DJI Waypoints Tutorial 2023 + 4 Methods to Use for Epic Drone Videos!
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- Waypoints is the ultimate intelligent flight mode on DJI drones. This tutorial demonstrates how to use waypoints in 2023 and provides the 4 best reasons to use this feature in your projects.
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A great point that you mentioned was to always start at the same altitude when re-flying a waypoint mission.
i always make my first waypoint a random one nothing to do with the mission so it's a safety buffer for take of and return to start and make waypoint 2 the start of the actual mission
@@richardcrouch356great tip Richard 👍
yes.. thats really one important to know too ..great tutorial
on the other hand I think it would still be the same as when you push that c1 or c2 button, it locks and records its actual long/lat position
Don’t you sell shirts etc?
Thanks Russ, I especially liked your detail on waypoints being used when flying close to that railway bridge. It makes such huge sense! ✅
Another follow-up video to this one would be the advantages of the longer battery life for use in timelapse. The part that would be cool is to use the waypoints for the daytime timelapse and blend it with a nighttime timelapse. By the way, I love all your posts. You have a great delivery and, most of all, concise but at a mellow rate for understanding.
For a 15-second time-lapse video, you can use 360 frames at 24 frames per second. The interval between photos depends on how fast the clouds are moving. For example, you can use a 1-second interval for moving shadows and a 2-3-second interval for moving storm clouds.
Here are some other time-lapse intervals:
1-3 seconds for sunsets, sunrises, and crowds
15-30 seconds for construction
1 second for moving traffic
You can calculate the time-lapse duration by dividing the available images by the frames per second. For example, if you have 100 pictures and 20 frames per second, the time-lapse duration will be 5 seconds.
Agreed! I appreciate the pacing compared to some who seem like they have ingested just a little too much caffeine! :-)
I watch a lot of channels, some for the subject matter first, some for photograpy or editing quality. However for tutorials, i always check your channel first for all the above! You make it complete, but so simple a child, or old man can do it without sounding condescending
Thank you.
Best video on this subject I’ve ever seen. Brief, clear, super useful. Thank you!
Hi Dave, Australia here I must’ve missed this video previously and just discovered it. Thanks very much for your detail and time to do this video.
Wowwww thats the hospital. Absolutely beautiful
Russ funny you should say in the end about being inspired. Before you even said it I was indeed being inspired. I have been flying passionately for years now and can't wait to master waypoints. A whole new world. For what ever reason I was so busy with flying flying flying, I never delved in to it. Hallelujah. Thank you.
Waypoints was the NUMBER ONE reason I went with an Air 3 over the Mini Pro. Great vid explaining this! Get the Air 3 in the mail this week!
It would be cool to get that AR layout for way points, like they did for RTH.
Bisher gibt es wenige Artikel zu Wegpunkten, vor allem in Deutsch. Danke für die Erläuterungen.
Waypoint are really the way to go sometimes but I don't use them enough. Maybe I will someday... Thanks for sharing! 👍#620
Awesome video as always Russ. Would I would like to see is a detailed tutorial on waypoint Hyperlapses
Excellent video, it's a shame DJI didn't make this feature available in the Air 2S. Anyway thanks for another great content.Take care 🖐
3rd party fly app.
Russ, GREAT video. Easy to understand. Now, how about one for offline programming? And then another for mission editing. Thanks, Ken
This is the best video I have ever seen on waypoints. I have been wanting to do day/night transitions and did not know how to use waypoints. You clarified this with ease! Incredibly done man!!!!!
Thanks, Russ, for the great tips/reminders. Sorry about the smoke 😮💨
Great stuff!! Thanks!!
Great explanation! Thanks
Thanks!!
Always a great source for drone related information, thanks 🙌🙌🙌
That’s a super helpful video, many thanks for sharing it.
Great tutorial. Thanks Russ!
Love it
I must learn how to do this. Thanks for this video.
Another great and informative video Russ!
Thanks, doing waypoints today very informative.
Thanks for the video will practice those on my next fly!
Thank you!
I hadn't considered the benefit you mentioned for #3, but it turns out this is probably the MOST compelling advantage to using waypoints for me, because I SO often find those little inadvertent finger slips/twitches that disrupt the 'cinematic' visual experience when I try to put the clip into project. So taking the time to define a route with waypoints will give me a much more usable clip and save me time during editing, trying to creatively work around those little gaps in smoothness. Great stuff! Thanks Russ!
I really appreciate your thorough videos - they are VERY helpful! - How precise is the MAVIC 3 Pro while using Waypoints? If I construct a mission flying 6 feet above the ground on a path that is 6 feet wide through trees, can the drone repeat that path with confidence or could it be 1,2,3,4 feet off to the side or altitude of the last flight? Also, if I am constructing a lengthy mission (40+ waypoints?) can I create 5 or ten waypoints and then come back another day and add more waypoints to my saved mission? And if I did would I take off each day from the same spot as on day 1?
A lot of good ideas
Great video
Awesome tutorial! Thank you!
Awesome 👍
Great Explanation of Waypoints. - Cheers
Great job. Just an observation, I am from NY USA , so I’m always told “ Your from NY , I hear your accent”. Haha. Well listening to your voice , to me you sound exactly like Alex Lifeson from Rush . Same speaking voice . Pretty cool ! All the BEST , keep the videos coming. Love WAYPOINTS ! Glad we don’t have to use 3rd party for it anymore.
Love that you are reppin other content creators gear! Such an amazing community.
Very good Russ. I always learn something about my drones and how to use them. Even though I have all of the Mavic series drones, I don't fly much but when I do I truly enjoy it and I learn a lot 😊
Thanks
Great video I haven't as if yet used the waypoint feature yet, but I intend to for sure try some crazy stuff!
Loved the video dude. Definitely helped can’t wait to give it a go with my new Mini 4 Pro. Happy Flying!
Hey Russ, thanks for the video I didn't think I needed. I've been flying as long as you, and have never used waypoints. Now that you explained some use case scenarios, I can't wait to try it out!
Thank you for a great video. This helped me see the value of Way points. I'm going to start incorporating them in to my clips.
Thanks you answered my question about moving to a different start point. Take of position is important.
Russ this was good and i will use this (vid) if any problems as a reference video.
Thank You
Great video again. One thing I wanted to hear though that I have heard 1 or 2 people talk about in the past is how to get smoother waypoints especially in hyperlapse. Waypoints can be jerky too and it’s good to keep some principles in mind of direction, pitch, etc. so as to avoid.
Thank you for a great video!
Outstanding video!
Great video. DJI has done a great job of making waypoint flight simple. Return to Home after flight completion is a great feature. I film while on my motorcycle so its easy to launch and forget and ride through the waypoint scene and when the mission is complete, it auto lands. Very helpful.
After watching so many videos finally I came across your video that explains way point so clearly thank you very much :)
Active track is cool but waypoints are infinitely smoother. For doing solo video production or vlog-style shots, waypoints allow you to move through the shot naturally.
You’re an awesome presenter by the way, great video.
Thanks for this vid .. I would also like to know if it will really continue the mission on signal lost
Thanks for this, waypoints is one of the reasons I bought an Air 3, it’s a great drone and I’ve only flown it once… can’t wait to try waypoints myself 👍🏻👍🏻
Great video! That looks easy and lots of fun. I’ll probably need a newer drone as I have original Mavic Pro.
Really great video. I learned a lot. Thank You Russ.
You are very clear, and though stating the obvious you are very enlightening. Only wish I used waypoints on my big building project (a school) I've been flying around on a regular basis this past year
Great video. Thank you.
Great Video!
Great tips! Could we download the saved waypoint settings by ourselves?
Awesome! Great work I enjoy your videos
Nice video, I'm just curious as to why you have the Air 2S listed as a waypoints drone? It can be, but only with 3rd party software (I use Litchi).
Nice video, learnt something new. The DJI Mini 4 has waypoints, which really makes the Mini 4 one of the most versatile drones. Been flying mine for a few days now, surprisingly even quieter than my Mini 3.
Great video! I just started a multi year project with a local non-profit and I am expecting to use waypoint missions as my primary way to do missions for them. One thing that I find extremely frustrating is managing flightplans. Since this project will be going on for quite some time I want to be able to plan, copy and save flightplans. I have a Mavic 3 and use DJI Fly mainly because DJI hasn’t released the SDK that would allow me to use Litchi or something similar. Any tips would be appreciated. Is this something you cover in your paid content?
Great video Russ
I remember a number of years ago the dji said it wouldn't give waypoints to mini 1's and mini 2's because they don't have obstacle avoidance (and yet P3S had waypoints). At least there are 3rd party apps that offer waypoint and other features, DJI is now playing catch up
Would love to prepare the mission on my pc and transfer the files to the drone. Also for the mavic 3 pro we need mission to also use the 7x zoom
Nice video mate! Can you name the saved missions? so if you have many is easier to repeat the one you need to.
Hi Russ … great video as always. You say at the end that you will update the information on what drones support waypoints, so I guess you need to add the Mini 4 Pro now :)
Terrific technology. Great video. Thanks!!! ps... the Mini 4 Pro has waypoints?!? Brilliant!!!
I have been having Inaccuracies between the Drones GPS and the Maps used by DJI. Some times close, other times up to 50 yards of in any direction. Puzzled for sure. Most would never notice.
Thanks for a great waypoints tutorial. I'm glad DJI is starting to take waypoints seriously on their consumer drones. Thanks for sharing Russ.
It's nice of Litchi to show them the way.
Always an interesting video and great info.
I have used Litchi in the past to fly waypoints. It's an excellent pgm and you can create a waypoint route on your computer, download it into the app and then run it when you're near the site. I'm wondering if you can run the Litchi app with the new Air 3 RC 2 controller that comes with a viewing screen. Could I load the Litchi app on my memory card, insert it into the controller and, from there, run the Litchi app?
Did they incorporate this for the air2s as well?
Another Great video! Very informative as always. I've been watching your content for some years now, and "51 Drones" has become my anything drones channel. That being said, I just want to Thank You Russ!
I appreciate that!
Interesting & well-presented Russ! I would have thought that that metal bridge would cause havoc with your signal lock between the controller & the drone?
Can you draw it on the maps instead of the way you done it in this video??
Thanx for this video.
Does someone know how to change waypoints? Let's assume, I planned a mission with two waypoints and want to fly the exact route backwards. How can I make the first wp to become the last?
can you do "waypoints" on a mini 3 pro? other than hyperlapse?
This is fantastic--I'm so EXCITED! Did the mission get stored "on the drone" or in DJI Fly? I'm guessing in DJI Fly (since the "RTH On Signal Lost" is an option). Does the remote have to be in range at all times? Can I use the same waypoint mission on another drone?
great video .... one question .. i have seen alot of youtubers planning way points with just controller and no drone connection until the way point selection is complete ?
i have tried to do this with my air3 but have had no success,... is this possible to plan flight before drone is connected or in the air ...thanks
Hi Russ, you mentioned in your list of "Best bang for your buck waypoints drone" as the Air 2S, question, does the Air 2S now have waypoints. Thanks.
Can u set it up a waypoint mission before u launch
Great video and thanks for sharing it.
I spent some time working with the Waypoint POI function and found it to be different to the ‘normal’ POI implementation. At first I thought there was a bug because there is no option to draw a box around a Waypoint POI and for the software to then determine the POI’s GPS coordinates. Instead, the Waypoint POI is the GPS point of the drone at the time the POI is captured. So, if you want the GPS point of the target, you have to first fly over it and then manually set the target’s altitude relative to the take-off point. A bit clunky but hopefully DJI will provide the other ‘draw a box’ option in a future release.
Is that long train trestle the one in Meyersdale, PA?
Do the way points save to the memory card? If so, does reformat lose the Way point saved?
Russ - Which ND filters do you recommend for the Mini 3 Pro? Having this issue setting up my Mimi 3 Pro RC Controller -- I entered location, time zone, email address, password and got to the page "Register" which asked for a verification code. Where do I find the verification code. DJI HELP could not answer my questions, which I found amazing. Greatly appreciate your help!
Does OA stay on during a Waypoints flight? In other words if I turn off OA to get close like you did with the train bridge, will it automatically fly around obstacles or will it jerk like it does when I fly manually?
Should I assume then, you need to be in sort of the same area to start a saved Waypoint... like how far away can you be from waypoint 1 etc.?
Always love your videos, so very to the point! I have two questions about the home point of a WP-mission (7'13"- 7'26"). 1. Is only the same altitude of the home point important, or the lateral position too? 2. If the WP-mission is planned beforehand using a map, how is the home point defined in that situation?
Do you think this functionality is gonna be permanetly gatekept from the Mini 3 Pro for the Mini 4? I've been finding the time it takes trying to use a hyperlapse waypoint really frustrating to deal with, especially with only 1 battery at the moment
thanks. during flight mission, it will move smoothly where you save or position the camera, eventhough you fly forward to avoid some obstacle just like in late video to look for professional?
I always set waypoint 1 as my holding point then fly to where I actually want to start recording which is waypoint 2 then set the rest so on the waypoints start recording at waypoint 2 and finish on what ever is the last but then at end of mission return to waypoint 1 so that way I start and finish on holding waypoint
The mini 4 Pro gets waypoints ...and with apps like litchy you can use it also on older mini drones
Thanks mate for this nice and very informative video, although there's one thing that i'm not sure to understand, at 8:50 (Precise Flight Path) do you mean that you run some missions disabling all sensors? It does make sense somehow, but i have noticed that each single flight may differ quite significantly from another in terms of position, altitude etc even if they're following the same saved path. How do you deal with it..?
Maybe I'm missing it somewhere, but I don't seem to have the waypoints with the Air 2s. There are waypoints with Hyperlapse, but not on its own.
Great video, as always! Waypoints are fantastic, couple of questions, if you select a moving POI will it track the POI whilst carrying out the waypoints and can you record a route and then ask it to perform it backwards?
You forgot to mention if the Waypoint mission is dependent on Home point. Do I need to start every recorded mission from the same Home point or can it start from another location??
❤ Love it. Enjoyed the video and very informative. I have given you a new Sub also. Well done 😊
Can you compare DJI waypoints vs Skydio’s Keyframe
Russ, two questions, I work with another drone pilot and we are setting waypoint in a location that we have a wavier from the FAA on a class D airport. First question, we have not been able to save the waypoints when we set them, and second, we were wondering if you can share from on Smart controller to another on, so that if one of us were to not be able to shoot the construction, then the other would be able to make the flight. Thanks.