 Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. So I wanted to show you guys a duo or a combination of pretty common pieces of vlogging gear that you might have lying around your house that I found very useful for creating a setup that is not so traditional. I haven't seen so many people talking about it and therefore I thought I'd give a quick video just showing you guys how it works and I've got pretty good results from it. Especially doing things like vlogging, I found it very useful. So let me without further ado really let me show you guys what the mysterious duo is. So basically two components put together. The first is a tripod. Now I'm talking about an actual full-sized tripod that goes down to the floor. So you know, if you're doing like live streaming or you are recording in any other environment or in actual tripods needed. So get thyself a tripod. So you might already have a tripod. So that's number one. Now the second thing, my friend asked me to do this wedding live stream and I was thinking well what's gonna be a creative way that I can be at my live streaming table and get the camera tilting but there's no one else, no one's gonna be helping me. So this was like a really really last minute request. Now there are professional solutions for remote panning and tilting of cameras but those are like thousands of dollars. They're really kind of broadcast quality gear. I was thinking hang on maybe I could just get my gimbal, put it on my tripod and then use the Ronin app and like remotely control the camera and that's exactly what I did and it worked really really well. So that's what I wanted to show you guys how to set up. Now I know it's kind of obvious but nevertheless I figured I would, figured I would just kind of explain the steps required. Don't ask me what that was. That was my phone Siri, Siri or something. Android Siri. Okay, so firstly this is just a smartphone gimbal. AliExpress one thought it'd be easier to demo on this than the Ronin. Now cameras, tripods typically come with a little place at the top. I believe these things are called ARCA plates. I'm sure you know if you own a tripod what I'm talking about this little thing and it has a D-ring typically at the bottom just to make it easier to screw in to your quarter inch appliances. Now most, almost all gimbals I've seen have a quarter inch thread at the bottom, a quarter 20. So if you haven't investigated your gimbal, look at the bottom and you're probably gonna see this. Now the typical things people put into these are monopods. So if you want to extend your gimbal and have a like kind of fake crane footage as they call it. So you can string together a couple of monopods and go like that. Now another thing you can do is have accessories off to the side like run a little L-bracket out to the side of your gimbal and you can put their lights and cameras. So that's another thing you can do. But a third thing you can do is put it on a tripod and you could do both. You could run a quarter inch here or an extension bracket and tripod is here and then put some accessories here. So a world of possibilities opens up and that's what I think is really cool about camera stuff. Everything is like intercompatible. So basically take your tripod's head and just screw it in. Now I recommend just getting your gimbal, getting your smartphone or your camera into your gimbal before you put it on the tripods or everything's already like stabilized. That's my recommendation, could be a terrible one. You can follow it at your own camera's risk. So I'm just gonna use a Android device here and I'm going to now power this guy on. Now the gimbal's powered on, it's holding up my camera and I've just got the camera app open now. It's sort of calibrated. It's actually as good as I can calibrate this particular phone on this particular gimbal without using counterweights. And then basically you just need to slot it in to the tripod. So where the tripod has this little clamping mechanism just go and clip it in. And just a little play around with it and then lock it. So that is basically the gimbal installed on the tripod now. So you can just kind of probably, you can see that it's locked there and that's keeping it secure. Now in terms of how I would use this thing, so what I did for the wedding I mentioned was I used the DJI Ronin SC in the tripod and that was amazing because I could go into the Ronin app and use all the features of the Ronin app remotely because the Bluetooth gets you a few meters at least. So I was able to use virtual joystick to manipulate the pan and tilt motors while the gimbal was on the tripod. Now here's one quick tip or what I learned from this experience. I did another auto tune when the gimbal was on the tripod. So I auto tuned when it was set up in that environment and that got rid of any tiny vibrations that otherwise would have really messed up the footage. So that's really it. And then you can use as well if you're using the Ronin, the virtual tracking feature. So, and you can pipe that into OBS Studio and use that in a stream or a broadcast. So stream or a recording I should say. So really quite a lot you can do is just kind of a setup. So if I was using it like this, let's just say I'm trying not to show the couch because it really needs an organization. I've got all my stuff right there. Now you kind of use, when you have it set up like this you kind of course use the tripod manually. So I can do my panning and tilting. I need to unlock here just like I was using a regular tripod. But you also can use the gimbal. So instead of doing that if I want to get it a little bit more smooth I can use the joystick on the gimbal across all the axes up, down. So it gives you alternatives and naturally the kind of movement you're going to achieve electronically with the joysticks probably going to end up looking quite a bit smoother than what you're going to do with your hand. I believe, could be wrong about that but that's what I found with a really basic, with a basic tripod and a basic camera. I can't, especially with my coffee hands I can't replicate the smoothing, the panning and tilting I get with that. Another use I find for this is I'm just going to move it close enough so you guys can see. Try to get it in front of the camera I'm using to record this video. Also for vlogging it's quite good. So this, forget the fact for a second this tripod is off balance and needs a bit of calibration work but you can use it like this and then again instead of if you're doing a vlog you can just discreetly get one hand on the virtual joystick and do your panning and doing your tilting without that being as obvious as you getting under the tripod I'm manipulating the lever here. So I think that's a second good use for this kind of a setup is if you're doing some vlogging work. So those are two uses I found for it I've actually found it really helpful. Obviously you're going to be draining the battery on the gimbal because even when the gimbal is just sitting on the tripod there's going to be a little bit of motor age going on to keep it balanced. So just be aware of that. One more appliance to charge but besides that I think it's really useful and I found it helpful for vlogging and for live streaming using the DJI Ronin SC and the Ronin app. I thought it was pretty cool to be able to remotely control the pan and tilt on the camera and even automatically track faces all while I didn't actually touch the camera or the tripod the camera was on. Thank you guys for watching if you'd like to get more video content from me feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel.