How I Make Watchmaking Videos - Cameras, Controllers, and Microscope
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- My videos are for entertainment and educational purposes only. Critical / corrective comments and links to resources including other watchmaking channels are welcome.
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thanks for this, this is really helpful as we are just starting to take youtube seriously. Its easy doing watchmaking when you've done it for years but hard to film it! Ill make sure to check back on this when I need some camera help :)
Thank you, Oliver! Let me know if you have any questions or need advice about anything any time. I recently got a used service bench from Rolex with the rim around the top and the arm rests, etc and I will be building another camera set-up for that. You're welcome to email me if you want to ask any questions privately - or you can ask on any comment thread. There's a bit about multicam editing with Davinci Resolve (which is free and syncs everything up by sound) in one of my earlier videos about the camera set-up if you're interested: ua-cam.com/video/TaJCEfLfmWI/v-deo.html
@@pbreeden1 😀 I installed the Rolex SAV bench and ELMA today in a spot that's kind of in the background of my current set-up. And yes, I still owe you some unspilt oil bottles at the minimum. How's it going on your end and when's your birthday?! 😂😂😂
as a former professional photographer, great setup and very informative explanation about the microscope...as mentioned I have the same but then called SM4 TP but need to set it up yet.
I was going to ask about your camera setup. Thanks so much.
Sure! Thanks for your interest. Let me know if you have any questions. I recently did a community post showing the camera positions on my two benchtops if that interests you.
What a rig!
Thanks Witt! I just clicked over to your channel and listened to you mix up Index and Indices and then correct yourself and it was liberating to know that I'm not the only one! That said, we'll never be on the level of Wei, Jack, Tim, and Teddy until we get that right every time! 😂😂😂 Great channel, by the way! I just wish the Chinese would have some confidence in their own designs! Ming is fantastic. I think he's from KL, but still, he's Asian and he's a great designer (I just checked and Ming is based in La Chaux de Fonds now.) Anyway, thanks for watching and commenting!
@@IMakeWatches I try to shoot from the hip, so it's natural...but sometimes I get hung up with trying to talk and drool over the watch at the same time! 😂 Pronunciations can be difficult , too, i.e. rehaut, fumé, elaboré, etc! I'd like to try the British pronunciation of aluminum (al-loo-MIN-ee-um) and see if anyone calls me out on it!
@@WatchWitt You have some good points there! 😂😂😂I have a Brit visiting me right now! Im going to quiz him about how they get -ee- out of -um-. I think someone must have just pronounced it wrong back in the day and everyone went along with it!
Your set up is amazing Dayton. Hats off!
Thanks!
Thanks and what a coincidence with my request. That Roller skating is like years old. I could recall that you worked as a photographer and I saw you all you equipment and that you are right guy to teach us about us. All of us are curious and so little information. Thanks again. BTW good work and I love all the flaws because it is not perfect to be a amatour watch maker. Also I have glasses and it makes it little more complicated.
Yes, but are those Kryptos on your skates or not? I love Malmo, by the way!
What a knowledgeable guy you are. A hoot to watch. Veritable utopia if information for people in the video side of the hobby. Clear as mud for me. My android handheld phone is my limitation. Therefore I'm pleased that you make so much effort in your production.
Hi Ross - your shorts look great, actually! (your UA-cam shorts, I mean 😂). All you need is an old heat lamp arm like I show with my IPhone and you can hold the phone anywhere you need. Or if you have 50 pounds to spare the Ikea LÅNESPELARE is really great!
Hi Ross, I deleted the comment you left on my recent GG video because Inception is one of my favorite movies! 😂😂😂 (I hope you understand the reference...) That said, I appreciate the sentiment and your concerns!
@@IMakeWatches Duly noted. Keep up the detective novela.
A full tour! Thanks very much for breaking everything down Dayton, always enjoy getting to learn and see the setup. I finally got my own bench and everything set up, almost all tools are here and microscope is mounted on the bench too. I got the clamping arm mount for mine, and it's really great in some ways, but there's also a pretty bad wobble on it if the desk moves even a little. I have an issue with focus on the microscope camera, where I can only get it focused at certain magnification levels. I saw this online, and saw it can be solved with a C-CS mount adapter ring, but I forgot to get one from AliExpress when I got the .35x camera adapter. I also got a Sony ZV-E10, and forgot to order SD cards for it 😂. Anyway, loving the content lately, the GG saga especially!
Thanks Turbo! Email me your address if you'd like me to mail you a C-CS adapter and that rubber ring I bought for you that will allow you to use alternative ring lights!
@@IMakeWatches Thank you! I just sent an email to you 🙂
@@awdturbopowah773 Hi Turbo! I didn't find an email from you. Did you send it to webcontact@digitalair.com? Can you check for typos? Or maybe it was filtered on my end. You can also resend it to dayton.taylor@digitalair.com.
@@IMakeWatches It was a mistake on my end (typo). Oops! 😅 I’ve just sent to the webcontact address.
Awesome studio tour! In watch enthusiast terms..."camera complications"! 😄
I'll keep my gear-geek comments aside and instead say that I think your ability to conceive of a product or technology, and actually manufacture it, is amazing. I wish I had that knowledge when I was younger.
P.S. Dayton, why not throw that strawberry under the microscope a few more times, if you have the room...?
Ha, I think you may have just solved world hunger, Mike!
@@IMakeWatches If you put a Swiss Franc under the scope would you get more money or just a larger Franc?
Interesting stuff Dayton, nice to see how a professional videographer/photographer approaches this. From my side of IT/electronics you only need some serious cable management 🤪😂
I have an entire wing of my studio devoted to cable management systems -- from zip ties to articulating tubing to cable boxes and everything in between, it's just blocked by so many cables that I can't get to it any more! 😂😂😂
LOL! 😂
Wow, quite a system. Had no idea that there is so much complexity. How long did it take you to pull together this set up? Thanks for the video.
Thanks! It’s all equipment that I owned already (and made myself) for visual effects and event production. If you go back to my first videos you can see the original set-up that took me probably a week or less to set up and then I’ve been tweaking it since then. Decades of work before I even started the channel though. Making and controlling cameras has been my life’s work and I’ve been fortunate to make a career of that completely outside of corporate structures other than accepting short term contracts to do specific work on films and TV commercials around the world.
That’s great that you carved out your own niche. Equally impressive are the camera controllers that you invented. Good stuff. Thanks for sharing.
This is incredible! I was under the impression you were only using a few cameras in your videos! How wrong I was. I obviously need help in video editing......if i had to edit one of my videos doing watch repair with 7 cameras, it would take me 3 years to have it all together. Any way to make an editing video for multi camera in davinci resolve??? I would be willing to work out a deal, if we could zoom or something like that. Ive been using adobe and using Davinci is really different. Thanks
Davinci muticam editing is really easy. You do have to have sync sound on everything and start and stop all the cameras but then the editing is just clicking on the view you want to cut to. There are lots of tutorials for every aspect of Resolve on UA-cam, and it's free! By the way I love that Accutron Space View you recently did the short about! I feel like that's a watch that every collector should have - and as long as I don't have one I'm not a real collector. But that aside, I just love seeing the resistors and the tuning fork and coils. I can only imagine how much engineers and technology enthusiasts in the early 60's must have loved those.
@@IMakeWatches The biggest problem with all of it is it is greek to me. Only started in 21 to edit and film, with 0 experience. Started with kinemaster which was confusing at first, then they charged a ridiculous amount for yearly. Switched to adobe primere which was greek to me, figured it out briefly, however, editing multi cam on rush takes an insanely amount of hours. Heard about davinci through I believe Awd. and it is totally different and once again greek. Watched quite a few different tutorials on it, but nothing that can capture moving to 3 different cameras with in the matter of seconds. For example taking off a bridge plate and moving it to the parts tray. In that motion, there is a potental to block 3 different cameras. So switching needs to be fast. Then in one of the tutorials, they said if you hit undo, it wipes out all the multi cam selections that you have done.......very frustrating to say the least! Thank you about the comment on the accutron. Yeah, they are great watches. Never really knew about them until I got into this hobby. Yes a must for collectors. Less temperamental than the Hamilton 500, or 505. I can only imagine the confusion or discussion when coming up with the 218......."So I went to my kids music show, and I think we can turn a tuning fork into a watch!!!" LOL crazy, but extremely creative .
@@JoeZaccardelli Thanks Joe! I talk about the Davinci multicam editing a bit in this video too: ua-cam.com/video/TaJCEfLfmWI/v-deo.html Also, since it's free you can just download it, throw in some footage and immediately try following a tutorial.
@@IMakeWatches I'll take a look, thanks. Yeah I know it's free I've played with it a little, trying to follow other tutorials....but am just not grasping it.....I swear I'm smarter than this....lol.
@@JoeZaccardelli I’ll make a more detailed tutorial myself - for you and anyone else that’s interested - starting with loading and synchronizing the footage all the way through to rendering with all of the toolbar pulls and different steps. Since you know my set-up already I think it will be easier to follow than other tutorials. Give me a week or so!
I’ll need to get you some cable management spray, for Christmas.
I have an entire area of my studio dedicated to cable management solutions but I can't get to it any more because it's blocked by so much cable.
How much time do you spend on postproduction, on average?
I would say about 2x to 3x the duration of the video because I usually don't cut them down, I just multicam edit. However, the recent two 11 hour long videos I uploaded took LESS than 11 hours each to edit because I didn't even watch all of the footage - I just set up the multiscreen windows and then juggled elements around in sections where I used the computer screen. When I do heavy editing, like the one hour version of the silver trench watch video, that can take 10 or 20 times the duration of the video. That is my least favorite thing to do, and sadly that method (heavy cutdown) is the only way to make really fast paced watchmaking videos. But to cut twelve hours down to one hour takes 20 hours.
@@IMakeWatches I’m also wondering if you do any color correction. It all looks really well-balanced on your videos.
How much was your "inexpensive watchmaker's miroscope?"
It was around US$ 350 including the 4K camera, but not including shipping. s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DdF3wtX You can be more selective about options and get the same base set-up for under 250, or even less if you don't need the camera.