Paul Cook

Thanks so much for watching and feeding back your thoughts everyone. I would agree that the pan movements in our pitch film were 'twitchy'. That's the perfect word I've been looking for to describe it. I also checked out the final product at IBC and it has improved dramatically. I would agree with Andreas still that by having the pan axis controlled electronically it would be a further improvement. I am not a steadicam operator or an engineer but I am certain that the Trinity could have an electronically controlled pan axis - it could still be controlled by the post but then dampened by the gimbal. The same way a Movi or Ronin does. I love the theory and concept behind the Trinity though, and the final product, being shorter and lighter than the prototype used on my film, is definitely a big improvement. It seems far more controllable because of those changes.

Hi all, I am new to the forums and keen to hear feedback from steadicam operators all over on something I produced this summer. I am a beta/product tester for Vitec Videocom and as part of a Kickstarter project I have launched I was lucky enough to have Curt Schaller operate the prototype SMX 20 'Artemis Trinity' on my pitch film. It has been getting some good and bad feedback, all of which I understand, but I wanted to hear from actual operators in the industry. As a DoP I have my issues with the end product that we created but I think it's still a really decent effort given the ambitious one-shot nature of it. The Artemis Trinity has actually now been adapted to iron out the imperfections that are visible on my pitch film, but I'd love to know what others think of the prototype's efforts. Any and all feedback is great, and I will actually pass it on to Sachtler. Please check out the pitch film here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulcook/magpie Thank you for your time.