Tested out the flight plan stuff today on the Anafi. Overall, it’s pretty good. It definitely crushes the mission planner in DJI Go. It’s not as feature complete (or as stable???) as the Litchi app for DJI drones, but it holds its own.
The key “feature” for me is simple. At the very least I want smooth interpolation between way points. Does the drone fly smoothly from point to point, gradually changing altitude, heading, and gimbal tilt along the way? Well, the answer is Yes... Anafi’s mission planner does this well - much better than the DJI Go app (which sucks), and just as well as Litchi for DJI.
The user interface is fine. It’s polished and it makes sense once you figure it out (hint: long press for POIs). I do wish it would let me zoom in on the map a little tighter. Overall, it’s the best UI of all 3.
The mission blocks user interface is a little more difficult to figure out. It’s a bunch of different colored blocks representing each way point, with special actions you can drag into those boxes. For example, there are actions like tilting the gimbal a certain amount, or yawing around in place for a panarama. I spent a lot of trial and error figuring out that:
a) you need to drag those actions onto waypoints (duh), and
b) that those actions take place after the waypoint (for the most part).
Despite liking the app, I still struggled to get it to do a simple shot. I wanted 2 points. First point looking straight down. As it flys to the second point I wanted the gimbal to gradually tilt up until it’s looking straight ahead by the second point. It was easy to set up, but in practice, the angles of the tilt kept getting screwed up. I’m not sure if it’s me or a bug. I think it’s a bug because I seemed to get more consistent (and expected) results if I left the flight planner, flew around in manual for a couple seconds, and then switched back to the flight plan. I also had to set up 2 extra waypoints. One before the start of my shot which would take care of pointing the camera down, and one extra point at the end. I’m not really sure if those were necessary.
The feature I’d most like to see is a button that sets a waypoint with your current heading and gimbal tilt. That way I could create missions by flying to each waypoint myself, framing a subject perfectly, and then clicking the button. Go to the next waypoint, frame that shot and click. Rinse and repeat until satisfied. I have this set up in Litchi (using a programmable button on the controller). It’s the easiest and quickest way to set up high quality cablecam/dolly shots. There is only so much you can do planing ahead of time on a map.
The key “feature” for me is simple. At the very least I want smooth interpolation between way points. Does the drone fly smoothly from point to point, gradually changing altitude, heading, and gimbal tilt along the way? Well, the answer is Yes... Anafi’s mission planner does this well - much better than the DJI Go app (which sucks), and just as well as Litchi for DJI.
The user interface is fine. It’s polished and it makes sense once you figure it out (hint: long press for POIs). I do wish it would let me zoom in on the map a little tighter. Overall, it’s the best UI of all 3.
The mission blocks user interface is a little more difficult to figure out. It’s a bunch of different colored blocks representing each way point, with special actions you can drag into those boxes. For example, there are actions like tilting the gimbal a certain amount, or yawing around in place for a panarama. I spent a lot of trial and error figuring out that:
a) you need to drag those actions onto waypoints (duh), and
b) that those actions take place after the waypoint (for the most part).
Despite liking the app, I still struggled to get it to do a simple shot. I wanted 2 points. First point looking straight down. As it flys to the second point I wanted the gimbal to gradually tilt up until it’s looking straight ahead by the second point. It was easy to set up, but in practice, the angles of the tilt kept getting screwed up. I’m not sure if it’s me or a bug. I think it’s a bug because I seemed to get more consistent (and expected) results if I left the flight planner, flew around in manual for a couple seconds, and then switched back to the flight plan. I also had to set up 2 extra waypoints. One before the start of my shot which would take care of pointing the camera down, and one extra point at the end. I’m not really sure if those were necessary.
The feature I’d most like to see is a button that sets a waypoint with your current heading and gimbal tilt. That way I could create missions by flying to each waypoint myself, framing a subject perfectly, and then clicking the button. Go to the next waypoint, frame that shot and click. Rinse and repeat until satisfied. I have this set up in Litchi (using a programmable button on the controller). It’s the easiest and quickest way to set up high quality cablecam/dolly shots. There is only so much you can do planing ahead of time on a map.
