Chicken Powered Steadicam Comparison (chicken, human head, and handheld)

[TheNiceguy1212]

The thing is, roosters, like other prey animals, have eyes on the sides of their heads (used to look out for predators)... so this is not necessarily an accurate testing as we are probably looking from the roosters blind spot.

[newcarscent7]

this was a great idea. i love science!

[WIIRULESMAN]

For science!

[SplitYoWigBack]

hahah. this kid i know has MS and he moves his head just like the rooster does, like quick motions with sudden complete stops, its so weird

[yellowcanarystudios]

They should get a rooster to re-film cloverfield.

[lynxzrz]

This was awesome. But what is even more awesome is the lack of PETA troll comments! Woop!

[R33Racer]

Want to see a camera mounted chicken ready for slaughter.

[drystiker]

Gods living tripod

[houseoffire72]

awesome vid !!!

[1xXXWARPIGXXx1]

I no what my project is gana be on

[hailbop16]

DUDE! that would be a great science fair project!

[FlightRecorder1]

My guess is that the chickens eyes don't move as well as human eyes do. All the fine movements we make are with our eyes. That may not be the case with the chicken

[UpgradedWorld]

@TheGooblaster Roosters are chicken, a young male chicken is a Cock, an adult male chicken is a Cockerell, a baby chicken is a Chick, a female chicken is a Hen.

[cmac1100]

I feel like if you blindfolded the chicken, its head wouldn't stabilize as well or possibly even at all. Im sure the chicken's sight contribute to the stabilization of the head.

[Avian98X]

Does anyone else see the freaky blue eye in the window at 1:10-1:12 ?????

[mog180]

Know we know why the chicken crossed the road.

[ArmageddonAfterparty]

Why did the chicken film the road?

[cutlass3501]

Less talky more video from chicken's head.

[cartman2dk]

i was annoyingly very amused and entertained.. wtf.

[SpamBAT]

Chicken be twitchy ;P

[THERANDOMDUDESTUDIOS]

where do you get a camera to do the firework stuff and the arrow?

[stonevrscx]

chicken stabelization

[zhbvenkhoReload]

i did a video like that but with a little bird

[Chelouruguay]

Put a cam on a bird!!

[cell9song]

@ the 11 second mark where he's moving the chickens body its head is so still that it almost looks like its been edited. Roosters are creepy!

[eeskaatt]

I bet you really have fun on that day! hahaha

lol at chicken running around

[Exanimis11]

It's likely that the chicken's POV stabilization is partially based on its own vision. It may lose that if it is blindfolded.

[DuranBros]

Next thing we know, we'll have chickens vlogging.

[Kahanamoku]

If you blindfold a chook, does the head stabilization remain?

[mrtomd]

Why are you holding the chicken when you are testing the chicken's stabability? Are you not causing shakiness from yourself walking like the test run without the chicken? Let the chicken walk on it's own. That will be a true test to see how stable it's head is without your steps messing it up.

[Stimpy056]

CHICKEN!!!!!!

[CyberPilot360]

hahaha!camera on a chincken, that's funny!

[stevepgt]

Human image stabilization is built into our eyes!

[AntiProtonBoy]

The end bit, when the rooster was running around, was hilarious.

[nisabubur]

I'm fascinated that CHICKENS have built-in filmmaking technology... kind of thing... Awesome!!

[phallex]

How to get 90+ thousand hits.... put a camera on a chickens head... duhh

[orangeplatter]

Forget camera tripods, just buy a chicken.

I'm not even kidding.

[MuToiDMaN]

Major LOL after he's let loose.

[aaronc608]

this is hilerious. made my day hahah

[Tayskasi]

There rooster keeps looking around so it is not viable option. You could train the rooster to look into only on direction, maybe. Pretty stable though.

Maybe if you killed the rooster, it would stabilize.

[barackson]

I think the chicken should be sent to Mars instead of the rovers :)

[Thomasessai]

Don't blindfold the chicken.... it wil fall asleep automatically

[rmoseson]

Great video -- good experimentation. I do wish that you (and countless others these days) would learn to use the word "lose" (pronounced "luze", meaning to be unable to find, to be deprived of) instead of "loose" (pronounced "luse", meaning not fitting tightly) when appropriate.

[EternalAzhrei]

OMG! Does anybody else see a tall blue blox at 1:28? I swear it's near the bottom of the picture at 1:28. Is that just me or does it look kind of like... no, it must be a trick of the light. Is it just me?

[AlcoholLevel]

Appreciate the investigation. There's another thing thats available to clean up shaky videos, the "deshaker" plugin for VirtualDub (i'm sure other video editing packages have the similar plugins/features but I only use VirtualDub.) Search on youtube for "Extreme VirtualDub Deshaker Demo"

[crisvsv]

haha this is awesome :))))

[indiggy57]

u need to get a f***ing life

[RJOPhoto]

3:29 lmao

[andreacrobu2]

You are a f***ing genius!

[jinx748]

LMAO!!!!!! That was great!!! I am dying to see how it works with the chicken blindfolded!

[matt92hun]

I never unrerstood why birds move their head so quickly.

[hippykiller1]

YOU HAVE A GOAT?!?!

[jeremiahjw]

@hippykiller1 YES!

[newera4my]

@hippykiller1 Farm life is the best.... I envy you

[7staff]

hey i was wondering, where did you buy the camera? and whats the name of it

[justinhartyale]

Hi, I'm just chiming in on the part where you indicate that if you blindfold the rooster, that that might prevent it from looking around, and thereby help with the video quality. Roosters nystagmus partially through their neck. Humans do too, but less so. Nystagmus is an oculomotor response responsible partially for image stabilization. It's this effect that you're exploiting in order to use a rooster to stabilize your camera. The rooster, however, needs to see to nystagmus properly.

[Penduluman]

from the picture at the end that chicken is the most hardcore bird I've ever seen.

[z0573r]

i think blindfolding the rooster won't produce good results. i think the rooster needs a visual point of reference to stabilize its head.

[gegojr]

Wow... what an awesome experiment! This is really creative. Maybe Chickens are going to play a bigger role in Hollywood in the future. : )

[MrBibber]

this is so ... different. CLASSIC. Awesome video.

[bodryn]

Many years ago, as a boy on the farm, I often observed this thing about chickens heads and wondered about it. It was easy to observe this freaky stability of their heads as they moved the rest of their bodies. I learned a lot just by watching chickens, especially pecking orders.

[leokimvideo]

wow, how did my videos appear in the related are...weird!

[jeremiahjw]

@leokimvideo Well, I am featuring one of your videos, and you have featured mine before, so, I guess that is why. :-P

[leokimvideo]

@jeremiahjw pretty sure i feature this video and soon will pick off the arrow

[jeremiahjw]

@leokimvideo Ok, I've been featuring your house explosion video, and I've received a ton of channel traffic since my arrow video, so hopefully that will result in something.

[leokimvideo]

chickens deserve a academy technical award! October is the closing date!

stunning video

[jeremiahjw]

@leokimvideo Haha...that is actually an interesting idea. :D

[leokimvideo]

@jeremiahjw well i am going to put something into the academy this year and had it used in a hollywood film ( thats the important part), sort of tired of all the CGI people hogging the awards.

funny thing is I think the original steadycam never won an award, I may be wrong but I think that's something I was told a long time ago.

possibly someone here will know the truth..! They always do!

[jeremiahjw]

@leokimvideo No way, that is cool! One of my dad's co-workers knows a guy who won a technical Oscar for some kind of involvement with camera projection or something.

According to Google, he did win several awards, including an Oscar.

[leokimvideo]

@jeremiahjw he won no friends in the grips department!

i like the changes to your channel, those thumbs are SUPER important to get right, the correct thumb can be do or die for a video

[leokimvideo]

@jeremiahjw i think there were plenty of disputes to who actually had the first so called steadycam, seems hanging a camera on a string does the same thing..lol

[roborovskihamsters]

I'd love to see this when the chicken is blindfolded.

[BrentonSteinhilber]

You should put the rooster in a box with only it's head sticking out. You could use some popsicle sticks or something strapped to the box/the sides of the rooster's head to keep him from looking left to right-- So his head can only move up and down. You could place another popsicle stick under his chin to limit movement. Also the blindfold couldn't hurt.

[dedasdude]

i think we cant do this cuz we dont need to. we can do this with our eye balls. however the chicken cant and the only way it can keep its optics pointed at a particular thing is to move its head.

no im not a biologist. biology sux. i am studyin mechanical engineer.

[jeremiahjw]

@dedasdude I'm guessing your assessment is correct

[turreu]

Not satisfied by this test yet... Mythbusters have to make as scientific test as possible with this

[mYOzZyKaT]

I cant stop laughing...

[OviJade]

You and your rooster should be hire by Canon now for their IS research.

Awesomest video I saw before 2010 ends!

[devendrasanghavi]

where did u get the camera from? did u make it at home?

[RCSuperPowers]

Its videos like THIS that make me proud to be part of the YouTube community.

[Evanblive91]

blindfold the rooster oorrrr move YOUR head around like a chicken hmmmmm...CANON, NIKON, SONY take notes and make some decent image n video stabilization damnit

[coolasj]

Leroy : "At least I have chicken. "

[mickeyxmousey]

You just need to find some way to get the chicken to not be so ADD and focus on one spot, and I'll definitely buy it!

[EvilBonsai]

any chance we could get a video of you putting the camera on the chicken? THAT would be very informative. :)

[Qber4life]

HEY GEOCITIES!!!

[jeremiahjw]

@Qber4life Huh?

[chrisxdeboy]

@jeremiahjw its so we don't let people know what R***** DOT com is.

[jeremiahjw]

@chrisxdeboy Aha, smart. :-P

[chrisxdeboy]

@jeremiahjw ;)

[GlitchesofWar]

@jeremiahjw Also, we use Yahoo Answers to stuff the others over there, to not come to rddt.

[sagarx69gmailcom]

@jeremiahjw nice work bro its really good one

[leonaprime01]

My mind's just boggled at the fact that someone would even THINK of attaching a camera to a chicken's head!

[Ifeelphat]

Watch a animal lover troll say that you hurt the Chicken.

[jeremiahjw]

@Ifeelphat Heh, yeah, gotten a few of those already.

[Scottstimo]

Now see how stable it is when the rooster drives the car.

[farleylives]

You deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for this. Most epic thing I've ever seen in a long time.

[jeremiahjw]

@farleylives Haha, thanks, but I have to give credit to destinws2 for being partially responsible for the idea.

[homeagent]

wonder what else you could do w/ a chicken.

[Mrcaffinebean]

Hahah to funny!

[edarotag84]

Well duh, any country boy knows about how steady a rooster head is!

[YOZcreative]

cool experiment. Far from all of us will have easy access to a rooster to test equipment on. Btw, remove the dot at the end on the link to the Destin channel and you will get there easier

[jeremiahjw]

@YOZcreative Whoops, thanks. :-)

[Mr912Lancer]

awww :')

[holaatdaman]

wow! i got this cam and used it a bit for 3wks then it just stopped working :(

[jeremiahjw]

@holaatdaman Ah, yeah, sadly they seem to break easily.

[BrotherBloat]

Cool vid!

btw: 3:15 - they actually do! eBay search Jelly lens and get a hot glue-gun ready :) works a treat with the 808!! :) tip: don't get it from the official JellyLens site, unless you want to pay through the nose :)

[jeremiahjw]

@BrotherBloat Dude, you rock! I found someone else who did a video where he attached it using a Tick Tack box (the camera fits perfectly inside). I'll give this a try!

[BrotherBloat]

@jeremiahjw sweet! glad I could help :) When the weather gets a bit more forthcoming, I'll let you know about any aerial videos I'll post on my LondonRCproject channel with that lens on the 808 #3 :)

[Vhammer2010]

LOL, the heck with building my own steady rig... I'm getting a chicken.

[jeremiahjw]

@Vhammer2010 Haha!