[...]Pretty useless for any cinematic footage.
Parrot really needs to fix this issue so it works just like Litchi does.
You can clearly see in the graph how the speed changes at every way point and is not smooth. Not usable for video at all.
Right, that is the "progressive" flight feature from Parrot.
That was one of the things I tried to find a "kind of a" workaround to, when my bird did fell during a "critical battery landing" (from 32m's, with 20% battery left) the last (15?) meters down.
Trying to identify, how to minimize the stop and go.
I tried "more wp's" (one of the recommendations of Parrot, somewhere), but that is only an idea, in case the course is flown with very low speed. Because mo wp's, mo stops. Only in very low speed, somewhere below 2m/s (sorry, didn't get closer), that is not really to spot in the video any longer.
Only solution seems to be:
Long straight legs for most of the distance and slowing down to the corners, with low speed curves. Just: Nothing for POI, circles, cinematic video.
Unless: You are speeding up the video in post.
My conclusion:
The anafi is a nice bird, very good material, just the fw is not up to it.
At time it is more a bird for 360x180 Spheres, flying up to 1+km high and in areas, where DJI has nfz listed.
Which makes it, as it is right now, just a "need to have bird" for the few wanting to fly "over the clouds", in my eyes.
But only in case the fw can manage the failsaves to work properly!
Which it failed at least in a couple of "falling out of the air" cases, documented here in the forum.
Plus the "you just get the flight record after the bird lands/after the next restarting of the bird" , it seems a bit risky, I think, even to fly it during warranty times more than a couple of hundred meters away. And better not over water or very difficult to search grounds/tree areas. Because you NEED the bird to restart, reconnect to the FF6, after a chrash, to get you a flight record.
That is just convenient for Parrot, methinks.
Oh:
And you HAVE to upload all of your flights in FF6 into parrots cloud, for warranty!
In case you don't want that, or your FF6 plays "can't connect", is unregistered, ....!
So the hope can just be a Anafi 2, not the 3 cam version from todays event, just a BETTER Anafi, Version 2!
