Look what I made! - heavy duty Mo-Co slider

[J. Bernard Vallon]

Here it is - a beefy Mo-Co slider with encoders for teaching it moves. Temporal scaling, genlock aware, blah blah blah. Here are some videos;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_lWzCS5xGw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F724uv3Oxk


Little bit of an exposure shift on the super-speed one, thanks to the big gaffer in the sky.

 

[Kwan Khan]

Very Nice.
Is it possible to share complete DIY detail please.

 

[Björn Benckert]

Now we seen your garage, so can we see the actual thing?

 

[Matt Ryan]

fun videos! Show us your rig if you can and how it's controlled. Thanks!

 

[BRANDON JAMESON]

You gonna sell them?

 

[J. Bernard Vallon]

not going to sell them, just going to freelance it. The whole rig is packed away, but Erich Roland at DC camera was nice enough to snap some behind-the-scenes of our latest demo.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.494736443911947.120602.213391882046406&type=1

Like DC Camera on faceville if you can't see them.

More stats; 5 feet of movement on a 6 foot slider, 360º on pan and tilt, big muscley lens motor for grumpy old lenses

Software lets you record - and rerecord - each axis combined or individually

no vibrations at slow speeds.

 

[Justin Kirchhoff]

Neat rig. Clean camera movement!

 

[L. Langer]

Awesome. Brings back my memories of 7th grade robotics projects.

 

[Peter Majtan]

Great job! I am building something similar myself, but little more compact. Yours look like complete MOCO setup, while mine is focused mainly on motion-time-lapse - not a real-time movement...
Liked the first video - very creative... :thumbsup:

Peter

 

[Andrew Benz]

Congratulations J., very nice work.

 

[Robino_J]

I want one.

 

[Ryan Boyer]

Great camera movement, and editing!

 

[Phil Holland]

Nice work John. i've been curious about that ServoCity gear. These are some nice clean results.

 

[J. Bernard Vallon]

servocity is a great source for mechanical parts, but most of the stuff they build (I have found) to be a little on the small side for a even a small cinema camera. However, great little company, would buy again.

 

[Matt Hall]

Sweet videos. Looked really good.

 

[Paul Harding]

Here it is - a beefy Mo-Co slider with encoders for teaching it moves. Temporal scaling, genlock aware, blah blah blah. Here are some videos;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_lWzCS5xGw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F724uv3Oxk


Little bit of an exposure shift on the super-speed one, thanks to the big gaffer in the sky.

Did you just garbage matt the takes, if not how did you composite it?

 

[J. Bernard Vallon]

Did you just garbage matt the takes, if not how did you composite it?

Yup. Post on all these videos took about 15 minutes each. Good moco means REALLY easy post, unless you're doing more complicated compositing.

 

[Paul Harding]

Thanks for that.
Did you write the software, I'm looking for software that can work by recording moves.