Okay, we're here. We're going to try a second test with the dynamic perception. It's a stage
one. I'm using a Sapphire Pro unit mounted to a stage one here. Sapphire Pro is sort
of like a Imodomo TB3. It does pan and tilt. I will say I'm really happy with it. Super
lightweight, very low profile, I guess. It might be the right word for those of you that have used
the TB3, you know, can get a little bulky and boxy. So really liking this unit, this setup here.
Got a time-lapse view, inter-millimeter, attached to a Canon 5D Mark III. We've got a USB out
coming from the camera, USB out, going into the camera there. It's a little tight connection.
The guys at Dynamic Perception actually do ship a larger L bracket, so you have plenty of room.
I'm using really right stuff here for the moment. I've got a Kessler battery. It's powering both
the camera and the slider. This is the NMX controller right here. This is what sort of sends
the controls to the motors. You've got a motor there, there, and also there. If you look at these
three lights and these cables, the ones for the X and the Y, ones for the rotation, and then
the other one sort of powers the tilt. So you have that. And this cable right here,
two and a half mil male to male, sort of how we're going to get the signal out of the view
into the NMX to power this slide. So a view sort of known as a ramper.
Be able to go from day to night. We're going to try that here, a little cloudy. And again,
main thing here is just to test it. I've been having a little challenges been going to the
community and Facebook getting some tips and trips. So we're going to try that again.
Next thing what I'll do is I've got power to the unit. I'm going to go ahead and
turn on the dynamic perception app. And we'll go ahead and program the
move that we want to make. Let's see where we have to put that. There we go.
Okay, you can see here that the intervalometer is coming up, big edge time lapse. So we're
going to slide that to on and it's reading and it sees that little gearbox. So the first thing we
got to do is we have to come over here and we've got to put this thing in a slave mode.
See slave mode is right down at the bottom. We're just going to toggle that over. So that's the
slave mode or hit okay. And then I'm going to come over here to the unit and what you want to look
for is these two bottom lights. And when you have the light on the right along with the light on the
left both lit that means that it's in slave mode. So we have that. While I'm here I want to go ahead
and put that into the ox two port. There we go. Okay, let's get a move. We'll hit go. And this is
the first screen has a your x y up there. This is your your pan and tilt. It's like a little
virtual joystick. So we'll see if this is sort of working for us. And you can see the unit
is definitely moving, which is a good thing. So let's slide that over.
So the starting point and do a left to right move here.
That's pretty good there. And you can see we're just going to move that just a little bit like
right there. And then we just go ahead and check see if I like the tilt on it. It's all right.
I'm going to move the tilt just the tilt.
Only go down a little.
All right, close enough to government work. Just a test. And we have a start button.
Go ahead and hit that is the set start. So I'm just going to set my starting point.
And now I'm going to go and I'm going to work on the ending point. So we'll come back over here.
We'll go ahead and move it.
You want to do a better job with your cables. Dynamic perception gives you a couple of cable
ties. You can really tighten up your your kit. Yeah, this is just for a test. So
just wanting to really just make sure you get everything working.
And we'll just slide it over.
So you're about right there. It's good.
And then we'll just sort of figure we'll paint it that way a little bit. Let's go check it out.
Yeah, that's good enough. Okay, now I'm going to set the the end here.
And let's say set in. Okay, I want to hit the next button.
So this is a really important screen here. This is where you're setting up your
exposure time, your buffer, your interval. And the key trick here is that you want to make sure
that your interval is pretty low. So as it was explained to me, I've got an interval set here
at two seconds. Get us what I was saying to me was that that means that as soon as the NMX receives
a signal from the view, it's going to wait about two seconds before starting its move.
So you'll need to really take into consideration the interval on your view,
as well as the interval that you want to set here. So two seconds is actually pretty good.
I feel good without that. The other thing is another mistake that I made was focusing on
the video. You know, I said, well, you see a day to night, maybe about three hours. And I just
adjusted the shots, frame rate and things like that to get me a three hour move. And that really
didn't work. It moved very, very slowly. What you really want to focus on is your shots. So
figure about 10 seconds, you got six shots a minute, 60, that's 360, figure three hours. So
I don't know, let's see, just under 1000 maybe. So we can go, I know, probably extend out a little
longer. Maybe we go 802,000. I'm just trying to get a test here. So I'm going to say about 800.
So I'm going to come into my frames and we'll just make that 800. That should be pretty good.
And let's see, we got 800, okay, 810. And we'll go next.
All right, this is where you can program your ramp in and ramp out with this screen. I'm just
keeping everything really, really basic. Just want to straight move plenty of tutorials on
the NMX so you can learn all that stuff there. Not that this is a tutorial, but just really
more of a test and just filming it. See if I catch any errors. We'll go ahead and send the motors to
start. And there we go. Coming around. While that's moving, we're ready to start the program. So
before we do that, we've got to go set the view up. And the view is cranking.
All right, we'll go up to, I don't know if you can focus on this or not, but
go to time lapse, hit the time lapse mode. We'll do auto ramping. That's what we want here.
Interval mode, auto variable. We also have external aux 2. Again, I've been
learned is that that's really when you're looking for a signal being sent from some other device to
trigger the view. So we're going to move that to auto variable. Day interval, 10 seconds,
9 interval, 30 seconds. Okay, destination camera. That means that basically the image will be
stored in the camera, the XMP file, which has your adjustments. So you want to transfer that to
the SD card at the end of your shoot. We'll look at the ramping options, night exposure.
We probably, let's just go,
we'll just make that no stops there. Well, actually, maybe negative. I guess the
Wacky lights ISO, max shutter, various parameters you can do there. So we'll get out of there.
And I think that's ready to start. So another tip, I think, again, I don't know if it's
accurate enough, but someone had said that you should start your setup here first. So that's
what we'll do. We'll go ahead and we'll start the program. Okay, it's waiting.
And we'll go ahead and let's look at our exposures here at two eight. We'll just overexpose a little
bit, right about there. And go back up here and we'll start it.
All right, got camera trigger.
Okay, that's triggering. Let's go see if we're calculating the shots. Got about three shots
there. That's about right. So it looks like we're all set here. All right. So we'll come back and
we'll see how it is later in the evening. And we'll sign off for there. Thank you. Okay, we're
out here. It's been probably about three and a half hours or so. And there's about 744 shots here.
I can't remember how many I set, if it was 800 or 900. But you can definitely see that we've
had a lot of movement started there. And we're now here. And it's still going probably just
has a little bit more. So successful test. Pretty excited about that. And we'll call it a night.
Thank you.
