hi somebody call mythbusters because this is busted so you have the dji ronin rs3 pro
and you have the new dji lidar system maybe you're having issues getting them connected
how to set it up pair it and calibrate it with your specific lenses what are some myths
of what it can do and not do those are all the things that we're going to cover in this video
and if you leave any comments with further questions that i don't answer i'll be sure to
answer them so right before filming this video i went to check that everything was going okay
i recognized that the rs3 pro had a update in the ronin app on my phone so i did the update as usual
and unfortunately it caused the gimbal to no longer see the lidar sensor this is a problem
especially considering the video i wanted to film so what i had to do was actually plug
this into the computer download the latest dji ronin assistant app and just simply plug this in
to the app and you can use the included usb-c to usbc cable it's very important that you plug in
to the usbc with the usb icon on top or else it's just not gonna show up to the computer but once
you plug it in give it a solid like 30 seconds maybe even it was like a minute it took a while
for it to show up in the run and assistant app but then it showed up did the update plugged it back
in and it worked now mounting this to the gimbal if you saw my previous videos on the rs3 pro i
talked about how i found the perfect mounting spot which unfortunately not every camera is going to
give you this mounting spot most of the time you will see this on top of the camera which you can't
even see in frame right now because it has a hot shoe mount on the bottom however the pocket 6k pro
is quite tall and so there is a lot of dead space here and so i mounted a hot shoe receiver right on
the front of the plate and now when i put this there you can see that is just below the lens
about an inch and basically right on par with the front lens element now some people commented that
you want the lidar in line with the sensor marking on the actual camera and this is false and we're
going to talk about that in just a second but you do want to mount it where it is as
close to the lens in terms of height as possible if i put my hand right here the lens is going to
see it but the autofocus of the lidar is going to shoot right underneath so when things are far away
the wide angle of the lidar camera pretty much sees everything you don't have any issues but
when you get close if something's right here both the lidar camera and my lens will see it
so compositionally it's going to work out and you're still going to get auto focus pretty
decently all right so for the hookup i'm guessing you already have your wireless follow focus
uh plugged in you're gonna wanna make sure that of the three available ports on the gimbal the bottom
one is free to use with the lidar and so have your follow focus plugged into the middle one lidar
goes into the bottom and then you put it into the opposite port that you did the firmware update all
right so now that's plugged in we're simply going to turn on the gimbal obviously do your balancing
and traditional gimbal stuff okay so now that we have the gimbal on we need to get to the lidar
menu which is real simple when you're on the main screen you're just going to swipe to the left and
then you're going to automatically see what the lidar sees remember this is not interfacing with
your camera whatsoever and you get a couple pieces of information you get basically a rectangular box
this is where it's actually looking to focus by default you have a couple different modes in the
bottom left hand corner you have flex spot which allows you to actually drag a little box anywhere
on the screen and this is where you will basically change the focus point and you can go back to wide
in the bottom right here's where our settings are and this is where we'll want to set things up now
on the lidar you have a couple buttons here on the side you have a function button and a af mf button
and then on the back you have three different lights see one two and three you can essentially
set up three different lens profiles now currently i'm testing the brand new dzo film 35 millimeter
vespid cyber that's a mouthful this brand new lens is essentially made for this gimbal meaning it has
a limo port on the top where you can actually plug in to the gimbal and that cable will actually send
lens data to the gimbal and to the lidar so you don't have to calibrate or set up the lens at all
and autofocus should be really good but if you're interested in seeing the final result of what that
cable allows this entire setup to do make sure you're subscribed so anyway i'm going to go in
and actually delete this profile so i can set it up from scratch now before we actually get into
the lenses there's a couple other settings that you can go in and change the most important and
the crucial one has to do with the installation distance and this is what we were talking about
before where the horizontal where the lidar is in comparison to your lens or the sensor
marking doesn't matter because all you need to do is find the sensor marking icon which is basically
on every professional camera out there and you're going to measure from that to the very front of
the lidar sensor and it shows you a little graphic on the screen you're going to enter that distance
which for me is 75 millimeters grab good old measuring tape and thankfully that setting
stays in there no matter what you change out with the lenses here you can adjust the af tracking
sensibility it's essentially how sensitive do you want it to autofocus pretty self-explanatory
and as i showed off in my main gimbal video it does have active track built in which just turns
this entire setup into like pure magic for solo creators and so in the settings you essentially
can allow to tilt follow as well and change the active track speed so now that we've gone through
the basic settings let's get this lens calibrated and ready to go so for lens profile again you can
have c1 c2 c3 i've already got my other two spots filled up but i'm going to add in this third one
first thing you're going to do is set your focal length and this is a 35 millimeter
too much boom 35 mil go back we're gonna start a motor calibration and as you can see yep
it's going in and basically just calibrating the motors and so as you can see it's actually turning
the motor and finding the start and stop point the jitter there is because i don't have the rail
fully tightened need to do that we get the green check mark on the back of the monitor
and hit confirm and now here is the most important part of the calibration so the lidar sensor knows
how far away something is with its camera but it needs to know where to twist the lens focus pull
to to get your camera in focus as well so what you need to do is find a clear subject it works
best with people but heck i did it with like my vacuum that's resting up against a all-white wall
so it stands out what you're going to do once you find your subject is going to get to that
one meter mark and then you are going to use the manual focus wheel in the front and get in focus
on your camera you're going to tap the bottom of the screen to basically lock that in and then it's
going to ask you to step back to four meters on the same subject so back up again use the manual
focus ring to get that subject in focus at four meters you're gonna tap the confirm button again
and now your lens is actually calibrated okay so now we can see the green check mark at the bottom
of my lens and we're totally ready to go and so like i said if you want to use the active track
just go to the wide so you can see the box around my face which means it's tracking i'm going to hit
the trigger once on the back of the i can't see that with this in the way so the trigger on the
front of the gimbal i'm just going to press that once and now that box is green now you
can see the gimbal tracks me and i don't know if you can see the front but you can see it pulling
focus i'm so intrigued to get that cable for this lens because if it's able to send that
ultra accurate lens data this will be the most insane combo of single operators and creators out
there a couple more buttons and functionality on the lidar sensor itself remember we have
a function button and a afmf button currently c3 is marked green that means we are using
the third lens preset the 35 millimeter we just set up and green means that auto focus is on
and so that means your thumb wheel is not going to work in pull focus so if you're wondering
oh my gosh why can't i manually pull focus while you're freaking out at like a wedding or something
just remember that your autofocus is on so go ahead and just tap that af
mf button once we're gonna see that c3 turns red and now i can use the thumb wheel just like usual
and manually pull focus as soon as i press it again it's going to auto focus and disengage the
thumbnail once again now if i do a lens swap and i want to change uh to like my 15 or 45
i'm gonna hit that function button once and basically pressing it once is just going to
cycle through the lens presets so now we're on c1 c2 back to c3 now of course once you do a lens
swap you need to calibrate the lens to the gimbal with the focus motor you can do it in settings by
tapping on the lens profile and hit recalibrate motor that takes some valuable time the best way
is to just double tap the function button and that is going to recalibrate the motor as well
so now for the biggest myth question that i got a lot and some people posted an answer but i
don't really believe them to be honest is can you lose the lidar system without the gimbal and the
comment that seemed so confident in his answer or their answer i don't know was yes you just have to
have it calibrated to the lens first meaning you have to do the whole setup process that
we just did after that you could remove the camera and the lidar from the gimbal and have
it still work so what i'm gonna do is power it through just a battery bank we need to power
both things right okay first power down the gimbal i don't know why i freaked out it folds up each
time why did i freak out i need two this only has one usb port okay we want to supply power to
uh the lidar and also to the focus motor right the lidar and the focus would have to be daisy chain
okay i think i need one one more usbc cable the lidar plugged into the focus motor apply
power through usb we'll see if we get a light and then with that power both things you may use this
extra cable to plug in the second port the focus motor power that we're knocking a light there
power that all right so red light on the focus motor and we have a red blinking light on the
lidar yeah i i was right it needs to interface through the gimbal somebody call mythbusters
because this is busted hopefully you got your questions answered
myth busted device properly set up now go out and enjoy your rs3 pro and your lidar sensor
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