In camera gyro data for stablization?

[Shawn Nelson]

Checkout this new app from Instagram http://www.wired.com/2014/08/hyperlapse-instagrams-new-app-is-like-a-15000-video-setup-in-your-hand/

Got me thinking...doesnt Dragon have an on-camera gyro? Is it recording real time info and could RedcineX use this to make stable shots like this app?

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showth...am-i-missing&p=1404833&viewfull=1#post1404833

Also I'm going to toss in this link too which was from Siggraph this year:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hyperlapse/

While stabilizing footage that's a little shaky is kind of cool, Microsoft's R&D project is really mind blowing. But it would take a lot of cloud computing to commercialize.

 

[Björn Benckert]

I just saw the gyro thing in the new calibration menu of the dragon...

Yes, question is the data written into the frames? If so I think the guys at syntheyes would be super interested. Getting some sort of hint of what the camera is doing in terms of accelerations etc for a 3D tracking software would really be a big help.

 

[PC Greene]

+1 if that data could be tied into adobes motion blur reduction algorithm for more or less blur in post as well as actual stabilization that'd be great...

Thank you,

 

[Mark van Coller]

It looks like someone has done just what this thread is talking about with the addition of a small box.
http://www.newsshooter.com/2014/09/...ox-the-future-of-camera-motion-stabilisation/

 

[Emir Aksay]

That Steadxp thing looks very cool,
I hope you can do the same thing with red's gyro, 6k + this would give us smooth 4k..

 

[Scott C]

Has anyone successfully been able to calibrate their gyro? I have never been able to get it to work. Previously on Epic it would fail immediately, after upgrading to Dragon, as soon as I select Gyro on the calibration screen, it already says invalid calibration data at the bottom of the dialog box (before I've even selected Low/High temp).

EDIT: Disregard, I first tried to do this on Dragon when it was already warmed up, didn't get any validation message. Turned it off, waited a while to cool down, and booted back up to start with the Low temp cal. It took, and now it says "Valid Low Temp Cal @ 42C / Valid High Temp Cal @ 64 C"

Follow up question, how much do those low and high temperatures affect the gyro accuracy? Would I be better off cooling it down lower first? I'm not sure I waited long enough for the camera to cool all the way off, but it does say Valid..

 

[Jeff McCoy]

This would be the coolest thing yet...

 

[Christoffer Glans]

Bumping this... what is the purpose and point of the gyro function if it's not even recording the metadata into the R3D files?

 

[Mikael Lubtchansky]

It is being recorded... Have a proto app to extract the data and send it to .xls and aftereffects but camera FW team is still working on the gyro data itself to make it more accurate. Hopefully this will be usable soon...