What is up creatives this is Tom welcome back to another video so just a quick
one before we jump into the main content of this video so last weekend I shot a
video on location in a pub what I did for the video is that I took my camera
backpack and I sort of showed my black magic pocket Cinema Camera rig being
built start to finish out of a backpack which I thought was a pretty cool video
the only thing is that the audio in the pub wasn't the best only had this on
camera mic with me and not a lapel sadly however I still really wanted to post it
the audio is not too bad and what I will do is I will flash on a point if you
want to skip past the intro it definitely gets better when the camera
gets a little bit closer towards me so I will not be offended if you skip to that
part of the video but apart from that let's head into the content
what is up creatives this is Tom welcome back to another video so I'm here today
shooting for a pub local pub in Hove and I have with me my Blackmagic Pocket
Cinema Camera 4k and I've kind of got this whole rig in my backpack along with
a Sony A7III which is shooting this video is being shot on right now so what
I thought would be fun video is to sort of break down the camera rig and
assemble it the rig is contained entirely within this
backpack this is a Manfrotto BV30 I think I'm not totally sure the model
name but I have that linked down below in the description so I thought would be
cool like I said if you just sort of build the camera rig I think it's really
cool that you can basically carry around the full cinema rig in a backpack just
like this so let's open up the backpack and just see what we get so let's unzip
this back compartment this is the sort of main section for all the gear so we
have the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k here we've got the v-mount battery the
monitor and then my lens of choice for this build this is the Sigma 18-35mm
F1.8 just an unbelievable lens for this camera so I
think let's start by taking out the Pocket 4k as you can see here so this is
the rig and there's certain things I keep on this rig as you can see like I
don't tend to completely strip it back so I've got the SmallRig Cage this is
the SmallRig Cage for Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera
and on top of that I have a NATO rail so that I can connect a top handle for this
camera next I have a cable clamp and that will come into play later and I
will talk about that a little bit I have also connected to it the SSD
holder as you can see there so these these things on the rig don't really go
anywhere because they obviously don't take a lot of space up on the camera
body so that's where you want to be thinking about when you are sort of on
shoot slightly more running gun style you need to be setting up within 10 15
minutes it's nice to just sort of keep as much of the rig sort of connected to
it as possible so like I said the cage is the SSD holder and also have a couple of
things on the front here I have the Vitrox EF M2 - so this is the Viltrox
mark II speed booster for the Blackmagic pocket Cinema Camera and
micro four-thirds so this will come off and then the lens will mount to this at
the front and underneath that I have the SmallRig support for Metabones
and Viltrox speedboosters and again what will that that what that will just
do is basically give the lens mount a bit more support just make sure that
your lens isn't going to go anywhere or it's not putting additional stress on
the lens mount I think first what we're going to do is
pull out the SSD so I'm gonna zip this top section up or the bottom section up
and I have the couple of components in here so first of all I have the SSD here
which is just gonna go straight into the small rig holder as you can see here
we're tighten this up just like that so we've got the SSD now installed on the
rig so that's nice and quick then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take out
the top handle this is the SmallRig NATO top handle and as you can see that
connects onto the top onto that NATO rail that we already spoke about so let's
put that down there and then again I have another sort of
component so to save some time what you can do is again just leave some of these
components attached to each other I know that the rig setup for my Blackmagic
pocket Cinema Camera is basically it's going to be always using this setup so
what I'm gonna do is I leave the plate for the rails connected at all times and
I leave the V-mount connection plate at the back always connected as well so
that just means that very quickly I can sort of screw on the rails to the bottom
of the camera and again that's just gonna speed up the process of rigging
this out so let's put that down clear we can zip up this top section of the
camera case and I think what would be what we do next is take out the
v-mount battery and the monitor so these are basically all of the components of
the rig now they're pretty much set up so what we can do is pull the v-mount
connection plate and the V mount battery and I'm just going to slot those in so
that is the V mount connection plate pretty much done up again just find
a couple of last minute or smaller little pieces here I have this little
tool which I go on about all the time in these videos this is a SmallRig umm
little multi-tool it basically is gonna just it's basically just an all-in-one
tool for small rig cage builds so the nice thing about this is that you just
have all of these different allen keys a different sort of tools that you're just
gonna be able to rig out these things you don't have to carry around sort of
six different allen keys which is nice and easily so we're gonna take this
portion the v-mount battery and the rails and we're going to connect this to the
build here so I'm going to grab this little
this little sort of I think is a three inch 3/8 inch thread and we're going to
screw this onto the bottom so that just goes right in there I need the larger
tool that goes into the bottom of there and we can tighten that up so as you can
see just with that little sort of connection of these two pieces that you
can keep rigged up in your camera bag that is pretty much like that most of
the rig is actually set up there just means that's nice and easy now we can
rig up some of the other components so in absolutely classic fashion I've
forgotten a couple of the pins that I need for the monitor mount connection
for the this is the Atamos Shinobi monitor really brilliant monitor for
outdoor and indoor shooting and like I said I've forgotten for a couple of the
connection pins for the monitor mount to connect this to the SmallRig cage the
nice thing about the small rig cage though is what it's going to let you do
is all of these sort of pins are sort of inter customizable where you can take
pins or take these screws and use them in other components which is the nice
thing about it so if you do get stuck in this situation what I've actually done
I've taken the cable clamp out at the side of the camera and I'm just using
the pins from that using the screws from that so we can go on now and connect
this monitor mount using these connection screws
and again this small rig little tool has a flat head so it's tighten those up
just like that so that is the monitor now screwed on we can turn that around
whichever way we want and inside its case here I have the this
is a just I think a neewer NPF battery for the Sony NPF system but that can just
slot on to the back here of the Atamos Shinobi so that is pretty much all
rigged up as well and we have the NATO top handle and this can now be screwed
on to this system here so let's push that down this slide that on and there
we go the ring is looking pretty good so we can take off this front cap for the
Viltrox thing here and let's get the Sigma 18 to 35 millimeter 1.8 and that
can go straight on the front so there you go as you can see the build is
looking pretty complete this is my going to sort of compact Blackmagic pocket
Cinema Camera really good for handheld shooting as you can see pretty well
balanced from the center of to be built which means you're not going to get sort
of a ton of shake or sort of leaning towards one either side which is nice
just the last thing to do now is to just connect the cables so I'm going to go
into the front of the bag zip up this back portion here fit the bag over
that's the nice thing about this camera bag there's an absolute ton in it
which is cool there's so many compartments you can basically carry
around as much stuff as you want like I said I've been able to cram two cameras
including a cinema camera plus a tripod cos it's got a camera excuse me a tripod
attachment onto there which is pretty cool as well so as I say the last thing
of remaining on these so I'm going to connect the HDMI cable just goes on to
the side like this I'm actually going to just swivel it around again the nice
thing about this monitor mount is that you can very quickly and this monitor
because it got pins or connections on both sides so that can just screw into
the top as well and then you can just flip the monitor in the settings if you
need to so that just goes like this as you can see and then the HDMI connection
goes into the HDMI port on the pocket 4k next up we've got the SSD connection
cable and the power connection cable and I like to keep these sort of just
velcroed up because it's nice and nice and simple so let's connect the SSD cable
first that goes into the top of there and you can tighten it on the SSD mount
and leave connection cable the power cable it's just a DTaP power cable and
that goes into back
or the DTaP connection port here just like that and there we go that is the
full black magic pocket Cinema Camera rig and the really cool thing is as
mentioned you can basically keep this whole rig contained within a backpack
just like this so you'll be pretty much ready for any shoot and you jsut en to carry
around one camera on your back very very cool especially for a Simran cinema
camera or quality like Blackmagic pocket Cinema Camera hopefully you guys have
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