- What's going on guys?
So today's video is sponsored by Edelkrone right there.
So shout out to them for sending me all these cool new toys.
So we're out on a jungle safari looks like
an L.A. jungle safari.
I think we're about to get some interesting shots out of
this and as you guys know it's a sponsored video
so give-away coming up.
I think this is going to look pretty cool, macro shots of
little teeny plants.
I wish there was a little lady bug on one of these plants.
That would be awesome.
So one of the main reasons why I would choose a slider over
a gimble in many shoots is because instead of like a big
epic, massive move through a field it's more
like a subtle motion.
It's more of a thing that you feel, and that's good
because you know that saying less is more?
I feel that's especially true in the creative field.
A great example would be an actor or actress.
An untrained actor will be so focused on saying
the lines and doing the action.
So often times if we working with an actor
that's trying too hard a common phrase we'll use is just
throw it away.
Stop trying so hard to act out this scene.
Just feel like you're in the moment.
Feel what your character's feeling,
and think what your character's thinking,
opposed to saying the line and an action.
My mom would always kind of tell me that too.
Because she was a piano teacher.
She would always say stop just playing the notes.
You have to feel the music or else it doesn't work.
And I would always respond with can I go now?
I want to go to Michael's house
he just got a new pogo stick.
I don't want to play piano anymore.
So you know anyone can play keys on a keyboard,
but there's a big difference between Beethoven
and your sister's douchey boyfriend who thinks
his band is actually good.
So that's my theory with cameras too.
I feel like anyone can dial in a camera, but there's the
subtle things that you do that enhance it
and just takes it to the next level.
Right now I'm getting a shot of you and just the slight,
slight movement is adding so much more
dimension to the shot.
I love it.
I'm actually just about to head out to Spokane, Washington
and Glacier National Park starting tomorrow.
And it's cool that this thing is so small, because then
I'm gonna be able to take it with me, and I should be able
to get some pretty cool shots over there.
Anyways this is a concoction of a couple different parts.
So let's take it to the studio and I'll give you a tour
of this thing.
So let's start with this teeny little thing,
which is an Edelkrone Slider.
My very first impression was that's it?
This is the whole slider?
I'm used to sliders this big.
But I've been playing with it the last few weeks and I'm
actually starting to fall in love with this little guy.
For example if you have a studio space kind of like mine
where it's just not that big having one of these things
is going to make life a whole lot easier, and I actually do
have a much bigger slider, but I never set it up because
first of all it takes two tripods to set up and it's just
honestly not the easiest thing to use.
And I'm lazy, so having something like this, doesn't take up
any space in the shelf and I can just fit it in whatever bag
I'm taking out for the day.
And even though this thing is tiny it has almost
eight inches of travel, which is actually pretty good.
And if you're doing product shots, this is really
gonna step up your game.
So let's try to get a shot of this camera.
This is one of my very first video cameras.
So I'm just gonna set this here.
And it's kind of a cool shot but it's just not super sexy.
So let's add a little bit of motion to it
and check this out.
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By the way all that motion was only half
of the available track.
If you use it wisely you can get a whole lot
out of this little distance.
Obviously it's not gonna be as dramatic as some of their
much bigger sliders, but for its convenience it's awesome.
So let's try to step it up a notch and so far we've
been using the SliderONE V2 and the FlexTILT head is just
simple solution of giving you
the functionalities of a tripod but in a super
compact form factor.
So when you're trying to go super compact it's actually
a pretty solid solution.
I mean it is sturdy and it takes a lot of pressure
to actually move it around, which is actually a good thing.
Because then you don't really have to worry about
how heavy your camera is.
But to really step it up we're gonna wanna use this,
which is the HeadONE .
What's cool about this whole system is it's kind of modular.
You can use it a couple of different ways.
But Edelkrone is claiming that this slider can do a 20 pound
payload and it's head one can do 15 pounds.
That sounds like a lot.
I think we should test it out to see if it's for real.
Okay this is 15.5 pounds.
So let's see if it can actually hold this and turn it.
Honestly this doesn't really feel like a great idea.
And this all get controlled by the app and whenever I turn
on the app it actually detects what systems are turned
on near it, and then gives me control to both.
So now it just detected that there's a head one,
and a slider one nearby, and connected them both.
Oh my God it's actually doing it no problem.
I'm terrified it's gonna tip over but there's like
no hesitation out of this thing.
As insane as this looks this is till generally within the
acceptable weight range so that's crazy.
There we go now that feels nice and locked down and I
actually like the size of it because if it was any bigger
I'd be worried about the center of gravity shifting too much
in one direction and having it tip over.
Let's get some footage of this guy.
It looks so sexy I wish I knew how to use it.
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This is a great click bait opportunity
so I got to take it, check it out.
Thumbnail.
Made you click though right?
It's a pretty good thumbnail.
Edelkrone, works with cameras new and old.
I should have been an infomercial spokesman.
I missed that boat, dammit.
But remember how earlier was saying that this is
a very modular system?
The reason why I said that is because you can get two
of these head ones, and actually use one to control the pan
and the other one to control the tilt, so then you can
electronically control both the pan and the tilt,
and the side to side, but here's one of the things
I find really, really unique.
Check this out, you can actually buy these disks
let's go with white.
So you can attach the disk to the head one.
And this is again the thing controlling the pan earlier,
pretty sick right?
So we've got the overhead lighting again.
Okay I want it to start here.
And then I want it to go in.
I want it to end right there perfect.
So I'm gonna save this as my end point.
And then all we got to do is just toggle it.
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Aw that was perfect.
That was perfect.
It's so easy.
Oh come on guys that was cool.
That was freakin' cool.
I used to have to shoot a whole lot of products
and I hated it.
Now it's all I want to do give me more products to film.
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It's too easy.
That's the beauty of these electronic sliders.
They're so precise.
You get the most intricate shots
that you'd never be able to do
with your clumsy ass hands, but it's like small enough
to take it to a restaurant and plop it on the table and get
a cool shot of food, and it just adds that whole extra
dimension to the shot, you know?
Anyways thanks Edlekrone for sponsoring this video
and sending all this cool stuff out to me and as you guys
know if there's a sponsor there's a give away.
So I'll be giving away one of my cameras.
How about my white Canon M50?
I know a lot of you guys wanted that one.
Shout out to the last person that won a Canon M50
and the ADD winner over here.
I should have named my channel Potato Santa.
To enter to win all you go to do is drop
a comment down below.
Anyways, let's wrap this up by reading
a few comments from my last video, which was all about
the one wheel and using it as a filmmaker tool
the top comment was from The Matt 222 we don't need
your green screen to put you in the floating house,
masking exists.
Wait Matt 222, you're the guy that edited me
into the floating house, huh?
And spent a bunch of hours doing that.
Jacob says that athlete" was Usain Bolt.
Oh man I'm embarrassed anything sports related
I know just about nothing about.
I actually just shot a video with my buddy Ryan
who's a professional photographer and he shoots a lot
of sports for ESPN.
That video's coming soon but yeah I didn't know any of
the athletes he photographed even though they're
all like big deals.
Looked liked Kim Jong-un at 44 seconds in, on the unicycle.
Oh God that is something that Kim Jong-un probably would
ride around in and thinks cool.
Love how Gene picks the most flattering angles to shoot
himself in, lying on the ground looking wasted
in a hotel room with no pants on.
That's why I love YouTube.
You guys accept it.
On Instagram you get no love.
I bet that curb is flat by now.
It was a lot of work getting up a curb on
that one wheel.
Looks easy in the videos of people doing it,
but I still need to practice.
YouTube channel, that's the name of the YouTube Channel.
Just YouTube channel.
I hope Disney gets paid royalties off all the Up jokes
you guys make.
I hope so too I think you guys should pay money every
time you make the joke.
We should just stop making these Up jokes altogether.
Try tying a few balloons at the front that should
get you up the curb.
MDM says hey Potato Jet finally got it up.
We're talking about the one wheel still right?
Armando says can I send you money to get a real hair cut?
What's wrong with my hair cut?
I thought Sam did a really great job.
Drink a pogo still?
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