There are three secrets you need to know when balancing your Zhiyun Weebill 3. The
first secret is that you want to get the center of gravity of your camera and the attached base
plate in line with the axises of the three motors. So this is your tilt motor. Imagine
that there's a line extending straight through the axes coming out. This is your roll motor
imagine that there's a line extending straight out. And then finally at the bottom is your
pan motor. Imagine that there's a line extending straight up. So were those three lines intersect,
you want the center of gravity of your camera and base plate to be where those lines intersect. The
second secret is to not get frustrated. I've been balancing gimbals now for five years and
I've learned to do it in about 60 to 90 seconds. And when I first started I wanted to throw gimbals
out the window because I found it so confusing and so difficult. But if you just stick with it
and follow this video I promise you're going to learn how. And then finally the Third Secret is
once you you have your gimbal properly balanced make note of all of the markings. There's number
markings on all of the motors. Once your gimbal is balanced just pull up the notes section in your
phone. Note what lens you have on your camera so you know the weight, and then just remember what
markings you need for that particular lens. So then when you're swapping between lenses or you
have to take the camera off and you need to put it back on, you just look at your notes and you see
which markings you have for that specific lens and weight and you'll set up your gimbal in 20
seconds. Okay so you may be wondering why is it important that I balance the gimbal. Well there's
a couple of reasons. First of all the better balanced your gimbal is the smoother footage
you're gonna get. Secondly you're going to protect the motors. If the gimbal is not properly balanced
you could damage your gimbal. The third thing is that it preserves battery life. The harder the
gimbal needs to work to balance itself with the motors, the more battery you're going to burn.
So let's get it set up properly and I'll show you how to do that and by the time we're done
this video you will be able to set up your gimbal every time in 60 to 90 seconds. Okay so the gimbal
comes with all of these motors locked so I'm just going to return it to its beginning state that it
comes in the package. So we can start from the very beginning. You'll also want to attach your
tripod it comes in the Box, everyone comes with it. And you're going to want to fully charge your
gimbal before we do this so get a USB-C cable the Zhiyun gimbal comes with one in the Box.
Plug the Weebill in right here at the bottom and leave it in for about two hours. Once it's fully
charged you should have between 15 to 20 hours of runtime as long as it's properly balanced.
The other things that you're going to need are the base plate that attaches to your camera from the
bottom latching plate which attaches to the zhiyun Gimbal and then attaches to the camera base plate.
And then at the end we're also going to use the stabilizer handle and the stabilizer wrist plate,
but I'm just going to set these aside for now. Oh and there is one more thing that you'll need
and that is this little screwdriver tool that comes right at the bottom of the latch plate.
And it's really handy so you don't need to use a kitchen butter knife anymore to tighten your
screws or screwdriver. You will always have this on you and it's magnetic and attaches right to
the bottom. The first thing we want to do get our camera. Get our camera base plate and attach it
on the base plate. There is a little marking that says lock and an arrow you want the arrow facing
the back of your camera. And you're just going to connect it like this. If you're a videographer or
a photographer you've connected plenty of base plates to your cameras before get the little
handy tool I mentioned and just try to get the base plate as Center as possible and screw it in.
Next we want to take our bottom latch plate. And you'll notice that there are markings running
from 0 to 10. We're going to have the 10 point towards the back of the zhiyun gimbal. So let's
get the weebill gimbal here, and we're just going to unlock all of the motors. There's these little
newly designed motor lock switches that I love. So I'm just going to start by unlocking the Tilt
which is up here. Then the roll and for now we can leave the pan motor actually locked in. So
we should have our zhiyun weebill gimbal. We have the LCD screen facing us and the trigger
pointing forward. And we have the roll arm on our right side, it's not around on the left side,
if we tilt it up, to the to the right side, finally we have our tilt latch. And arm with
these arrows on the top pointing towards us. So we just flick open the latch panel here.
We get our bottom base plate. And if we want we can take out this screw that's in it. We're
not going to need it but for now I'm just gonna roll it towards the fronts and kind of leave it
there. And remember what I said we're going to take the 10 markings and they're going
to be towards the back. So zero at the front 10 towards the back I'm going to slide it in.
You should hear it click and when it's properly in. It won't come out unless
you push this release button. Okay so it's in there and just put it about middle way for now,
and then flip the latch locked and then we take our camera with the base plate
attached. Remember the lock marking is pointing towards the back. And we're gonna
just put it over slide it back towards the 10 and you might have to push this little.
There's a little button to push in that just basically unlocks it. So you can slide it
and then again you should also hear it click. And it should not be able to move unless you use the
release button. And then I'm just going to lock it in place one. Thing I should also mention is that
when you're balancing zhiyun weebill 3 gimbal, get it in your ready state. So if you're going
to have a mic on it or you're going to have a variable focal length lens, get the lens
extended to the focal length that you're going to shoot with. So that way once you set it up
and then you make adjustments to you know you take off your lens cap and you change the lens length
and everything you're not throwing off the weight. You want to get your camera in the ready State. I
actually leave the lens cap on because sometimes when you're balancing things can bump around and I
don't want to crack the glass. So I leave the lens cap on balance it and then at the very end I take
it off. And make Minor Adjustments. But let's just leave it on for now. Okay so the first thing we
want to balance is the Tilt motor. That's the top motor on your right side when the zhiyun gimbal
is facing forward with the LCD screen to the back. Of you so we're just going to flick the
lock down and you can see that the camera rotates freely. That's exactly what we want and now our
goal is to adjust the camera so that it's going to stay like this when I let go. So right now
there's too much weight going this way, because when I let go you see that the camera
gravity pushes down and it falls like this. So that means there's too much weight on this
side of this axis. Remember we want to get the center of gravity in line, so all we do
flick open this lock down here. The bottom one, not the top one.
And then you'll notice that the base plate slides. So again if there's too much weight this way and
I let go it's going to fall down. If I have too much weight to the front and I let go it's gonna
fall down. The whole goal is to get the center of gravity of the camera and the base plate in
line with this axis. Remember that was the first secret. And all you need to do is make micro
adjustments. Even the smallest adjustment will change it. That way too much. Too much too much.
Okay that looks about good and when you lock it you should be able to let go in the camera lens
faces pointing forward without moving. If it's falling back or falling forward too much then it's
not balanced. Now we are going to point to the lens towards the ceiling. We are going to adjust
this latch here. So we're going to unscrew it. Once it's pointing towards the ceiling,
and with this little latch does is allows us to rotate the camera, or should I say move the
camera. This way and this way. When the lens is pointing up, so if I go down, and I let go,
it falls this way. If I go too far in the other direction and I let go it falls this
way. Again so we want the center of gravity of the camera and the base plate in line with the
axis of this motor. Somewhere like that it's micro adjustments and now the lens should face
the ceiling with me letting go. So that's balanced there I'm going to lock it now. Before we go any
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section below. I try to get back to every question within 48 to 72 hours. Now the next thing we want
to do is the roll motor on the back. So we can just put the camera facing forward like this and
then unlock the roll motor and again if there's too much weight on this side of the axis of the
Roll motor when I let go it's going to drop like this. And if there's too much weight on this side
it's going to drop like this. This one is actually pretty balanced already. Maybe a little bit. Yeah
so you can see it's falling a little bit to that way, which means I need to pull the weight this
way. So all I'm going to do there at the bottom of the latch plate. Let me flip it around this way
so you can see better. At the bottom here we just want to slide everything that way. Because we were
falling down this way. So I'm just going to loosen this. Maybe push it like one or two markings,
just barely. It's just micro adjustments. I'm gonna try that let's see what happens now let's
see if it's falling. Nope so it's balanced because it's not falling that way or it's not falling that
way. I'm telling you this is not that difficult. You will get this it takes some time the first
time but once you follow these steps you're going to be doing this in no time. Finally we have the
last motor and that's the pan motor. It's the one that's down here this one is a little bit
tricky because the way you have to hold it. So what you do is hold the gimbal parallel to
the ground like this. And you have to hold it like this somehow. So it's a little bit tough
and then we're going to unlock this motor which is right here on the left side of the gimbal.
Just be careful because when you unlock it you know this thing can fly around. And if you have
your lens cap off it might hit something. So just careful here so you're going to unlock it slowly.
So I'm going to point the pan motor towards you guys so again the same basic methods we've been
following. If I let go it's falling this way which means I need to push the weight of the
axis that way so I'm going to unlatch it and I'm just going to again micro micro adjustments here
now it's falling that way so I did it too much I told you just tiny tiny adjustments.
Like I said this one's a little bit harder because the way you have to hold gimbal.
And if you're having a hard time moving or adjusting you can put it upright and then
it slides a little bit easier. So now I'm going back down see it's still going that
way I'm gonna come back up and pull it a little bit towards my left, your right.
That should do it. Okay so it's not falling down that way it's not falling down that
way. I'm just going to lock this motor. Okay here's the test when you put your gimbal on
level ground and you point the camera in any direction, with it turned off,
it should stay pointing that direction. And if it does, congratulations you've perfectly
balanced your weebill 3 gimbal. But there is one more thing to do and that is turn on your gimbal.
Make sure it's fully charged. Like I said by pushing the power button down here on the base,
you're just going to put it on a flat level surface with the tripod. You're going to turn
it on and what we're going to do is go to the menu and we are going to Auto calibrate
the motors. It's basically just one last thing the gimbal needs to do to see how heavy your
camera lens setup is and adjust accordingly. So we're just going to click the menu button
that's on the right side of the gimbal click on the motor and you select that menu by pushing
down on the light wheel. And then you go to auto tune you're gonna click auto tune
and just let go the zhiyun gimbal is going to shake it's basically testing the weight.
You can see it's shaking there and that's it it's
completely auto-tuned it's ready to go and your gimbals all set up.