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I use to use Music Bed all of the time, but this year I had an employee contact me. She was asking me if I could help out by telling her more about the project that I was working on. The musician that wrote the track I used wanted more pieces to show their music with. So I told her about the project. She started investigating into employee counts etc... Anyhow, it turned out that I had the count wrong so I owed another 100 or so dollars. It was my mistake, but I found it very sinister and devious the way she approached the whole thing. It left a bad taste... So that being said, here are the places that I have been using every since: https://www.pond5.com http://www.art-list.io/ http://www.premiumbeat.com/ http://freemusicarchive.org/ http://www.epidemicsound.com/ And I also hire musicians to create custom tracks or contact people directly about licenses.

I was told that you could not adjust focus? Or is that only on Sonys that you can't adjust focus?

Thanks for all of the replies. Really I just want to manually focus on the gimbal. I can almost do that now, but unfortunately I am not light enough on the touch. Focusing electronically would be ok I guess, but I much prefer another non-electronic way..

Thanks for the replies... I guess there is no manual way of focusing. I can almost get away with focusing by hand on the gimbal, but maybe there is a tool that would make it lighter to the touch?

I am looking for ways to be able to rack focus on a gimbal without a huge expensive setup. Are there any good options out there?

Welcome!!

Ok thanks for the feedback. I'll give it a shot then after this edit.

Did you notice a performance improvement by chance with the new version of Premiere?

What codec are you using? I tried the cineform, but it took quite a quality loss.

I haven't tried the ingest feature. Is it not just creating proxies? I drop in week's worth of footage on a timeline to start stringouts (1 TB approx.) Will it make proxies faster? I hope I am missing something

Proxies suck. It may work, but it sucks waiting 12 hours for your footage to convert while I can edit straight on other editors. Sorry I am just ranting. I am having a pissy Premiere week.

I just want to be able to scrub through a string out without the ridiculous lag that I have been getting with 10.4. It's pretty hard to work fast like this.

I used to backup using a windows tablet with a usb on the go cable and a hard drive and sd card reader. Worked fine...

Hi Don, thanks so much for the info in this thread. I am currently feeling the same pain that you were having trying to scrub through 4k footage in Premiere. It is really screwing up my creative process and I hate transcoding. I just don't have the time after a shoot. I am really hoping to find a way to make this work with Premiere. By the way I normally edit in Edius and it has absolutely no problems whatsoever with the same files. So my work around for now is to cut my sections in Edius and when I want to place in Premiere I find the file and the section and place. It really really sucks. Anyhow, enough venting. Hopefully they will put out an update or something soon..

Sure I used it a lot. Overall it is fantastic because the build quality is fairly high, it is light and so compact for travel and it is extremely quick to setup. Most times when I was re-balancing I was doing it while walking to another site. Oh and it's really nice to be able to put down on the ground as well. I used to set it down so I could shoot with another camera. But, all that being said, it is nowhere near as good as a gimbal. I just picked up a gimbal (see other thread in forum, 2nd page ish) and it is sooo much easier to fly. I am talking when there is wind, when you are walking fast etc.... The gimbal gives you better shots at a higher percentage. It is a bit less fluid, but the problem is with all non gimbal stabilizers like the came h4 do better with lot's of weight which sucks. The gimbals are ok with little weight from what I have experienced. I know a gimbal is a bit more money and it's electronic, but a good gimbal is a better rig to have in your bag I think.

Huh, I have never had it over heat on me. But I guess I am not running it for long periods of time. Wow, we have had completely different outcomes with the camera. I really think it's great. I have had no problems with it and it shoots such clean 4k.

Ah yes, good point. Too bad it doesn't have a mic input... the rx100 is a fantastic little cam.

Why not just use a rx100m4? Flip out screen, 4k and tiny? But I do have to say that for vlogging, the content is what is important and not as much the quality. Actually I guess that is true in any video

So my problems were, 1) The same thing that jonpais mentioned. The axis is slightly off so I had to recalibrate 2) The panning is jarring on default settings and needed to be tweaked. It's right at the start of a pan that it looks jarring I moved the setting to 80 and it seems to have helped 3) The last biggest problem for me was that all I carry with me at shoots is a laptop and a iphone 4. I know it's old tech, but it can't load the app for the gimbal settings. I even had a windows tablet on me and that didn't have an app either so I was stuck until after my shoot which is a bit too late. So to get around this I tried not to pan which sucks. 4) The other thing is that it would be great if the camera were mountable from the other side (having the arm on the left). This way I could at least swap cards and possible batteries without having to change rebalance while on a shoot. I tried to mount from the opposite side, but the pan stopped working. Not sure what is wrong here... I am not sure what the weight is, but I have a Sony 28mm f2 on an a7sii and than a video quick release system and it doesn't seem to have any problems. If I add a larger lens it does have problems. I also did another test with IBIS on and off and it definitely needs ibis. Other than that, I would say that if you are having trouble balancing with the gimbal. It's about 20 times more difficult to balance with a steadicam in my opinion if not more. Throw in some wind and it becomes exponentially difficult with a steadicam. There is a shot in my test of a man's back shooting towards the city. That was in very strong wind and the stabilizer barely budged. Can I see the footage? Are you saying the panning is bouncy? Because if so, set the panning to lower in the menu system and it should help...

So I got my Zhiyun Crane in the mail last week right before a shoot out West and I decided to leave my other stabilizer at home. Delivery was extremely quick with the priority shipping and the customer service on their Facebook site (messaged them) was fantastic. I had some small problems with the stabilizer, but all in all it is quite a step up over a steady cam. This is my first gimbal and I have to admit I wasn't really trying to keep it steady that much as I should have. It seems like it's magic (which it pretty much is), but you definitely still need to practice to make it perfect. Let me know if you have any questions

Sorry wasn't trying to be mean, but when someone is blaming a product for not being good and it's really due to their lack of knowledge well then let's call a spade a spade. A forum full of knowledgeable people are trying to help and the op is being stubborn in my opinion. This post is almost troll like. Maybe that is why I am caught up wasting time typing this out? Dunno...

I believe that it would be your grading skills that suck rather than the cameras colours?

That's awesome... on the page that you linked https://vimeo.com/ebrahimsaadawi there is a video and it contains my footage. Or at least the front pic is my footage...

Shame Ebrahim! What say you? Return the money.

They must have changed how they do it because the version I received has a latch per leg. Works like a charm The general build quality seems good, One of the screws is a bit loose, but works well. I didn't get to try mine out either. I can just say that if you are trying to balance quickly, this is eternities better than the flycam.