[Ryan Elder]

Shooting 23.976 is okay though, as a lot of people do not care about the difference between that and 24, at least I don’t think most do.

[Ryan Elder]

Okay thanks, as far as delivery requirements go, I asked the person co-producing it with me and he said that since I know more about that than he does, he is leaving it up to me, but I’ve never done anything where I mixed aspect ratios before.

As far as duplicating it and blurring it goes, I think it will look very strange and the viewer will pick up on it looking off. It might work for a clear sky or something like that, but with footage of people in it, the people would be duplicated and blurred and it will look very weird I think.

You say don’t pan and scan, but why not? Sure you loose some resolution, but then you are not switching to a 4:3 aspect ratio, so therefore, isn’t panning and scanning better if you get to keep the same aspect ratio?

I watched some of Bowling for Columbine to compare, and Michael Moore, zoomed into the archival footage to match his interview footage, and he had no problem panning and scanning it seems, but is that bad?

[Ryan Elder]

Okay thanks. Sorry if I asked too many questions, I just want to make a decision on which route is best and not make a mistake on buying the lesser item, if I get a rig.

[Ryan Elder]

Okay thanks, I will try to do more research on the crane, but might go for the Ozmo once I research that one more. So you say that gimbals are better than glidecams right… but why is that or what is the advantage?

[Ryan Elder]

What about the problem with the gimbals moving robotically though? This guy talks about it in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4mtJTBdtVs&t=12s

5 minutes into the video, he shows how the crane was late in following the basketball, and for my project I will be following a lot of fast moving actors and objects. He also shows how the running actor was harder to follow with the gimbal compared to the glidecam later in the video.

So I worry about the gimbal being robotic and not reacting fast enough. He also says that if try to go for a curved shot that the gimbal will correct it and make it straight, but what if you want a curved shot?

These limitations concern me, but is there ways around them or anything?

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[Ryan Elder]

Okay thanks, I didn’t know that the Osmo came with manual exposure control options like that! So what would be a better tool between the Osmo and the Zhiyun crane do you think?

[Ryan Elder]

Another problem I had with gimbals, and I read this was a complaint from other users compared to a glidecam, is that because they are motorized, they do look more robotic, and can have trouble tracking fast moving objects, and I’m shooting a large action sequence, that will have actors moving around very fast, like running, and falling to the ground, and things like that.

So would a gimbal be a problem for that, compared to something that is non-motorized?

[Ryan Elder]

Okay thanks. I took a loot at the Ozmo before on film riot, but I didn’t like it because it’s an entirely different camera, and I felt that it would be trouble to match the look of that footage, with the footage of the camera that I would be using to shoot most of the rest of the movie though.

Plus I was not able to get a lot of info on how the built in Osmo cam worked. Can you set the exact shutter speed you want for example, so the shutter matches the other camera?

I used a ronin gimbal before on a film school short film project, but I had a lot of problems with it. There were times when it would move uncontrollably. One time during a shoot it started spinning around and around in circles and I could not figure out the problem and it kept doing it. I’m guessing maybe it was the wind, but the breeze was not heavy, just medium. Is a gimbal this sensitive to wind normally? But there are other times when it would move uncontrollably on me.

Another thing is, is that I found the ronin to be very difficult to transport from location to location while shooting. I felt that if I put it down, that it seemed fragile and could break while sitting down in the car. So gimbals just seem a lot more fragile compared to glidecams.

I also hated to have to use my phone with the ronin as the found kept constantly disconnecting from the system. So if I use a gimbal, do I have to use a phone with it, cause I found that to be a real problem, compared to something like a glidecam, where you don’t have to rely on electronics.

[Ryan Elder]

Plus I thought that Ronins were built for DSLRs particularly, cause in film school, I remember they tried to put a larger camera, on and the ronin couldn’t turn as a result, as the camera kept bumping into the corner, if you tried to put anything larger than a DSLR on. So I thought it was only built for those therefore.

[Ryan Elder]

Oh okay, well right now for the current project we are using a DSLR. However, this means if I want to continue using the crane in the future, I would have to continue using DSLRs, if a DP would not have his/her own gimbal.

Also why a gimbal? Wouldn’t the glidecam look better, since I’ve noticed that the gimbal movement looks kind of robotic, and people have complained about this over glidecams, which look smoother?