SteadXp On Komodo

[Han Vogen]

Has anyone tried the SteadXp in the Komodo? Does the global shutter allow the footage to be shot at normal shutter speeds?

 

[Tom S]

This seems like a great idea. I'm really struggling to balance my Komodo on the Ronin RS2 with Sigma Cine Primes.

 

[Fergus Cahill]

A global shutter won’t stop motion blur, only the rolling shutter jello effect. So you may be able to get away with a lower shutter speed than you could without a global shutter, but you’ll still need to be a fair bit higher than a standard 180 degrees.

 

[Björn Benckert]

Has anyone tried the SteadXp in the Komodo? Does the global shutter allow the footage to be shot at normal shutter speeds?

Long shutter speed is still a problem as it introduce motion blur to the footage. So yes you can get great result shooting komodo 180deg footage and stabilize it with steady XP as long as there is no high frequency camera shake going on.

If there is hard / high frequency shakes then low shutter speed and post motion blur added after steady xp stabilization is the trick.

But yes, komodo global shutter helps a lot to improve the result of steady xp type of stabilization.

 

[Matthew Rowe]

I have one that I used with another camera. I'll calibrate and shoot some tests this week if time allows. I'll shoot a walk at 45, 90 and 180 degrees. That seem right?

 

[Han Vogen]

I have one that I used with another camera. I'll calibrate and shoot some tests this week if time allows. I'll shoot a walk at 45, 90 and 180 degrees. That seem right?

That’d be awesome. I’m sure many would love to know how this combination works out.

Mind you, I’m still hoping that Red will implement something internally since it’s likely the Komodo has a gyroscope on board. That’s the dream anyway. Perhaps your test will lead them to forge ahead with doing that?

 

[Christoffer Glans]

Sold my SteadXP. It's still a toy for GoPro's that's irrelevant now as GoPro has internal stabilization. I contacted SteadXP and requested that they shifted their strategy towards a pro model that's easier for filmmakers and cinema cameras to use (like using real TC, enable camera tracking data to be exported as virtual cameras and have plugins for things like Resolve), but even if they thanked and agreed with it I've yet to hear or see anything from them since over three years now. So hopefully someone else who can scale engineering towards such an addon could make this for filmmakers. I've been requesting this to be internal in Red's cameras, but so far no one seems to want or understand the power of such a thing. It would revolutionize filmmaking to be able to easily stabilize footage in post based on tracking data while also able to export virtual cameras for VFX.

I'm gonna nag about this until it happens :beguiled:

 

[Han Vogen]

Christoffer Glans I’ve used this type of stabilization on the Sony FX6 and A7S3 and it is indeed a powerful tool… both of those cameras feature rolling shutter (granted a reasonably fast rolling shutter). I’m thinking being global shutter, Komodo might perform even better.

 

[Christoffer Glans]

Christoffer Glans I’ve used this type of stabilization on the Sony FX6 and A7S3 and it is indeed a powerful tool… both of those cameras feature rolling shutter (granted a reasonably fast rolling shutter). I’m thinking being global shutter, Komodo might perform even better.

Sure, it will probably work well with a global shutter. The problem is that they never expanded beyond their GoPro goals. I tried it a lot with my DSMC2, but it's not something that's able to be used in critical shooting. It's too cumbersome as a workflow and could have been much easier for professionals, but they haven't cared to explore that userbase. I'm not really sure who they market SteadXP for nowadays, it's like they took the same box and software and just started talking more about larger cameras like DSLRs, but there's no real change to the workflow.