Hi John Tisbury here. Today we're going to spend a bit of time looking at
the iFootage Moco app and specifically looking at the Target
Control feature. Or A to B as some people refer to it.
So set point A, set point B, and the camera will track backwards and forwards
between those two points. So we'll go through how to set that up.
So run the intro see you in a bit.
Hi so welcome back. I'm filming you, not that you'll probably know this, but I'm
filming you on my new camera. So I've got an A7iii hooked up here with a 24 - 70mm
lens on the iFootage x2 Mini and the track. Talk a little bit more
about that as we go along. And I was finding I was using a Nikon D810 for my
main piece to camera and I was finding that it was just auto hunting all the
time for focus. You could actually hear it while I was recording YouTube videos of
dropping in and out of focus. So I bit the bullet and have bought a second Sony A7iii.
So I've got 2 bodies and we're actually filming on the 90mm F2.8 lens as well.
The Sony G lens, G master lens so it will be interesting see what that looks like.
That's set at F2.8 that you're looking at. And I've got this set up also set at F2.8,
so very shallow depth of field to play with. I've turned on both of the devices
so the little carriage and the the x2 Mini they're paired up to the phone.
And I've fired-up the iFootage Moco app and I'm going to take you through that.
I've gone into Settings, and I've made sure that I've got 2 tracks shown as
the installation, because that's what I'm using, strangely enough. And I've set the
shooting mode to Continuous so it knows that I'm doing a continuous back and
forth rather than SMS which is the other option; Shoot Move Shoot is
the SMS that's what that stands for. So come back out of that and then I'm going
into the Target Control setting on the app, just fire that up.
Fairly straightforward this actually so what we do is make sure the camera is turned on.
Because that's always useful. And we set up our A point and we set up
our B point. There a couple of little features in here
which are worth knowing about so we'll talk about those when we get to them.
The left-hand joystick, if you like, moves you from left-to-right. So I'm going to
set up my initial start point and I'm... actually the camera already is right at
the end of the track so that's fine. Go to the other joystick and that controls
my Pan and my Tilt. I need to move it down...perfect. And I've got the Sony set up with
focus tracking. So I've now just pressed on the back of the screen here to
indicate that I want to track, one of those little men soldiers.
So I'm actually happy with that position so what I do is I press Set A so that's
my A position. And then I need to move the whole mechanism across to where I
want my B position to be. So I'm just using the left hand joystick just
scrolling, holding that so it scrolls across the track. Probably do there.
Then do similar with the other joystick to bring my Pan in and my Tilt. Perfect
Let's try that. And then I put Set B for that so that's my two points set in.
The other one which is useful to know about is the smoothness setting it's got
3 values. And if you don't put it on, when the carriage gets to the end of the
travel whatever you've set is your A and B points, it's quite an abrupt stop.
It's like jamming on the brakes in the car, whereas you can smooth that down with
those values there. So click all 3 of those little dashes it'll smooth it
down to a gradual stop and then if you do 2 it's slightly less, 1 it's even less.
And obviously off is then the hard stop, as it where, or harder stop. Generally
like to keep it on 3 just to help with that smoothness backwards and forwards.
The other option is up in the top right hand corner.
Whether are you doing a single exposure or whether you're doing multiple, as in time-lapse
type approach. So I've kept mine on single. You can also lock the Tilt and
lock the Pan if you don't want those to be moved while you're playing about with
the joysticks. That can be really useful as well. So those are up in that top
corner there. The only other one really to chat about is over in this left-hand
side. This little arrow and that is one way if you want it to cycle back with
affords between the A's and B's. So A to B, B to A and
backwards and forwards until either runs out of battery or you've done what you
need to do. Press that once and then in you'll see the arrow will form into a
continuous circle. And that's it. So I'm going to press the little Play button.
This is just configuring itself, and now it's running.
And it's seamlessly doing that really quite complicated camera move involving the tilt the pan
and the slide from left to right or right to left. And it's obviously doing it one
way and then doing in reverse. And thankfully the Sony with it's awesome
autofocus is managing to keep up with that. Hurrah!
And that's about it. So it's fairly straightforward. If you think that you're
going to keep that value, then there's the option on the far right-hand side to
press a little Save button. And then you can save it whatever you want to call it
click OK, and then it saves it so next time you go in to that option you don't
need to reprogram a each time it'll keep there. So there you go awesome.
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I'm gonna turn this off now as I've probably got enough footage of me little soldiers.