Hello tech lovers, today we're going to take a look at the Edelkrone SliderONE v2 and the
Edelkrone HeadONE
This is a replacement set I've had the slider before, the
previous version, and I also had the MotionBoxes, it's how I get a lot of the
fancy shots that I have tried to cut in to make these videos a little bit more
interesting, and Edelkrone, being an amazing company, offered an upgrade
program where you could upgrade to the latest version absolutely free.
Now I think in part that was because there were a few issues started to develop
with the previous MotionBox, I'd found recently after a years used some of the
footage was starting to go a little bit jerky as I was trying to do some fancy
shots. Got in touch with them they said "no problem, you're on the upgrade program,
you get this lot free of charge" We've got the slider unit we've got two
HeadIONE units and they're attached via a tilt kit. The one thing Edelkrone
don't provide with any of this stuff is batteries you'll have to provide your
own and one of the key differences between the HeadONE units and the
MotionBox from last year is that the battery is now external, previously it
was charged via USB. It's the standard Canon LP E6 battery these are
the ones that I use in my Canon 80D and you can pick up extras on Amazon
reasonably priced along with the charger so you're going to need a few of these
if you get in a few these Edelkrone products. So this is the slider, this is
the new slider, it has no on/off button it just requires the battery being added.
**BEEP**
It has L and R ether side so you know which way around this is and you can connect a
cable for your camera and this could control your camera. I have not been
using that because I don't find that I need to use it. You will need something
to put on top now that might be the HeadONE, it might be something else, so I'm
just going to use this tripod head that I've got, and on top of that because I'm
filming on my Canon I've just stuck a mobile holder I'm just
going to use the OnePlus 6 to demo this out. It's a really good app, it's very
adaptive so you can just manually slide it back and forth and you can control
speed and you can also set different poses so I'm going to put it on a slight angle like so
and we'll do a sliding past shots so set up the first pose
and it's going to slide along recording to the second pose. So in this one it's
simply doing a left-to-right motion and you can control the speed, control the
ramp up speed and the slow down speed, and you get a really nice smooth result
and of course you can film this again and again and again so if something's
not quite right so for example in this case the tripods in the background I
could go move the tripod and then start it again. Now the second configuration I use
after removing this, involves a HeadONE unit.
if you're going to be using this straight after you've used a slider
already you're gonna have to change the setup and that means removing the batteries
in that one, put a battery in that one.
So go ahead one unit looks much like the MotionBOX, again it has
camera control section and there's a couple of bits I'll come back to
later these are when using it with another HeadONE unit. So that can just go
straight on top and it allows for not only sliding but panning as well. So this
time gets a sliding motion as well as a panning motion where they're working
together so you can get these really cool effects where you're quite close
and then you're going round almost. So the final configuration I would use this in,
and this is a new configuration I did not use it like this before, is three
things all at once. Now to do that we're using this tilt kit and it's two metal
plates that attach onto the HeadONE and and the second one screws it to the side
like so
Again because we're changing configuration you've got to remove the
batteries, this is the one thing about it that's a bit annoying I'd
rather just be able to hit change setup in the app rather than have to keep
removing normal batteries but I suppose you're unlikely to keep needing to do
this once you've got set up whatever shot you're doing. This time I don't need this
tripod head because I can attach my
mobile directly to it like so.
okay let's hit record
so now it knows where I'm going and it will do it
panning tilting and sliding all at same time to give you a really nice smooth
shot now the only problem with using a mobile is the focus might be a bit flickery, I'll
have a look at that in a moment, and there you go very simple to change
configuration very easy setup.
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