Making a Camera Jib
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2021
- I have built a camera jib. This is an arm that sits on the top of a tripod to hold a camera in such a way that it keeps itself parallel to whatever angle you've set the camera to as it moves up and down. It does this with a parallelogram. I have a main structural beam that holds the weight of the camera and a smaller piece that completes the parallelogram and holds the camera parallel. I use the old pine paneling as material that I got from friends of mine last spring. I also motorized the movement of the camera jib with a geared system. It moves the jib up and down very slowly so I can film time lapses with it. The action that's being time-lapsed is very fast and the movement of the camera is very smooth and slow. This makes for a very cinematic contrast.
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Frank, you are one of the most imaginative guys on RUclips. Between your woodworking skills, product design and film editing you are an enjoyable person to watch. Thank you
couldn't have said it any better
Exactly! Frank has a perfect combination of skills and knowledge, he is a treasure!
Truly an artist.
And your wonderfully calming and kind voice.
So true!
Maybe limit switches at each end that reverse the motor. Would make it go up and down continuously for the longer shots. Realy fun to watch you design as you build.
good idea.
Everyone else: I'll just grab a variable speed motor.
Frank: I'll build a gear box out of wood.
Great project ✊🏻
Thanks jimmy
"So I made a gear box". Frank in woodworking God mode.
This is what I love most about the Makers Mob. They create things from wood, others would never consider to be possible. Like the wooden full extension Drawer Slides made by John Heisz, the wooden Bladeless Fan by Neil Paskins or all the cool stuff made by Frank
Was half expecting you to build the motor out of wood too :-)
And connect it to a wooden wind turbine (that he would first have to make) on the roof of the shop.
Frank you have been an inspiration to me for 6 years in my wood shop. From stop motion adirondacks to amazingly engineered builds such as this. Your a teacher for the ages.
Your brain was built different. Beyond that you have a gift for explaining your thought process. I always feel like I was there with you throughout the thought process and build.
I have hundreds of subscriptions in my youtube library. But I always anticipate your projects more than all the others. I wished I lived closer. It would be a delight to work on something with you. I guess that is what makes this medium so enjoyable. Someone said you read to have fellowship with great minds. Your videos give us access to a true innovator. Thank you
Thanks for showing all the rework, Frank. It’s so important to show the thinking that goes in to adjusting or “make good” that is part of nearly any new project.
Seeing your camera jib creation made me think of models of Leonardo da Vinci's imaginative creations which I saw in a museum in Italy and which were entirely made of wood, including a bicycle with a leather "chain". You're in good company, Frank. Nice to see your latest video. Thanks.
Beautiful. I do love how you can tell your curves/gears from a mile away. Amazing that your style is so clear.
"Here's a nice simple project to a make your own camera jib"
Frank: "Hold my beer..."
Gosh I love seeing the solutions that you come up with to accomplish your goals with a project. Definitely inspiring.
Frank's videos are awesome. I love watching how his mind works.
Is there anything you can't make? I've seen every single video you have here, not once but multiple times, I mean whenever I don't find anything that satisfy my woodworking eyes, I go back to your Channel and Literally click on any video of yours, they are all so satisfying to watch, thank you sir, you are amazing 👏
I absolutely love watching you work and solve problems in your shop...very inspiring.
Great project, I'm planning on adapting it to hold Binoculars so my friend in a wheelchair can use them to do some bird watching and astronomy. By adding a second slightly modified version at the viewing end of the arm I will be able to get a controlled tilt of the viewing angle. But, just one more comment - that shaper always give me the shivers!
Sunday morning coffee with Frank! 👍
Besides the genius behind all the work, I think it's the voice that brings me back time and time again, not too loud, not too soft, not too fast, not too slow just Goldilocks.
Lots of fun to watch! Oversized Wooden gearboxes are nifty eye candy. Amazing you arrived at the utility you did with the first prototype. More! More!
Frank, your ingenuity just amazes me!
Frank you're a genius. Never would I attempt any of the contraptions you make, but you're inspiring, for the smaller things that us average guys might find to be an obstacle.
So this is what it is like when a person uses their brain.
I love watching your thought process.... Many other RUclipsrs don't do this, and while it makes for a shorter, cleaner video, yours let's me feel like I'm not alone in having to reconsider (then completely rework) something I thought would work just fine, but that got changed by some other criteria I didn't know would come up. LOVE IT! It also shows the value of doing your own design instead of relying on pre-made, purchased plans. It shows you how to work with unexpected snags, & gives useful solutions.
Wow. Great work Frank.
Look forward to your videos, thank you! Great build👍
Every time you make something like this it ends up being a piece of art, functional and elegant at the same time. Brilliant, thanks Frank, very enjoyable again.
This video really snowballed in complexity. Well done!
How much money people spend on this equipment and you just made it out of wood, amazing! I first thought the transition will not be smooth enough but seeing it in action, its just wow!
there goes Frank, blowing my mind again. Fantastic project/video. I look forward to those long time lapse panning shots of the next mind blowing projects.
Nicely done, Frank!
Great job on the camera jib Frank! Thanks for sharing the video with us!💖👌👍😎JP
Another awesome Frank Makes project. Thanks!
I thought making the jig out of wood was going to be pushing it... then you go and add a motor and I'm thinking, that's bold... then a gearbox! You're next level man!
Frank, I been watching you for some time now and you never cease to amaze me. In both your expertise in wood working and your film making skills.
Bravo my friend bravo!!!
Great work Frank!
What if you added a few adjustment holes so it could not be a perfect parallelogram which would tilt the camera down slowly as the boom rose?
I like that, more time spent setting up the camera, lol
With stepper motors at every joint and some crafty software, you could chose a point in 3D space and then the camera would always be pointed at it through the range of motion you programmed.
That was so good.....Frank......just so good...loved it.
Not only a great woodworker, but you have an amazing sense for shooting footages. Simply amazing!!
I love your approach to problem solving,great vid,thanks Frank.
Hats off. Excellent work. Very creative ways of designing the jib and adjusting the speed. I also enjoy watching the whole process of the design with all trial and errors. Frank, you are really very frank about what you are doing.
Love it. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Loving the quality and attention to detail of your work
The jib itself is a neat project but adding the motor is next level, kudos to you. Love the channel!
What a fabulous example of problem solving. Your talk is as indicative as your actions. I admire the consistent query you use when creating, how will I use it, how can I improve it. All with no sense of complaint. Brilliant. I will have students watch/listen to help them develop their own problem solving skills and attitudes. Thankyou.
Brilliant stuff, Frank!
I'm always impressed with what you come up with on these engineering projects.
I agree!!! Amazing
I built mine of steel with nylon bushings and washers as well as neoprene shock dampeners and I used a variable speed rotisserie motor driven by an Arduino mini-board. Made it weather resistant as well powered by lawn tractor 12 volt stepped down by a 5v buck charged by a solar car battery charger. Cheers.
As always, outstanding build and video production!
Great film. Love how solitary YT makers are developing their own motorized camera rigs. Mahalo for sharing! : )
Superb work Frank!! Thumbs up
This is the Frank-est thing you've done. Nice work!
Resulting shots are so satisfying, great project.
Excellent as usual!!!
Pretty cool, Frank. Pretty cool.
Brilliantly ingenious design.
Amazing. You can see just about any object and come up with a way to make it out of wood. Impressive as always.
Those final shots are nice because it keeps the same speed and motion! It is amazing to see what you come up with and can execute with your knowledge and expertise. Can’t wait to see how you use this in future videos.
The welder on me wants to do the same thing in Aluminum but I have to admire your ingenuity taking wood to where has never been before (since Leonardo DaVinci) :)
Very cool build.
Great job guys
Another amazing video, thanks for taking all that time to create.
Wow that’s so cool Frank great video.
Very nice Frank.
Amazing! No limit!
Always very impressive projects and videos!
Awesome project.
Great work frank. putting the main idea then adding more and more improvements makes it professional.
I am planning to make one of those too. Been watching tons of video's about it already.
It's a very cool device.
Great idea.
I really appreciate your content!
Enjoyable wood working video for us to watch that will ultimately make you future videos even better. Its a win win for everyone.
So cool!
WOW once again beutiful projekt.
You are a brilliant skilled man!
Great idea Frank! Thanks you:)
Nice build. We shared this video in our homemade tools forum this week :)
Beautiful work and nice design!
By the way, the parallelogram when having a hinged movement, is called a "4 bar mechanism".
Frank always reengineers for the better.
It makes me want to step up my filming game. Thanks for the inspiration!
Amazing ingenuity.
Project idea: Have you ever built a pendulum? A design might be a simple 3-4’ diameter concave wooden dish filled with sand. Then, add an angled piece that holds a pointed weight on a string that swings back-and-forth through the sand making nice designs.
Fantastic job as always thanks for sharing your time and remember stay safe and make more great videos thanks again ☕☕👍👍🇬🇧
Great design
This is absolutely inspiring for filmmakers. Absolutely stunning design and very helpful for you and others.
Beautiful assembly, Frank! If you offset one of the axles of the parallelogram just a tiny little bit to make it ever so slightly trapezoidal, you could make the camera tilt down as it is moving up, thus keeping your motif in centre frame.
nice stopmotion like animation, great video.
Wow. Fun to watch, even though I have no use for the finished product. Really fascinating.
Excelente trabajo felicitaciones 👏
Awesome machine.
That’s a very clever design! There’s definitely some cool cinematography potential there. It might be bulky but another small/large gear would probably do the trick of lengthening the movement without having to get a different motor
Fascinating
I have to admit that I understand little of what you say but I sure enjoy watching you work!
Gran trabajo....waoooo!!!
Very cool project - the only addon I can think of would be a variable pivot point for the top bar of the parallelogram. At neutral position it does as it should, keeps the camera level. At other positions it would intentionally pivot the camera either more than the jib (less ideal) or *opposite* the jib motion, thus keeping some subject in frame while changing the camera perspective. (if the cantilever arm is longer than the main arm, it will follow a subject. If the cantilever is shorter than the main, it will amplify the tilt of the camera matching the arm).
By having an adjustable pivot by having the pivot in a slot that can be adjusted with a screw, you could add a gauge that let you know 'parallel' or 'subject distance'. Focus would be tricky as you'd be sweeping an outside arc but tilting the camera towards the subject, so the focal distance would constantly change - but a sufficiently closed aperture would handle any depth problems.
addendum: it could more easily be achieved with a turnbuckle somewhere in the middle of the top arm, instead of moving the pivot.
not a perfect iteration, but the amount of success you had in a first try is insane. your videos are always a pleasure to watch
Frank your amazing
Very cool!
First very nice project and workmanship as always. Second I'm worried about, what appears to be a light to medium weight tripod holding all that weight. I don't know if you know this but tripods and tripod heads are weight rated. This is so that the photographer doesn't put to heavy a camera and lens on a light duty tripod and end up with the camera and lens on the ground either from the weight tipping it over or from the tripod failing. Yes I've seen this happen (not to me). A friend of mine that used to have a camera shop in town taught me about this. I'm thinking you'll be building a special cart to mount the jib on that will free up your tripod for other things and be more stable and strong enough to support the jib and camera. If it's tall enough you might also be able to make it height adjustable to some extent. Now your in trouble, I've given you more ideas to build.(LOL)
fantastic!!
You always do such cool things. Cool use of pocket screws. I also concur with some sort of limit switches.
You are incredible.