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I apologize for the post. I reviewed the topics and was understand that zoom features are not out of beta. I had to dig to find them which is something I think should be an obvious list of future features made available before purchasing. I’ll wait! Would love to make some zooming hyperlapses even if I have to stitch and stabilize on my own.
https://support.dronelink.com/hc/en-us/articles/19624430960403
Thank you Jim. I tried that link in flight and have no way to select any camera type other than photo or video in flight from the dashboard.
Sorry I misread your post (though you said Mavic 3). The Mini 3 is still in beta and does not support zooming yet.
Hey Eric. I always use DJI Fly app to shoot Hyper-lapse stuff with my MA2. Your drones ability should be fairly the same. Several different modes, much quicker and since it process’s everything immediately it’s just far easier. As you said, no fun spending the time to create them. Jim can verify but it’s been asked about before and I haven’t read anything about DL adding the processing to automatically stitch them into a hyper-lapse video. Also I don’t believe the zoom will work anyway while shooting hyper-lapse since it’s actually taking photos. Fairly sure zoom only works in video mode just like with my MA2. Enjoy…
Hi Mike! Thanks, I'm a hyperlapse junkie and love the DJI Fly App for it - with a couple of exceptions.
1. Long hyperlapses take way too long to build on the drone while it's up in the air. I can't tell you how many moments I've missed waiting for a 750 frame hyperlapse of an epic sunset to build wishing I could have that 3 - 5 minutes of battery to continue snapping shots. Dronelink allows this so that's a bonus for dronelink, but leaves a craving for a solution to quickly build hyperlapse vidoes with the stabilization quality of the fly app which is excellent.
2. No Point of Interest in Waypoint modes on the DJI Fly App - which brings me hunting for a solution like dronelink that handles this brilliantly, with a couple of tradeoffs that are complicated to overcome.
The main tradeoff in night hyperlapses is the DJI Fly App stops the drone and it gets a crystal clear shot (based on wind) and then dronelink just keeps flying, so if you're trying to hyperlapse long shutter it's not going to work well unless you're a Javascript programmer and can whip up some scripts to make dronelink do this.
I'm a software developer also, mostly Node / Javascript and I've picked up Swift to see if I can write a Mac OS App that handles file management for the media generated during drone flights and etc. It's been a long loving project that I've put away until recently. I've built a hyperlapse feature that can take a list of images and a set of parameters that puts them in a a video on Mac OS. frame by frame this is good, and can export in a variety of sizes and framerates and export without stabilization. Then from there, I can jump into Final Cut Pro and stabilize it quickly, then re-export it. That makes a slick video, comparable to the mini 3 building the hyperlapse on the drone and it takes about 10 minutes of work.
So the process of this is with :
* make a waypoint mission with photo interval
* run waypoint mission, land
* import photos from memory card to some software - tons can do it
* stabilize the footage on the computer somehow
With DJI Fly app:
* take off, fly the drone to points, set marks
* Drone flies the mission and you hope it's accurate
* drone compiles video
* land, switch to Quick Transfer, download and watch on iphone / edit, etc.
I doubt DJI will ever put POI in Hyperlapse waypoints, otherwise I wouldn't be looking for an SDK option. If you've programmed a DJI Fly waypoint hyperlapse by flying around POI you will no it's very touchy, and you have to be super intentional which causes edgy flight paths. Dronelink seems to be the best solution for mapping and flying waypoints I've used.
Owning a Mavic 3 (Standard before the Pro) I am super irritated they don't support SDK for it... I think with it and dronelink some of these features could be good.
Ok. A lot of info but I must say very thorough. 👍🏼It was just thought and since DL can’t process them so all we can do is work with what we have. Unfortunately the initial question was about Zoom function control which still won’t work in photo mode. I don’t believe any DJI drone has that ability.
If you are into scripting, it is possible to make Dronelink stop by using Photo components or the Inspection component, but it would be tedious to add all these in the editor manually.
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