Daniel Abboud

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Was this Candide's rig?

Still available?? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hi Jamie, What's your waist size and do you have any pics you can post, please? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Here's an interesting one I discovered last nite: When cross-converting from HD-SDI to HDMI, the DP7 develops a tiny lag in it's image, but the downstream monitor that's connected to that cross-converted HDMI signal is fine. Then again I am still using the 2.4 firmware. I've been leery of updating to 3.1.1. Have you tried to cross-convert with the 3.1.1 firmware installed?

Yeeeup, I'm also standing by to see how the Tilta Device pans out.

Can u please put up some pics??

Hmmmm... It's nothing I haven't sonde before with this monitor a hundred times. I don't get it. As for my screen name, I sent that post from the tappatalk app on my phone. I guess it didn't post all of my info. Sorry 'bout that.

Hi Libor! How old is the motor and why are you selling it pls??

Ok, I'm back with news! First, let me outline the setup: Signal came from an Arri Alexa into my sled > out at the bottom stage and into my SmallHD DP7 (HD-SDI) > Cross converted thru the DP7 and output from the HDMI to the Nyrius Aries Pro Transmitter. Charles, your advice was spot-on! All I had to do was to adjust the output framerate to 29.97 / 30 fps and it worked like a charm! Also, I tested it with an Epic, and that worked with output framerates of 24 and 30 fps! The range I got out of it was better than expected too. I was testing it in Panavision here in Toronto. This Panavision has lots of metal in the building, wifi flying around and lots of rooms, I was able to take the signal around 100' away with lots of walls and steel structure between the transmitter and receiver. The device claims 160' LoS, so I think it did pretty damn well. Charles, thanks again for the tip!

Thaks Charles! I'll check it out, first chance I get.

In this case I had an Alexa at full resolution patched into my sled and then through the monitor.

Hi Folks! Does anyone out there have any experience in using a Nyrius Aries Pro Tx / Rx setup?? Specifically, have you ever used it with a SmallHD monitor? I'm currently experimenting with one to see if it will hold me over until I can afford a Bolt Pro. The problem is that it seems to be working with every HDMI output I can find EXCEPT for the one coming out of my SmallHD monitor ...and yes the monitor was set for HDMI output. The Tx and Rx would connnect with each other. It's just that the Tx didn't seem to like the signal that was running through it. The little blue 'video' light wouldn't turn on to indicate it was getting a feed from the monitor output. Can anyone help please??

Hi Caleb, What are the model numbers on the Tx and Rx? I'd like to do a little research on them pls. Also, how old would they be pls? Thanks!

Huge THANKS to all of you guys who tested the SmallHD and the Cinetronic monitors! There's beer and wings in it for ya if u come to Toronto ;-)

Interesting idea! Is there a rep in Canada? I've always wanted to test out one of your arms.

Thanks for the Reply, Rick! Without spending to much of your time on this, how can a gimbal NOT be centred?? Hey Dan, How's it going man? My Gimbal wasn't centered, and they're adjusting it at Tiffen while Im in LA this week (brought my rig with me). If the Master gimbal is anything like the Ultra 1 gimbal, then you can adjust the gimbal via the adjustment screws on either side of the gimbal arms, I'm not sure which direction you have to screw on the master gimbal, or how to get at the adjustment screws, but Tiffen can tell you how to go about it. I'm not sure how similar they are, but I found online the steps to center the Ultra 2, at http://www.steadicam...alCentering.pdf Which will give you a better idea of what I'm talking about, but I'm pretty sure the adjustment will be different for the master gimbal, as is the case for my Ultra 1. I knew my gimbal wasn't centered because I would static balance in one direction and the rig would hang vertical, but when I spun it 180 it would be way off fore and aft. I contacted Derek Hester at Tiffen, and he gave me the low down. For the Ultra 1, centering is done by tightening the adjustment screw in increments of 1/4 turns on the side where the camera tilts upwards, and loosening the opposite side in 1/4 turns countered to your first adjustement. You mirror the opposite for every 1/4 turn adjustment, tighten once, loosen once, then repeat if necessary, until the camera holds static balance when facing any direction in the pan I hope this makes sense, but with my track record it's prob not very concise! And again, it may be different on the Master gimbal. Anyone can chime in if I have this wrong! Again, Tiffen will give you better info, if this is the problem you're having. It's possible that the Master gimbal uses shims or something similar to center it, if that's the case then completely disregard what I told you about the ultra gimbal :P Hope this helps answer your centering question at least a little bit. Cheers - Ian Hey Ian!! Thanks for the response. I spoke to Derek Hester yesterday and he told me that no one really knows why there is a difference in centreing the bearing from one sled to another. It's just that SOMETIMES there is. The current issue with my sled is that once I've balanced it, if I have to 'change sides' in the middle of a shot, the sled wants to lean over. Peter Abraham seems to think the Pan bearing might need to be replaced. Also, it looks like it'll be cheaper to carry the damn thing out to LA myself rather than courier it. there's gotta be a better way than FEDEX. Have fun on Doyle and Fly safe! -d.

Hi Jerry! Can you please supply the model number of these motors and photos please?? Thanks! -Daniel.

Thanks for the Reply, Rick! Without spending to much of your time on this, how can a gimbal NOT be centred??

Hi Aaron, I tend to agree with you about Peter's opinion, but he wasn't the one who wrote that back to me. It was someone in their tech dept. (I'd rather not name names)

Thanks for the opinions, guys! I'm having trouble understanding how a different sled makes balancing any different. (btw, how's this font size?? ;) )

hey Daniel! could you write with bigger fonts? :P other than that balancing the gimbal is not that hard. i balanced mkv nexus 2" and ultra2 gimbals but perhaps master gimbal is different. if you know how to do it then just sent the gimbal if not you better sent the sled along to be sure. :lol::lol:What, you don't like my posting for the visually impared??? :lol::lol: Now Why can't I make the emoticons ENORMOUS??

I'm planning on shipping ONLY my Gimbal to Tiffen for replacement of both the pan and tilt bearings. When I wrote to ask them about the service, here's part of the response: "It is possible for us to balance the gimbal without your sled, but we recommend that you do send your sled in. We have had success in balancing gimbals without the sled in the past, but we have also had times when the gimbal was balanced for our rig, but was not balanced for the actual operators rig, and it needed to come back." Does anyone out there have any comment on the recommendation of sending the sled with the gimbal on it rather than sending ONLY the gimbal???

There are still many sizes and colors to choose from. Feel free to msg me anytime or place your order at my email address: d.abboud.steadicam@gmail.com Thanks!!