Maven does not seem to have a mission hub to use on the PC,
similar to Litchi, so that’s a NO from me . . 
What scares you to create missions on your phone in litchi
It’s just so much easier to do in mission hub, plus you don’t get to be where you are going to fly the mission, I’ve planned missions in France in the hub while sitting in flat in England, that would take a lot of doing in the app
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I have a physical condition that results in a pretty significant hand tremor, so my stick commands are very choppy, at best. And yet, when I’m flying in manual mode, my Mini 2 turns very smoothly. I think this happens because the firmware in the drone takes my choppy commands and passes them through a smoothing filter of some sort (probably a PID filter), and the output of that filter is what the drone responds to. So I think you are exactly right; the jerks in waypoint mode are due to choppy and sometimes interrupted commands being sent by the litchi app, and I’ll bet they are not being passed through the smoothing filter before being sent on to control the drone. As I said above, the API that DJI provided litchi may not include access to the smoothing filter, so the drone is responding to choppy commands. If those smoothing algorithms are available in the API, then litchi should correct this. If they are not, then it’s beyond their control to correct this.
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As I said in my previous post, I have a hand tremor that makes fine detail touch-screen input, like on an iPhone, very difficult. That’s why I fly with an iPad. But even then, I’m much better with a mouse on a PC, and I have a nice large 4K monitor to see the big picture. I do occasionally change a parameter, like Cruising Speed, using the iPad screen when I’m out flying somewhere, but it’s difficult.
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And I did do some flight test to examine ways to minimize, and the results are posted here:
archer…i read on the Maven website that you can use Litchi’s mission hub to plan and export it as a CSV. Then upload it in the Maven app. Check out their website.
I have the same hand tremor issue so Litchi is critical to me getting smooth video with my Air 2S. Using the same waypoint mission I get jerky yaw movements with Air 2S but buttery smooth with my Mavic 2 Pro and Zoom.
Hope this gets resolved 
Thanks for the information, I will look at that.
Seems a bit of a long and clunky journey to put a mission together.
What mission improvements does Maven have that Litchi does not ?
However, Maven only works on an Apple Mac, not a windows PC.
I am not going to struggle to make a mission on on a tiny Ipad screen
when it is much easier for me to make Litchi missions on my 32" PC screen.
From what Maven claims, actions work on curved missions. Right now with Litchi, you have to plan straight waypoints and it stops at each waypoint, regardless if there are actions added. To me that sucks. I will purchase it soon and see how it goes. Plus there are “a lot” more cool features like zip line.
When you are referring to Apple/ PC, I’m assuming you mean IOS vs Android? Not sure how long they will take to get the android version going. But they moved pretty quick on the IOS version.
I plan my missions on a pc with Litchi mission hub and plan to upload to my iPhone. Hope this helps…
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Thanks everyone for trying to find a solution to the jerky yaw movements in drones using the virtual sticks implementation in Litchi.
I have been flying Litchi missions using a M2Z (onboard waypoints) for years with absolutely wonderful results. However, as most everyone knows, flying the same missions using an A2S (virtual sticks) results in jerky yaw movements.
I have begun tweaking parameters to see if there is a combination of settings that smooths out the A2S. I’ve tried normal, sparsely places waypoints with curved turns. I’ve tried missions with many, closely placed waypoints (and curved turns) and the results are the same. I have more ideas to try when the weather improves and will report back if I find anything that improves the smoothness.
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I have performed a number of experiments using Litchi and an Air 2s trying to obtain a smooth yaw movement as the drone proceeds through its mission. The first was a mission with a reasonable number of waypoints, one POI and the curve size set to 1/2 the distance between waypoints which results in a perfectly smooth circle:
As you might have guessed, this did not result an a smooth yaw movement.
Next, I tried a similar mission with many waypoints. I got the same result:
Third, I removing the curved turns, using straight paths between each waypoint. Unfortunately, I experienced the same result.
All missions were flown at a slow 5 mph. If there is a way to smooth the yaw movement, I have not yet found it.
Again, with my M2Z (on-board waypoints), the yaw movement is perfectly smooth.
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So I’m new here just trying to learn more about Litchi before buying it. I’ve seen many complaints about lack of smooth movements in waypoints mode for the air2s (my drone). However, are these movements smooth in Orbit mode about a POI? Forgive my ignorance (or irrelevance to the discussion at hand), but I just wanted to know.
Say the track and follow modes always worked as virtual sticks on all drones, but there were no jerks. Does this mean that jerks are a software bug in new versions of litchi.
The jerky yaw motion is not a bug in Litchi. Instead, it is a limitation in what controls DJI provides in their SDK. A good explanation is given here:
Yes, and it seems the sdk made a mistake in the new update. After all, other drones used to fly with virtual sticks on follow modes, but there were no jerks, I think other drones will also have problems with new versions of litchi.
Hi there,
I’ve been down the path of Air 2 with virtual joysticks and decided to purchase a M2E (Zoom) and I am experiencing the same yaw jerkiness. Here is a video sample:
Can you tell me if you ever experienced the jerkiness on YOUR M2 Zoom and how you may have adjusted it? Any insight you can provide is really appreciated. My Mavic Air has produced amazing footage with Litchi Waypoints and I can’t get my Air 2 or M2E to come close to that.
You can email me directly if you want....derwinmichael@gmail.com.
Thanks!
@michaelderwin
Enterprise drones (M300 RTK, M2EA, etc) have some level of support but are not officially supported and tested.