so you gotta ronan SC today i want to show you how to set it up and some of the best settings you can start out with to fine-tune it for your use [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey my name's Jake Sloane and this channel is all about helping solo creators like myself create better videos and take better photos using drones cameras and other technologies so I do tech reviews and related tutorials the DJI Ronin SC is a great small compact travel gimbal that works really really well for anybody with lighter weight setups especially mirrorless cameras and that does a lot of things like what I do where I'm out hiking and exploring wild wilderness of Alaska or really on the go creators who need something that's lightweight and fast and easy to set up so that they can take it with them on commercial shoots to start off with you have the hand grip which is also your battery you can't charge this without putting it together with the gimbal and the bottom has a 3/8 thread and a quarter inch thread the tripod that DJI supplies is a quarter-inch thread so you can screw it in just like this and then you have a fantastic base to be able to start assembling and balancing the gimbal the gimbal itself all locked together looks like this I've taken this side off and used this small rig plate yeah.the be a link in the description if you're interested just because it has a lot of quarter-twenty mounts and I can mount an external monitor arm or whatever I want to it but put the two together slide it like that and then very importantly make sure that is locked by pushing it forward now you've got the gimbal assembled pretty much ready to go and depending on your camera its multi to sony or multi to USB to camera if it's a USBC i use this one because it doesn't disable embody image stabilization on sony cameras if you're using embody image stabilization this is the one to use if you're just using USB C on your camera then this one works fine too this one also works with Sony cameras it just disables the embody image stabilization so you you know something to be aware of either one of these cables will plug-in right here and the one to plug-in is the angled side plug it in like that and voila now to assemble the plate so you have this plate here just wait has this little piece here which is great for once you get it set in balance to lock it in place so that you know where it's gonna balance when you put it back in place it's pretty simple to assemble just place on the camera thread it in using your fingers and then if you have a screwdriver or a little tool like this you can tighten it up and you're ready to go I always place it toward the back of the camera just so that it's lined up back there and then it gives you a fair amount of leeway moving forward but you might find that you have to put it somewhere else now if you're using a lighter weight body like that a 6400 with a larger lens like this Tamron 28 to 75 or Sigma 16 millimeter 1.4 something like that you're going to want to use this spacer plate and it's very simple how that attaches put the plate on the camera use a screw thread the screw into the body tighten it up and make sure it's pretty straight with the lens in the body now you want to put both screws through the bottom of the main plate which means you have to thread them through so they both drop in and then when you place the camera plate through like so you can thread each screw in and then set the plate about where you want it I find that toward the back is probably about the best the reason I always start off by finger tightening and not using a screwdriver or something like that right off the bat is that I want to make sure that I don't accidentally miss thread or or strip the screws out it hasn't happened to me yet but I'm just always a little bit aware of it so now there's a lot of space between the body and the lens and the plate and so if you wanted to use a wider lens or a larger lens you can easily put it on there and there's still plenty of space this lens would not fit without that spacer plate I'm gonna stick with the Sony 16 250 because it's a cheap kit lens it's lightweight and actually I kind of like it it's pretty nice for b-roll and stuff the other thing that they give you is this lens support for longer lenses and the screw for it the one thing to note is that on this lens support there is a move on one side and that's the side that the screw goes into so that it fits nice and snug so if you were gonna put that on you would attach it like so like so my favorite feature of Gimbels that are coming out now is the locking features cuz it keeps them all nice and tidy unlock it and set it so that it looks approximately like this lovely dangling cable then to put the camera on simply push this little silver tab in slide the camera in place and get ready to lock it down now this is important before you start balancing the gimbal you want to make sure your camera is set up exactly the way you want it so if you're gonna use any ND filters lens hoods any microphones anything like that you want it all set up so I'm gonna plug the USB cable in we're gonna stick the rode videomicro on here basically you want your camera totally set up exactly the way you're gonna use it before you balance the gimbal so that you can balance it as perfectly as possible with your camera weight exactly the way it's going to be so balance first thing unlock this axis here which is the tilt axis and because the camera is top-heavy it's going to tip like so that means this part here this part here is too high so we're gonna lower that down a little bit to where it kind of stays in place like that hello actually that's pretty good right there if this is not if it's too far forward it's gonna tip forward if it's too far backward it's gonna tip backward what you want to do is set it right in the center to where the gimbal basically doesn't move and then you can tighten down this screw here so now the way to check your tilt axis balance is you should be able to put the camera in basically any position and have it not move from wherever you place it now we know we've got this balanced the tilt axis front abacus balanced we want to take and set this little setting here and set it right right back tight there so that we know that's where the camera balances now any time in the future if we unlock this take the camera off do whatever we're gonna do come and put it back on it's gonna slide right back there we can tighten this down plug everything in and we know that that is exactly where the balance is for the tilt axis that's important when we go to this next step because as soon as we start balancing roll axis we need to make sure that we can loosen this without losing the tilt axis balance again so we're gonna loosen this up because it's a little heavy this way because of the microphone I'm gonna just gently push it over a couple clicks that was probably one click too far I do like that DJ I put the clicks in because it really does make it nice for for being able to balance it quickly again so now we should be able to turn this camera pretty much any direction and have it not move so the way to check the balance for this the yaw the the turning axis the axis is to hold the gimbal and tip it and if it's too far forward like that say we do that the camera will swing around swing around really mess things up so we know that's too far forward we're gonna pull it back to about here do the same thing tip like that tip like that so it's a little bit it's a little bit back heavy because it's swinging to the back essentially whatever side it's swinging toward if it if it moves this way when you're tilting then you know it's gonna be front heavy if it swings toward the back whatever side swings toward the downhill side the side you're holding down that's the side it's too heavy on so now that we've got that pretty much balanced and if I can get my camera to stop turning off and on we know that we've got this balance right just like that now you can turn the gimbal on push and hold the power button there till you hear the ding so now the gimbal is on we can see we've got pretty good balance overall but it's important to connect the app and do an auto tune on the motors especially anytime you go from like the a 6400 I put my a7 three on there the motor strength is drastically different between these two cameras and so it's really important to auto tune anytime you switch up your camera settings in a big weight way so we'll go to the ronin app put motor parameters and then auto tune and it'll go through its little auto tune procedure here almost done and there we go so now you can see that the pan the tilt and the roll motors the strength of them is all set according to what the gimbal felt the sensed and and tested inside of itself now that that's done we can go to the balance adjustment and what you were supposed to do is hold the gimbal off at an angle so I'm holding it about 26 degrees and then begin test the gimbal will move through a couple of different axis axis XSI whatever the claw role of axis is it'll do this it'll move around while it tests itself out and checks the balance so if you did a good job by the time you're done by the time it's done testing it'll come up with the results of yay I balanced everything excellently if you want to see more videos about the Ronin SC how to use different features etc you can click or tap right here if you want to see reviews of other technology that I use as a solo creator that might help you out you can click or tap right here and I'll see you in one of those videos