PROFESSIONAL CAMERA CRANE FROM SCRATCH

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I got tired of moving and swapping my tripods around so I decided to make a camera crane from scratch, because that's the most fun. I used a big aluminium profile as a boom and designed, 3D printed and assembled a bunch of parts to make it work to my advantage. The base is a quick job out of Plywood and it rolls on a set of casters but the shop floor is a bit of a mess so those are only to move it around and not for fancy travelling shots. I added a very cool feature that makes the camera stay pointing in the same direction so it can be used also as a slider to take fancy shots. It can go from ground level up to almost 3 meters high and the camera can tilt 90 degrees up and down from the horizontal. The camera mount is attached to a mechanism that makes it stay level with a fine adjustment near the camera. It has a coarse and a fine counterweight that combined weigh around 20kg. If you think this can be improved in any way or you want to see in a future video drop a comment down below.

CHAPTERS:
00:00​ Intro
00:36 Boom arm modification
02:50 The mast
03:38 Mast assembly
05:42 Fan out wallet
06:50​ Rotating pivot assembly
07:24 Boom arm assembly
08:48 Head assembly
10:12 Counterweights
12:22 The sliding feature
13:10 The finishing touch
13:28 The features
15:50 The demo

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