- So I wanted to make this Ronin-S part two video, right.
It's showing the features of the gimbal
and how it works and do some real world tests,
real world tests, which clearly went out the window
when I thought operating jet skis on a lake
with some of my buddies would be a great idea
to show how this gimbal performs.
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Which is not practical at all.
We got it in the water and quickly realized,
ahh, there's nowhere to store this.
There's nowhere to operate to operate this.
There's nowhere to balance this.
This is a terrible idea.
And to kind of go through with that
you would have to be fully willing to accept
the fact that there is a very good possibility
you will lose both the Ronin-S and your 1D X Mark II.
So with that being said, we're not doing any of that.
It's going to be a straight up review
because that's the professional
and responsible thing to do.
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I had good intentions.
Intro.
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What's up everybody, Peter Mckinnon here,
and welcome back to yet another video.
Today we're talking about part two of the DJI Ronin-S.
It is an incredible gimbal.
So if you haven't heard of this before
and you haven't seen the first video,
I will link it above.
I made it right here.
If you are looking to stabilize your footage,
if you want the smoothest, creamiest, buttery most,
I'm done with adjectives.
It's so good.
It's a great gimbal.
It's going to smooth out your footage really, really well.
It's will give you that professional look
and it's got a few tricks up it's sleeve
to just make you a better film maker,
a better cinematographer,
give you more professional looking footage
and that's why we're all here right?
We want to step up that game and sometimes technology
is pushed to the point where a product can help us do that.
That's today.
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One of the things with the gimbal
that's very hard to kind of judge if it's good or not
is when you shoot some examples in 120 or slow motion
because 120 and slow motion shooting,
that's going to give you stable footage as it is.
So when you throw that on a gimbal,
and you're shooting slow-mo, it's going to be the slowest,
it's going to be perfect.
It's going to look really, really good
and it's hard to make that not look good.
So for these tests, we're going to do a whole bunch
of different things
because you just see the raw, non- edited,
non slow motion, non warp stabilized,
just straight out of the camera examples with and without.
So here is a shot of me walking without any stabilization.
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Now here's the same shot of me walking
in the exact same path with the Ronin-S.
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And these are all shot at 24 frames per second.
So we're going to do the same test again now.
Here's a shot of me running hand-held
with no stabilization.
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Now here's that same shot, 24 frames a second
of me running with the Ronin-S.
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So I'm wanting to put these examples in this video
so you can make the decision for yourself.
How good does that look with big footsteps?
When you are running, when you're walking,
is this gimbal performing to your satisfaction
and to me, yes.
Absolutely it is.
It almost takes out all of those giant steps entirely.
I want to show you those same clips again
but underslung so we can get some shots of the feet
because shooting feet is very hard
if you don't have anything, no extra apparatus to do so.
If you're just trying to hold your camera
and hold it down to near someone's feet
and you're trying to walk with them it's very hard A,
to keep focus.
B, to make sure that you have everything in frame
and it looks good, and C, it's really hard
to keep that stable because now you're bent down
at a really weird angle trying to hold that camera.
You can't really see the screen.
This is what walking looks like at 24 frames per second
holding it as low to the ground as we can
to capture someone's feet.
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Now here's that same clip underslung,
24 frames per second using the Ronin-S.
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Now here's that same clip running, no Ronin-S,
24 frames per second.
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And now here's that same clip underslung running
24 frames per second with the Ronin-S.
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So not only is it very easy to hold it to the ground
because of that extended grip,
and you're able to just basically walk behind someone,
no effort without even having to bend down low
and wreck your back, it just looks so much better.
So, I will leave all of those tests.
And I wanted to just make them as basic and as easy
as I could so that you guys could make a very easy decision.
If this is something that you think you could benefit from,
I didn't want to make it crazy like on jet ski.
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I hope those tests actually help you out to see
if you think that gimbal's going to do
what you need it to do especially holding a DSLR,
that's not exactly light.
And that's a 16 to 35 lens that I have on it right now.
So, you got to keep in mind,
that's a heavy payload and it's doing a very, very good job.
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So when you're working with infinite roll,
which is the feature where the camera just rolls 360,
and it just keeps going and it looks super cool,
I hit the mode button 'til I went over to mode three.
Then I opened up the app.
Now, these are the settings you're going to want to put
into your own app,
if you want to be able to enable that infinite roll
and it goes like this.
So you're going to open your Ronin app
and you're going to go into control settings.
Once you're in control settings,
you're going to hit channels.
Now you're going to make sure channel two is set to NA
and channel three is set to roll.
And you can do that by just touching that,
scrolling over to whatever, but that's the settings
I have for roll for channel three.
Nothing for channel two.
And I have tilt for channel one.
That way you're done.
Once you're done with that you can swipe up
and be finished.
That way when you're ready to shoot the infinite roll,
you hold down that trigger, you go into flashlight mode.
And then once you're in flashlight mode,
you're just going to hold that joy stick all the way over
when you're in mode three
and it's going to infinite roll your camera,
enabling you to get those really cool, creative shots.
So that's how you do infinite roll.
It was a little bit of a search for me to figure out
the first time but that's how I've achieved it.
And if you're looking into doing the same effect,
that's how you're going to do it too.
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Okay, now here's an example of me running left to right.
And we're going to whip pan without the Ronin-S,
left to right.
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Now here's that same clip of me running left to right.
We're going to whip pan using the Ronin-S,
holding down M for sport mode
to get that nice, smooth track.
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Just looks so good.
Let's talk about the joystick on the back for a second.
It's the same kind of joystick that you have
on your drone remotes.
It's easy to push.
It's easy to grip.
It actually feels really, really comfortable,
but it is extremely helpful.
You're really able to fine tune the exact movements
of your camera to get the perfect shot
exactly how you want it.
So if you want to just spin around a tree
or spin around an object or show anything close up,
you can hold it down, and it's going to go faster.
You can just hold it a little bit
and it's going to go a lot slower.
So the fact the joy stick is there is very, very helpful.
You'll find yourself using it a lot
especially when you use it paired with a camera move.
So if you're going from top to bottom
or bottom to top, and you're panning that camera up,
being able to start with that camera facing down
and you're holding that joy stick backwards
and then you rock back,
so now you have the movement from up to down
as well as the camera tilting up and down.
That's going to make those shots extra cinematic.
You see, it's all these little features packed inside
that's going to give you really unique abilities
that you just didn't have before.
Like the infinite spin or doing these crazy camera moves
where you're rolling in and as you're tilting the camera.
These types of things are what really make this stand out.
All of those shots are now going to look better
because you have something stabilized.
That's what I mean when I say it makes your footage
look more professional.
Can you get away with it hand-held?
Absolutely.
I shoot hand-held a lot.
And I use slow motion to compensate
for not having a gimbal.
And if I don't have slow motion on,
usually I use some kind of warp stabilizer
to be able to get a little more smoothness
out of that footage.
Now why is this something that we all want?
Because it's just pleasing.
Camera shake looks good when you're intending your scene
to be intense or stressful.
You want that camera shake.
Sometimes you don't want a gimbal.
But for the most part when it comes down
to B roll,
we're getting really beautiful, cinematic shots
out of the helicopter, landscapes, or a car driving by,
or somebody running, a lot of the time,
this type of technology is going to make your work better.
That's why I really wanted to kind of show you
all of these raw examples today and how something like this
under a thousand dollars, what it's going to do
for your production and your quality overall.
I think if you're very passionate and serious
about your work and you're wanting to make a difference
in your production quality,
charge more for your wedding films
or whatever corporate videos you might be making
or make your YouTube videos look better,
I think this is a necessary investment.
If you're just kind of a hobbyist
and you're not sure and maybe you just spent all your money
on a camera, I would refer to some of the other videos
that I've made that I'll try to link above
on how to make your footage less shaky
and stabilize it without using any really fancy equipment,
just you know, body moves that are going to help you
get better footage, I would maybe start there
until you can afford or justify the fact
for buying a gimbal.
That would be my advice.
Should you buy this?
Yes, if it makes sense for you.
If it doesn't, not yet.
But I think this is one of those products
that you need to keep in mind,
keep on the horizon because it just looks so good.
It makes your footage just look so good.
So that's it guys.
I know this video was super long.
I really wanted to touch on some of these points
and I wanted to get you those raw examples
that were very easy for you to determine yourself
if you want to buy this gimbal.
So guys, that's it for today.
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Peace.
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