Premium Members Eric Fletcher S.O.C. Posted July 2, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 One thing that Greg's will do that Chis could only dream of implementing is a verticle "Jumbos" mode designed for properly mounting poles. It is AM approved. but does it have an AM approved "stand on the ceiling" mode? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members RonBaldwin Posted July 2, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 Don't be naive! Greg, AM and I have been working on this for months. If you choose not to fill the resevoir with baby oil, it will fit ten $1's. Lime I daid, AM approved :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Sarah Thompson Posted July 2, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 Don't be naive! Greg, AM and I have been working on this for months. If you choose not to fill the resevoir with baby oil, it will fit ten $1's. Lime I daid, AM approved :-) Yes, but will it use a Mornington Crescent Effect sensor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Eric Fletcher S.O.C. Posted July 2, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 Don't be naive! Greg, AM and I have been working on this for months. If you choose not to fill the resevoir with baby oil, it will fit ten $1's. Lime I daid, AM approved :-) Yes, but will it use a Mornington Crescent Effect sensor? that is such old tech. They are using a lisegav powered Jumbo Effect pole referenced sensor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members RonBaldwin Posted July 2, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 ...with a twist of lemon! There is also a proximity sensor so the pole is far enough away from the tip rail so nice folks like David don't get wacked in the cabeza while breaking a $5 bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Eric Fletcher S.O.C. Posted July 2, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 ...with a twist of lemon! There is also a proximity sensor so the pole is far enough away ftom the tip rail so nice folks like David doesn't get wacked in the cabeza while breaking his $5 bill! Oye! that was a tragic moment in Steadicam History Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Lawrence Karman Posted July 2, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 Sarah is talking about a far more advanced bubble than we have available to us today. Wellllllll, there is one that does exist already and it's coming out with the new Cinetronics monitor Just sayin fan boy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members William Demeritt Posted July 2, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 Oye! that was a tragic moment in Steadicam History Pretty standard moment in Glidecam history. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Eric Fletcher S.O.C. Posted July 2, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 Oye! that was a tragic moment in Steadicam History Pretty standard moment in Glidecam history. Ooooofffffff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members James Davis Posted July 2, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 Oye! that was a tragic moment in Steadicam History Pretty standard moment in Glidecam history. I thought Glidecams were extinct already......like the dinosaurs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members chris fawcett Posted July 2, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 And Transvideo is making inertial compensation horizon too: http://www.transvideo.eu/en/node/1721 I'll upgrade to it soon and let you know how it performs. It augments their standard HD overlay bubble. Interesting events on the horizon, Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evrim KAYA Posted July 2, 2012 Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 Sarah, wow! what a background! i think you don't need to put the sensor elsewhere. as you design consists of gyro stabilazed level as opposed to older dampering systems, it will be less prone to error due to horizontal momentum such as pan mouvement. i think the specs should be, 1/ only roll axis 2/ water proof 3/ solid machined & anodized casing 4/ sd / hd-sdi overlay with no delay 5/ standart power connectors we curretnly use in the industry (such as 3 pin lemo & RS) 6/ resistant to horizontal momentum 7/ as an option; low profile separete led read-out that we can velcro anywhere on the monitor casing. (dimmable) 8/ one touch calibration as opposed to holding down a button in order to minimize the risk of moving the sled during calibration. 9/ competitive pricing. 10/ auto low-mode sensing and calibrating could be a nice feature 11/ and of course; heated cup holder :) after that please build us a reasonably priced, medium range(50-100 meter) no delay, small, hd/sd video transmitter such as teradek cube but without the huge (minimum 6 frames) delay! just my 2 Turkish Liras Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Eric Fletcher S.O.C. Posted July 2, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 i think the specs should be, 1/ only roll axis 4/ sd / hd-sdi overlay with no delay 8/ one touch calibration as opposed to holding down a button in order to minimize the risk of moving the sled during calibration. Few things. 1) why? Tilt is free 4) no can do with a outboard hd-sdi level it's a minimum of three frames delay in order to put a overlay on the screen 8) bad idea the reason you do the two second hold is so that you can't randomly set a new level Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Sarah Thompson Posted July 2, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 i think the specs should be, 1/ only roll axis 4/ sd / hd-sdi overlay with no delay 8/ one touch calibration as opposed to holding down a button in order to minimize the risk of moving the sled during calibration. Few things. 1) why? Tilt is free 4) no can do with a outboard hd-sdi level it's a minimum of three frames delay in order to put a overlay on the screen 8) bad idea the reason you do the two second hold is so that you can't randomly set a new level Actually it should be possible to do HDSDI overlay with a delay in the microseconds, but it requires a bit of careful design. The 3 frame delay comes from triple-buffering, as traditionally done by old-style timebase correctors. It's a powerful technique because the output frame rate phase need not have anything to do with the input phase, making it possible to do overlay without genlock. (I once helped to design a genlock circuit, must have been in 1986 -- this brings back memories). Anyway, there is a second approach that could work here. Basically, the overlay box sits as a 'man in the middle' between the camera and the monitor, essentially passing through the HDSDI signal unaltered, with a few pixels delay (inevitable due to the way that the signal has to be received and sent). An overlay circuit could piggy back on this signal, replacing pixel information on the fly as necessary. If the overlay is in the form of another unsynchronized video signal then it would need a 2 to 3 frame delay, but (critically) if the signal was also generated on the fly, in sync with the outgoing pixel data, then there need not be any extra delay at all. For practical purposes, this would give you overlay with zero perceptible delay. As regards an inertia compensated level, there would be an inevitable need for a small amount of delay there due to the need to filter the outputs of the IMU, though the data rate is probably going to be high enough that this will not be noticeable. So, doing overlay is possible, but it will need an FPGA and quite a bit more development time. Not quite a weekend project. What would someone expect to pay for a bit of hardware like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Thomas English Posted July 2, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 Between $500 and $2000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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