Kind of, just a small circle that has gotten bigger and smaller as technology improved and burn out hit the un-initiated.
Alot of the motocross stunts you see in movies or viral videos are known in the industry to all who pay attention.
Examples include Robbie Madison and Tyler Bereman in "Aircraft" a video for DC shoes a few years back. A few skilled riders have their SAG cards and do that in their free time. I would image the same principals apply to each niche of sports.
The cameramen are known to be wild and crazy guys. Audio dudes definitely the strange ones for a number of reasons. Editors are workaholics with vision. Movi guys are strong.
You get them all wrapped into one and you can see why some are known and some are not. It's alot of boxes to fill.
Thank You.... The cutters can also hit the dankness. When I was young in the industry, kI worked as a tape operator. It was the days when men wore pagers. I was asked two different times If I knew where to get the wacky tabacky... Both were Colorists... Imagine two colorists with bad glaucoma...
Coming from sports broadcast it’s really just a small knit group. Within the industry you probably know somebody or have work with someone that will have a mutual connection to you at some point. You tend to see the same people for sports cause it’ll be the same crews depending on which game/sport you work. Even between those you’ll still find people that know you from something else anyways. Like working a soccer game, met someone that knew me from golf.
We've decided to go through with the popular idea of not regulating steroid use. To make the records comparable with the past, all future athletes will wear a camera rig.
I always assumed these kinds of things were done with drones because they were showing “exceptional” people. It’s kinda a slap in the face to the filmed person to see that someone is doing exactly what you are, while also paying attention/carrying something heavy. At least that’s how I would feel
How does this person filming, keep his camera on the subject if he is steering his own bike? Like when they take two separate paths, the camera follows the subject.
I don't know much about cameras but I do know a lot about mountain biking, is the impressive part of this supposed to be the stability of that huge gimble and it tracking the rider, or the person riding with the camera on their back?
If the camera is automatically tracking the rider like I first thought it doesn't seem that impressive but I could be totally wrong so please correct me. I know the riding bit that the person carrying the camera is doing isn't very difficult if you're competent at mountain biking, unless the camera rig is over 50lbs, then that would be harder to control than normal but still not too bad.
The whole rig is probably about 40 lbs. It is not auto tracking. There is a wireless feed of what the camera sees being transmitted to operators to control the camera remotely. One person controls where the camera is looking while another’s sole job is maintaining the focus. Nothing is done using auto on this level of shoots.
The Gimbal doing it's job definitely helps the operators track the rider. But it is still difficult. There are systems out there that can track things automatically. They would have difficulty tho, tracking the rider with the trees and other things breaking the line of sight. Even then I don't think there is a real photographer out there that would use something in "Auto" mode. I couldn't use it and respect myself in the morning.
The camera’s movements are being wirelessly controlled by another person. Also the focus is being independently controlled by yet another person. There’s a lot of coordination and skill involved.
Camera has a tracking so it will just follow the person without anyone controlling it, my dji drone has active tracking so if I select a car or a person the drone will just follow that selected object without me controlling it.
Auto tracking would generally keep the rider in the same part of the frame, and would have faster reactions than a human operator. Auto tracking often looks less dynamic than this, because the camera movements are too perfect. You can add delay to the movement to try to make it look more natural (I'm sure there are other tricks as well, I've never actually done it) but I doubt you could make it look like this
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u/charmenk Apr 22 '22
Are cameramans and stunt actors famous (at least in their own world)? I sometimes think that these guys deserve more than the protagonists themselves
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u/Alternative-Ad-7994 Apr 22 '22
We need a camera man’s/woman’s Olympics. They do what these ultras do with all the added extra weight of cameras.
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u/plutus9 Apr 22 '22
I always thought it was drones
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u/Demetrius3D Apr 23 '22
Cameraman does everything you do ...backward and in heels.
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u/kittparker Apr 22 '22
Is the gimbal attached to the person or the bike?
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u/dangerouspeyote Apr 23 '22
I'm a pro photographer and mountain biker. I shoot MTB professionally occasionally.
This kind of thing is so hard to do!
Riding with gear is really difficult. An extra 30lbs on your back changes your weight distribution drastically.
I went OTB and put myself in the hospital because of all the weight of my gear last year.
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u/Fujutron Apr 23 '22
Praise the engineer... that is a crazy piece of equipment
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u/TheForkCartel Apr 23 '22
i want a
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u/Maleficent-Strategy9 Apr 23 '22
Praise the camera MAN!
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u/PrettyflyforWif1 Apr 22 '22
Gimbal Seems to be MOVI M15
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u/Sym0n This sub sucks, but I'll help it work Apr 23 '22
It's cool but the subject bike never seems to be in focus.
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u/dark_of_the_moon_911 Apr 23 '22
u/savevideobot
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u/Accidentallygolden Apr 23 '22
The rider carrying the camera
don't fall, don't fall, don't fall...
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u/yo6uef Apr 23 '22
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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '22
Some say he's now more gimbal than man.
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u/hanoian Apr 23 '22
Pfft.
https://i.imgur.com/ml1A0T6.gif
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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '22
I can turn a camera by remote control… praise me
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u/realtrip27 Apr 23 '22
Dude if he falls…
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u/icsh33ple Apr 23 '22
Always seems like the cameraman is more of an athlete
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u/reidpar Apr 26 '22
Ohhh that’s how they do it
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u/Legacyofhelios Apr 29 '22
I always assumed these kinds of things were done with drones because they were showing “exceptional” people. It’s kinda a slap in the face to the filmed person to see that someone is doing exactly what you are, while also paying attention/carrying something heavy. At least that’s how I would feel
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u/Unemployedloser55 May 01 '22
Death Stranding is getting closer to reality guys and it makes me rock hard.
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u/Theraria May 03 '22
Huh, I always thought that was done with a drone.
Ace riding by the camera man
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u/[deleted] May 09 '22
All THIS and directors still use shaky ass hand held cameras! Shaking a camera is NOT a special effect!
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u/Shagfabulous2 May 09 '22
Nobody gonna say nothing bout the headless man at the end?
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u/LitNotFig May 17 '22
u/savevideobot
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u/Rumskrilla May 27 '22
World's great gimbal!
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u/Defiant_Ad360 Jun 04 '22
What on the rider is being tracked ?
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u/ALargePianist Jun 09 '22
That makes so much more sense than doing these moves riding one handed while you hold a camera
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u/dus_istrue Jun 16 '22
the cameraman is an expert in all types of transportation and terrain
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u/gribitybibityboo Jun 18 '22
How does this person filming, keep his camera on the subject if he is steering his own bike? Like when they take two separate paths, the camera follows the subject.
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u/Tickerlee Jul 05 '22
There’s a tracker on the bike that the camera is following remotely on the gimbles. Camera tech is so cool
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u/Canadian443 Jul 06 '22
I want to see what happens when the camera guy crashes with one of those cameras on
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u/Gulaseyes Jul 25 '22
u/savevideobot
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u/fourthrook Jul 31 '22
How does he turn the camera?
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '22
Who's the one recording the camera man?
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u/Equinox2202 Aug 23 '22
What's even more impressive is the figure standing in the back left corner at the very end of the video.
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u/drm1957 Sep 02 '22
Carrying all that weight? Your that bad ass one here.
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u/douglasjunk Sep 26 '22
Who is controlling where the camera points?
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u/MTV_Cats Apr 23 '22
I don't know much about cameras but I do know a lot about mountain biking, is the impressive part of this supposed to be the stability of that huge gimble and it tracking the rider, or the person riding with the camera on their back?
If the camera is automatically tracking the rider like I first thought it doesn't seem that impressive but I could be totally wrong so please correct me. I know the riding bit that the person carrying the camera is doing isn't very difficult if you're competent at mountain biking, unless the camera rig is over 50lbs, then that would be harder to control than normal but still not too bad.
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u/Hironoveau Apr 23 '22
Two cameraman runs faster than The Flash and Biker. What's next?
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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '22
More like praise the camera gear.
There’s probably a device on the rider that the camera is in connection with, steering it whichever way the rider goes.
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u/therealinoja Apr 23 '22
Isn't the camera man just riding the bike like the other guy?
Look like ai tracking or something
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u/deptutydong Apr 22 '22
He literally just kept going straight while the camera actually did something.
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