All About MOTION CONTROL!
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- This is our definitive guide to getting started in motion control, from live action to stop motion, kit, software and methodology.
We've also got some sneak peaks into our work on the short film 'A Memory Owed' where we capture multiple passes of a 1/32 scale Avro Lancaster.
Here are a range of some ‘off the shelf’ entry level motion control solutions.
List is ordered into ascending order of price point and recommendation :
Hardware suppliers with mobile/ app based control:
EdelKrone
Sliders/ PT heads/ dollies/ jibs and accessories:www.edelkrone.com
Dynamic Perception
Time Lapse / Video/ Stop motion hardware and control solutions: www.dynamicper...
Black Forest Motion
Pine controller/ Sliders/ PT heads/ Focus motors and accessories: blackforestmot...
Kessler Crane
CineShooter and Second shooter Pro motion control systems: www.kesslercrane.com
Dedicated Motion control software and hardware controllers:
DragonFrame Software
www.dragonfram...
Fantastic ‘all in one’ industry standard for SMS animation and motion control. Artist friendly, user intuitive software that can easily be expanded into real-time capability via hardware controller.
DragonFrame Master Controller DMC-32 www.dragonfram...
The DMC-32 (Dragonframe Master Controller) is a 32 axis motion control coordinator for use with Dragonframe software.
BFG -’Mantis’ Motion Control Software.
www.bfg-motion....
/ gerald-thompson-6a522511
• Mantis Unboxing
Gerald Thompson’s widely accepted standard for real-time motion control software and hardware control solutions.Very open to expandability and well suited to bespoke rigs and setups.
DIY and most affordable methods of entry into motion control. (Also many other easy to follow tutorials to find on UA-cam.)
Stepper motors and Arduino:
howtomechatron...
Control a Stepper Motor using an Arduino, a Joystick and the Easy Driver - Tutorial
• Control a Stepper Moto...
G-Code control of stepper motors:
courses.ideate...
Hardware components for DIY built rigs:
openbuilds.com...
ooznest.co.uk/...
Recommended UA-cam videos that cover Motion Control:
• The Basics of Motion C...
• TUTORIAL DRAGONFRAME H...
• MoCo Build
• Making a Pan Tilt head...
Social media resources for motion control:
DIY Motion Control Facebook group: / 1482887721871093
Motorized Precision Motion Control Fourms
/ 1555044797918190
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Man!! I can't believe JP built all this himself! I'm mind blown! Congrats!!! Also, That pyro pass looks absolutely amazing! Can't wait to see how you guys did it!! ❤❤
If only you offered "Emotion Control" for when I'm lucky enough to happen across a new InCamera video without expecting it! 😅 You guys ROCK!🤘😎
The quality of the work and educational filmmaking you share on UA-cam always blows my mind. You deserve a trillion subscribers!
Love the channel guys!
these guys are the future, stories are so much more interesting told with practical effects and techniques
Awesome Lancaster, can't wait to see more!!
dang, I love moving and controlling, but at the same time??? whaaaaaa!!! this sounds like my kind of camera set up!
Wow! Bit strange pausing the video and seeing my own name on the facebook page!
Awesome video!
this channel is so unbelievably underrated I don't understand how you don't have millions of subs yet
That'll be the algorythm. And we suck at thumbnails... clickbait titles... broad appeal yada yada yada 😂
we need more episodes like this!
Thank you for including my build in your video! Your channel is a huge inspiration for me :)
This guys's like the Dr Strange of Cinema production.
Excellent discussion about moco. You’re doing such a service for the community of spfx artists. Truly appreciate the two of you and thank you for the inspiration. Off I go to put the finishing touches on my launchpad miniature. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Amazing information! And we even got a cheeky kiss at the end! Well done, guys 👍
Man your Channel is so underrated but the content is so good.
I Share this for Sure 💯
Wish i had 10% of your Gear and Studio space 💯
Greetings from Germany 🙌
JP is doing amazing stuff again!
I would like to see you guys tackle some DIY puppeteering and CGI , like the stuff they did for the animals in His Dark Materials.
Oooh yes.
How crazy, I was thinking about InCamera all day coincidentally and ironically, last week I shot my first motion control music video. Now I can't wait to get home to watch this video!!
Excellent!
This is exactly the kind of video I've been looking for. Thank you! I've got a full Edelkrone setup, and you're right. There are only so many axes you can control. It's designed around the idea of simplifying complex camera moves, but doesn't include moving a prop or a light (although there are ways you can sort of fudge it).
I also have the RGKit Play motion control system which is designed around creating motion for props and displays, as well as limited camera motion (their system only supports five motors so you need to pick and choose).
I would love these systems to talk to one another (as well as my old Cinetics moco motors). I thought Dragonframe would offer that, and it does... kind of. I was hoping all of this could be orchestrated for real time moves, but it appears that it can only move all these motors in a shoot-move-shoot scheme. I'm not complaining - that's an amazing ability. I realize that the streamlining of the Edelkrone and the RGKit Play systems to be ready-to-run is going to limit options. There's still a lot of work I can do with both systems before making the jump into a higher end system that's going to take more oomph to get going.
I hope I'm wrong, and there's some brilliant way to get all this gear to play nice for real time shots. This channel has been very inspiring to get me to push past those limits and try new things - thigns I've been wanting to try for 30 years. :) Thanks for that, and keep up the superlative work!
Absolutely love what you guys are doing and all the helpful information you’re providing the community. Lots of ideas from this video. Keep it up!
This is so incredibly cool. Great job at building that model mover yourself!
Love your content guys
I think I'll try making one with Lego NXT some day. Low quality, but cost and effort are also low.
I was working on making 3d printed parts of something just like this.
On the Kessler motors, did you set the “Steps Per Unit” to 200/“rot” on each motor axis? It was something that was left out of the tutorial and really helps the motors perform correctly with Df.
That's great to know. In the end we found doing a hard reset of all motors and connecting the rail motor to DF first solved the problem! A weird solution so it's good to know there's a particular setting that might be the best answer. Thanks! 👍
Oh, I just want to animate that cockpit crew just a little bit!
Hear you there! Certainly an option down the line
Love how you guys put this video together! Super valuable info 👏
Great video as always, guys! I have a really old Kessler motion control slider system, but it really doesn't do great with repeatable motion. This has certainly made me want to dive in and look for something newer and better.
Great video video as always. You explain things so well 👍🏽
yea, been dipping my toes into the world of Unreal engine for both video and stage production, there are so many possibilities its hard to find what path to take
I really love the stuff you guys put out, didn't realize DragonFrame had a 32 channel control box that's pretty fantastic. It's definitely got me wondering what I could get up to at my budget range, which is surely a lot lower to the ground than yours. Thanks for this! Love the 3 axis actuator platform especially that thing looks like a blast
Emotimo is also dragonframe compatible.
very interesting
Great stuff as always. Could you let us know where to find those Nema vertical actuators?
Toppp work !!!
Cool video & hello, we're new and integrate into dragon frame FYI :D
Thanks for the video
Have you guys had trouble finding a computer that’ll connect via USB to your Cineshooter head? I have 3 Macs and only 1 will mount the Cineshooter on the desktop. Makes Dragonframe use a bit of a pain as it’s the most expensive and powerful Mac Studio that’s required for it even though a Mac Mini would have been adequate. That aside, I love the enthusiasm and verve you guys have. Ben
here i am trying to find a parallax slider that does 1 run over a period of 30 days.
Oooh! I see a landspanker bomber! Lovely! I do hope you're going to pay attention to what they sound like, cos, generic multiprop willn't work. The called them engines Merlins cos they sound magic. Probably. Well, after the bird, really, I'd guess, but quadrumerlins is the sound god had in mind when he made the world. In the story, anyhoo.
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You set it on fire?! That's treason! Sedition! People who set fire to landspankers are the baddies! I am appalled! No, worse than that, I am THE palled!
On the other hand, loads of cool robots....
I'm kinda thinking that modelling work is going to come back in style in a big way - just one of the reasons I'm subbed, because, I reckon, it's taken twenty five years or so for 'The Industry' to work out CGI is just a tool and like all tools it is amazingly specific in what it should be used for. Hollywood's quarter billion movie picture shows seem to cost that much mainly because they are forcing CGI to do things other options would be better for. Pretty sure I could give you guys, say, two million squid and a more or less decent script and you could pop out a decent 90 minute picture. if you have a heist, a car chase, some cool gun fights, a snarky lead and one or two femmes fatal and, given the state of cinema today, you'd make a fricken fortune.
I can't give you guys two million squid, obviously, I'd have trouble giving you guys two pints. Just wanna make that clear. I mean hypothetically. Possibly hypnothetically. Soon as I stop writing this I have to go back to work.
Is that the HK Models Lancaster?
We think so. We didn't build this one but we know it was the largest available off-the-shelf!
What you are doing is not too far off from what Stanley Kubrick did in "2001: A Space Odyssey" Except, they use stepper Motors AND SIMPLE TIMERS to get their shots.
I'm interested in doing a whole diy camera rig and mover, would it help if its just all diy with the dragonframe box? Thanks! Would go motion be possible? Thanks!
All DIY can definitely work, and DF offers 'go-motiin' 👍
Just be aware that if you're shooting anything on blue/green screen it's safer to shoot without go-motion as the blur it creates makes keying very difficult. You can always add blur in post if this is the case.
@@InCameraTV Thank you!
did you say that the pine 2 can daisy chain together?
im amazed how little views this video has.
any insights why no one has made an "off the shelf" model mover yet?
We'd guess because off the shelf means mass production on some level, and these days there probably just isn't the demand
@@InCameraTV suppose so. I do wonder what the unit cost would be for a small rocker mover (like what ILM used a lot, thinking the BTTF Time train rig as an example, only smaller in scale) attached to a turntable. I wonder if such a product would encourage more small scale miniature use, though admittedly for all I know that could be a 15k usd minimum product depending on its weight capacity and move speed. Maybe more. Alas.