How to Make a Curving Arm Slider - Slide around subject - 4K

hi folks last week I'll show you how I make these food glasses I try also to film it in a very professional way but I soon realized that my hands was shaking and the video wasn't coming as expected so I absolutely need a slider I already own a couple sliders but I'm very big are very uncomfortable to use them because you need to mount them on two tripods and then you can slide the camera and this is a lot of equipment to bring with you when you're filming so I need to add slider that can fit inside my backpack that can mount it can be mounted only on one tripod and also that can slide in a very different way I don't want a classic slider that can slide the camera just in a linear motion but this time I want to have a camera that can slide all around the subject so is like a round slider but is very very interesting so I start to draw some projects and I think I have got it so let's see if the things I have in my mind can become reality let's go so I bought on eBay these years the big one is six meters wide and the small one is only three centimeters wide my idea is to have a gear system that can invert the big gears and keep them at the right distance so this will work a plexiglass base very thick and very strong will be the base wagon mount all the gears on top I will use also for ball bearings to do this to have a very smooth movement so I will use my drill press and a drill bit big enough of the same size of the ball bearing and drill a hole on both sides so you end up to have four holes that are deep enough to insert the ball bearing and this is a very precise fee so I only need to push it inside and this will snap inside and this is the result to connect the gears on top of the plexiglass I will use a very - very strong stainless steel ball is very important to glue in place the gears on top of the stainless steel ball now is the time to connect also the smaller years to do this I will make two holes this are seven-minute and using em thread threader threatener I can thread the falls using also a little bit of oil to dawn over hit the plexiglass two big bolts now are inserted and as you can see the gears spin freely it's just a matter of connecting everything again together and this is the result as you can see the right year turn in the clockwise direction and the other one will turn in anti-clockwise direction this is what I want what we need for this project and now the most difficult part is done the gear system let's start to modify a couple pieces so follow me for about one minute and let's see how to do it so let's take eight half inch female t adapter shape and this will be the structure of my slider so are very strong and cheap components and to make the movements smooth I will use also ball bearings you find size and quantity for these projects in the info below in the video description as you can see the ball bearing have almost the same size of the half inch female tube and I only need to press it inside is very hard so a little trick is to use the vise to do this with my vice is a very easy job I have to insert the ball bearing very slowly until we end until we reach the end of it so as you can see this is the ball bearing completely inside within the tube and so presses is such a precise fit that no blue is necessary for this we repeat the process also on the other side and repeat this process four times so we end up to have four only four female tee as you can see now with the marker I marked high the top side the top part of the ball bearing and I can cut away the part and send the component very smooth this is this process isn't really necessary is just for me keeping my slider more compacted more smaller inside my back so this file is the result and I'm very proud on how it looks like all smooth and very precise now let's take instead other two components so the first four components I'll show you now are for the tripod mount and for the camera mount this time we need to modify two with the same procedure but this time with bigger bowler bearings so as you can see the hole the inner Hall is 10 millimeter wide the last two components we have to hack are this one I represent them in green so you can see all the components are different and this one doesn't need ball bearings instead have two staves perfectly straight and I will use some metal washers and some epoxy glue so recapping we have four ball bearings with small ball bearings inside two blue one with ten millimeter wide hole and two green one with ten millimeter washers inside now it's just matter of reconnecting everything we made until now so let's start to insert a green one so I remember you that this is a fixed component we have no ball bearing and blue one does that have the ball bearing inside a green one and then on the other side the blue one now it is very important to make everything at the same height so I use a couple of washers to keep to have all the blue tube at the same time now we have to connect very securely in place the green component so all Israel are on the both side so as you can imagine is just a matter of inserting a pin in this case it's true but they use also email or something like this so as you can imagine now that the green components are only one piece with the bolts with a long bolt and then with the gear on the bottom so only the green parts will spin you using the kids now I took four tubes these are 30 centimeters long but I think you can choose any dimension you can go up until 60 centimeter without problem connect everything very strongly and now we we just have to connect the four first female T fields we have modifying at the beginning this as I told you will be the base of my camera so a plexiglass base with the slot on the side is mounted on top using two big screws so this screws are at the same dimension of the ball bearings so a very precise movement and it not this put on the top this is to secure the camera and changing the angle of it we do the same thing but this time with a much stronger material this is aluminum and also here you can choose to change the pitch and angle of the base [Music] [Music] and the camera movement of the cider is very very fluid and I can control the angle so the curvature of the slider just controlling the two launches here you can control the the tubes here on the top and here on the base so for example if I keep them very wide open so very very far away from each other here on the base and very far each other here on the top like this then the effect that you get is that you have a every classic slider so you you can just move the camera in a very linear motion as you can see is moving in linearly almost because here is still close but if you close also here so you put the tubes close to each other here on the top so you can see now that are coming closer the camera angle is moved as well and the same thing also here if you keep them very close to each other now the slider behaves in a very different way now this is Ida wheels light in a round motion so check it out the camera will will wait a moment I start from here and the camera now will start to rotate around the subject keeping it in the center and focusing on on it I need to I only need now to practice with this slider and find how to tune it so I have to put some notches here and also here and remember how far away from the subject I have to be and how I have to point the camera and where the subject have to be placed it's not complicated I just have to practice with it it will take a couple hours but nothing knots not a problem and as you can see now the movement of arms is opposite so for example if the one on the base is turning on in a clockwise direction the one on the top is turning in a clockwise direction this is the reason why I placed gears so that we can all make the movement opposite it works great in a very fluid way so I hope you enjoy the project this time please leave a thumbs up I don't know why YouTube is trying to kill my channel as you can see I have almost 5000 subscriber about only 10,000 can see my videos I really really don't know why and he should know the solution please write me a knock on the comments below what's going on and I leave you with my two previous projects or you find the links here here and check them out and see you next week we cannot do it yourself tutorial church out [Music]

Channel: Rulof Maker

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Length: 11min 21sec (681 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 09 2018