DJI RS3 Mini Beginners Guide - Start Here

welcome to your complete beginner's guide for the DJI RS3 mini now this is a small compact gimbal that's super useful for any Creator who just wants to have a gimbal on them at any time [Music] so let me just give you a quick outline of what you're gonna find in this video before we get started first we're going to go over an overview of the gimbal so you know where all the buttons are and what everything is then I'll go through how you actually balance this gimbal so that you get smooth footage then we'll go into all the menu settings that you have accessible on the Gimbal and then we'll dig into the app that you could use alongside this gimbal for even more features after that I'll show you some different ways that you can hold this gimbal we'll go through how you do a gimbal walk so you get smooth footage and at the end of the video I'll link to a playlist that goes through a ton of different gimbal moves and some different ways to use your gimbal to get better looking footage so if you're ready let's get started so for the first part of this video let's go over an overview of the gimbal this is the DJI RS3 mini now there's a few key components that make a gimbal work so what a gimbal does is it gives you smooth footage but it does that by using three different Motors and they work in unison to keep the camera always stable whenever you're filming so just a broad overview of the gimbal you have your tripod which attaches down at the bottom this is so that you can easily balance the gimbal before you actually go out and start filming but also you could close down this tripod and it could be a longer extension arm to be able to use two hands when you're filming now on top of the tripod is going to be the main control unit you're going to have your screen with your buttons and the battery is underneath that on the RS3 mini it's all one unit so you can't remove the battery and then above that is your first motor so right now all of my Motors are locked and that's one feature about this gimbal is you can lock and unlock each motor so right now they're locked in the position that I would set up when I start balancing however you can also lock them so that the gimbal will lay flat and go in your backpack and you can also use the half lock mode which allows you to fold this down smaller while also keeping the gimbal balanced so the three motors working your way up the first one that's the closest to the main control unit that's your pan motor the one back here that's at the angle that's your roll motor and the one up here that's closest to your camera is your tilt motor and each one controls a different axis of movement and when they work in unison it keeps the camera stable now also with the DJI RS3 mini you have the different arms that hold your camera and the one here on the bottom that makes your camera horizontal can be removed so that you can make your camera vertical and then the last piece that's on the gimbal is your quick release and this quick release is detachable so you could put it on when it's on the horizontal arm for when you want to shoot landscape style and you can also put this on the vertical arm when you want to shoot portrait style or vertical shooting and so when you put on your quick release you'll use the red lever to lock it in place so your quick release could slide back and forth on either arm now also what you're gonna find on this gimbal are C series of gray lovers these are what you use to unlock each arm and the reason for that is so that you can move them and adjust them to balance the Gimbal and when we get into the section where we balance the gimbal I'll go through and show how you each one of these works now you're also going to find each one of the motor locks on each one of the arms this allows you to unlock each motor independently so when you're actually filming you're going to have all three unlocked so that there's no restriction with your camera movement but when you're balancing you're only going to unlock one at a time and again we'll go over how this all works when we get into the section about balancing now down by your screen you have a few different buttons and a few different attachment points so the screen itself is a touch screen and there's a lot of different options that help you control this Gimbal and we'll go through all of that in the menu section now below the screen you're going to have a joystick this controls your Gimbal and allows you to move it in different directions you have a mode button that allows you to switch between three different custom modes and then you have a record or start stop button this is going to be the button that you can use to control your camera to start chord and stop record once it's hooked up now on the right side you have a power button and you also have a power port so this USBC is going to be what you're going to use when you want to charge the gimbal now on the other side of this gimbal there's a cold shoe mounting point and what this allows you to do is attach a back arm so that you could use this for two-handed operation and it makes it super easy when you shoot shots that are low to the ground now on the front of the gimbal you have a wheel that's going to allow you to control some different settings with the gimbal or your camera and then you also have a trigger and the trigger does some different operations depending on how many times you click it or if you press and hold so that's pretty much the overview of this Gimbal and all of the buttons and things that you're going to find on the gimbal itself so let's dig into the next section which is all about getting this set up and ready to start shooting so the first step in working with your gimbal is getting the camera balanced so DJI provides this camera plate and you'll notice that there's a little Groove and a notch at the front of it that goes towards the lens side of your camera it also comes with a few different screws I personally like to use the one with the wing nut because it allows me to screw this onto my camera and make it super tight however if you want to use a screwdriver then you could use the one without the wing nut so I'll Mount this camera plate onto our camera with that Groove headed forward where the lens is so the next thing that you want to do is make sure that all of your arms are set up in the correct position for how you're going to be filming so I'm going to be shooting horizontal so I'm going to want to be using the horizontal arm now if you want to shoot vertically you'll take off this horizontal arm and you'll Mount the quick release vertically so it just depends on how you plan on shooting with this gimbal so with the quick release you're going to want to make sure that the camera that's on the quick release is facing forward that means the red lever is also facing forward so I'll slide that on and I typically just put it right in the center of where the quick release can go and then you take the camera and slide it backwards onto the Gimbal and when it's right in the center you want to lock using the gray lever here on the side right underneath the camera that's going to lock the camera in place gray levers locked and your red lever is locked you're ready to start balancing this gimbal so the first thing that you want to do is just make sure your camera is set up exactly how the camera is going to be used because the weight and the weight distribution is super important for balancing so if you're going to use your camera with the screen off to the side you'll want to make sure to balance it with the screen off to the side I'm going to have it just on the back also you want to make sure that all of your batteries are put in the Gimbal and that the lens is set exactly where you want it when you're out filming so right now I'm balancing with a 20 millimeter it's a prime but if I was using a zoom lens I want to make sure they're zoomed to the focal length that I'm going to use before I start balancing because the way that the lens extends might throw the balance off and also if you're going to use something like an ND filter you want to make sure that's on before you start balancing so my camera is all set up exactly how I'm going to use it so what we're going to do do start balancing is first balance our tilt motor and the Tilt motor is what causes the camera to go up or down so on the front of the DJI RS3 mini there's a little lock next to the Tilt motor you're going to unlock it it's going to allow your camera to start flopping forwards and backwards and when you let go it's going to fall in One Direction and so the goal of balancing is to get the camera in the perfect balance spot so that wherever you move the camera it doesn't shift so if I let go of it it's not going to drop like it just did so what we're going to do is unlock the arm that allows us to change our tilt balance and the lever that we're going to use is right next to where we unlocked the camera so we're going to unlock this tilt arm and Slide the camera back because right now my camera is falling forward so I'll slide the camera back until I could find a good balance point and on each arm there's going to be a series of numbers with some lines this is just so that you could be able to see exactly where you're balancing the camera to so you can repeat it in the future when you use the same camera setup and one thing that you're going to to be checking while you're doing the Tilt balance is how top heavy or bottom heavy the camera is because there's two arms that you need to adjust when you're adjusting tilt the first one is the forwards and back but the other one is down here next to the camera and that's how high the camera sits so right now the camera is pretty bottom heavy but if I was to pull this arm up to the top you'd see that the camera is going to fall and it's top heavy so no matter what I do the cameras always flipped upside down and so through this process of balancing the Tilt arm so you want to make sure that you're balancing both of these arms so that the camera is not top heavy or bottom heavy and it's also not forward balanced or backwards balanced so you're going to play with all four axis to be able to get the camera so that it doesn't move forwards backwards up or down and you're going to want to play with both arms at the same time because both of them are impacting your balance and so as you pull your camera forwards and backwards you're also going to be pulling your camera up and down and just make sure you lock and unlock arm as you adjust it so now I've got my camera almost balanced and you can see that it's moving a lot slower when I put it in One Direction and let go it's not just dropping really fast it's moving slower and so when you're doing this you're just trying to find that point when it's perfectly balanced and so right now what I'm looking for is which way do I need to push it to perfect it so right now it's bottom heavy and it might be slightly back heavy but first the big thing is that it's bottom heavy so I'm going to adjust it up slightly and when you're doing this you might be making super small incremental moves and so once you finally get to the point where it's almost balanced you're going to want to use these lines and just shift it one of the smallest lines because by using this you can see that you're making clear steps and then you can find the exact line where it's perfectly balanced so let's test this it's still slightly unbalanced you can see how it moves just slightly it's almost there so I'm going to move it up just one bar more up and a lot of times it just takes pushing just a little pressure with your thumbs so it slightly moves all right so now it's balanced on the Tilt motor and the way that I know that it's balanced is that I can move it to any position and let go and the camera won't move so right now I only have the tilt lock undone I move the camera to a bunch of different positions of where this motor can move and the camera shouldn't move I should just let go and the camera stays exactly there no matter where I pull the camera to and stop and let go it's going to just sit there so now the next motor that we need to adjust is the roll motor and that's the one that's on the back here facing you and so what you're going to want to do is lock the Tilt motor so now that it's fully locked again and we're going to unlock the roll motor and you can see that the camera is going to want to roll left or right right now mine's super unbalanced so it just falls to the left now there's two ways that you can adjust your roll the camera quick release itself moves left or right but also the back motor has the ability to move left or right so personally when I do this I just leave that quick release exactly where it is and I only use the back arm to make adjustments if there's not enough range with this back arm then I'll use the quick release but I like to just work with one of these because they're essentially doing the same thing the quick release is just moving the camera on this front arm and on the back arm here it's moving the camera and the motor and all the other components so what I'm going to do is unlock the back motor undo the gray lever and because the camera is falling this way I'm going to slide everything to the opposite direction and so I'm going to do the same thing as I did with the other motor where I'm just making small adjustments until I get to that point where the camera's not falling as much so right now it's not completely balanced but it's moving slower so once you get it to the point where it's starting to move a little bit slower you know that you're going to start making smaller adjustments still falling this way so I'm going to move it a little bit more I'm just making slight movements at this point so the way that you know your roll motor is balanced is that when you move it in either direction it's going to come back to level so you move it either left or right and it's going to come back to Center and stay so now this camera is balanced because every time I move it left to right it comes right back to the center and stops and so what you're looking for is a fall in either the left or right direction but to have a balanced camera is to have it fit sit perfectly horizontal when you let go of it okay so our tilt Motors balanced our roll Motors balanced so the last motor that you need to make adjustments on is your pan motor so you're going to unlock that one and it's not going to do anything because the camera is sitting upright so to be able to find the adjustment you need to just tilt the camera forward and then when you swing this arm around it's either going to fall forwards or it's going to fall backwards so right now the camera's falling forwards towards the lens whereas if I slid this all the way back you would see that it would fall towards that back motor so what you want to do is make adjustments and then tilt the gimbal to see if it rotates forwards or backwards this one is balanced when you tilt forward and the camera doesn't move one way or the other you'll see when you're using these different lines there's a zero one two three four five and then it's also cut in half and then there's smaller lines in between the halves so what I like to do is start on the big numbers find the big number where it's closest and then use the half marks and then from there go incrementally so you could really use the guides on this to make it easier to balance these gimbals so I found the point that it's balanced I'm going to move it forward it doesn't shift around I can move this motor around and wherever I set this camera it's going to stop so now I know that this camera is perfectly balanced so the last step of balancing is you want to unlock all three motors and make sure that the camera is not falling in One Direction when you play with it and move it around so right now this camera is perfectly balanced and so the next step before you actually start filming is you want to power on the Gimbal and do an auto tune so you'll press and hold the power button for three seconds until the gimbal turns on you'll hear a little sound and then in the upper left hand corner there's going to be a calibration button so you click that and it's going to allow you to auto tune this gimbal so all you want to do is click Start calibration and you want to make sure that your camera is on a flat surface because what it's doing is it's going to go through each motor and it's going to balance it using some automatic settings to figure out how much strength it's going to want to put to each motor and once the auto tune is done you're ready to start shooting so your gimbal is going to be completely balanced and it's ready to start going now to balance your gimbal in the vertical shooting position you're going to go through the exact same process so you start with your tilt motor you go to your roll motor and then you finish with the pan motor it's the exact same process but your camera is going to be mounted in the vertical position versus mounted on the horizontal arm foreign so the next section we're going to go into is the menu for the DJI RS3 mini so when you power up the DJI RS3 mini this is the main screen that you're going to see on the Gimbal and there's four different buttons here that allow you to change some different settings and also there's some indications that are going to pop up that are going to give you information about what's going on with your gimbal so right here in the upper left hand corner where it says M2 that's the mode that you're currently set in and when you use the M button on the gimbal itself it's going to change between the three modes so you have M1 two and three and each one of these are customizable so you can set up some different settings that's going to apply to each one of these modes now we've already done the calibration but if you click on the calibration button you can see where it has the auto-tune starting calibration like I showed you in the last section but underneath that you'll see this button that says stiffness so if you wanted to change any of the motors strength independently you could go into stiffness and change it here so there's the Tilt axis roll axis and pan axis and when you click this you could change how strong the motor is responding and so if your camera is vibrating on one of the motors that means that it's too stiff and so if you're getting these vibrations you would bring the stiffness down now if the camera is kind of falling in One Direction so say the Tilt motor is not strong enough you would see the camera dip forwards or back and that's when you would increase the stiffness now the good thing about the DJI RS3 mini is the gimbal calibrates all of this when you press auto tune so personally I never have to go in here and change the stiffness however the option is there if there is some issue with the setup that you're using 99 of the time if you're having some weird issues with the calibration you just have to go in here and do the auto tune again so what I would suggest is just find a flat area click calibration and that's going to fix most of the problems now the button in the lower left hand corner is your follow mode so when you click this you can see all the different follow modes that you could use right now it's in pan follow there is pan tilt follow there's fpv mode there's a custom mode that allows you to lock any of the motors whether your tilt axis roll Axis or pan axis will follow and then there's 3D roll which allows you to put the camera in the flashlight mode and do a 360 spin and so we'll go outside in a little bit and I'll show you how each one of these work so you can see what kind of shots you can get using the different modes so I'm going to set mine to pan follow and so whatever you set in this follow mode is going to be remembered for the next time that you turn on the gimbal for the mode that you're currently in so right now I'm in M1 and it's set to pan follow so if I turn off the Gimbal and turn it back on mode one will be pan follow again whereas if I change this to pan tilt follow and I turn off the gimbal turn it back on mode one is now going to be pan tilt follow so you just need to set up what each mode is that you want to use but you can adjust them at any time depending on what you're using for when you're out shooting now in the lower right hand corner is your follow speed and so that's how fast the gimbal will respond when you make a movement if you Pan the Gimbal and you have it set to slow it's going to take a longer amount of time to move from left to right than if you have it set in the fast motion where it's going to whip faster and so you could set this to slow medium or fast or you could set up your custom which goes from zero to one hundred zero being the slowest possible and 100 being the fastest so if you're working with faster subjects you're going to want to use a faster settings so that the gimbal responds with a quicker Pace whereas if you're trying to do slow cinematic motion you're going to want to have this set to slower so a lot of times when I'm using a gimbal I'll have this set to slow or medium because that allows me to get smoother cinematic motion whereas when you're shooting super fast the camera might look a little bit more jerky because it's responding faster to your movements so it really comes down to the subject matter that you're shooting and the style of shot that you're trying to get now there's more options on the screen and you get to them through a swipe so the first one that I want to show you you swipe down on the screen and it's going to pull up a new menu so the the upper left hand corner there's a lock button so right now I just click the lock button and you'll see the little lock icon up to the next to your mode button and what this does is it locks the screen so you can't touch anything so once you have your settings set up and you're just filming it's a good idea to lock your screen so that you don't accidentally change your settings mid-shot to unlock your screen you just tap anywhere and swipe up and you'll notice that the little lock is gone next to your mode button and then you know that you're unlocked now in the upper right hand corner of the second menu is your Bluetooth button so you could click this and it's going to allow you to connect to certain cameras using Bluetooth I'm using Sony cameras so on my Sony camera I can connect wirelessly to this gimbal so you're going to click the Bluetooth button and then it'll instruct you on how you can connect your camera so you can see that my camera is already connected so I could just select that camera and now the camera is connected so when I swipe up back to that main screen you can see in the upper left hand corner near my mode button it's going to show a little camera with a Bluetooth icon so if you're using the same camera and you've connected it once every time you turn on your camera and your gimbal it should automatically connect and you can just see a quick indication on this main screen whether your camera is connected or not now if I click the record button on the gimbal it's going to start and stop the record so it's a nice feature that allows you to control your record without having to connect a cable to your camera now there's also a port on the front of this gimbal next to the Tilt motor that's a USBC and you can connect your camera directly using a cable and control all the functions that way as well so it just depends on if your camera has the Bluetooth connectivity or not now in the lower left hand corner of the secondary menu there is a volume icon you can click this and it's going to turn the sounds of the gimbal on and off so if you want to make your gimbal silent you'll just want to turn this on and then the lower right hand corner there's a little gear icon and you can click this and it goes into another menu setting and so there's a few options here that help control the gimbal the first is disable self fee so if you click the gimbal three times on the trigger the camera is going to spin around and face you so this is for if you're creating Vlog style content and you want to film yourself then you click the trigger three times now you click it twice for it to go back facing forwards now if you want to disable this mode you could just do it here by turning it on disable selfie and then when you click the trigger three times it's not going to spin around and face you the next mode down is orbit follow and so when you enable this it allows the camera to be smoother when you're trying to create Arc emotions so if you're spinning around a subject and you're trying to keep them centered you would turn this on and it's going to make the movement much smoother now underneath that is push mode and so when you click into push mode you could push pan or push tilt so I'm going to enable push tilt and what that allows me to do is push the camera and I can physically move the camera up or down for movements and so when you have both these turned on you could physically move the Gimbal and it's not going to hurt the gimbal so the movement by pushing the Tilt it's going to allow you to physically move the camera in that direction so if you want to tilt it down just using your hand you could do that so it allows you to make adjustments with the gimbal without having to use the joystick or wait for the camera to move to that position you can just grab it and the camera will move there now underneath that is a horizontal calibration so if your camera is tilted One Direction left or right you can go in here and calibrate and there's an auto calibration so you're just going to click the button it's going to go through the process of calibrating and make sure the camera is completely level and then you can also go through and do this manually so if you're off by one or two degrees and the auto calibration isn't working then you could go in and just make small adjustments until your camera is perfectly level now underneath your horizontal calibration is your gimbal auto check so you can click this if you want to make sure that everything is balanced properly so you want to make sure that your gimbal is balanced and every thing is stationary before you click it hit confirm and it's going to go through and do an auto check to make sure that everything is balanced properly and everything is going to be working properly and while it's going through this check you just want to make sure that you don't touch anything and don't move the gimbal in any way just let it do its thing as it auto rotates in all the different directions and it'll pop up with a screen that says auto check complete it'll tell you whether everything's set up properly or not mine says check status good so underneath your gimbal auto check you have an option to restore all your parameters so whatever you've done to this gimbal you could set back to the factor defaults you could change your language and then there's also device info firmware version and compliance info so you just check the different information about your gimbal right here on the gimbal itself so to get out of this menu you'll hit the back button and then you'll swipe up to go back to your main home screen now there's one more menu that you can access and that's by swiping up on the screen now this is where you can adjust your joystick speed and your dial functions so your joystick is right here on the back side of your gimbal and allows you to control the gimbal in any direction so it just works like a video game controller where you could tilt up you could tilt down left or right so you could reposition your gimbal when you're out filming and make small adjustments using the joystick and not just using body movements with the Gimbal and you can change the speed and the smoothness of this joystick and you have the same option slow medium fast or custom which goes from 0 to 100 so I'm going to set this to medium and then you also have smoothness so you have high medium low or custom and when you have this set to high what it's going to do is feather in and out of the movement slower so when I press the joystick and let go the camera will continue to move and gradually get slower until it comes to a complete stop whereas if I have this set too low and I push and let go the camera is just going to stop as soon as I stop using the joystick so if you want smoother cinematic motion you typically will have this set to high and then you'll want to set your joystick speed to slow and so this allows you to do smoother cinematic motion you let go it's going to feather in and out and it's going to be much more pleasing than super jerky motion but it all depends on the subject matter that you're shooting just know that all of these settings are adjustable depending on what you're shooting now in the bottom left hand corner you have dial functions and when you click this it could go through the different functions that this front wheel can adjust and so right now it's set to zoom in focus and using the Bluetooth I could actually control this on my Sony camera now there's ISO there's aperture there's shutter and then there's also some motions with the gimbal typically how I use this front wheel when I'm shooting is I have it adjust my tilt motor so when I use this up and down I can adjust my camera up and down now if you wanted to this could be set to your role and this could also be set to your pan personally I've just found the most use out of this front wheel by adjusting my up and down tilt however ever if you are someone who's doing manual focus this might be a good option for you to control your focus depending on the lens and setup that you're using now in the lower right hand corner you can control the speed of this wheel and so it's the same settings as the joystick you have your speed you have your smoothness and you can also reverse the direction at which this wheel responds so right now mine's set at 50. I'm going to bring this down and I'm going to adjust this to something around 20 and now when I make tilt movements it's going to be a much smaller movement and I can make it more cinematic with the way that I roll this front dial so you're really gonna have to figure out what use do you want to use this front dial for whether it is a gimbal motion or if you want to use it for a camera setting and then if it's something for the gimbal you just want to adjust your speed and your stiffness to match the type of movement that you're going to be doing when you're out filming using this motion now there's a couple more things beyond the screen that helps you control this gimbal using the different buttons on the gimbal if you press and hold the trigger you're going to put it into lock mode so that means all three motors are locked and so whatever action you do with the gimbal the camera is always going to be locked into the same position and when we get outside I'll show you how this lock mode works and when you might want to use the lock mode so you hold the front trigger it's going to lock it you're going to double click the trigger to re-center the camera and then three times for selfie mode like I explained earlier now the mode button by just pressing it will switch between the different modes now if you press and hold the mode button you're going to enter sport mode and you double click the trigger to remain in sport mode so you could let your hand off the Gimbal and it's going to stay in sport mode so sport mode is going to allow you to track fast moving objects because everything on the gimbal is going to move super fast and to exit sport mode you press and hold the mode button and then you double click the trigger now the power button turns the gimbal on and off but when the gimbal is turned on if you press it once it's going to put the motors to sleep so now I could just move the gimbal freely and nothing's active but if I press it once again the kit all the motors will turn back on and the gimbal is going to be ready to use now if the gimbal is turned off you could press the power button once and it's going to show you how much battery you have on the gimbal now the last feature of the mode button is if you press and hold the mode button at the same time as you press and hold the trigger button and you hold it for a few seconds it's going to Auto calibrate so this is just a quicker way to go into that calibration mode and make sure that everything's calibrated so the easy way to use this gimbal is once it's balanced turn on the power press and hold the mode button and the trigger button at the same time calibrate it drag ready to start shooting now with the record button you have three features that you could use with this record button depending on the camera you have set up you could just press it and that's going to allow you to start and stop recording you can half press it and depending on which camera you're working with they'll trigger autofocus or you can press and hold the record button and it will take a photo and so it just depends on the camera you're using and so you can check on the DJI website for the compatibility list so that's all the features of the menu and how all of these buttons work now the last thing I want to go over before we go outside and start using this gimbal is how the app works in the phone because there's situations where you might want to use the app versus just everything that you have on the gimbal itself foreign so let's dig into the DJI Ronin app so this is the app that you're going to want to download it's called DJI Ronin and you're going to want the most current version so if you already have this on your phone from a previous gimbal make sure it's updated so when you open this there's going to be an option at the top of the screen here that shows you all the different gimbals that this is compatible with and so what we're using is the DJI RS3 mini make sure that's selected and then you can click connect underneath and if your gimbal is powered on you should see it pop up Now the default password is one two three four five six seven eight and click connect now if your gimbal does have an update you're going to see it pop up here at the top of the screen so I'm going to click update and it shows you what's new with this update and so the gimbal will go through the process of updating when you have this selected and you'll just see that it says upgrading firmware on the screen itself just let the Gimbal and the app do its thing and just don't touch either alright so now the gimbal is fully updated so in the upper left hand corner of the app you're going to see a sleep function and so what that does is it puts all your Motors to sleep in the upper right hand corner it shows you what mode you're in it also shows the battery percentage for your gimbal now you can click the three lines and it's going to have a few different settings for your gimbal it's going to show you your info about the gimbal itself and also show you the firmware now in the upper right hand corner you can click the little book icon and this will bring up a bunch of tutorials around the DJI RS3 mini so if you want to see some more information just from DJI directly there's basic Advanced camera movements and creation ideas so you can watch a bunch of these videos if you want to see what DJI has put out around tutorials for the DJI RS3 mini now the first big box down is create now you can click create and there's a few different options here of ways that you could use this gimbal so the first is a virtual joystick and so you have this little button in the center and it works just like the joystick on the actual gimbal itself but it's all done through the app so you can control your Gimbal and move it and also change the speed and the smoothness of all these camera movements you can click the recenter to go back into the center now there's also Force Mobile so what that allows you to do is you hit enable Force Mobile and now your gimbal is controlled by your phone so wherever you move your phone it's going to move the gimbal it's kind of a fun little thing to play with and if you got some handles for your phone you could make some big smooth motions and it makes the process of moving the camera much more physical so what do you think gimbal do you like Force Mobile yes I do I like force mobile now next is panorama mode and so what this is doing is basically setting up a grid of how many photos you want the camera to take to build your Panorama and so right now you can see I have it set to four across and three down and so you can see the camera icons in the upper right hand corner and so the camera is going to move and do forward shots across tilt down four shots across tilt down four shots across then you could Stitch all those together and create a nice wide panoramic of the view that you're seeing now there's also a time lapse feature and so this is similar to panoramic instead but instead you're going to take a series of photos over time from one spot to another and you can add different points that you want the camera to move and the interval between each of those points now I have push mode enabled so let's say I want to start over here and set that I'm going to hit a plus icon there I'm going to move the camera over to here tilt up slightly and hit the plus icon and so it's going to go from between 0.1 and 0.2 at an interval of two seconds it's going to take a photo every two seconds and it's going to do it for 20 minutes and so you could change these for how long you want this time lapse to go and how long you want the interval to be and then underneath the push mobile you can see it says frame rate so let's say I want to do this at 30 frames per second it's going to show you the clip length it'll be 2 minutes 34 seconds when all stitched together and it will take 4620 photos so you could go through and make your adjustment and create different time lapses and then the camera will go and do it automatically so all you have to do is set it up here in the app click the white button in the center then the Gimbal and the camera will go through and take all the photos for you and there's also a preview button in the corner if you want to see a preview of The Movement before you actually start taking photos now let's go back to this main screen of all the different create options you also have track this is the same thing as a time lapse but it's for video so I could set up one spot here hit the plus icon move the camera because it's in the push mode go up here hit the other plus icon I'm going to have it stay on this first spot for three seconds and then I'm going to have the movement be five seconds and the stay time here is three seconds so now you can see the full move is 11 seconds down here in the bottom I can click record the camera is going to move back to the start it's going to start recording it's going to hold there for three seconds and then it's gonna move over the course of five seconds and then it's going to hold and when the shot's complete it's going to cancel the record on the camera and you could reset this up and do another motion so if you want to just create some smooth motions and not actually touch the gimbal then the track mode is a great place to play around and create motions where the camera does all the movement for you after you have it all set up now something else that's pretty cool is if you have a PS4 or Xbox controller you could set it up to control your gimbal I personally have never actually used this feature but if you wanted to control using a controller might be a cool way to use this Gimbal and then the last thing is your camera settings so right now it shows that because I'm using Sony what I can adjust is my zoom speed and so I could go in here and change different settings depending on which camera is connected through Bluetooth now back on the main home screen underneath create there's a connect to Raven eye so if you are using the Raven eye wireless video transmission well you can connect it through here however this gimbal is not really set up to use the a brave and I that's much more for the RS3 or the RS3 Pro now underneath that's a balanced test so you could go through and it's going to give you a tutorial to see if your camera is balanced or not next to that it has motor parameters so right now it's showing all the stiffness and this is the same stiffness that we saw in the gimbal itself so you could go through and adjust here if you want to go manually and adjust the stiffness and at the bottom of the screen is auto-tune so if you want to calibrate your gimbal you could do it through the app as well now on the bottom of this main home screen there's user profile you can click this and it shows you the three profiles in one M2 and M3 and you so you could go through and make your own custom profiles right here in the app and see access to all the different settings in one place and then the last button on the main home screen is your status and this is where you can put your gimbal into sleep mode you could turn it into silent mode you could disable selfie mode now underneath this you have system calibration horizontal calibration and restore gimbal setup so all the same things you could go through check all your parameters make sure everything's set up properly or just restore the gimbal back to factory settings and that's everything on the app itself so really what you use the app for is if you want to have access to all the gimbal settings in a easy way where you don't have to scroll through the little screen on the gimbal itself or if you want to use some of those deeper features like your time lapse your track your Force Mobile or your Panorama these modes could be super useful depending on the subject matter that you're shooting and it's all done through the app you don't have access to these same modes on the gimbal itself so that is everything about the gimbal about the menus about the app you're set up you're ready to get going so let's go outside and let me show you the different follow modes and how they work and also how you hold and use this gimbal to actually get smooth footage all right so now we're outside let's go over some different ways to actually use the gimbal to get some smooth shots so the first thing I want to go through is the different ways that you're going to hold a gimbal so there's three main ways that you'll use this gimbal so the first is just in the upright mode and that's where you're holding just the battery grip you could use two hands if you have the tripod on the bottom here but you're just going to be holding it like this and depending on which mode you have it in you could twist your wrist or your body and the camera is going to spin with you and then you can walk forwards or backwards and it also keeps it at eye level so that you can see what's going on with your camera right here on the screen and this is a great way if you're doing a lot of like standing still motion where you're kind of just moving your body and your wrist and it's also a good way to use this camera when you're walking so that you can keep things super stable moving forwards or back now one thing when you're working with a gimbal we'll talk about this when I get into how you actually walk with the gimbal is you want to try and save your back you don't want to be operating like this with a hunch like if you're always kind of hunched over like this your back is really going to hurt and so ideally when you're working with a gimbal you want to find positions where you could be upright with your back and you're actually supporting yourself over your skeletal structure because that way you're going to be able to do longer shoot days and you're also not going to destroy your back I've worked with gimbals for Years big heavy gimbals with big cameras on them and if you don't have some sort of support vest and you're just kind of holding it like this well your back is going to start hurting over time and it's going to just get progressively worse and worse so you want to try to do things to minimize the amount of strain and you don't want to be curling over all the time and hunched you don't want to be like the hunchback operating a gimbal so that's the first way to hold now the second way is flashlight mode and so that's where you hold the gimbal kind of like flashlight so you would hold this gimbal it's right out from in front of you down here and it's kind of pointed forward now this mode you could do two hands here in the front and it could be a good way to walk get a little bit lower shot as well but also if you're doing something like like the vortex mode where you want to spin in a 360 you're going to have to put it in the flashlight mode to be able to do that and so when you're operating with this way you could hold the gimbal close to your body and you can move slower and keep the whole weight closer to your body up here you're kind of in front and your arms extended out your bicep is going to get tired after a while that's another thing you have to worry about when you're working with a gimbal is your arm it's going to get fried with one of these one-handed gimbals so a lot of times I'm trying to get two hands on the gimbal to operate it whether it's here or it's down here where I could get the weight closer to my body and I can move with it now the last way that you're going to be holding this gimbal is under slung mode so if you want to get a super low shot you can actually flip the gimbal upside down the motors will auto rotate so that it works like this you can get a nice low shot so if I'm trying to get a super low shot down here I could put it in under slung mode and I could walk slowly now if you had a longer pull you could get this even closer to the ground with the tripod that comes with it you could get pretty low and you could get some good looking shots in the under slung mode and the gimbal is just going to move automatically if it's all balanced properly you can swing it around and so right now I have it in pan follow mode so I'm able to flip it upside down without the camera moving however if you do put it in one of the other modes well the camera is going to move when you start adjusting in that way so if I try to flip it you'll see that the camera now goes upside down and this is in pan tilt follow mode so if you want to be able to flip to under slung mode you'll want to have it in pan follow and that way you can drop it down and then you could get your low angle shots so upright mode flashlight mode and under slung mode are the three ways that you're going to be using this gimbal to get smooth shots alright so now let's talk about the gimbal walk I kind of alluded to this a little bit in the last section but you want to be able to walk in a way that's going to allow you to shoot for longer periods of time while not hurting your body because if you're always hunched over and you're trying to get lots of shots while your back's going to get fried and you're not going to be able to shoot for long periods of time also your arm is going to get super fried so just keep that in mind when you're shooting you're going to have to carry this in front of you and depending on how much weight you have here your arm is going to get weighed down over time so let me walk back here and let me show you kind of two ways to do your gimbal walk you're going to hear a lot of creators say that you should walk like a ninja and instinctively when people do that they kind of get down low and they hunch over and they start walking and yes that's going to get you super smooth footage but look at my form I'm like bent over here I'm like bent weird down here I'm putting strain in my legs and my back so I'm not going to be able to operate for long periods of time whereas the point of getting a smooth walk is so that your z-axis doesn't bump up and down so ideally what you're trying to do is make sure that your arms are right here and that the camera doesn't do this because with a gimbal you're going to have the three axis that keeps it completely stable no matter what you're doing however there's no z-axis so your z-axis is your arms and your body and so when you're walking there's a little bit of Bounce to your walk and if you're not controlling your movement up and down well you're going to see that in your footage you're going to see a lot of bounce up and down and so when you're walking the goal is to make sure that the camera stays perfectly level and so that ninja walk that I showed you that I've heard a lot of creators talk about and I even used to do this it tries to get you in a position where you can keep the camera super level but it's going to hurt your back it's going to hurt your legs you're not going to operate for long periods of time so if you're doing short bursts you could get down low and you could walk really steady and the shot's gonna be super smooth but if you're are going to be operating for longer periods of time what you're going to want to do is just control using your arms not having the gimbal super far out extended keeping it close to your body having a little bit of space to move up and down and then you're going to want to walk Heel To Toe so you're keeping yourself upright cameras close to you but if you notice there's no bounce in the camera and so it's almost like you're speed walking you know when you see Runners you'll see them run there's lots of Bounce there but have you ever seen a speed Walker they walk super fast it's kind of like upright so you're trying to think more like speed Walker versus a runner and if you're trying to move slow this is super easy you just keep yourself upright roll your shoulders back kind of have that upright position and just Heel To Toe try not to put strain on your legs or your back so that you could do this for long periods and then when you start moving faster you're just going to try to do this motion and learn to walk faster kind of this Heel To Toe structure now there's definitely times where you're going to have to run to get a fast shot you can see from this footage right here I was sprinting through the forest chasing these kids and the footage came out super smooth and I was on a 50 millimeter so it really comes down to practice so for that shot I was hunched over and I was running and I was doing more of the Ninja walks so I was like this and I was running trying to keep the camera stable and you can see it from here here's some BTS footage and it wasn't a super long take so I was able to get a shot in that way so ideally when you're doing the gimbal walk you want to make sure that you're not hurting yourself in any way so you want to try to not hunch over and you want to try to do the gimbal walk where it's more upright you stay smooth you heel toe your feet and you're not bending however if you do need to bend over and do that ninja walk it does work too it's just you can't do that for long periods of time however you might find that you could get some super smooth shots with it so just keep in mind when you're working with the gimbal it is physical so you will tire out over time and the way that you move your body is really going to impact how smooth your shots are so let's go over the different gimbal modes that you have in the DJI mini 3. and these are the modes that when you go to your main home screen in the lower left hand corner so right now I have it in pan follow and you can see the camera over there so what pan follow does is I can turn left or right and the camera is going to pan and follow me so whatever movement I'm doing the camera is going to follow me on that pan axis but if I move up or down on the Tilt axis as you can see here the camera is not going to tilt so this is always going to keep your horizon level it's not going to tilt down or up but it's going to pan with you so personally I use the pan follow mode for the majority of what I shoot I just like this mode and it seems to get the footage that I need but there's a lot of other situations where it doesn't necessarily work now this mode is great for something like an orbit so I have this tree over here and let's say I just want to walk in a circle and just film the tree and it creates a nice Arc around that tree and if you are going to do it orbit there is that menu setting that's going to make it even smoother in the camera so the next mode down is your pan tilt follow so it has the same movement that I just showed you however if you tilt forward the camera is going to tilt down and if you tilt backwards the camera is going to tilt up so now you're following it in all directions Your Horizon is always going to be level in this mode but if you tilt forward the camera tilts forward and if you tilt back your camera tilts back and then if you Pan the camera is going to pan with you so this Mode's great if you want to do a shot like you're up in the sky and then you come down to the tree but you're also moving where you want to orbit around the tree and so you can come up with some different movement patterns where you're moving the Tilt axis and also the pan axis now the next mode now is fpv so this is the same as pan tilt follow however it also allows your roll to be activated what that means is your horizon is not going to stay level so if I twist the camera's going to twist with me and so you can see on my camera shot the camera can do a roll at the same time as panning and tilting so let's say I'm walking forward so I could start up top I could come down and I could also roll at the same time and so you could create really Dynamic shots where your horizon is Shifting as well as your pan and your tilt these shots could get super wobbly and look wonky if not done right but these could be useful if you wanted to do something like starting up at the sky having the camera crooked and then coming down into your shot and leveling out your horizon so it's level into the tree and then you can even twist further into there and so here's a few shots you can see where I've used this fpv mode and this is the kind of footage that you can get now the next mode down is custom and so you have your tilt axis roll Axis or pan axis and you can lock any of them and so when they're all in the gray they're all locked so let's unlock the roll axis and you can see now I can roll but the other modes are locked and so you could set up whatever custom settings that you want by locking your Motors on or off now the last mode in this mode menu is 3D roll it's going to automatically go into flashlight mode and then you're going to use your joystick to roll the camera so if you push left or right that's the direction that your camera is going to roll so I could point at this tree I could start here and as I walk I could roll the camera so this is how you create those spinning shots where the camera's just endlessly rolling into something it's a cool mode but personally I don't know how often I'm going to use it I've seen it used in a few TV shows recently for like one shot so it's a cool feature to have but don't know how often I'll end up using it so let's go back just to one of the normal modes now the last mode you have access to is lock mode and so that's where all the motors are locked you so you can turn it on by creating a custom setting where you lock all the motors or you just hold the trigger and when you hold the trigger the camera doesn't move so as you can see I'm moving this gimbal around but the camera's staying completely stable and so say you want to lock onto something in the distance well you can lock it that way no matter what you do the camera is always going to be in the same position so something you might use this for let's say I'm looking out over this Horizon here and I just want to lock my camera shot straight ahead I'll get into a good position and then I'll walk so I could create a dolly shot but I know that my camera is always pointed this way and it's not going to Pivot left or right so I'm going to get this super straight line with my shot and it's going to be very fluid versus if I didn't have that on and I twisted a little bit well the camera might twist if I did that same shot I was walking but then I twisted slightly you can see how the camera is now off and so you can see it's not keeping a straight line like I intended with that shot now the last mode that you have is sport mode so you press and hold the mode button it's double click your trigger now what happens is everything moves super fast and so you can see on my camera here as I move whatever mode I'm in it's just going to respond super fast so let's go over to pen tilt follow and now as I move this camera up and down it's just going to follow with a very fast motion this is if you want to film action and you want to just be able to capture it super fast without the camera lagging behind so a lot of options to be able to use this gimbal in a variety of ways to be able to get your shot and get something super smooth all right so now let's go over some eight basic movements that you could start using right now with this gimbal to get some smooth footage I didn't want to turn you around go back so the first one is just going to be the push in so I'm going to put this into pan follow mode I'm going to level out the camera by double clicking we're going to face the tree over here and all you're going to do is walk towards the tree so you want to have a nice upright posture and just walk this is called a push in and so you're going to be walking towards an object or a person or something in your frame and if you're using a wide lens you're going to see a lot of movement especially when you're close to objects now the second shot is the pull back so this is where you start close on a subject and then do the opposite so you're just going to walk backwards away from that object and as you're walking you're going to see more of the scene now the next move is the side step or the dolly and this is what I was showing you earlier so you're going to have a shot straight out in front of you and then you're going to walk to the side so if I'm pointed this way I'm going to hold the trigger which locks the camera and then I'm going to get in an upright position and you could walk whatever is going to be the best way to keep a nice smooth shot so I'm crossing my feet right now or you could put yourself on the side of the camera and walk forwards or backwards but the idea with this shot is you see a landscape off in the distance or subject like this tree and you're going to be sliding across it it's called a dolly shot and by locking it you're going to get a much smoother motion than if you were to have the camera panning left or right now the next move is just a simple pan so you want to keep yourself in one position and get the camera close to you so that it's not a ton of weight out front and then you're either going to use your joystick to pan the camera left or right or you could use your body movements so I'm going to keep it in pan follow mode double click to re-center I'm going to start over here and I'm just going to pan slowly and you're going to see as I pan past the camera revealing the scene out in front of me just a super smooth way to get a nice pan shot of a landscape now the next shot is a down to up so you're going to want to create a custom mode and the only axis that you'll see is the Tilt or you could use pan tilt mode depending on what you're shooting so I'm going to create a custom mode and everything's locked except for my tilt so now if I pan it doesn't move and so I'm pointed at this tree and what the move is is I'm going to walk forward and tilt down into the tree and you could do the same thing from down to up so I'm going to have the camera down you can see my shadow and I'm skimming along the ground and then I'm coming up to reveal the tree so either use the pan tilt follow mode or create a custom mode and that way you're just starting in the sky or the ground and then panning up or panning down to reveal whatever's in the scene it's a good way to start and end a new sequence now the next one is the classic orbit that's where you keep your subject Center and you basically move in an arc around that subject so I'm going to put it in pan follow mode the tree is my subject and I'm just going to try to keep equal distance between me and the tree and I'm going to walk in a circle as I go around the tree and Arc with the gimbal so you're creating a nice smooth Arc motion that's going around your subject and you can either focus on something specific or just a point out in the distance now the next mode is the Vlog mode so click three times I would keep it in pan follow mode so that as you twist the camera twist with you and you could Vlog with a Gimbal and so you can see as I'm walking around it's so smooth you're going to want to put the screen off to the side so that you can see what you're doing but as you're moving around just becomes a super easy way to get smooth shots and with this gimbal it's so much lighter so that you could do this for longer periods of time however your arm will get tired because you have to extend it pretty far away to get a nice wide shot but if you can hold this for a while this might be a great way to Vlog you're just going to have to play with your settings to find which settings work best for the way that you move left and right and pivots to keep yourself centered so that's going to be your speed and your smoothness are the different settings that you're going to want to use when you're in the Vlog mode now the last mode that I want to show you is a jib and so this is where you start low and go high and so this is a great tool to use if you want to come from behind an object and then come up and reveal the scene so if I was somewhere here with this tall grass I could start down low in the grass and then move myself up to reveal the tree in the distance and I'm moving my arms and a huge Arc from super low to super high and the gimbal's so slight it's easy to do one of these motions that creates a big jib like shot so eight ways that you could start using this gimbal right now to get smooth cinematic looking footage but if you want some more ideas on how to use a Gimbal and some more shots that you could do with the gimbal make sure you check out this video right here goes through a ton of different tips and some different ways to use a gimbal to get some really cinematic looking footage I'll see you over there

Channel: Jeven Dovey

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Length: 56min 0sec (3360 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 21 2023