The Zhiyun Crane how to balance it so when you get a Zhiyun crane it comes in this
plastic hardcase container much like a Pelican case for a lot cheaper ZM crane
is a piece of equipment used for stabilizing footage you can put cameras
up to 1.2 kilograms on most popular cameras people use on any things like a
60d t5i some ngerous cameras as long as you have a big lens on it it's less than
1.2 kilos you will be able to balance it with this thing okay some is crap right
into it you open this up inside here you have the crane itself this is it this is
what's going to be using to stabilize that footage when you first look at it
it can be a bit intimidating it's not that hard once you understand how it
works okay so first things first we don't attach the camera to the crane
itself so inside here you will get a base plate this base plate needs to go
onto the mount so just so you have an idea of how this works this is going to
be the way that it's set up and the camera will hang on a second there we go
this is going to be how the camera is set up onto it so just so you can see
from different directions so this is the back where you've got that little
embossment now that's the back of it so you're going to be putting this base
plate which the camera attaches to on the side here so inside here there
should be a screw just like that you're going to be screwing this into here just
like this
okay now there's a lot of trial and error when putting this on everything
will be different depending on the setup you have the camera using the lens it's
always going to be different so it's a lot of trial and error so today I'll
show you how to set it up with the t5i and I have the 15 or 1.8 on here so
attach this lock it into place so that can't go anywhere okay that's on okay so
once you first get your camera on here you're going to see it's moving all over
the place that's not good we need to have it set up so that it stays
stationary essentially like this without me holding it so to be able to do that
you have all these different adjustments here but one knob here one knob here
one knob here and obviously the one on the bottom that controls the camera
moving forwards and backwards on its base play so each one affects that
movement in a different way essentially the easiest way to look at
it is if it's moving too much to the left it means you need to counteract
that move them on by moving it to the right okay so let's take a quick look
and see what we've got going on here movement it's moving to the left pretty
heavily okay so what I'm going to do is I'm going to adjust this one here that's
going to control how much the camera is moving left and right this way
so because it's moving too much to the left I need to move the whole camera to
the right a little bit so we're going to move adjust this one on the top here and
move this across all the way to the right and see how that was still moving
to the left too much okay we'll move it across a little bit more that's pretty
good now it's not moving to the left too badly okay now I want to adjust to make
sure the camera is moving not forwards or backwards right now you see how that
go it moves forwards pretty quickly so that means it's too far forwards so to
be able to change that you've got this knob on the bottom here so we'll loosen
this we'll bring it back tiniest now
so by reducing it down here we actually lowered the center of gravity of the
camera meaning that the movements are now a little bit slower so you can see
we're pretty close to being stabilized there all the movements are not sudden
as slow and gradual so it's moving back a little tiny bit so we need to just
move forwards smallest amount let's just try that nearly there you can see we're
nearly balanced on that that access there so let's try that out now that's
pretty good so that now is its then you make a little tiny bit but we can
counteract that one it can be a the gimbal itself is turned on so we're
going to tie in that movement see we're good that direction okay so now let's
let go and see about left okay so you can see it's going to the left now quite
substantially so what that means is because it's going to the left the
weight is going to the left side we need to move it across here and go to the
right so by moving it to the right on this little knob here we should
counteract that movement so there you go you see I've moved it across move the
whole camera this way and now it's counteracted a movement and we are now
pretty centered so now you can see I have it set up moving back a little bit
like that but that's not too bad so now however I move this it's going to stay
pretty much back to its original position there so we're good so we are
we're balanced we're ready to go so now what you want to do is the fun part
Finch batteries out of the case pop mmm
get the sky ready to go put them in here screw this guy in he says come on there
we go to be screw that in okay so once it screw it in you see you can move it
around still moving around a little bit but it's slow gradual movements that's a
good setup so what we can do now this little gold button here we're going to
turn that push that in and it's going to turn this on you and see it spring to
life and instantly stabilize and all the little movements tons happening now
they're not going to happen anymore so we'll push this button on hold it in and
there you go see you just spring to life there so once it's turned on I'm ready
to go it's really easy to use I all your movements are going to be nice and
steady now you can move it around all you want and it's going to stay really
really smooth I'll post some footage at the end so you can kind of see how it
works on the back here you've got one little joystick now on the basic setting
as soon as you turn it on it's only going to control two movements when you
push it up on the joystick it's going to tilt the camera upwards there you go you
see it's tilting up if you put it down it's going to tilt downwards really easy
to use so straight forward the other movement you'll never want to do is
obviously turn the camera left and right well if you do that with here that's not
going to do anything the left and right movements controlled from your wrist
when you move controlling the crane in this setting so if I want to face the
camera to the right I turn my wrist to the right and it's going to move the
crane to the right I wanna go left turn to the left so
whatever movement you make the crane is going to go in that direction
so you see how I turn it that way turn it back that way it just moves whichever
direction your wrist is space so that's really easy to use super great for
weddings which is what I shoot but anything you want to use it for walking
anything like that it smooths out everything and it's so easy to use and
it creates such great footage I'm really happy with this piece of equipment yes
it's expensive for what it is but it creates such professional-looking
shots that honestly it's worth it so you can get it from Amazon which is where I
got mine it was about a thousand dollars Canadian you can buy pretty much all
over the world on Amazon I'll list the link below if you want to check out and
see how to get it
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