In this episode, I'm going to show you
three reasons why I absolutely love the
new DJI Osmo mobile specifically 'Motion Lapse'
Hi everybody, welcome to another
episode of Exploring Photography. I'm
Mark Wallace, and this is the new DJI
Osmo mobile. it's an absolutely
wonderful gimbal, it allows you to make
sure that your phone stays nice and
steady, so you can get perfectly smooth
video, but in addition to that, you can
also shoot panoramas, and stills, and
selfies. You can do motion tracking with
this so you can use it to track either
yourself, or something else that's moving.
It's a really an amazing device for
storytelling, but there are three things
about it that I really want to highlight,
because I absolutely love them, and the
first is the price! This ships for just
under 130 US dollars, which is sort of
mind-blowing. So in the past professional
gimble's like this, would cost you
upwards of $1000 or more. So now just a
hundred and thirty bucks you can get
this. Second thing this is a revamp of
the original Osmo mobile, what they've
done is, they've simplified the controls
on the gimbal itself. They've made the,
the materials they've used different set of
materials. So it's lighter, the battery is
15 hours, it lasts for an entire day, in
fact this battery will outlast your
smartphone, and so what they've done is
they've even included a USB port. So you
can charge your phone from the gimbal
which is pretty amazing, and then they've
simplified the controls on the actual
gimbal itself, and so there's a little
thumb pad here, that allows you to move
the gimbal around, left and right, up and
down, to track your shots or set up
time lapse videos. There's a zoom on the
side to zoom in and out, if you are using
digital zoom, there's a mode button to
switch modes, and then there's an on/off
to start and stop recording. And that's
about it. You can also mount your
smartphone either horizontally like this,
or vertically. If you're going to be
using this to tell Instagram stories, or
use it where it needs to be vertical. You
can do live broadcasting, all kinds of stuff.
It's a really an amazing device,
but what I want to talk to you and show
you how to do today, is to use this to
create a very special kind of timelapse
videos, these are called hyperlapse.
That's when you're actually tracking
something, and moving and creating a
timelapse video, all at once, and motion lapse
that's where you put this on a
stationary tripod, and then you use the
gimbal to add motion to your timelapse
video. It's really pretty awesome, and
easy to do, incredibly easy to do.
Well what you'll need if you're doing
motion lapse or timelapse, is you need
to add a tripod. So I'm going to use this
little Cullman Travel Tripod, it's very
inexpensive. I've included a link to this
in the description of this video. So you
can see exactly how much this is. I think
it's 30 bucks, I forgot, it's really
inexpensive, but once you put your gimbal
on a tripod. What you can do is, you can
start adding motion. So in motion-lapse
you can say, hey, here's the start point
here's the stop point, and then it will
actually make a timelapse video, between
those two points. You can do up to five
points, so instead of talking about this,
let me show you how to do it, we'll start
with hyperlapse.
So let me show you how that works, the
first thing I'm going to do is click
Hyper Lapse Mode I'm going to get some
options I'll leave my interval at half a
second, and set my duration for 10
minutes. I'm going to film for 10 minutes
half a second shot, every half a second,
then I'm going to frame my shot, and once
that's done, I'm going to hit start. Now
I'm going to draw a little square around
the statue to start active tracking. Now
notice I got that wrong the first time,
that's okay. I'll just redraw the square and
now I'm locked on to this little statue and what
that means is as I'm walking around the
statue or whatever it is I'm actively
tracking, the Osmo is going to make sure
that stays into the center of the frame,
and so I can just walk to the side, and
as I'm going, that's going to keep things
focused. Now if I want to regain a manual
control for whatever reason, for example
I know I have some objects that are
going to interfere on the left, I can just
click the little exit in the lower left
hand corner to shut that off. So I'm
going to click that right now, and now I
have manual control again,
and then I'll just zip over here climb
the steps, and continue with my shot. Now
I can also active track things that
aren't really objects, like the end of
this sidewalk, so I've dragged the box on
the end of the sidewalk. I'm getting an
error message saying the subject's too
small, I need to get closer, but that's
okay! I'm not even going to retry, as I
get closer, Active Track clicks on to the
end of the sidewalk, it keeps that
centered, and as I get.. as I continue on
the path, so here is what my entire shot
looks like.
The hyperlapse is pretty cool, but motion
lapse is even easier, let me show you how
that works, I'm going to start by
choosing motion lapse, that's the mode I
want to use. Then I need to say where to
start this so I'm going to move the
gimbal using my thumb pad, and click the
blue square to set the A point, the
beginning point. I'm going to move the
gimbal again to the second point, hit the
blue square, and that sets the B Point,
move the gimbal using my thumb pad to
the last point. I'll hit the little blue
square and that sets my third point, a B
and C, now I can click Next and I'm going
to set my parameter. So I'm going to
shoot every half second, and I think I'll
set this for about 5 minutes, and you can
see at the very bottom. It'll tell me how
long that's going to be. So that's going
to give me a 20 second video. Then I hit
Start... the gimbal starts moving, and
starts recording, and here's what it
looks like..
While hyperlapse, and motion lapse are a
lot of fun, they're just two more tools
in the storytellers toolbox. If you're a
storyteller, you absolutely want to check
out the Osmo mobile. It can really take
you to the next level in your
storytelling game. Well thank you so much
for joining me, for this episode of
Exploring Photography, make sure you
check me out on Instagram,
and I will see you again next time!