1014 – Advanced video options for your phone: Tom talks Mobile Phone Gimbal Part 2

SUMMARY BY CHATGPT

🎥 Episode Focus: Advanced Mobile Phone Gimbal Techniques
This episode is a continuation of Episode 1013, moving beyond basic gimbal use to more advanced video shooting techniques using a mobile phone gimbal.
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📱 Key Advanced Features & Tips:
• Gesture Control:
o Use gestures (like a victory sign or raised hand) to start/stop recording without touching the phone.
o Helps avoid unnecessary video trimming.
• Tripod + Face Tracking:
o Mount the gimbal on a tripod and enable face tracking to follow you as you move.
o Ideal for solo shooting with consistent framing.
• Ninja Walk:
o Smooth walking technique (bend knees, heel-to-toe for forward, toe-to-heel for backward).
o Helps reduce vertical camera bounce and improves gimbal performance.
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🎬 Camera Moves:
1. Push Forward:
o Walk forward steadily using Ninja Walk.
o Combine with tilting up/down for dramatic effect.
2. Pull Back:
o Walk backward smoothly while filming your subject.
o Use with tilt or orbit for more cinematic shots.
3. Low Rider:
o Hold the gimbal upside-down near the ground.
o Gives a high-speed feel even at slow movement.
4. Large Orbit:
o Walk in a wide arc around a subject while keeping it centered.
o Combine with turning or have someone orbit around you.
5. Sidetrack:
o Filming a moving subject from the side while walking parallel.
o Can be combined with orbiting for dynamic motion shots.
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🎓 Final Thoughts & Advice:
• Consistency in speed and motion is critical for smooth footage.
• Combine multiple gimbal movements for cinematic shots.
• Tom emphasizes practice and encourages listeners to search “gimbal moves” on YouTube for visual examples.
• High-end results are possible even with affordable gear (under $100) and a smartphone.
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🔗 Resources Mentioned:
• Free automation eBook: screwthecommute.com/automatefree
• Tom’s Mentor Program: GreatInternetMarketingTraining.com
• Online School: IMTCVA.org

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Episode 1014 – Mobile Phone Gimbal Part 2
[00:00:08] Welcome to Screw the Commute. The entrepreneurial podcast dedicated to getting you out of the car and into the money, with your host, lifelong entrepreneur and multimillionaire, Tom Antion.

[00:00:24] Hey everybody, it's Tom here with episode 1014 of Screw the Commute podcast. Today is part two of our mobile phone gimbal gadget that can really do some really great stuff for your videos. So that's what we're going to talk about today. And 1013 was part one was beginner stuff so that you can learn to use your gimbal with easier shots, but still you'll get some great shots out of it. Anytime you want to get to a back episode, you go to screwthecommute.com, slash, then the episode number. Part one was 1013. Pick up a copy of our automation book at screwthecommute.com/automatefree. Version 3.0 is out, so you want to make sure you get rid of 2.0 because there's a bunch of new stuff in version three. And check out my mentor program at GreatInternetMarketingTraining.com and my school at IMTCVA.org.

[00:01:27] Okay, this is part two. More advanced stuff than just standing with your feet in one place. Now couple things. Most of your gimbals have a start stop gesture function. Well, what does that mean? Well, you know how you see videos where people push the play button and then they go sit down, and then they do their video, and then they get up and they go turn the video off. Okay. Sometimes that can be good for for a purpose. We don't need to talk about that today. But most of the time it doesn't look that professional.

[00:02:03] So a lot of gimbals. With the proper app to your cell phone, you can make a gesture. Some of it's like the victory sign to start the video, and like the stop sign where you hold your hand out like a like a crossing guard at the school stop. You know, uh, we'll stop the video, and I think you can make whatever gestures you want and set it in the software. But that's a really cool feature so that, uh, less I mean, if you do a good job at the video and most of these are short, by the way, then there's no editing involved. The video is done as soon as you are done. Okay. So you don't have to edit anything because the front and the back don't need trimmed off. All right. So that's one thing. Next thing is mounting it on a tripod. You can be by yourself. Mount the gimbal on a tripod and set face tracking. I mean, you can track other things besides faces, but let's say you want to move around a little bit in your video. Then you can not worry about going out of frame because it's tracking you the whole time. Now the newer ones that that's what you'd be buying now. Mine is like six years old, but are really good at tracking. So you could set it up on a tripod, set it on a wall just anywhere. And track it. It'll track you very far away.

[00:03:34] So if you're walking down a sidewalk and if you have a good wireless microphone like I talked about in the DJI mini mic thing, then you can get by yourself spectacular shots where you're moving and still talking. All right. So that's another thing. Mounting it on a tripod and using the tracking function. Now when you are walking and holding the the gimbal. There's a certain kind of walk and I want you to Google this and it's called Ninja Walk. Sometimes it's called stealth walking or Fox Walk Fox or silent walking. This is where you bend your knees slightly and you if you're going forward, you go heel to toe and that smooths out things so that you're not. I mean, the gimbal can only fix so much, right? So so you want to be as smooth as possible when you're walking doing some of these fancy shots. If you're walking forward, you're going heel to toe. But if you're walking backwards it's opposite. You go toe to heel. But you got to be careful that you don't trip on things. So if you're by yourself, scope out what's behind you before you start walking backwards. Or if you have somebody helping you, then just have them stand behind you and walk and watch that you don't trip on anything. All right. So that's a basic ninja walk. And they use it in stealth. We use it in the woods to be quiet.

[00:05:11] If you're hunting or or the military uses it to be quiet, you know, so forth. So but just Google Ninja Walk and you'll see it in action. Now, a couple big things that keep in mind is that consistency is really important. So what does that mean. Well that means let's say you're you're walking forward to do a nice cool shot with your gimbal. But you you walk slowly and then you speed up for some reason. Then you walk slow again. That's going to ruin these really beautiful shots. So try to be nice and smooth and consistent with your speed. And another thing a big picture is once you get the hang of this, I'm just going to give you a couple moves. But you can combine the moves to make really spectacular shots with this gimbal thing. Okay, so let's get into a few of them. First one that usually when you're learning this, after you're the ones where you stand still, which I talked about in part one, is the push forward. That's where you use your ninja walk and you pick out a subject you're trying to shoot, and you ninja walk forward and just holding the gimbal out in front of you straight towards the the focus of your video or what you're trying to shoot. Could be a car, could be a building, could be another person, say. So that's simple. Push forward with your ninja walk. Now, just to give you an example of, of this, of combining, you could do a push forward.

[00:06:53] You're walking forward. But then you tilt the gimbal up as you get closer to your subject. Let's say it was a tall building or a lighthouse or a monument or something like that. So it's a push forward and tilt up. You can also do a push forward and tilt down if it makes sense. Okay. So those are an example of combining moves. So opposite of that is a pull back. Pull. Pull back. And you can pull back by walking carefully and consistently backwards. And don't trip on anything. Be careful where you're going. Or you can pull back and tilt up. You can pull back and tilt down, you know, so you can pull back while you're moving sideways in an orbit kind of thing. See? So that's combining the moves. But but you got to check these out. And I highly implore you, since this is a audio podcast, is to just Google gimbal moves. And there's so many videos showing you all the cool things you can do with this. Okay, so next one is a low rider. This is I mentioned this in my previous part one where you're shooting low stuff, but in this case you're going to push forward. But the camera is going to be upside or the gimbal is going to be upside down holding the camera near to the ground. And when you're walking forward, even if you're walking slowly, the fact that the camera is so close to the ground, it kind of simulates that you're going way faster than you're actually walking.

[00:08:41] See also if you're fancy, you can adjust the speed of these shots in your in your editing program if you want to edit. And uh, a lot of these gimbals also have these time lapse and hyperlapse functions in part of the app that goes with them, and you can make some really spectacular shots there too. Okay, so that's the low rider. Then the next thing would be a and these are no order folks. You could do them any any way you want. Once you start seeing these online and buy one of these things, I think you'll be really excited of all the cool things. And it's fun to play with it, to tell you, and you won't get great shots right off the bat unless you're lucky, because it does take a little practice with the buttons and the settings and things like that, but as soon as you get that down, you can make fantastic shots. Okay, so the next one is what we call the large orbit. I talked about a small orbit in part one for close up stuff, but if you have bigger stuff, you can go in an arc around it, set the tracking to stay on the subject, but then you walk in an arc around it and try to stay the same distance away from whatever you're shooting.

[00:10:01] And that's a fantastic shot. You can go right to left, left or right, whatever you want. Now that's if you're shooting something else. But maybe you train or you have a helper and you get them to you. Set it all up and get them to hold the camera and walk in an orbit around you. Another cool shot is, is they're walking one way in an orbit, and you're turning the other way in a, you know, in a circle. That's a really crazy looking shot there. And again, if you've got a decent microphone, you can be talking the whole time. Okay. So that's a large orbit. Now a sidetrack is the next thing that I'll tell you about is where this usually requires a helper if you want you to be in the shot. I guess you could do it on a selfie stick, but I don't know how that would work out because the the sidetrack is usually somebody further away and then just walking the same direction as you. From the side, the camera is shooting you. Now again, you can combine it. They can walk a while shooting you from the side, and then they can orbit behind you or orbit in front of you and then walk backwards. I mean, just all kinds of cool things you can do with these things and basically pick what, what works for you.

[00:11:25] I mean, some of these are very cinematic. If you if you want to be a director, okay. But some of them are great for us business people because we can have really fantastic shots while we're talking about some business thing. And this is the stuff we teach you in our video weekend how to, you know, make a great video that supports your business no matter where you are. We do a whole day on that alone outside of the studio. So so so anyway, this is part two for gimbals. I just implore you, just Google gimbal moves, gimbal moves, and there's tons of videos showing you all the different moves and combinations of moves. And now you can spend a lot of money and use a DSLR camera. Big heavy duty camera. But I'm, uh, you can just do fantastic things with cell phones. I mean, they're shooting TV shows on cell phones nowadays, so. So you don't have to spend a lot of money on this. Like I said yesterday, I just checked the prices. The one that I paid 150 bucks for is like 89 on Amazon right now. Uh, in the latest version, say, and the app that goes with it is free. See, so, um, just a way to really up your game, uh, video game. All right. That's my story. I'm sticking to it. Check out my mentor program. Greatinternetmarketingtraining.com, and I will catch you on the next episode. See you later.