GH4 Need Advice on Camera Motion Control System for Slider

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larrys

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I am doing a ton of interviews with my GH4 on green screen and I want to add a powered motion control system fro the Cinevate slider I now have or with a slider that has the motion control built in. I need to have a system that has the ability to do a powered pan so that it keeps the subject in the same framing.

I called Cinevate but their system for the slider I have, does not do the motorized pan.

I have looked at the "One Man Crew" by Redrock, but the reviews were so bad due to motor noise that I will not consider it.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
 
I'd also like to hear comments on this. I saw a demo for a curved track that took the camera in an arc around the subject and rotated the camera to keep it focused on the subject. Was that the Redrock Micro? I feel like I remember it being more curved than that, but I could be wrong. As someone who shots a lot of talking head stuff for our church, I've thought many times of investing in a camera control system.
 
blazer003 said:
I saw a demo for a curved track that took the camera in an arc around the subject and rotated the camera to keep it focused on the subject. Was that the Redrock Micro?
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Yes, it's the Redrock Micro "One Man Crew" which is supposed to work quite well, but your subject is always a fixed distance away from the device. ( I can't remember the details, but I think it's always 6 feet from the device )
 
I have and use that same panner/tilter and found it wonderful for the money

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wwjd said:
I have and use that same panner/tilter and found it wonderful for the money
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The Cinetics? Can it be programmed for use in interviews to keep the subject in the same framing and does it move very, very slowly? Also, is the motor silent?
 
larrys said:
I saw that one on B&H, did you use it with a motorized slider system? Or on it's own to do pans and tilts?
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Have not done a lot of actually filming with it, but will be using it on slider and crane a LOT on my next project. The slider makes some noise, the pan tilt head is pretty quiet, but it makes some noise, but I plan to have remote audio anyway. I'd prefer to have an all in one $1600 one, but that is just not in my cards, so I am maximizing this cheap pan/tilt heads use. I can mount it on a slider, locked at one end, slider on a tripod on its other end, and have a 4 foot insta-jib - lots of possibilites
 
Well, what I am discovering is that every system seems to make too much motor noise for me to use in my small, green screen interview studio. Even a lab will pick up the kind of noise I am hearing in some of the test videos online.
 
Look at the Edelkrone slider. It has add-on modules for parallax pans, and motor control. It's reasonably priced, and has a clever mechanism that allows for twice as much travel as the physical length, provided that it's on a tripod, hi hat, etc. This'll be one of my next investments.
 
These are great links. Thanks. I see guys on Vimeo and what not doing diagonal or even vertical timelapses. Which sliders do they use?
 
chromeboy007 said:
These are great links. Thanks. I see guys on Vimeo and what not doing diagonal or even vertical timelapses. Which sliders do they use?
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For timelapse (ie still images used to create a video) then any motorised slider will do.

However, the original question was in relation to tracking a subject when shooting a real-time video.
 
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