hey folks my name is Joey I am a video team member here at test comm and today
I wanted to introduce you to a new camera that we been playing with this is
the zk m k1 pro this is kind of a unique camera in that it's a 180 degrees
stereoscopic camera that we've been using for testing out on the VR platform
to make VR videos you can see it's got two lenses here
that help in after you stitch it in post-production you get a 180 degree of
view now we have been shootin a bunch of different stuff like with this camera
and it has some considerations in how its rigged so I wonder what kind of
walkthrough we'll talk more about this camera later on and it's Bex and what it
does but I for this video I just wanted to walk through how we rigged up a
camera like this because it's not unlike rigging up a DSLR or cinema purposes or
even like some like an Alexa Mini they all kinda have a similar way in which
you approach rigging it this has some special considerations and that it's 180
degrees which means it sees up down left right but the up down means you can't
just throw it on a tripod as you'll see the tripod legs hanging out so it's a
little bit of problem-solving so I just kind of want to sit down and and rig
this up we have this camera we have the Sennheiser ambi OVR mic this is a
microphone that records in spatial audio so that as you're turning your head
while you're watching this video the noises will be coming from the direction
that they're supposed to be it you can see records in four channels it's got
microphones kind of setup but it records out to four channels which means that
that's another consideration we're gonna need something like the zoom F fades I
mean then we can record for channels and also taking a v for the love of Mike
that would be having on a subject so with these things in mind I'm going to
grab much of my bins I have a bunch of stuff behind me all my different camera
rails camera rigs base plates all set up I'm just gonna lay up with two things
and see how we can rig this stuff up for a full day of production in the way that
we need this camera its operate so let's get to it
all right here we go here is a bunch of stuff that I pulled from the bins from
other camera rigs and just laid it out on the table here to try and come up
with a solution for this so let's start with kind of the way I usually always
start when I'm looking at a camera to rig is the base plate this is a tilting
Universal base plate this will be this will be kind of what is what is gonna be
in the middle of the whole rig this is kind of built for the shoulder I
correctly use this for shoulder because that's gonna be crazy on VR so it's
gonna pre-much stay locked into this plate and this plate will just go right
at the tripod so let's start here we like I said we need to pull this camera
out a little further to not see the tripod legs so I just gathered a bunch
of these 50 millimeter rails these are pretty standard when it comes to rigging
up cameras they often will hold matte boxes or have lens support full of focus
a lot of things attach on to 50,000,000 15 millimeter rails like these so let's
put on this size and I don't think it's like a 12 inch or so that would give us
some room to mount the camera on the end before you get to that let's work on the
back of this as well so I got these smaller ones these are like 4 inches or
so these will hold both the plate for the battery and also kind of act as a
counterweight you're gonna have a lot of weight sitting on the front of this
thing with a camera so we're gonna want a little bit of counterweight in the
back this is a battery plate that uses the the V mount batteries v locks here
and then you get options for D taps out 12 volts USB charger phone with that
let's mount this guy here and again this is all stuff that I've used on like my
gh 5 rig or black magic rig I'm just kind of repurposed for this let's say
let's throw a battery on there this one battery is 95 watt hour so you can
travel with these and anything above 100 is usually a little trickier but we're
gonna be doing some flying for testing this out so I want to make sure this is
all it's gonna fit into a carry-on and have no problems with TSA or any of the
airline requirements best stuff so let's think ahead before I put the camera on
we're gonna need to mount this Sennheiser microphone on it now this is
a this is some random little piece of
something I have I think it's mainly for DSLR to put two rails in here mount a
DSLR in the middle here and then you have room for two rails here we can do
other things I think I haven't used this in a very long time
but we'll use this as our as our piece that will hold the microphone I can do
boom microphone or this ambulance us a grip here speak to that let's actually
let's mount this little handle on as well this is a this is just a wooden
handle that you can apply into a cage so that gives you something to hold on to
let's put this on the back of this
alright there we go there's um they'll give us two points to hold on to as we
move this camera around let's throw this Ambu mic somewhere this is a little 15
millimeter rail that I used a like a screw joiner here and screw it on to a
boom mic holder so if we just loosen this guy we can put slide that right in
there and now this has a front obviously it's spacial so it needs to know which
side is forward and backwards and such okay so there we go there is a
microphone a battery we're going to need to mount the f8 I'm going to use this
middle base plate to hold the zoom f8 this is where the camera be we usually
would usually be mounted too but because the f8 is so heavy I want this to land
right in the middle of the tripod and lock it in there alright well there we
go we get something happening now we're gonna need to have a love mic like I
said so let's put this right on top of the zoom now we can work on the camera
so the camera does have a chorus thread at the bottom for tripod plates I'm
assuming but we're going to need to put that can take in the rails so what I
have is this little small rig rail slash know that guess it's just for pulling
other accessories onto your rail so let's go ahead and mount this on we get
started looking camera somewhat alright there is our main rig we're gonna need
to do is start adding some power like I said I wanted to power everything so
everything needs to come from this V mount battery plate so let's let's get
cabling going
all right there we have it there is there is our rig as you can see it's
much bigger than just the camera but like I said we need this when you need
this audio gear attached on we do need to power all this stuff so let me kind
of run through the power lines here oh we got D taps coming out of the V mount
we got one D tap going into the power supply for the zoom f8 we have the USB
that I talked about earlier powering this love Mike and then we have D taps
coming out of the of the plate here powering the Z cam k1 Pro now this whole
this one battery here will probably last us all day long I can just do a full
charge on one and have it on set pretty much turning on the start of the day
turn it off at the end of the day I'll probably travel with a few of these just
as a precautionary measure but I trust this battery to be running all this
stuff for the whole remainder of the shoot and then as far as cable
management goes it'd probably be a little cleaner I have just everything
Bongo tied on to the rails itself to stay out of the way here's our little
handles for moving this around we take it off the camera take out the tripod
with the universal or with the the quick-release in the universal plate set
it aside you know you know set it down and the footprint we need and then we do
a lot of tape measuring to figure out the distances there there you go there
is a production-ready K 1 ZK mk1 Pro with spatial audio ready to capture some
VR video for our testing and again this is not unlike how you would rig up other
cinema cameras this is very similar to how I have some of my shoulder cam
cinema stuff for the gh 5 just with the camera pulled in a matte box put at the
end all the stuff is you know it's very Universal when it comes to reading the
cameras when you have a shoot you kind of you have to see what you need and
then build your camera rig based off of that to make a suitable raid that will
work all day long for your production there you guys go I know it's a little
bit of a different kind of video but thank you for watching us put together
this camera we'll have more on this ZK mk1 Pro and
maybe this audio microphone as well and probably this whole setup will do much
more once we've done testing the VR stuff we will have a little more to talk
about until then I will see you guys next time thank you for watching I
better go get shooting thanks like hey everybody norm here I got an update for
you for that video you just watch since Joey put together that camera rig he and
I have actually been traveling across the United States
visiting makers and filming them in VR 180 video we've documented the spaces
they work in their projects their build processes telling their stories in an
eight part series that we partner with oculus to launch and what we're calling
tested VR it's available to download and watch a day for free on the oculus quest
and oculus go headsets we'd love for you to check it out and let us know what you
think and Joey's gonna follow up with more thoughts about that production
process in the future hope you enjoy and see you in the headset