In this Moza mini mx tutorial and review i'm going to show you how to set up and balance this gimbal,
i'm going to show you some test footage, and be sure to stick around towards the end because,
i'm going to give you an honest review and tell you what I think about this smartphone gimbal.
The moza mini mx gimbal is a great way to stabilize footage from your smartphone
it only weighs about 412 grams and can support phones up to 280 grams. And it's really small
and compact when it's folded. It's only 145 by 50 by 180 millimeters. So let's jump right in
and the first thing we're going to do is unbox the moza mini mx. So inside we have the instructions
and the very first thing you're going to want to do is scan this qr code,
and download the moza genie app, alternatively you can search for it in the app store.
You must download this moza app for the gimbal to function correctly. Then you have one of these do
not eat things. Uh i'm not really sure what these are for. I think first taking out moisture, but
you can get rid of that. Lift up the accessory box to reveal the tripod, and the tripod is in here.
And I really love that it comes with a tripod. Not every smartphone gimbal comes with one and these
are excellent for getting panoramas or any sort of time-lapse shot. And they're also a great way to
hold the moza gimbal, it's like an extra handle. So i'm just gonna set this down here.
Then you also have this nifty little carrying case which is great for protecting it,
so you can get rid of this box and just keep it in here. Then you have the charging cable.
It's a usb-c cable. And you also have the wrist strap, and I highly recommend
connecting the wrist strap so that you don't accidentally drop the gimbal and damage it.
And then you have your moza mini mx gimbal which comes up folded, and as I mentioned
the moza mini is really small and light, so i'm just going to get rid of the box. And the very
first thing you should do is take the tripod and screw it into the base of the moza gimbal.
So the moza mini mx gimbal comes folded up out of the box, and the very first thing you're going to
want to do is unlock it. And you can see that on the top here if you have these buttons facing you,
so i'm having the gimbal buttons face me, there's a lock and unlock. So you're just going to twist
the mini mx gimbal clockwise to unlock the top axis, and then you're going to take this
part the the handle and you're going to rotate it clockwise again twice and then it'll snap
down. So again really quick let me show you how to do that. If I have these buttons facing me
I rotate this clockwise and then I rotate the handle clockwise twice. And now the buttons
should be facing upwards when it's facing you. Then you're going to want to take your charging
cable and your wrist strap and go ahead and charge the moza mini mx gimbal for about two and a half
hours to get it fully charged. I would recommend charging it completely before you start operating
it so that you get the best battery performance. I already fully charged mine, so there's no need
to do that but I am going to attach the wrist strap, and like I said it's very important so that
you don't accidentally drop the gimbal. And you do that down at the bottom here there's a little tiny
hole and you might need like a needle or a pen or something to get it in there it is a bit hard.
They don't make it very easy. You'll know that your gimbal is fully charged when the blue light
is fully lit up. The very first thing you want to do before you turn it on, don't turn it on yet,
is take your smartphone and attach it to the stabilizer. So i'm just going to take my iphone,
and when i'm attaching it to the stabilize,r you're going to notice that there's text that
says which way the camera should be facing on your phone. So when I have this facing towards me,
the camera should be on my left side, it's going to be on your right side,
if you're viewing this video. And to attach it you just open up these straps,
you want to get it perfectly the center without the holders pinching your buttons. And the reason
it's important to perfectly balance your moza mini mx gimbal is because when the gimbal is balanced
the motors won't have to work as hard and you'll get much smoother footage,
and you'll also get better battery lifetime. So when it's perfectly balanced
I should be able to take my hands off and the phone doesn't go like that or go like that.
When it's balanced it should kind of stay flat in the middle and there that's about
perfect. So once your smartphone is balanced in the middle of the gimbal, press and hold the power
button for about two seconds to turn on the moza mini mx gimbal. And you'll notice that the gimbal
comes to life. If for some reason your gimbal is just remaining limp, and isn't turning on,
it's most likely that you haven't unlocked this top axis. So you have to twist it to unlock it,
so let me just show you what will happen if it's not twisted. I'm gonna turn it back off
i'm gonna lock this and i'm gonna power on the moza gimbal.
And you can see that nothing's happening. And this actually happened to me a couple
times when I first started using it and I was like, I thought it was broken.
But the simple fix is to turn off the gimbal rotate this top axis clockwise,
and now the gimbal you can see is able to spin around now when you power it on.
The mini mx gimbal comes to life, so make sure that all of the axises are unlocked before you
start using it. Now what you need to do is open the moza mini app that I told you to download,
so just go ahead and open your smartphone, and you're going to need to turn on your bluetooth,
and then click the bluetooth icon in the lower left hand corner, select the moza mini, and your
device should be connected. Many people ask if you can shoot natively through the iphone app
or another app such as pro cam or pro camera, and according to moza you should be able to,
however from my testing I found that when I try to record or take photos through the native app,
it doesn't work. So let's run through some of the buttons. If you press the power button once
it's going to start recording video, and to stop recording just press it again. If you want to
change between video and photo, you just double tap the power button. And if you want to go back,
double tap again, let's say you want to live stream or shoot something for instagram stories,
then you'll probably want your camera to be in vertical mode, or portrait mode,
and to do that you triple tap the power button.
And then to go back triple tap again. Now let's talk about the three different modes.
When you first boot up the moza mini mx, you're going to be in pan mode, and you'll notice that
in the bottom left-hand corner of the app it says "pan mode." and what pan mode is,
is simply that when you pan to the left and pan to the right, the gimbal follows. But if I tilt down
or tilt up, the camera does not follow, so again panning left panning right it follows,
tilt down tilt up it does not follow, before I go any further i'd just like to say that if
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and if you have any questions at all leave them in the comment section below, and i'll do my best
to get back to you within 48 hours. Now to enter pan tilt mode, you tap the top zoom button once,
and you'll see that in the lower left hand corner of the app it says "P&T."
so now when I pan left pane right it follows, but if I tilt down and tilt up, it also follows.
To zoom you simply press and hold the zoom button, and if you want to zoom in all the way,
you double tap the top zoom button and the camera will zoom in all of the way.
And to get back to the wide angle you double tap the bottom zoom button. To enter FPV and inception
mode, you single tap the bottom zoom button. Now when you pan left and pan right it follows,
when you tilt down and tilt up, the moza gimbal follows, but also when you roll it'll follow.
And you can also use the joystick in this mode to go into inception mode. So this is a shot
made famous by alfred hitchcock. And if you're moving forward you can use the joystick to rotate
the mini mx gimbal. So on the bottom of the gimbal is a trigger
and if you tap it three times quickly, you'll turn on selfie mode, and the camera will flip.
And if you want to turn on face tracking, you just tap the trigger once,
so now face recognition is on. And if I move the moza gimbal,
you can see that it's following and tracking my face. To recenter the moza mini mx gimbal,
if it you know is facing down or facing up or it slightly, or it gets off tilt,
you double tap the trigger and it re-centers. To enter lock mode, you press and hold the trigger.
So now in lock mode no matter which way I rotate the gimbal the camera stays facing forward.
To enter sport mode, you double tap the trigger and hold it in. Now the gimbal follows my very
quick movements. So this is perfect if you're filming like a sports game or you know following
someone snowboarding or skiing, action sports and you want the gimbal to respond quickly. Then you
enter sport mode. If for some reason the gimbal starts to drift off access, you can calibrate it,
and to do that you need to open the moza genie app and click on the gimbal icon on the left,
and then scroll down to calibrate. And then take your tripod open it up set it on the table
click calibrate and click confirm.
And then for some reason there's some chinese text, I don't know why it's not in english, but
you click on that and it'll start to calibrate. It can take a few seconds. So now let's check
out some of the features of the moza app. So in the top left you have the lock button, and enable
this if you want to rotate the camera and keep the app in the same orientation. Then you have
below that the gimbal setting button, and here you can enter the various modes by clicking on where
it says pan follow mode. There you can also enter your sport mode. If the gimbal is off tilts then
you can adjust it that way. And you can change the joystick speed from fast, medium or slow.
You also have the one key zoom time settings. Below that you have calibrate, which I already
showed you. And then you have the instruction book. Below the gimbal button you have the full
screen display mode, and if you click that it just removes some of the information on the screen.
Below that you have the three dots, and that's just more or less the camera settings. So if you
want to connect to facebook live or something, you can do that here. You can turn on the
anti-shake mode, you can turn on silent recording recording, gain and so on. In the top right,
you can click on those three little circles, and turn on one of the filters. I just like to use
original when i'm filming. And then below that you have the object tracking mode. So if I click that
and I draw a square around something and I move the moza mini mx gimbal, you can see that
the camera is staying locked on. Then you also have the grid marks. You can turn on and off, so
you can do frame safe area, or grid. I recommend turning on the rule of thirds grid, with a which
they called juganga. I don't know what that is. At the bottom where it says auto, you can click
through and turn on auto or pro exposure, and then the little circle next to that is your gallery.
And then on the very right you can see it says photo video, time lapse and trajectory delay,
and time lapse is simple enough, and something cool you can do is trajectory
delay. So if you tap on the numbers at the bottom there and you go to track
you can click the plus button and select the first position then you can you know move the gimbal,
and click the second position. Go to a third position. Click the plus button again.
And then you can click preview to preview it. And then you can also adjust the parameters
like length of shooting. So this is something perfect for like a nighttime time lapse if you
want to film like the stars, or if you want to get a panorama of a city as cars are moving.
So now let's go outside and look at some test footage of the moza mini mx gimbal.
So now i'm going to try face tracking mode while i'm walking down these stairs. So face tracking
is on and i'm walking down a staircase and what you'll notice is that the stabilization is good
but as soon as I turn a corner, the face tracking seems to lose me. It barely catches me. It's
caught me again and i'm gonna turn around another corner and see if it can keep my face
in the middle of the frame, and it barely does, so that's something that could be improved upon
so all things considered I would say that this moza mini mx gimbal is a
great value for its price. It's priced cheaper than the dji osmo gimbals,
and it has basically all the same features. It does feel a little bit
less sturdy and a little bit more plasticky than the DJI osmo gimbals. However if you're
on a budget then this gimbal does everything that gimbal does and i'd highly recommend.