Hello, I applied for a dronelink subscription, and I wonder if it’s possible to make hyperlapse? My drone is a Mavic mini and I have bought the basic plan.

Martin Weider
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    Mike (Arizona Wyldwest) Dronelink Expert Dronelink Expert
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    A Photo interval plan is what you would create but DL doesn’t stitch them all of together to create the hyper-lapse video regardless of drone or plan. All the processing would need to be done separately by the pilot. Same with mapping which only takes the photos. 

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    Martin Weider

    Thank you, that information helped a lot! Are there any stitching apps you can recommend for iOS?

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    Barry Houldsworth Dronelink Expert Dronelink Expert

    Hyperlapse (which is really just a moving timelapse) and maps are very different things.

    Creating a hyperlapse is literally just putting the photos one after another on to a video.  Video is nothing more than a series of images after all.  The only difference is time.  If you take a photo every 2 seconds during the flight and put them on a 30 frames per second (FPS) video then for every 30 photos (60 seconds) of flight you will have one second of video.

    Any decent video editor will let you import a series of photos and add them as frames.  There are a lot of editors to choose from. 

    If you plan on doing a lot of editing in the future, and are willing to invest time learning the system then Davinci Resolve has an impressive free version that will more than cover 95% of users, but it does have a steep learning curve.

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    Roger Harris

    It's possible to make a timelapse from a normal video with Avidemux. A hyperlapse will be better if you run the output through a stabilizer (e.g. DaVinci Resolve).

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    Mike (Arizona Wyldwest) Dronelink Expert Dronelink Expert

    For me it would be way to much time invested to get a 5 to 20 second hyper-lapse video. My MA2 has that ability built in the app so it’s done automatically within seconds. I rarely use it. I’d get a drone with that capability if your going to do a lot of them but nothing wrong with learning software and enjoying the outcome. 

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    Martin Weider

    Thanks for the detailed explanations, that saved me a lot of time! I’ll definitely try Davinci Resolve and Avidemux next time I have got some drone shots

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