Ahoj. This is Zdenka Darula. There are only few gimbals on the market which are
compatible with Filmic Pro app and one of them is Zhiyun smooth 4. I named
today's video how to film cinematic B roll with Zhiyun smooth 4 gimbal,
anamorphic lens, moment anamorphic lens, Android phone and Filmic Pro app. I'm not
gonna be using ND filter in today's video because entirely separate video on
that topic will be created in the future. How to film in 24 frames per second with
ND filters so make sure you subscribe so you don't miss anything.
So I will try to film a little b-roll of this place since it is still nicely
covered with snow. You know they are taking the snow away from me. Spring is
coming. Spring is coming... with the help of this gimbal in Filmic Pro. So what I have
here is obviously Zhiyun smooth 4 gimbal. I have my Android which is Samsung
Galaxy S10 plus, Moment case with Moment anamorphic lens and counterweights. Once
you balance it, how do we connect it all together? Have your Bluetooth ON, open up
Filmic Pro, go to hardware, turn the Zhiyun smooth 4 on and anamorphic
lens. There are a few ways to film in Filmic Pro. Once you set your desired
frame rate, color profile and white balance, you can choose from 3
filming modes by simply pressing this center button. Manual, reticle and auto
mode.
Let's look at the first mode and that would be the auto mode. When you want
something convenient on the go, you're in a hurry, this might be a good option.
Right now the focus and the exposure are red. That means, it is locked. To unlock
the exposure, press left side of the thumb wheel. That is how you also lock it.
Press to lock, press to unlock. To unlock the focus, press the right side of the
thumb wheel. Let's just do overall shot of this place.
Since the exposure is unlocked right now, whenever I would be panning from
dark to bright, it's gonna be going crazy. It's gonna be all over the place. It is
gonna go bright and dark, bright and dark. So I need to lock the exposure. I'm
going to turn the thumb wheel to select the right exposure and press the left
side to lock it. The focus is unlocked right now as well.
If I want to lock it, all I have to do is find the right focus with this focus
wheel and tap on the right side of the thumb wheel to lock it. Since I'm gonna
be panning a big area I want the center to be in focus and if I leave it on the
automatic focus right now, if I leave it unlocked, it is actually going to be
focusing the center because it's Center weight so I might get by with this since
I'm not doing any close-up shots.
Now it will be a great time to look at the modes of the gimbal. When you turn the
Zhiyun smooth 4 gimbal on, you will be automatically in tilt lock mode. What it
means that the gimbal is going to move the phone only left and right but not up
and down. This is great for walking shots forward and backwards where you want to
maintain the same composition. You don't want the camera to kind of accidently
go up and down. You want it to stay the same but you don't mind doing pans left
and right. On the other side of the gimbal you have this a very long trigger.
When you press the lower button, lower part of the trigger two times, you will
re-center the phone. So if you are in another position and I just press it
twice it will go back to starting point. If you press the lower part and hold it,
you will go to full follow mode, so basically the gimbal is nicely slowly
going to follow your hand movement even up and down. None of the axis is locked
whatsoever, so you will get all these moves. When you press and hold the top
part of the trigger, you will get to full speed follow mode or sports mode. Basically,
whenever you are going to move your hand left and right, up and down, it is going to
follow the movement very quickly. At the front side of the gimbal there is a
little button where it says PF and L. PF is pen follow mode. If I switch it to
lock, it's going to lock the gimbal like right now. So whenever I'm moving it, it's
just always facing the direction I locked it on. If I go back to pen
follow mode, I can move the gimbal around once again. And I know that for sure I'm
gonna get this question in the comments below. So how do you move the gimbal
around if there is no joystick? Well, for that reason you gotta train those two
little fingers right here. So what I'm gonna do if I want to re-center the
gimbal, I'm just gonna press twice the lower part of the trigger. If I want to
pan a little bit higher, all I'm gonna do is just press and hold the top part of
the gimbal, the trigger ..sorry and reposition. Let go, this is where I want
to be and if I want to go a little bit lower, then I press the top part of the
trigger, go lower, release, this is where I want to be and if I don't like it
anymore, I just re-center. There. And if none of this really works and all,
I'm just gonna do this. Grab it and move it with my hand.
Let's talk about the second filmic mode in a filmic Pro which is the reticle
mode. So again, press the center of the thumb wheel to get into it. When we enter
this mode, you will see that exposure and focus are locked. Press left side of the
thumb wheel to unlock exposure and turn the thumb wheel to select your desired
exposure. Press left side to lock. Now press right side to unlock focus and
then select your desired focus by turning the focus wheel. Press right side
to lock. If you want to unlock them both at the same time, simply press the top of
thumb wheel. This is how you can lock them both at the same time. I'm going
to do some shots where I'm just following the leading lanes, leading lines I always
never know if I should say lines or lanes... anyway I'm gonna see some I think
lines or lanes ..anyways I'm gonna follow those things.
Well, now my favorite shot. I just want to go kind of around that tree and
reveal the area so I have to lock the gimbal so I just move the button from
pan follow to lock to reveal this place.
It is time to talk about the last filming mode in Filmic Pro which is the
manual mode. Again, press the center of the thumb wheel until you select the
manual mode. This will reveal both arc controls. Here when I turn the handwheel
I can adjust exposure. If I was using ND filter, I could even lock the
shutter speed. Turning the focus wheel will add just your focus. Here you can do
focus pull or automatic zoom. Lets do focus option. First find the starting
point with hand wheel. Tap with your finger on the arc which will set the
starting point. Next find the ending and tap again to set ending point. Now, when
you press the right side of the wheel, you will get nice focus pull.
It's time to film some close-up shots and try to play with the focus and zoom
pull as well. Let's... let's do some here.
There are a few more buttons on this gimbal which work with the Filmic Pro
app. The display button at the top here we'll pull out live analytics. The bottom
part of the thumbwheel will pull out videos you just filmed, it will take you
to your gallery and the photo button here at the bottom will allow you to
switch between rear camera and front-facing camera. And it's time to
play the final B roll of some shots we filmed today.
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