Smooth Flyovers?

I’ve had a look at your mission and youtube video. Your video is jerky for three reasons:

  1. You’ve sped up the footage by a factor of 10. That is a sure way to exaggerate any issues. Don’t do that if you want your video to look smooth.
  2. You are flying too fast for the height of the drone. My rule of thumb is to fly no more than 10 mph per 100 feet of height. You will need to convert that to metric. I often fly much slower than that.
  3. You are using a DJI Fly drone where Litchi must employ the “Virtual Sticks” method of waypoint missions. See this: How do I get smooth tracking in waypoint mode?

A few more comments about your mission:

You have actions defined at the first and last waypoints. These actions will be ignored when flying missions with curved paths. It would be nice but you cannot automatically start and stop video recording on the first and last waypoint of waypoint missions with curved turns.

Your finish action is set to “None”. I would never recommend having it set that way. Always have it set to RTH and then cancel the RTH if you desire. Having it set to “None” is too dangerous if something were to go wrong.

Waypoints 7 and 8 are too close to and on either side of your POI. This will never result in a good looking flight.

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