- All right today, we
got a really cool video. We're checking out some super cool toys like this brand new super
spacious port-a-potty come in with me. Look at how much space
there is optional accessory. You can get as a disco ball
up here, I mean, it's great. Now let's get to the boring stuff. So this is the antigravitycam and we have Jorel here showing us, huh? - Let's do it one more time. - Have I been saying it
wrong this whole time? - [Jorel] Jorel, Jorel. - Jorel, seriously for
like the last three days I've been calling him Jorell nonstop. So for those of you who haven't
seen this thing in action, here's what it looks like. (upbeat music) - Yeah, what's up? - [Host] You did that on your
own, with your thumb stick. - Just my thumb stick. - That's a lot of stuff to think about, especially when you're
standing at a cliff. On the bird, the bird, we got the bird. - We brought the bird in. It's a union bird. - Yeah union bird. Let's take a look at this real quick. Just look at this right here. What crazy person designed this? Oh, hey Adam. Adam is the creator of this contraption. The antigravitycam. - Will still photos don't do this justice. All it does is pop up questions. Like sometimes the first
thing they'll say is, "Oh, you'll never get
down through a doorway," because they see the arms up but we do those shots all the time. - All right, so here it is
kind of in the collapsed mode, but then you said you could
break this down further in case you're trying to
travel with it, right? - Yeah, yeah 15 minute tear
down 15 minutes set up. - I think this is the part
that just seems insane, but this is essentially creating
a huge suspension system in a backpack. - This is like having the elastic court hanging off a bridge, but
you can walk anywhere. So the camera just floats in front of you. This is a fidelity
commercial you shot right? It trips me out because
there's so many things where I was like, Oh,
that log must've been CG. 'Cause he went straight through it. And then you showed me
the behind the scenes you actually just. - Everything's in camera,
the frog, the log. - Wait, this frog is not CG? - No, its real. You can actually see
the camera lift over it 'cause I didn't want to step on him. We had a frog handler just
to the left of a frame going don't step on the frog. And I had to lift the camera up, so you can actually see the
camera go up a little bit. - It's one of those times when
it looks too perfectly placed where you're like, Oh that's fake. Obviously that's fake, what? That frog is, my mind is blown. Under the couch, so in
that case you go pull and then three huge
monster looking guys go, pulls it out that fast? - It was actually on wheels
so like it's, you know, it's like one of those stage couches that weighs like, you know,
15, 20 pounds or something. - Wow, wait, so if you
sat on that stage couch you're just following through it's not made out of cardboard? - Set up time honestly,
wasn't so bad, right? But once you get it done this really fixes three major problems. One, with gimbals you
can generally see steps. You could stabilize a shop in post, but you can't get rid of Caroline's that becomes a whole lot more difficult. This does a great job getting rid of that with all the different forms
of suspension it has on here, including a set of
suspension here and here, as he steps in walks notice that all of this does
translate up to here even but since there's multiple
sets of suspension, by the time it actually
gets to the camera like that it's like perfectly get still. As I jumped on an 85
millimeter I'm jumping, I mean the camera obviously
is moving a little bit, but it's very difficult to make it move. So it really isolates that step that's problem number one, that it fixes problem number
two gimbals are fricking heavy especially as you bring
it up to here, right? Now I know it looks
like, Oh man poor Jarell. He's probably in so much pain right now, holding the camera up there, but really the way it's designed and because of this
mathematical science stuff that I have no idea what's
going on here because of that, it actually doesn't get
heavier as you bring it up which is kinda crazy. 'Cause all the systems
that are kinda like this, as you bring it up, it becomes
heavier and heavier, right? But this, he just hold it up there all day it doesn't really get
heavier as you bring it up. When I first put it on and I actually brought the camera up, that was where I was kinda shocked. All you gimbal operators
know what I'm talking about try holding a gimbal up
here, takes so much strength. - Look through that. - Sam, I need you to
Photoshop out this rig and just show me operating like this. It's hard to describe how nice this feels, how even it is just all
the way up and down. And the third big thing is that you can now put
this thing anywhere. - You think that it's big, but as soon as I make an adjustment, check out the boom box I'm
gonna articulate them down. - When you made that adjustment here, that makes you lower profile It limits your range a little bit. - But I can put longer rods here and the whole gimbal inverts. Now, instead of the lens being here in relationship to these
bearings, it's up here. So that means we can
easily hold eye-level shots in a low doorframe. - The Ronin two also offers
a couple of different ways to control the camera. - So many, which is great to have wheels the Master Wheels are remarkable. I think that's truly one of
the most professional ways to operate. - [Host] Yeah, actually the
Master Wheels we have here. - [Adam] We just did a shot with them. - What do you think about DJI stuff, huh? - I love it, I have a Ronin-S. - That's a good answer 'cause
DJIS is standing right there making sure you say the right thing here. So don't let Stuart hear you okay? Yeah, Stuart from DGI was
showing us some goodies. - These are master wheels top tier way to control the gimbal. Most traditional cinematographers
can walk up to this and they already know how it works, right? Like they already know how it's
going to control the camera. Even looking at the controls of it. Like, there's only a few dials which they're already
familiar with on you know, on larger systems that are not gimbals. - And I'm assuming the wheels is kind of the ideal way for getting that intricate control, huh? - Yeah exactly, and then the fine tuning. Just the very tight, you know,
like there's such a small difference I feel like
between good content and great content, right? The content that we all love, it's really in those minor things. - You usually use the wheel slot right? - Yeah, I do use master wheels. - I have my own gear
head I have a mini wheel. It becomes like a bicycle, you
know which way you're going. Because you don't even think
about which way is which, and you just watch and you react. It becomes very Zen. - You know, I kinda like
this, I kinda want one. How much is this? - It's about 10 grands. - And then there's the Forest pro, which I actually is my personal favorite just because how intuitive it is. - Like there's an example
of this on our Ronin-S with the force mobile,
we can use your phone. This is gonna be a bit better than that 'cause it was made for
this express function. I'm also, you know, as all of
our products range, you know is really good, right? So you can get like a mile
out with these, you know, it's just, it's pretty incredible. You could make a little rig here with like a monitor transmitter
and operator like this. You can put it on a tripod, right? So like some will do that say
if it was on like a crane. - You can also adjust how directly your movements translates
to the gimbal right? So if you want that handheld look, you make it really sensitive,
jerk it around a little bit or you could damp in it,
so it's nice and soft. Even if you're a little
bit shaky out here. - Exactly.
(upbeat music) - The way the rollers are
configured, you go in and out. So this is for mid shot handoffs. It's a very smooth, seamless handoff. And you can go through a window you can connect it to a drone, a crane, you do anything you want. - You guys have a permit
with California State Parks? - We just got shut down. Sheriff threatening me with $500. - We have like 10 minutes
to get out of here. So we're gonna see how this does and just a running gun situation. Can you turn the camera
around so that he's vlogging? - The most expensive
selfie stick ever created. - Do you want to walk with it? Watch your head. All right, we're just gotta go for a jog. How you doing? - Good, can you keep up? - It kinda looks pretty stable. Oh, are we going this way? Okay, we're shooting like this now. All right, watch out for a log. Yep, I just swear you have
like extra eyes somewhere man. What surprised me was
how minimal your crew can be when you're even you're doing this. If you need it to, do you think you and just a first AC could
go out to remote location and get some shots with this whole setup? - I mean, I hate to say yes,
but sadly I do it often. - Obviously nice to have
the full support team, but if you need it to just
go and steal a few shots you kinda could. - 1000%, my first AC, Joe
Gunawan, who's one of the best in the business. He set up a tilt handle grip
for me in a number of times with focus on it. So I can control focus
and zoom from a handle. - Let me just take a look
at this stand though, look at this. - I usually have a bigger screen at 1303. But because we're in the
beach, we're walking around. This is kinda my lightweight
and if I want to, I can take this off and I can go home. And a lot of times I would be
following him on the terrain. That way I could keep track
and I don't have to lose video signal and make sure he's in focus. - But man, we didn't get
enough shots of the car. You're planning on shooting it with this but I mean, we just gotta
get it a little mini tour. - What you're looking at here is a 1923 Ford model-T Roadster. - 1920 what? - Three, 1923 Chevrolet
small block 350 keys again at 300 horsepower with
a turbo 350 transmission out to a 48 inch rear end. This is Southern California at its best. - There's a problem with
this, there's no door. - No roof. - How do you get in this thing? - You climb in.
(engine roaring) - How cool is that thing, huh? - Why we originally designed this was for really tiny crews
could climb a mountain could go have accessibility
to these great shots without even a full crew. But what's turned out
also in addition to that is some of the huge budget films that have big techno cranes that use all these great shots Will use this like a smaller paint brush. And they go in and do all
these nice moves where it just, it keeps the pace of the set moving. They can get all the
precision that they want there and the actors aren't waiting. So there's some real benefits for the bigger budgets as well. - The third set of bite
that was pretty cool was the handheld version, right? But it's kinda like handheld 'cause you still get their
handheld feel and look. But at the same time, if you ever try to run with
a tight lens in handheld, it gets crazy. But that felt like a, almost
a stable version of handheld. - Well, it's a hybrid, it's
actually our handheld bracket it's a direct hold of a
camera without a gimbal. And you get all of the
spatial stabilization, all the footstep isolation. We add a little bit of
counterweight with the batteries, either above or below. And what this enables
you to have some inertia but it's extremely reactive. - How would you say Hollywood's
kinda reacting to it? - We're slowly picking up
converts, Maddie Liberty, who does amazing. He's one of the biggest
DPS out there right now, very, very innovative in his
approach to the storytelling. And he gets a lot of use out of it. It was extensively used
in Venom, Star Is Born. I know we used it on Native
Song, parts of Birds Of Prey. So, a lot of movies that he does. Gimbals had a rough start. They took a lot of knowledge and how to balance them perfectly. Frankly, there was a lot
of hardware problems. So they were moody, they
worked when they wanted to, people had computers out having
the re-flash the firmware and the last thing people
wanted to see on a film set. Then they really improve the technology for good example of course this one we just worked with the Ronin-2. Really, they put out a lot of the fires they had the early designs. So they are really pretty dependable now and they do open up a new freedom. But the thing that was missing was the spatial stabilization 'cause a gimbal will
give you perfect angular, like roll pitch yaw. That'll do that perfectly,
but what it can't do is, take your footsteps out. Chris Harris, who is an amazing operator, what he first said when he started with the anti-gravity canvas, I lost my fear of the foreground. Meaning that you don't
see that spacial change. - [Host] Right, and you
noticed that in all gimbals even a small thing or a big thing, like there's foreground
you're gonna kinda see this. - And this is why this is like
the other half of the gimbal. - We have some questions
from the Instagram fans. So we see what they have to say? - Filmmaker's world says, "Heyyy." It's not really a question,
but what's up filmmaker world? - [All] Hey. - My buddy Lee says, is
that a Spiderman villain? Yeah, I knew that was gonna come off. - We've been getting Doc Ops
since the very, very beginning. Sometimes you want to get a great shot. You gotta look a little bit like Doc Ops. - The question I remember
hearing coming up, was kinda go through doorways. You said you went through three doorways for them music videos? - Yes, there's a music
video with Dumbfounded and unfortunately it
didn't make the final cut, but I pulled a character through the bar a large doorway, a normal
doorway, third doorway into a bathroom. And then technically a fourth doorway If you consider a
bathroom stall a doorway. I didn't put it in the cut. - Don't do the hate it when
you put that much effort into the shot and it's like yeah. How long can you wear that rig
before the back pain sets in? - I'm feeling pretty great. - You were in it for a
solid four to five hours. Something like that with
barely did you put it down. - I mean I put it down once,
for about five minutes. - There's a shot here
and I'm just eating lunch with the camera on area Lexa
Ridge, just sitting right here. Just, just the chicken wings. What is all this for, looks overkill. Yeah, that's exactly
what I think everybody's first impression is when- - What's your first impression? - And it folds up pretty small. I mean, once you fold it
up, it's just like R2 D2 it sits on your passenger seat. Anybody can pick it up and carry it. It has like an illusion, but
we've had some very small humans not wanting to take it off. They're having so much fun with it. - Daniel says, "How are you?" Doing all right, how are you? - Feeling great, yeah I
do, I just had a great. - How are you Adam? - I'm doing good, we
had a lot of fun today. - Thanks for asking. Is it actually better
than a regular gimbal? Yeah, I mean the big part
really is that the gimbal aims the camera in the right direction. And this thing kinda stabilizes it and allows you bring it
up, wear inside wherever. - It adds to the gimbal,
so the gimbal creates all the angular stabilization,
the horizon, the role and what we create is
a spatial stabilization and the spatial moves. - Where is Sam, huh? - Where is Sam? - I'm right here. - What the (beeb) is that
and where can I buy one? - So you go to cinemadevices.com. Now all the information's there. I'm Adam it's Adam, it's
adam@cinemadevices.com and I always get back
to people right away. We're starting to work
with more steady cam ops who you know, seasoned operators that are just expanding their
kits and their abilities and interests, independent filmmakers. Our whole thing is to make sure everybody's trained out on it, that you're getting the
best shots possible. So we want to see it all the way through. But yeah, reach out to me, I
love talking to filmmakers. Do you occasionally feel like venom? Well then they use this tissue venom? - Yeah I think they use
the pro on that one. I would have loved to see the
behind the scenes on that, but like there's venom and
then like the guy that looks like Venom filming. All right, one final question. Who's where's the best, huh? This is the most
important question really. Should I go and just order a coffee? - You should. (upbeat music)
