BMPCC4K Rig For Travel Filmmaking
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2024
- In this video, I walk you through how my Pocket 4k is rigged up for travel filmmaking. There is a sequence displayed in this video that is shot entirely with the shown rig. I hope you enjoy!
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Hit me up with any specific questions you have, I'd love to help!
What kind of work (editing) do you apply on your voice? Sounds really clear, - much better than a simple lavalier mic. -
If you’re using Davinci Resolve, what are export settings would you say are best for BRAW?
Do you keep the canon LP battery provided in the pocket 4k while your using the NP-F battery?
@@bronzepodcast Hey brother, thanks for the kind words! Haha I typically just add some compression, specifically the "Broadcast" preset in premiere pros compression effect. Sometimes I'll raise the higher frequencies of the captured signal with some EQ as well. That's pretty much it! (This audio was captured with the Tascam DR10L and the stock mic)
@@link_8159 Hmm, I typically don't use Davinci for editing, but every-now and then for bigger projects I'll color in Davinci. I typically export out my colored clips in Prores 422 HQ.
The perfect pocket4k travel rig and of course the footy is beautiful!
Haha thank you brother!
Just rewatch your vids sometimes! You are missed Spencer! Hope you and your family are doing well and you come back and get your You Tube bag! 😂
This is really all you need. Mine is similar, but I've placed my NPF inside of a cage made out of a light socket holder and milled openings for cables and glued magnets to the T5 SSD. It attaches to a magnet with a 1/4-20 screw on the right side of a half rig or placed the handle. The 4K is much better for handheld than the Original, which is why mine now reside inside studio rigs full-time. This is very atmospheric and dreamy footage of Downtown Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
Holy cow, I'd like to see your rig. Thank you my friend! All the footage was actually on the Canadian side!
Clean rig dude! Awesome video!
Thank you my brother!!
Yours is one of my favorite UA-cam channels, brother! I'm blown away by your magical footage. I have a Sigma18-35mm myself that I recently received, and I love it. Michigander/Detroiter here, by the way. Thanks for sharing your passion with us, my friend, and my best to you and your family. Carlos
Hey my friend, thank you so much for all the love on the channel! Detroit love, whoop! Thank you for all the support, I appreciate it a ton!
@@SpencerWhiteman ☮️ You're very welcome, bro! Wishing you a great weekend. :)
Showing love from Flint, Michigan!
My man!!
Another educational and inspiring video. Thank you Spencer! You are a born teacher.
No way! Thank you so much for the kind words Andrea, I appreciate it very much!
I really liked the moments around 1:48 where a little bit of time is given to a subtle sound (which sounds like wind, waves, mist, etc.)😃 I didn't know this camera could be so compact...the tips about SD vs. cable management and using an NP battery were really helpful (and the others were too)!
Thank you so much for noticing the subtleties! I appreciate the kind words my friend!
@@SpencerWhiteman I feel like I get into details sometimes and forget to verbalize that the ENTIRE BODY OF WORK was good as well... so I'm working on doing that too, as I want to recognize there is a lot of work you put into MANY, MANY details...
Hi Spencer, loved your sequence, great footage. This video is exactly what I was looking for. I am getting my pocket 4k next monday and I was really nervous of how crazy expensive can it get to have a rigg on this camera, this vid shows that with a minimalist rigg like yours you can shoot beautiful images. Keep up the good work.
That is so awesome to hear Marco, so glad this video gave you some clarity! Thank you my brother :)
Great set up and fantastic video
Your editing is on another level. Beautiful I don't even care about the rig
Haha thank you so much brother!
that was quite lovely. and you're inspiring me to downsize my rig when it comes to personal / travel videos. bye bye v mounts and 15mm rods ha!
You're the man! It sure is nice to downsize the rig for traveling!
Another cool video. I'm moving a lot around with the camera so I was looking into making the bmpcc4k more travel friendly. So I was really looking forward to see your travel setup of the bmpcc4k
That is awesome man! Not many people talk about super compact Pocket 4k rigs. I actually like what Ryan Booth does, he lives in NYC and takes his pocket with a small lens and lpe6 and just documents everyday life and throws the frames up on his IG. He also does location scouting with his pocket, it's awesome!
Lovely footage and very nice travel rig!
Thank you my brotha!
The Tilta Clip On Matt Box would be also nice and compact. By the way GREAT CONTENT YOU HAVE FILMED THERE with the BMPCC4K . FANTASTIC. You really know what you are doing!
Absolutely, that would be a great accessory to add on! I shoot quite a bit with a 4x4 Black pro mist so that would come in handy instead of using my rod mounted matte box. Thank you my friend!
Rad work man! beautiful location to film!
Hey man thank you so much for the love! It certainly is, it was great to get out and see some beautiful sights during this crazy time!
Awesome video! I don't even have a BMPCC4K, but I still enjoyed this video! 😂
Haha that is what I like to hear, thank you!
Thank you man. That was great. Loved the film! I’m actually planning to get the pocket 4K so I’m planning what rig etc and this comes just right! New here! Stay well and safe 👍
Ruben! Thank you so much for the love, I really appreciate it! You'll absolutely love the camera, it's astounding. Not just because of the price, I'd be willing to pay much more for the camera, but because of how amazing the image is. Glad you're here my friend!
great video! my rig looks nearly the same, I just shoot on many Canon LPEs for private stuff
Sure thing brother! I like the idea of using lpe6's, minimizes the size of the rig a bit more.I do however like the battery life of the NPF'S I use compared to lpe6's.
Good advice, great footage. I've been debating the 18-35 and I'm glad to see the low distortion when zoomed out, and you mentioned it was constant aperture which is nice, not even something I considered
Another good way to cut down on camera profile that I rarely see brought up is using a V-plate that clips on to a belt or bag with a cable running from it to the camera. If you're using a neck strap and the battery is in your backpack, the power cable can be held to the strap with hair clips for a near invisible power source. cheers
Oh yeah, the 18-35 is the king of an all around amazing fast zoom lens, I rarely need to go beyond that focal length either. That is a great solution, I've seen that a few times on big sets!
Great vid and beautiful footage as always.
Thank you so much my man!
Beautiful footage
Thank you Danyal!
1:38 epic shot!
Thank you bro!!
Hi,
Glad I found your video! Going to be using the Sony NP-F battery plate by smallrig on my pocket 4K also... I've managed to balance it on my Ronin with full usability 🙂
Oh yessir! That's actually the only way I've found how to balance the Pocket on my Ronin-S. I use the NPF battery and plate as a counterweight to the right side of the camera setup that helps balance it out! What ronin are you running it on?
@@SpencerWhiteman great minds think alike! It's very difficult to balance but I'll be doing the majority of my shots on the gimbal!
Amazing! I love the look of this video. One question: how do you stabilize this camera when you're not using slow motion? Using this simple rig.
By the way, using this battery adapter is perfect, instead of buying a v-mount battery.
The footage was excellent and I would have guessed this was shot with vintage lens, not a sharp Sigma Art lens. Once you start down-sizing your Pocket 4K you appreciate what a powerful tool this can be. I’m psyched to mod the screen and record to a hidden M.2 drive.
Thanks so much Marc! Oh nice, are you going to do the mods yourself?!
Hi Spencer, may i know how you can keep the footage so stable with handheld? did you use stabilization in post production? Thanks. nice video
A lot of the footage is in slo mo
Amazing color grading bro
Evan thank you my guy!!
Great video. What was the last thing you said you used on your ur lens for motion blur?
I like your set up, but I dont get when you said its hard to get a mattbox in certain places
Hey just came across your video, good stuff. How important do you think a matte box is travel video shooting?
Great video dude! What are some travel camera bags that would hold this setup?
Yeah do a “whats in my camera bag” video!
Thank you brother! It's funny you ask that, I actually never have owned a very specific travel bag. I've owned the classic Canon Deluxe backpack for probably 6 years and have always used that and it works great. I've always been a sucker for the style of the Langly camera bags and I know it would fit this setup no problem. The pocket setup fits in my canon backpack no problem, I just have to take my battery off the cage!
@@itsmarcocanlas Thanks for the suggestion brotha, I might just have to do one!
I've always been so tempted to buy the BMPCC4K but I'm so fearful about the focus. I'd really appreciate your insight about this.
Of course my friend! Are you worried about manual focus?
@@SpencerWhiteman I am. I've always heavily relied on autofocus and I don't think my manual focus skills are accurate.
@@juliusvillavieja Honestly man, is it possible you can just practice? The BM camera gives an image quality that for $1300 (the studio license for resolve is 300 so the camera really is 1000) you can't match with ANYTHING for the price. 12 bit raw is nuts if you want to learn crazy color grading.
But if you really want good AF WITH such image quality, you unfortunately need to expand your budget so far, that it becomes less fun, more stress. But good news is, if you can forget about the 12 bit, even 8 bit can be played with enough for release on UA-cam. Check Spencer's GX85 videos. You only get 8 bit video, and you can do some good coloring on it. So if you're down with that, a $1700 A7III might be your baby. Autofocus is a cruel mistress lol.
Amazing footage! Did you use the gimbal on some of the shots in the sequence or it is all handheld?
Thank you so much! Everything is shot handheld, I applied warp stabilizer to many of the shots!
@@SpencerWhiteman came here for the same question, the warp stabilizer performed so well then ! Was that used in Premiere?
You don't even need the cage, if you run CFast. CF can record in BRAW Q0 and 3:1 no issue. For nighttime and shallow DoF you can't beat the Sigma but for daytime, handheld or deep focus, try the Olympus 12-100 f4 IS. The IS is incredible, much better than any IBIS in any system existing rn. Those two zooms would be the ultimate wombo combo. It would be really awesome if someone could make plate like battery so you just attach it under your camera, so it's even more compact.
Seeing your footage makes me want to get back into Black Magic :(
Yessir, I've thought of running c-fast as well. I just haven't jumped ship because of the price of the media, I do however love the ability to not have to run cables which just cause more of a mess and room for error (I've had my cable come undone a couple of times and lost clips with an SSD). Thank you brother!
great video
Thank you Yann!
The video is pro for sure!
Haha thank you my friend!!
Nice vid Spencer, not often how see this camera not rigged to the hilt. I like it. How do you go with stabilisation when handheld? I shoot with the original a7S a bit for low light, and even compared to my GX85 I have to put so much extra focus into smooth motion. Also, do you ever include a follow focus in with your lighter rigs? Have been tempted by the Tilta Nucleus Nano of late.
Hey Dom! The stabilization is the hardest part about using this lighter rig, I've been so used to IBIS bodies as of late lol. I did a bit of post stabilization on a lot of the clips, obviously shooting wider and in slow motion helps a bit but I think with a handheld pocket rig you either embrace the jittery look (that look works in some cases) or you'll have to introduce some post stabilization. I never really include a FF in my lighter rigs, just more things to think about and adding to the rig, like a 15mm rod to mount the FF. I do however shoot strictly with a FF on my fully rigged out pocket setup.
Looking to rig my bmpcc6k for this summer. Your rig looks great. I wonder how much harddrives you need to bring to your trip? So when going on a 21Days trip, are 4TB enough? I'm not going to shoot 6k only but 4k. Can you recommend braw or ProRes?
I think you are going to be fine with 4 TB, try to record as much as possible in 8:1 if BRAW for example ( What I use but ProRes is as good, just a preference ) and do not overuse the 60 FPS for no reasons.
Great video! Thank you for sharing. Does the lack of a top handle and external monitor affect your shoot? I'm trying to minimize my rig to be like yours but I cant really see what I'm shooting from the camera screen at times, especially at low angles.
Thanks Chris! The top handle doesn't bother me at all, but a nice top external monitor would be nice, especially since the pocket doesn't have a tilt screen. If I am shooting low, I'll shoot wide and just blindly shoot, that way I don't have to worry about critical focus. If you need critical focus for shooting low, then an external monitor would work perfectly.
Awesome video, love your music, grading, cinematography and overall style. I watched your S1 video and I'm wondering which camera do you prefer? The BMPCC4k or Panasonic S1?
Thank you so much for the love Jeff! For strictly IQ, I would say the Pocket 4k. It has more robust codecs and data preservation than the S1. Other than that, I like the S1 more for everyday use. The IBIS, long battery life, lower data rates for less media consumption is really nice. I also love the way it feels in the hands, and it doubles as an amazing stills camera. Also, can't forget that glorious FF sensor with amazing lowlight and DOF haha!
Please, what's the name of the opening track?
amazing!! night scenes (1500 iso?)
How do you stay so steady with your shots ?! 😭
any secrets for keeping it so stable?
Good question. Shoot wide if you want to grab walking shots, that'll help with perceived stabilization. For standing still shots, I typically tuck my arms into my body a bit and have the inside of my arms/elbows pressed up against my torso. I use my torso as a pivot point to point my camera, rather than using my arms as the pivot point.
Very nice footage. Did you have to worry about ir pollution.
Good question man! I usually avoid IR pollution by stopping down on my lens a little bit rather than stopping down on my Variable ND. Otherwise if it is super sunny and I stop down on my Variable ND almost all the way (6 stops) then IR pollution is introduced.
@@SpencerWhiteman Also I am planning on going full into my company. What are the steps I can take to get clients. I already have my website, spec ads on there, just need a way to find clients.
@@lovefirst6157 Sure thing man! I'd suggest reaching out to local ad/marketing agencies and creative agencies. Let em know what you do and how you'd love to help with projects concerning video. I also would suggest going onto LinkedIn and finding people in marketing positions at local businesses and companies and messaging them. What kind of video work are you planning on doing?
@@SpencerWhiteman I don't know if you replied a long time ago or just now but youtube just send it to me. I just finished my website www.untouchedfilms.com . I plan to post a proper reel for everything but I mainly focus on wedding and brand videography. I plan on shooting more videos to show what I can really do but right now, I want to set myself up.
Great video! Question, did you film at a constant 60 fps?
I filmed most at 24fps, but definitely some footage in there was 60fps conformed to 24fps in camera. Thank you!
try Q5. Similar size to the 12:1 but a little more flexibility.
Thanks for the suggestion my brother! I can't quite remember, I know the Q bitrates are variable, do you remember how small & large it can vary? The reason i go with 12:1 is because it's constant and it doesn't risk dropped frames since it stays within the extreme pro SD cards write speeds.
Beatiful video, great job! Did you use a IR CUT Filter in this setup?
Thank you my brother! I did not, all the stock hardware when it comes to the camera & sensor!
@@SpencerWhiteman you have no problems with infrared infiltration?
@@ChristianRuisi Only when my Simmod Variable ND is stopped down very low, then I'll have some strange red shadows. I've never tested the P4K for IR pollution without an ND attached.
@@SpencerWhiteman Thanks a lot for the answer
do you use the dummy battery or power straight into the 12v ?
I power straight from the NPF plate to the 2 pin connector on the Pocket!
No.. it can't be.. Spencer?? Is that THE GX85 GURU?? b i g f a n lol
Also what ND filter do you use? I use one from K&F and I like it but if you have any suggestions that would be good. PolarPro is out of reach, and honestly sometimes I feel like their 2-5 and 6-9 is somewhat of an inconvenient gap? Like there have been times where I maxed out a ND2-400 (~8.65 stops max) VND, and as the sun went down in the next half hour or so, I had to come down past the 6 stop mark. And I feel like that would just add to time in swapping... plus then I'd need $500 worth of filters LOL.
Sadly I haven't seen any other diffusion + VND yet. Would love some cheaper engineering for similar products haha.
Haha thanks brother!!! I totally agree on the weird positioning of the Polarpro filters, that always seemed strange to me too. I used the Tiffen Variable ND for a long time and I enjoyed it, the unfortunate thing is it has the x pattern issue and no hard stops, so you can accidentally keep turning it and have a cross pattern in your footage if you're not careful. I've been using the Simmod Variable ND for the past 6 months and have loved it. It has really nice glass so I haven't noticed any softening and almost no color cast which is really nice as well. The best part of the filter is the hard stops, you never have to worry about the x pattern. I suggest that bad boy!
which nd filter do you use ?
I use the Simmod Variable ND!
Which sd card are you useing?
I use the Samsung T5 SSD for shooting less compressed formats and I shoot on a Sandisk extreme pro 95MB'S SD card when shooting in 12:1 B-RAW at 4k 24p & 60p.
Out of all the cameras I used the black magic is A pain in the ass.... no auto focus and a bunch of other annoying stuff I’ll just stick to cannon... only thing good is that it’s cheap
LOL
Hey bro I have the same set up but with my viltrox speed booster the image is so soft and I don’t have infinity focus how do I fix this?
Hey man, have you back focused your Viltrox's internal glass element? That is what I've had to do on both of my Viltrox's to achieve infinity focus. Also, the Viltrox does tend to be soft, mostly at your wide open aperture on your lens. Once I stop down a single stop or 1/2 a stop it starts to sharpen up quite a bit!
I see she got the GH5
Shame the pocket doesnt have its IBIS
I got both cameras too
It's actually the S1! Yeah IBIS would've been nice for smaller rigs like this. When I rig my pocket up fully there is no need for IBIS.
@@SpencerWhiteman ,,, why no need for IBIS on the pocket? Mine picks up every micro jitter hand held.... i wish it had IBIS so i wouldnt need a gimbal or to shoot slow mo.
Why buy a damn rig ? Most useless thing you can buy is a fuckin rig