Hi this is John Tisbury and in this video we're going to concentrate on the
iFootage Moco app, and when using video how to set up the Timeline Control
within that app. I've got a setup here which I'll show you and demonstrate
but mainly we'll be concentrating on the app and how to use the app and how to
set that up. So run the intro and we'll see you in a minute.
Welcome back. As I say we're gonna work our way through the iFootage Moco
app specifically for using video for shooting a video sequence using the
Timeline Control feature within the app. So this would be useful if you're like I
like doing an interview, and I've currently got this setup on a mannequin because
there's only me here so I want this camera to pan, as a bit of b-roll if you
like while I'm doing an interview and it can just record that motion. Then I can
cut in into my main footage if I need it to. This video came about from a viewer
request on my channel so just bring that up so I can just make sure I get the
person's name right. It's from someone called Postmodern Filmmaking their
channel. So thank you very much for that. Camera has just turned itself off. And he asked could you
please do a similar video but for shooting video with the Timeline Control
instead of time lapse. That'd be most helpful. He commented on
the the other video where I had gone through the Timeline Control feature app
when I was shooting time-lapse, and that's linked up here if you're
interested in that. So I'm just going to bring up the app. The iFootage Moco
app isn't particularly well documented I've found. I found very little about it
online, so everything I've found is through potential trial and error so
this is how I use it and it may not be exactly how you're supposed to use it but it works for me.
I've already connected the 2 devices here my Bluetooth Mini 2, or X2 Mini, is already connected as is the
little device for the carriage so they're connected by Bluetooth.
I say I've got the app open and I'll bring up
on screen so we can flick between looking at me, probably not very
interesting, and looking at the app. Probably more interesting.
I'm now in the Settings menu so from the main screen I've chosen Settings and
there's a really important option here which you need to select. I didn't
really understand the importance of this till I did a bit of testing before, with and
without. But also trying to find stuff on the internet about there was actually
very little available and it's a bit of trial and error from my behalf but I
believe I've understood the difference between these two options and and what
I'm referring to is the Shooting Mode. The Shooting Mode has got either SMS or
Continuous. The default is SMS and that's used for
stop-motion shooting or time-lapse so it's Shoot-Move-Shoot. SMS that's what it
means. If you keep it on that you're gonna get jerky footage with your video
you need to move it across and choose Continuous. Which is what I've gone here.
I've already chosen the number of tracks I've just done a very short two-track
setup here just to give you the idea. Once we've done that we can go back out
of that and go into the Timeline Control. The first option up in the top hand
corner here is a top left hand corner is Timelapse. Click on the drop-down menu
and choose Video. Once your selected video you'll see that a lot of the other
options disappear. Along the top there the only other two options you then have
is the duration of your track from your movement from A to B, side-to-side, and
then also the Frames Per Second and again you just click on those on the
drop down and it'll choose whatever you wanted to choose. Down on the bottom row
we've got the the S, P and T buttons. S refers to Speed and you press it it will
then become active is a red button. And you then got P which is Pan so that's
how the camera and some side-to-side so 90 degrees to 90 degrees.
And then Tilt is how the camera tilts up and down. Over on the far right
hand side you'll notice as you change each one of those options, axis options.
The vertical axis on the far right hand side will change as well. So for instance
I'm in Tilt at the moment and on that far right hand side we've got values of
35 and -35. And that sort of degrees and that's how far the maximum and
minimum if you like. the camera can actually tilt.
Similarly with Pan. You've got 90 degrees and minus 90 degrees so 90 degrees that
way, straight ahead 0 and minus 90 will be
facing the other way down the track. And Speed so I've got two tracks my figure
here on that vertical axis is a 587 which is equivalent distance of two
tracks. So to put in my speed let's work on that one so I've got S selected. It's
showing as red. I click on the little red... I click with a little white dot at the
bottom left hand corner. And if I move it up it will then dictate its starting
position along the the frame. So I'm taking it all back to the beginning so
it starts at the end. It's just catching up for me because I just
twiddled it again. And then I'll go to the other side of the frame and click on
the little white dot at the other end I'm gonna slide it all the way to the
top indicating that it's gonna take the whole length of the track, both tracks.
The Pan, similar sort of settings. Now what I tend to do here is, and I'm going
to do this, is to turn on my camera so I could actually see how the preview what
it's doing. Again click on the little white dot, that's now coming into frame so my
starting position. There's a bit of lag on this you just adjust it a bit and then
wait for it to settle before adjusting it again. And I'm also going to change
the Tilt while I'm at it, because this is my initial position that I want the camera in.
So you can do all of them at the same time so I'm just bringing it up a little
bit higher. So that's my starting position I'm gonna go back to P and
going to change the position when it's up the other end of the track. I'm just
letting it tootle all its way along. I'll bring this little clip up on screen.
Perfect. I'll do the same with the tilt bring the tilt back up.
Super. And then when I'm happy with that I can press the little Eye symbol which
will then run me every quick preview of the motion. Covering the Speed, the Pan
and the Tilt. I'm just going to let that run. Recording at the same time so you
can see in this camera.
The preview is really quick, about 13 seconds, to run the whole preview.
Whereas I know when I've actually run it for real it'll take 1:40 MM:SS to get
from side-to-side. Something I haven't covered in the options when setting this
up I can add sort of smooth-in and smooth-out, or speed-up and slow-down.
And you do that by just clicking on the relevant, handle a little white dot
and then you can drag out the little bezier curve there. You can also put keyframes in as well if you want to
sort of change your motion throughout and I've covered that in a previous
video around the Timelapse. So go and have a look at that video. They are the
same, no difference. Again I'll put a link in this video so you can just click
through to it. And when you're happy with that you can save it there's a Save icon
so you can keep that path if you know you're gonna use it quite frequently if
it's a common setup for you. I'm not gonna keep it in this particular case.
I'm just gonna press play and it will then prepare and then start to run
the sequence. And it's now started it's gonna take 1:40 MM:SS to get from A to B.
You'll hear it's a lot quieter now than it was when I was doing the setting
up. So I'm gonna be quiet for a second
Bear in mind I've got a microphone pointing directly at me picking me up
but it's also going to be picking up the noise at the motor, so it's
probably going to be louder than it would be under normal circumstances because
you're probably gonna be microphones pointing at your talent and your subject
rather than appointing me. You've got the option on this screen as well for Repeating.
So if you want to repeat that motion there's a little icon down on the
bottom left-hand corner which appears when you start to run the sequence.
Rather than it just getting to the end and stopping it'll now it get the end of
then shoot back the other way. There you go. That's the Timeline Control
for when you're shooting video. I hope that was useful. I'll put the
clip up on the side as well so you can have a look at that.
Thanks for watching. If you found this useful then please comment or subscribe
and hopefully a thumbs-up thumbs-down and then hopefully we will see you again.
Interesting point just happen there is that it's returned at the quick speed.
probably not what you want. Now it's gone back to doing the same thing and the previous speed.
Which is something I wasn't aware of. Yeah be aware of that. There's also the
other option in the app for A to B Targeting, which might be a better option
you set up your A here, and your B here, and it will end just run between
the two. So there is that option as well which is worth exploring. But if you're
particularly doing just one complicated run where you have lots of different camera
angle changes in there then A to B won't work for you. This is the Timeline
Control is the one to use. So it's horses for courses really I guess is really or
what I'm saying. Anyway I'm rambling on! I shall see you again hopefully.
Alright. Take Care.