I used a Mini2 and Litchi follow mode to film this video. It’s almost an hour long, so it’s actually multiple flights
I’m impressed at how well follow mode kept up with the target. Whenever the car would go faster than the drone, it was able to keep it “in view” by just adjusting the gimbal. That’s when I’d tell the driver to slow down and let the drone catch up
Litchi is one of the reasons I haven’t upgraded to a Mini3 yet
Yes, I’m definitely in the car, and the phone GPS keeps updating my position, which Litchi uses to calculate where to point the drone (and gimbal).
I live in Fort McMurray, Alberta. It’s a small-ish city in Northern Canada. But this road in particular because there wasn’t much traffic on it, and I wouldn’t be paranoid about a drone falling out of the sky and causing a traffic accident.
Yes that’s right. It uses the GPS from the phone to figure out where to point the drone. When we go around the bends you can see it’s not so smooth, as the GPS updates every few seconds.
We speed up and slow down. The mini2 can do about 30-40 km/hour depending on wind. So when I noticed the drone was being left behind, I’d ask the driver to slow down. That’s another reason we picked this road. Not much chance of annoying people by going real slow.
Or more accurately— frozen rock-hard snow. This time of year it’s freezing and thawing and freezing. So our city removes it and stores it here to let it melt.
That’s what’s in the big truck you see at the beginning of the video.