Great video. I will try this on my next flight. I think this could help me reduce my pilot workload and get some smoother shots. The camera movements you used came out really dynamic. Thanks for sharing the insights.
Cool. I just got my anafi yesterday, today is my first fly n amazing, very easy, simple, smooth n non noisy. I plan to make a filming in the small islands in indonesia. Do u think anafi strong enough againts the winds?
I use free hand. I’ve not tried any other way. I’m currently working on capturing graffiti on train cars with both video and photos. That’s all piloting but have two flight plan projects running. One is in the morning around my property but looking at the mountains were I’ve been getting daily sunrise surprises. The other is for that hyperlapse of downtown traffic. I have another route for hyper when I’m up north in Scottsdale when I teach that looks at AZ 101 as it starts to become a traffic jam. That ones still in planning as it’s got lots of objects to avoid. Once I get my route down. I go back in and add the pauses to get the 15 minutes of real time for the 1 minute hyperlapse video. Seriously love my Anafi. It’s so versatile and inconspicuous and the fun I have with crazy angles and the zoom is super creative.
That's awesome! I'm glad you are getting good use out of it! Have you recorded the traffic jam in slow motion? I have found that cars on the road and trains look awesome. It's only 1080 though.
Maybe not perfect in your eyes but still informative, great video. I have a question, is it possible to switch modes within flight plan for different points of interest? say going from normal to slow motion or hyper lapse.
Thank you so much! I am not sure. I will do a test on this. Generally I set up the video modes ahead of time and the flight plan hits the record button. That way I can run the same plan in different modes. : ruclips.net/video/1Xw342DuFWc/видео.html
So, you can put in the Flightplan where you want the Anafi's camera to point at each waypoint and in between the waypoints? Say you had a fenced off square piece of land that you wanted to fly completely around the fenced in area. You want to check out the fence to make sure the fence has no problems. Can you set a flight path around this fence and be able to set up the Anafi to keep the camera pointed right at the fence all the way around?
You can set the direction the camera faces. You can fly north while pointing east, then turn to fly west while pointing north, then fly south while pointing west etc. You can also aim the camera in the up/down axis (whatever you call that). If you have good coverage by satellite imagery on your maps that allows you to judge the heights of trees you can get it to fly at whatever height is best from rabbit to human to horseback to eagle view. Or in fewer words, yes.
Yes... You point the camera at fence the whole time using the mission. I'd be careful flying too low or close to the fence. A big gust of wind could slam your bird into the fence... LOL
Shawn Ide Studios , I have read several people's comments on different RUclips videos that the Anafi does not hover well. That it drifts around quite a bit. Have you experienced this? Also, even though you loose connection, doesn't it go ahead and run it's waypoints until the end. I had thought, from what I had read, that even if you turned off your controller it would continue to run its flight path and then come land home. Am I wrong there? Tom
The ANAFI hovers about the same as the DJI Spark... If you are close to the ground, it will use the indoor sensors on the bottom to hold position... if you are over just grass, it can sway since it is is hard to compare a blob of green. In the air... wind can push it, but it will go back to the GPS coordinate ASAP. You are correct... My Parrot ANAFI continues the course after connection loss.
Great video, very informative. I just picked up an Anafi myself and learning a lot from your videos. Tell me, do you use ND filters when shooting video on the drone?
Thank you so much! I have a video on ND filters (ruclips.net/video/fYx_jWBgGNo/видео.html), but I do not really use them myself. I think they help in bright scenarios, but the camera quality out of the drone is good enough for me.
@@shawnfoxhorn Thanks for the reply. Your videos look at lot smoother than other examples I've seen. I though it might have something to do with shutter speeds and ND filters.
How about if you have POI's in the plan, will you be able adjust the camera up or down a little for a better shot? Or do you only have control because you don't have POI's in the plan. I fell like it won't over ride a POI.
Can you make a flight plan in your house while the drone is charging and save it before you go out to the field and then take it to the where you made the flight plan and fly it? Thanks for the video.
Yes... I am creating Flight Plans before I turn the drone on. I would encourage you to be on site to look for obstacles. Also... make sure you are close to the first point. When you hit play, the drone will fly to the first point, so make sure there isn't a tree or pole between you and the first point. Thanks for watching!
Hey, how were you able to keep the Points of Interest but get rid of the camera angles? Whenever I remove a point of interest, it resets the direction that the drone is facing instead of keeping it locked onto where the Point of Interest was. Thanks!
The important thing to note here is that the POI controls the ANAFI movement. Keep the POI, but in the Flight Plan settings (The screen with all of the colored bars) remove just the camera controls. The Video squares are red and the Photo squares are Yellow. Delete this functionality from your plan and you are left with just the drone movement. Also, do not touch the sticks when your drone is in flight, or you will take over and cancel the plan. Good luck and thanks for watching!
@@shawnfoxhorn Thanks for the quick reply and helpful info! Great work on this series, you're a big reason as to why I bought my Anafi! Couldn't pass it up for $450 brand new!
It’s relative to the position of the camera angle. When you add a tilt move, the + or - degrees is addictive or subtractive depending on last position. If you never touch your tilt toggle during the mission then it’s pretty reliable for mapping out and repeating your flight route.
Will you be doing more Anafi videos? I'm hoping so and maybe you could dive more into each mode and try many different things in each mode, like follow me, flight plan, cameraman, angles, poi. heights etc. I like your videos and I learn a lot and hope to learn more as I also have the Anafi. Thank you!
Great job Shawn I love the Flight Plan. It still concerns me that the Anafi looses connection so easily. I know you were near buildings but other people have experience this and not been in a congested Wifi area. Is the connection with the Anafi better than the Parrot Bebop 2 or about the same?
Thank you. I feel that the connection is about the same as the Bebop 2. There are alot of videos about extending the range of the Bebops. I might try one.
There was a commenter in another of your videos that said when they were doing flight path and the Anafi lost contact with the controller that instead of keeping on the flight path and come home it would take on a mind of its own and fly off and get lost. Have you ever experienced this? I was looking at the Anafi as a step up to a toy drone but that comment concerned me. What are your thoughts?
Not in my 2 years of using Flight Plan. The Parrot ANAFI will carry out the mission as far as it can and land when the battery is low, so make your missions short enough to finish properly and you are good.
Shawn Ide Studios oh, so what you are saying is the Anafi will stay on its flight plan all the way till battery level is critical and not automatically cancel the flight plan and return home while it has battery to do so? Surly there is a way you can set it up to automatically cancel the flight plan and return home when the battery has enough battery that come home! Just like it does when you fly it way out in a distance test. To me that would be a flaw in the app. Tom
Okie-Tom I have been using FP with the bb2 for over a year and literally hundreds of long range missions (2+ miles) and I can tell you, it has been the most reliable I have used. I use litchi with my MP but that mission planner often misses POI's, fails to respond to speed changes and often gives very inaccurate mission times. It fortunately has returned every time its lost connection on a mission but its problems have caused me to not use it. Parrots FP is much easier, faster to use and much more reliable. I will be purchasing an Anafi soon and have no plans to purchase any more dji's, to many issues and lack of features with dji-go4.
Mike Comeau , thanks for the reply. Everybody raves about the DJI's, and I have looked at some of them. The only dji I come close to affording is the Spark. It's short flight time and no Flightplan is its own software, you have to use the litchi app. I had been seeing on some of the Anafi reviews that if it lost signal while on a flight path it would continue the path until it was finished. But one thing I have seen a Anafi reviewer say that disturbed me was if you were on a Flightplan and half way through it your battery depleted down to RTH voltage, instead of cancelling the Flightplan and come home it would keep on the Flightplan and when the battery got critical, it would just land somewhere between some waypoints. I am wanting to know if this is correct or not! I would want it to cancel and come home before the battery ran out!
Okie-Tom, The Bebop 2 and Anafi both use the same flight plan program. I can personally attest that the birds will continue to run the mission until it is completed or battery dies. I ran a mission with the bebop 2 that actually landed 2 blocks short of home, but it was my error, not the bird or the program....both of those are phenomenal. When setting up flight plan missions, you can go into the timeline mode of the mission and check the mission flight time (how long mission should take), As long as you give yourself a good 5-6 minute buffer (make missions 18 minutes max) you should be good. Now take into account altitude changes and flying sideways to film something uses more battery power, and the program WILL NOT account for these....if you have any more questions or concerns, feel free to message me directly.
I appreciate your comments. That was actually done on purpose to show that the Flight Plan will continue even if the Geofence is reached. Thanks for watching!
at 7:15 what is that small black shape in the sky? at first it looks like a bird but their are no wings flapping?
Great eye... I have know idea what that is. Strange Encounters???
Another parrot anafi?
Great video. I will try this on my next flight. I think this could help me reduce my pilot workload and get some smoother shots. The camera movements you used came out really dynamic. Thanks for sharing the insights.
Cool. I just got my anafi yesterday, today is my first fly n amazing, very easy, simple, smooth n non noisy. I plan to make a filming in the small islands in indonesia. Do u think anafi strong enough againts the winds?
Nice video Shawn Ide. Anafi zoom can keep things close on a mission while keeping Anafi high, out of site and quiet. Love this drone!
Me to! Thanks for watching!
Excellent, Shawn. I was wondering about whether one could control the camera angle and zoom in flight plan. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you like it! It was a fun test.
I use free hand. I’ve not tried any other way. I’m currently working on capturing graffiti on train cars with both video and photos. That’s all piloting but have two flight plan projects running. One is in the morning around my property but looking at the mountains were I’ve been getting daily sunrise surprises. The other is for that hyperlapse of downtown traffic. I have another route for hyper when I’m up north in Scottsdale when I teach that looks at AZ 101 as it starts to become a traffic jam. That ones still in planning as it’s got lots of objects to avoid. Once I get my route down. I go back in and add the pauses to get the 15 minutes of real time for the 1 minute hyperlapse video. Seriously love my Anafi. It’s so versatile and inconspicuous and the fun I have with crazy angles and the zoom is super creative.
That's awesome! I'm glad you are getting good use out of it! Have you recorded the traffic jam in slow motion? I have found that cars on the road and trains look awesome. It's only 1080 though.
Thank you for demoing this, I cant wait to try this out.
You are welcome... Thanks for watching!
Maybe not perfect in your eyes but still informative, great video. I have a question, is it possible to switch modes within flight plan for different points of interest? say going from normal to slow motion or hyper lapse.
Thank you so much! I am not sure. I will do a test on this. Generally I set up the video modes ahead of time and the flight plan hits the record button. That way I can run the same plan in different modes. : ruclips.net/video/1Xw342DuFWc/видео.html
So, you can put in the Flightplan where you want the Anafi's camera to point at each waypoint and in between the waypoints? Say you had a fenced off square piece of land that you wanted to fly completely around the fenced in area. You want to check out the fence to make sure the fence has no problems. Can you set a flight path around this fence and be able to set up the Anafi to keep the camera pointed right at the fence all the way around?
You can set the direction the camera faces. You can fly north while pointing east, then turn to fly west while pointing north, then fly south while pointing west etc. You can also aim the camera in the up/down axis (whatever you call that). If you have good coverage by satellite imagery on your maps that allows you to judge the heights of trees you can get it to fly at whatever height is best from rabbit to human to horseback to eagle view.
Or in fewer words, yes.
Yes... You point the camera at fence the whole time using the mission. I'd be careful flying too low or close to the fence. A big gust of wind could slam your bird into the fence... LOL
Shawn Ide Studios , I have read several people's comments on different RUclips videos that the Anafi does not hover well. That it drifts around quite a bit. Have you experienced this?
Also, even though you loose connection, doesn't it go ahead and run it's waypoints until the end. I had thought, from what I had read, that even if you turned off your controller it would continue to run its flight path and then come land home. Am I wrong there? Tom
The ANAFI hovers about the same as the DJI Spark... If you are close to the ground, it will use the indoor sensors on the bottom to hold position... if you are over just grass, it can sway since it is is hard to compare a blob of green.
In the air... wind can push it, but it will go back to the GPS coordinate ASAP.
You are correct... My Parrot ANAFI continues the course after connection loss.
Great video, very informative. I just picked up an Anafi myself and learning a lot from your videos. Tell me, do you use ND filters when shooting video on the drone?
Thank you so much! I have a video on ND filters (ruclips.net/video/fYx_jWBgGNo/видео.html), but I do not really use them myself. I think they help in bright scenarios, but the camera quality out of the drone is good enough for me.
@@shawnfoxhorn Thanks for the reply. Your videos look at lot smoother than other examples I've seen. I though it might have something to do with shutter speeds and ND filters.
@@mikecobh I stopped using the HDR functions because I was struggling to get the colors right in post. That might be a factor.
@@shawnfoxhorn Thanks again 👍
How about if you have POI's in the plan, will you be able adjust the camera up or down a little for a better shot? Or do you only have control because you don't have POI's in the plan. I fell like it won't over ride a POI.
Thanks for doing the video, i can't fly now in London the winds have been crazy here over tha last few days.
Bummer... It started raining here, so I feel your pain.
Can you make a flight plan in your house while the drone is charging and save it before you go out to the field and then take it to the where you made the flight plan and fly it?
Thanks for the video.
Yes... I am creating Flight Plans before I turn the drone on. I would encourage you to be on site to look for obstacles. Also... make sure you are close to the first point. When you hit play, the drone will fly to the first point, so make sure there isn't a tree or pole between you and the first point.
Thanks for watching!
Hey, how were you able to keep the Points of Interest but get rid of the camera angles? Whenever I remove a point of interest, it resets the direction that the drone is facing instead of keeping it locked onto where the Point of Interest was. Thanks!
The important thing to note here is that the POI controls the ANAFI movement. Keep the POI, but in the Flight Plan settings (The screen with all of the colored bars) remove just the camera controls. The Video squares are red and the Photo squares are Yellow. Delete this functionality from your plan and you are left with just the drone movement.
Also, do not touch the sticks when your drone is in flight, or you will take over and cancel the plan.
Good luck and thanks for watching!
@@shawnfoxhorn Thanks for the quick reply and helpful info! Great work on this series, you're a big reason as to why I bought my Anafi! Couldn't pass it up for $450 brand new!
How far can you send the Anafi out in flight plan? Furthest distance?
As far as you can. Flight Plan is not affected by geofencing. Distance is relative based on battery integrity and wind conditions.
Nice shots, man. Was this done using the controller or just the phone only?
I use the controller with my phone. I think if you used just the phone, you could easily touch the flight controls and stop the Flight Plan.
It’s relative to the position of the camera angle. When you add a tilt move, the + or - degrees is addictive or subtractive depending on last position. If you never touch your tilt toggle during the mission then it’s pretty reliable for mapping out and repeating your flight route.
Interesting... do you use Pix4d for mapping with your ANAFI? Or do you do it freehand?
Will you be doing more Anafi videos? I'm hoping so and maybe you could dive more into each mode and try many different things in each mode, like follow me, flight plan, cameraman, angles, poi. heights etc. I like your videos and I learn a lot and hope to learn more as I also have the Anafi. Thank you!
Kraig Mitchell yes...I will be doing more this week. It has been rainy and windy here the last few weeks. Thanks for watching!
@@shawnfoxhorn thanks for posting
Thanks for the tip.
You bet!
good job bro
Thank you!
Great job Shawn I love the Flight Plan. It still concerns me that the Anafi looses connection so easily. I know you were near buildings but other people have experience this and not been in a congested Wifi area. Is the connection with the Anafi better than the Parrot Bebop 2 or about the same?
Thank you. I feel that the connection is about the same as the Bebop 2. There are alot of videos about extending the range of the Bebops. I might try one.
Glad to see Parrot with a good bird. Definitely giving DJI a run for it.
Thanks
There was a commenter in another of your videos that said when they were doing flight path and the Anafi lost contact with the controller that instead of keeping on the flight path and come home it would take on a mind of its own and fly off and get lost. Have you ever experienced this? I was looking at the Anafi as a step up to a toy drone but that comment concerned me. What are your thoughts?
Not in my 2 years of using Flight Plan. The Parrot ANAFI will carry out the mission as far as it can and land when the battery is low, so make your missions short enough to finish properly and you are good.
Shawn Ide Studios oh, so what you are saying is the Anafi will stay on its flight plan all the way till battery level is critical and not automatically cancel the flight plan and return home while it has battery to do so? Surly there is a way you can set it up to automatically cancel the flight plan and return home when the battery has enough battery that come home! Just like it does when you fly it way out in a distance test. To me that would be a flaw in the app. Tom
Okie-Tom I have been using FP with the bb2 for over a year and literally hundreds of long range missions (2+ miles) and I can tell you, it has been the most reliable I have used. I use litchi with my MP but that mission planner often misses POI's, fails to respond to speed changes and often gives very inaccurate mission times. It fortunately has returned every time its lost connection on a mission but its problems have caused me to not use it. Parrots FP is much easier, faster to use and much more reliable. I will be purchasing an Anafi soon and have no plans to purchase any more dji's, to many issues and lack of features with dji-go4.
Mike Comeau , thanks for the reply. Everybody raves about the DJI's, and I have looked at some of them. The only dji I come close to affording is the Spark. It's short flight time and no Flightplan is its own software, you have to use the litchi app. I had been seeing on some of the Anafi reviews that if it lost signal while on a flight path it would continue the path until it was finished. But one thing I have seen a Anafi reviewer say that disturbed me was if you were on a Flightplan and half way through it your battery depleted down to RTH voltage, instead of cancelling the Flightplan and come home it would keep on the Flightplan and when the battery got critical, it would just land somewhere between some waypoints. I am wanting to know if this is correct or not! I would want it to cancel and come home before the battery ran out!
Okie-Tom, The Bebop 2 and Anafi both use the same flight plan program. I can personally attest that the birds will continue to run the mission until it is completed or battery dies. I ran a mission with the bebop 2 that actually landed 2 blocks short of home, but it was my error, not the bird or the program....both of those are phenomenal. When setting up flight plan missions, you can go into the timeline mode of the mission and check the mission flight time (how long mission should take), As long as you give yourself a good 5-6 minute buffer (make missions 18 minutes max) you should be good. Now take into account altitude changes and flying sideways to film something uses more battery power, and the program WILL NOT account for these....if you have any more questions or concerns, feel free to message me directly.
Very awesome
Yeah... this opens up so many doors!
@@shawnfoxhorn I wish I could afford that or that my spark could do that lol
GAproductions I bet you could do something cool with the Litchi app... I will look into it.
Cool👍👍👍
Thanks!
I have parrot, its "@mazing drone" 👍👍👍
Yes it is!
You should have turned OFF geofencing. This was causing your anafi problems when your flight plan went beyond the geofencing boundaries that you set.
I appreciate your comments. That was actually done on purpose to show that the Flight Plan will continue even if the Geofence is reached. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for demoing this, I cant wait to try this out.
You are welcome... Thanks for watching!
Thank you for demoing this, I cant wait to try this out.
You are welcome... Thanks for watching!