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Examples of Cruise Control with DJI Drones
Jul 13, 2025
Examples of Cruise Control with DJI Drones
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Let's see several ways of using cruise
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control for different rendition of the
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same scene.
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We can depict this village on the east
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coast of Sicily by simply advancing
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toward it at a constant speed,
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activating cruise control. We can also
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add manual changes of elevation and
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gimbal rotations.
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It can be useful as an establishing
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shot, but we might prefer a more dynamic
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approach. We can make things more
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interesting by modifying the angle of
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view. We are still advancing at a
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constant speed using cruise control, but
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this time we are including two other
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villages with some nice base and a
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couple of small volcanic islands.
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Now we know more about the surroundings.
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Then we can introduce some extra moves.
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Starting with a view of the same
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village. The aircraft will move
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diagonally to the right and slightly
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forward and the camera will rotate
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slowly to the left to maintain the
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normal castle in the middle of the
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frame. We activate cruise control for
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progressively revealing the other base
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and villages thus adding an element of
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surprise.
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Now I make a similar diagonal move but
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this time at a higher speed and I slowly
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lower the altitude while the camera
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rotates to maintain the normal castle as
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a target.
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I activate cruise control to combine all
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these moves.
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Notice the interesting parallax effect
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with the elements on different layers in
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background rotating at different speed.
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To make the move even more dynamic, it
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is possible to use the left wheel of the
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controller to apply some digital zoom.
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Let's do the same cruise control move as
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before, but this time starting with a
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deep zoom on the normal castle.
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During the move, we use the wheel to
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zoom out back to 100% progressively.
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The zooming out makes the movement even
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more dynamic.
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We can also do the opposite. This time
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starting without zoom and progressively
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zooming to 100%.
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It would be very hard to perform
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smoothly all these moves manually.
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However, by using cruise control, we can
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focus only on the wheel of the zoom for
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flawless results.