@@WaddleAero thanks very much
Hello… greetings from Bali… I have a question… how can I lock exposure using litchi? I know using the Dji app I just need to press twice on the screen and it will lock it but I haven’t been able to do it with litchi … I did find the exposure menu (Sunny, cloudy, auto, etc) but not a way to lock it … please help … thanks in advance 🙏🏻
Thank you for watching!
The only way I know to do this:
1. Tap the gears in the upper right hand corner
2. Scroll to the KEYS section. It is all the way to the bottom of the settings menu. It is a LONGWAYS down.
3. You can change the settings for the C1, C2, C1 long press and C2 long press.
4. Set one of these to AE Lock/Unlock
I have my keys set as follows
C1 = Recenter Gimbal
C2 = Pause/Resume Flight
C1 Long Press = Bottom Light
C2 Long Press = AE Lock/Unlock
Hope this helps
@@WaddleAero Thanks for the info. But I read that the spark only has 2 customizable buttons : Fn and C … so I wonder which is C1 and which is C2… for some reason the spark and another Dji drone did not come with C1-C2 buttons 🙈🙈🙈… I will try and play around with them with the drone on the ground to see which works… thanks
Sorry, I have never used the Spark. You might try playing with the settings and changing the AE Lock assignment
😄"freedom mode" that's great.
Lol
The Mission Hub is great !!!! Plan your missions on desktop and they will be there to load and fly at any time. ... or on site in app - and the mission is synced to Web for access at desktop.
I have just also purchased Maven - for the GeoFence feature - younger kids can fly freely - but within limited 3D area for safety !!
Thanks for watching! I am looking forward to Learning Litchi. My plan is to do tutorials and then do comparison videos of Maven v Litchi
Thank you once again for your tutorials.
thanks for the video
I'm glad I found your series. I picked up Litchi today on Black Friday 11/24/23 to have for my boy who's getting a Mimi 2 for Christmas. It'll be fun to plan missions with him.
Awesome! How old is your boy? The Maven virtual geofence is great for teaching kids to fly safely. You can build a box with a maximum and minimum altitude and side parameters and the drone will not fly outside the box. You can then let the kids fly without having to worry about them crashing into stuff
@@WaddleAero That sounds awesome. I'll have to look into that. He'll be 14 soon. Thanks for the reply.
How much was it on black Friday?
Great video. Simplified and easy to understand.
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it
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If I have a Mission with 30 points, how can I started from point (example) number 15? Can you help please with some video from youtube or other?
The only way I know of is to create a copy of the mission and delete up to the waypoint you wish to start on
@@WaddleAero Thanks
Hey J C, I’m unaware if your talking about maven or litchi but they both should be about the same. On litchi before you run the mission there should be a screen that pops up saying “run from waypoint __” you can change this number to whatever numbered waypoint through there, hopes this helps.
Thank you for this info!
@@sunnysidetank8031 Thanks
Great video!!
Thank you!
very nice..
Thank you!
Thank you, very well done..
Thank you so much