- What is goin' on in this video?
We're talkin' about hyperlapses
and how easy it is to make'em with a gimbal.
(upbeat music)
I went down to the beach today
I shot some awesome hyperlapses,
just played around with my buddy Mike.
It's spring break and the beach
is absolutely nuts right now.
What I wanted to show you with this video
is how easy it is to make a hyperlapse with just a gimbal.
The traditional way to make a hyperlapse
is to actually use a tripod and basically shoot a time-lapse
but you move the tripod X amount of inches or feet
to make the movement so you get this really cool effect
where you're going toward something, away from something,
on the side of something, around something,
the hyperlapse is awesome.
And when it's done correctly, and you measure out
every step of the way, the footage is unbelievable.
However, that takes a lot of time to do,
and for a lot of us we don't have the time
to basically spend two, three hours
and move our camera through space
that goes from all the way down at the beach
to the other end of the pier.
Especially when you're traveling
hyperlapses are really cool to add in to your travel films,
but you don't want to spend
all your vacation making a hyperlapse.
What I wanted to do is show you how easy it is
to make a hyperlapse with just a gimbal.
And a gimbal is something
that a lot of us carry all the time.
I always travel with my gimbal
because I know that a gimbal can be used in so many ways.
If you've seen my other videos on this channel
you'll see how much I use gimbals
and all the different ways in which I use a gimbal.
So we're talkin' hyperlapses,
and the key with a hyperlapse is basically
to do the same thing that you're gonna do
if you were to do it in the traditional way,
which is, go from point A to point B,
set up your shot from point A to point B,
and go at a steady pace between the two.
And you record footage instead of photos the entire way.
You can do photos if you set it at an interval
but it's easier just to roll the camera
and just shoot video.
First things first is,
you gotta pick your gimbal that you're gonna use.
I have a wide range of gimbals that I like using,
the one I picked up recently is the a2000 from Feiyu Tech.
It's a really cool gimbal that gives you the ability
to have two handles instead of one like the Zhiyun Crane.
And personally I like the feeling of having two handles
it feels more stable to me, and it's one of those things
I like having to do these more advanced shots
where it takes time to produce.
The cool thing about the Feiyu Tech is that
it also allows you to do a single grip use,
so when I'm traveling I can have one gimbal,
and I can have the dual grip, but also the single grip
to be lighter and smaller.
Both of them fold up nice and small
and go in your backpack, but the two handles
definitely is a little bit bigger.
All right, so you have your gimbal all set up
it's balanced, that's like the most important thing
is you have to have it balanced properly
'cause you don't want crazy vibrations all over,
and what you're gonna do is set up your shot
before you even start shooting.
So you need to pick a point at the beginning of a frame,
and you need to pick a point at the end.
So whether that is the same shot just closer to it,
or you want to move the camera
so you see a different perspective.
So now that you have that in mind,
what your point A and point B is,
now what you're gonna do is walk at a steady pace
between point A and point B and try
to keep your movement as smooth as possible.
Obviously we're not gonna be perfect,
we're doing this very fast,
some of these shots that I've showing you in this video
it took me two minutes, a minute,
to basically get from point A to point B,
so there's definitely gonna be some error in there.
And that's one of the things, when you move fast
and you take less time to set up a shot and make a shot,
it's not gonna be as fluid as if you were
to do a traditional hyperlapse
where you put a tripod and you take hours to do it.
However you can get some really good results
out of the gimbal.
So now you've done your movement from point A to point B.
What you can do is when you're there
in the location quickly review that clip.
You can speed it up in your camera.
You see if you moved the camera in any crazy way
so that it doesn't have fluidity
from beginning to end, and just repeat the shot.
The beauty of this is that these are quick.
It's easy to do a time-lapse in this style
because you're able to go from point A
to point B in such short amount of time.
You could do it a few times
just to make sure you got it right.
And one last thing before we go into editing this footage,
when you're walking with a gimbal
you need to use proper technique
so that you don't have a lot of up and down bouncing.
So proper technique is sitting a little lower
and bracing yourself so your hands
can stay stable, all right?
You wanna brace so that you keep the gimbal level.
You're gonna try to keep the gimbal as perfect as possible.
We don't want to leave a lot for the editing software
to try and fix, because you can fix
a lot of these bumps and issues when you're out shooting.
So just sit a little bit lower
and walk with a consistent pace from point A to point B
and try not to move up and down
and left and right too much
to bump the gimbal and give you any shakes.
So now you have some awesome footage, what do you do next?
The key is you gotta stabilize it
You gotta give it that extra stabilization.
The gimbal is one level of stabilization,
and now we're gonna go into our software
and add a second level of stabilization.
And when you do this, that's how you get
that buttery smooth looking footage.
I work in Final Cut X so the stabilizer
isn't as good as if you were in Premiere,
the Warp Stabilizer in Premiere
and After Effects is amazing,
so if you're working in Adobe products
you have a little bit of an advantage there.
However the InertiaCam in Final Cut does a pretty good job.
So you just gotta dial in your settings
to what works best with the footage that you have.
Another piece of software that I use sometimes
is called Lock & Load, and so it is a plug-in
that you have to buy, it's additional to Final Cut,
but it gives you some different abilities
that you don't get with Final Cut stabilization.
What you wanna do is stabilize the footage
so that you get out any bumps or any small movements
so that the footage is completely seamless.
And then what you do is you speed it up.
So you put it at 500%, 1000%, 2000%,
whatever speed that you want
to make the hyperlapse really zoom through the footage.
And another cool thing you can do
is you can speed ramp the footage,
you could go from a real-time shot
and then speed ramp into your hyperlapse,
zoom through whatever it is that you're doing.
This works so well when you're doing travel films
and you're showing like a location and you just want to show
the chaos of what's going on around you,
or you want to do like a cool visual
of a specific space or a building.
You can do some really cool things with hyperlapses
that will really enhance your films,
no matter what it is that you're producing.
All right, guys, so I hope this tutorial was helpful.
I'd love to hear your thoughts in the description below.
Guys, we got some really cool stuff
comin' up on this channel, I can't talk about it yet.
Next week me and Rachel are doin' a huge announcement,
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And April has a lot of surprises comin'.
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