Hi and welcome to this video.
Hellas to all my Greek friends watching right now.
Today i talk about a Gimbal and how to get great cinematic movement shots with your camera.
My name is Benjamin Jaworskyj.
Photographer and Adventurer.
Ten years ago i startet to teach my self photography.
Today I travel the world, as a professional photographer and filmmaker.
Learn from my experiences, mistakes and tips and join me on my photography adventures.
Maybe you have seen my Video about the 90 seconds cinematic film look, where I show
three steps how to achieve a cinematic film look.
If you haven't seen it, check it out and one part is the gimbal or the cinematic movement
part.
And I will talk about this part in this video.
To get nice footage, nice cinematic footage you need great capturing of your camera and
what I try avoid is shaky footage.
There is only one exception and this is a documentary style or an action style, there
the footage can shake but when I want to have the nice and high quality look.
I need smooth movements without any shaking.
You can use a Gimbal for that and there are different solutions out on the market.
Starting from a low budget perspective going up till crazy prices and the more the technology
evolved the greater the prices get and the more affordable the whole thing gets.
So when I remember back two years ago or three years ago.
I bought the DJIRonin and this costs something around 2000 euros and was the only small affordable
solution for bigger cameras like a DSLR camera or anything to get the nice look.
Today there are things out.
Like the DJI Osmo which has a fixed camera or that little thing here which I use today
the Pilotfly H2 which is a great gimbal as well.
Those are electronic gimbals there are as well as hand held solutions without any electronic
like a glidecam or other things which are pretty similar to a glidecam and we will do
a whole video about low budged solutions as well.
But we'll do it in the future so just wait for that.
So this is the Pilotfly H2 it's a great thing.
I used in different countries.
I have it now for maybe five months and it costs something around 1000 euros and it can
hold up to 2.5 kilogram and is pretty small.
And what I like a lot.
It has that little button here on the back.
Where you can actually move the camera from left to right so you can set the angle.
It's almost like an Osmo but better than an Osmo.
What I don't get with the whole Pilotfly thing is where it actually is from on the website
is actually something Asian mixed with German but it's deffinetly strange.
Because when I go on the German website, nothing is available since months and I bought this
Pilotfly from a Video Store an Onlinestore where they had only like two left.
Maybe there is just a huge demand on the product or I have no idea.
I don't want to set any rumors whit that.
They have now a newer version out which has this axes more tilted so you can see the back
screen.
This is the older version the H2 there is an H1 as well but the H1 gets less carry on
so you need the H2 if you have bigger cameras.
But I can definitely recommend that thing.
I don't get marketing from this.
They have as well a Facebook page which is all just in Asian.
So i have no idea, but anyway.
Great gimbal and I show you how the whole thing works in the field and how you can take
great shots with an electronic gimbal like this.
In the background is now a spot where I will do the filming in just a minute and we have
a tree and some foreground and all the stuff.
And this is important for all the cinematic movements so when ever you want something
look very nice you need a lot of foregrounds and a lot of movement the parallax thing movement
so things in the foreground move faster than the things in the background and then everything
looks very dynamic.
But before we start filming I need of course the gimbal and I need to turn it on because
it's electronic so there is a battery in the grip and here is a button and i have to push
the button.
Or pull it up and the most important thing is that you actually calibrate your gimbal
right in the first place because otherwise your motors in the different magnets here
will burn after some time.
Because the camera is heavy and one have to work more than the other.
So the first thing I did.
I calibrated everything right and there are several videos out there on YouTube.
You can check them out about how to calibrate with your gimbal with a glide cam or with
whatever.
And here in this case in whatever position it is.
It has to stay so wherever I put it.
It has to stay in that position.
And then everything is right and then I can turn it on.
You can hear it sounds total like DJI.
And now i have different modes.
I have a mode button and i as well have the turning a tilting button here.
And this is great to just set the frame and then I will keep the frame like this and start
the filming.
And now you can see when the thing is turned on that everything is stable so I can move
it in whatever direction I want.
Maybe you have seen some videos on the internet where people do it like that.
This is actually not a filed situation where you do it like this but you could and the
most important thing is that it stays stable wherever I move id and whenever I walk and
just move with my camera.
That is the whole thing.
And I will show you now how this thing works here with that situation.
So I will take Timothy now, who is filming behind the camera but we have it on a Tripod
to just walk there and I will follow him and do some gimbal shots with a gimbal and the
of course some shots without a gimbal that you can see the different in both.
Okay Timothy is walking and I will just follow him now with the gimbal.
And as you can see everything is very smooth.
Now he will just come back and I will do the same shot but different way around.
So I will start from here.
And just go out now.
So you see when ever something is very close to the camera it looks very cool.
So try to do that when you use gimbal shots.
This was a gimbal with the Pilotfly and now I'll do the whole ting just without anything
turn on just hand held.
Now i have the camera without the Pilotfly.
AndI know walk like most people walk and you will definitely see the difference so let's
do it.
And now the whole thing backwards.
It's even hard for me to film normal without just stabilizing everything but I try to show
you the difference now in the walking.
What I do now I do the whole ting again but now I walk different, smoother so I try to
make like a banded knee and a very straight upper body and I try to just walk like this
and try to not move the camera too much.
Let's see if we see any different.
I hope you can thee the difference in the Video I have no idea but what I want do demonstrate
with this.
Is that a gimbal is a great thing but you need some skills in the walking and in taking
your line.
With a line I mean, what I try to do when I shoot with a gimbal.
I try to just walk on one line.
Almost like flying with a drone or when you imagine a dolly on a track.
It just goes on one line and that is what I try to do with the gimbal as well.
When you walk like this or when just go like zick zack or anything it does't look good
in the camera.
Look for a foreground.
Try to walk a straight line and try to walk very smooth and very soft so that everything
is smooth in the camera itself and then the gimbal can help you to make even smoother
shots with that.
This was how to achieve greate cinematic camera movements on a budget and on a budget of 1000
euros okay I know it's an expensive camera and everything but it's actually on a budget
because everything about film making is very expensive but as mentioned I will show you
a solution or a different solution in another video where I talk about low budged gimbal
shots.
Give me your opinions on a gimbal, if you have any questions just write it in the comments
below and some quick commercial.
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Okay that's it for this video.
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And of course antío to all my greek friends.