Chamber YOUniversity- Video stabilization: Mastering the Smartphone Gimbal
Date and Time
Thursday Apr 19, 2018
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM CDT
Thursday, April, 19, 1- 2:30 pm
Location
O'Fallon Public Library
120 Civic Plaza
O'Fallon, IL 62269
Fees/Admission
No fee to attend this hands-on workshop but space is limited to the first 15 RSVPs.
Description
Presented by Library Workshops
Video is the future of small business marketing and inexpensive smartphone gimbals are the key to making that happen. In this fun and rather amazing, 90-minute, completely hands-on, let?s-get-in-there-and-practice-with-our-gimbals workshop, you?ll learn the best ways of using your Zhiyun Smooth-Q (or similar stabilizer), practice with the app?s multiple creative features and master a variety of true cinematic techniques that are sure to make your marketing videos more likable, linkable and sharable.
Attendees will learn how to balance their smartphones (or action cameras) on the their gimbal properly (a vital piece of your production work-flow), how to plan their moving shots better, how to walk and run when holding a gimbal, how to follow and lead a subject, how to shoot tilt, rotating and orbital shots, how to create crane, boom, truck and slide shots (without any expensive gear), which smartphone video settings work best when paired with a gimbal, how calibrate their gimbal and more.
Workshop Highlights:
- Smooth-Q Gimbal Calibration Techniques
- Balancing Smartphones and Action Camera?s Properly (as to not wear out the gimbals motors)
- Smoother walking and running techniques
- Setting up and Getting the most from your Smooth Q app
- Best Practices for Removing iPhone Wobble (should you have it)
- Mastering the Basic Seven Cinematic Gimbal Techniques
- Object Tracking Techniques (without the App)
- Shooting Establishing Shots with the Gimbal
- And more.