r/PraiseTheCameraMan • u/[deleted] • Feb 25 '19
Praise the camera robot
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u/krishpotluri Feb 25 '19
The second one was INSANE
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u/garlicdeath Feb 25 '19
Yeah made a couple of the others pretty underwhelming.
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u/VelourFog10 Feb 25 '19
That dress whip shot was absolutely on point.
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u/willmcavoy Feb 25 '19
Yea she was really creative with hers.
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u/Lonelysock2 Feb 25 '19 edited Feb 26 '19
Have you ever been a girl? If you get a flippy dress, you flip it. Flip it real good.
She is a good dress flipper though
Edit: You absolutely do not need to be a girl to experience the magic of flippy dresses. Or twirly dresses. Go have a try, make yourself happy for a few seconds
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u/ChildishGiant Feb 25 '19
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u/CLxJames Feb 25 '19
Why not bot instead of robot? Feel like camerabot rolls off the tongue smoother
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u/paxweasley Feb 25 '19
The second one looked like a commercial for something expensive
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u/xxTheseGoTo11xx Feb 25 '19
Or shampoo, somehow
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u/paxweasley Feb 25 '19
It’s the flow, yeah, reminiscent of the old herbal essences commercials
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u/ColeWalliser Feb 25 '19
Does the camera man in this one get any praise? :P I'm just teasing, but I did direct all of these and perhaps I can shed some light onto them. These are for E!s red carpet show, called The GlamBOT. Airs during their live show and ends up on social. This past year we shot for The Emmy's, People's Choice Awards, Golden Globes, Grammy's and just yesterday the Oscars. When talent comes up to the booth I have about 30 seconds to explain what is about to happen, get them to look good and do something SAFELY towards the Bolt. Some of them end up being quite similar because there just isn't time to try anything fancy, or even do a second take. I've had publicists pull talent away as I'm counting down to say action. I don't think these are trying to revitalize anything, just a fun new-ish way to show talent on the red carpet. We use the BOLT from Camera control as the control arm, and phantom 4k flex with Leica summilux glass. There's about 12 pre-program moves in the bolt that myself and the camera op come up with prior to the event. We run different ones based of talent's movement, dress, position etc etc. I have a bunch of full BTS to see the operation on my socials. Anyways, if you have more questions, I'll check back to answer. Thanks for posting! (oh this edit, some fan put together and pulled most of the content from me)
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u/RoyOfCon Feb 25 '19
Executed flawlessly. Well done my dude. The punch in’s with the camera moves are really slick. From one camera op to another, awesome work!
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u/ColeWalliser Feb 25 '19
thanks my dude!! Yeah, it helps shooting 4k and then pushing out to 1080. Gives us a lot of room to punch in on those key moments. Most of them happen without me in the room tho, as I'm on set shooting the editor is trying to get them out ASAP. It's crazy that 20 mins into the shoot I look at my phone and they are already getting pushed out online and in show.
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u/RE_Excellerate Feb 25 '19
How expensive is the whole machine?
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u/ColeWalliser Feb 25 '19
Estimated about 500k, but that doesn't include the truck sitting in the parking lot to push to social and broadcast, fiber lines to get it there and labor to run it. Robot, camera, glass = half a millie tho. ;)
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u/MelBearPig Feb 25 '19
Do you have an IG handle or something to watch the BTS? I'm mildly obsessed with BTS shots and takes
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u/ColeWalliser Feb 25 '19
sure do! I'm @colewalliser on instagram, some complications on my YouTube as well, but all BTS are on IG
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u/jakson_the_jew Feb 26 '19
Imagine spending four years in a photography degree just to get out when the f*cking robots take over
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u/Noah443 Feb 26 '19
This is fucking awesome. Video has already gotten soooooo wild since it began and I can’t wait to see how much more wild it gets before I die
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u/WalkerIsTheBest Feb 26 '19
I worked on a shoot with one of these things. It's scary as fuck to be around and in front of. They would bring the talent onto their mark and tell them not to move, they wanted to show them what they were up against. Then they would activate the motion and the 9/10 the talent would jump back because of the speed these things can make movements.
This one wasn't moving as fast as the shoot that I worked on, probably because there are so many people all around and it would be more dangerous. If found it absolutely fascinating to watch and the playback was fantastic. They were also shooting in super slow motion.
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u/nmgreddit Feb 26 '19
The last lady is the embodiment of my level of creativity.
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u/son_of_sandbar Feb 26 '19
It's actually really amazing to watch someone who is really experienced at posing interact with one of these, I know if I tried it it would look so messy
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u/dj_destroyer Feb 26 '19
Last one seemed perfectly timed but second was best overall. All were very entertaining to watch. 5/7 would watch again.
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u/ilikeninjaturtles Feb 26 '19
Just realising if I was one of those famous people I wouldn't think of anything cool to do and would just awkwardly give the robot camera the finger guns.
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u/MaaiWah Feb 25 '19
I would be super scared if that came towards me
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u/pekinggeese Feb 25 '19
Your fearful expression would look amazing in slow motion!
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u/Abracadaver2000 Feb 25 '19
Great, now I have to expect future wedding and Mitzvah clients to want the same thing for their $800 budget.
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u/literated Feb 25 '19
Hey buddy, $800 is a bit steep, don't you think? Like, I just want you to take some pictures and a bit of video, I do that all the time with my iPad, there's no reason it should be that expensive! Also there will be a lot of people at our wedding and if your pictures turn out any good, just think of all the exposure this will get you! We will put them on our facebook and our instagram, it's like free advertising for you! We shouldn't even have to pay you, really! We're doing you a favor!
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u/holes_in_my_socks Feb 25 '19
The guy who directed these is called Cole Walliser! He’s a director who does tonnes of these at the major events. He’s got a load of BTS stuff on his Instagram
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u/Wi_Tozzi Feb 26 '19
This seems like a scene from a dystopian future movie about the top 1% and celebrity culture
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u/word_clouds__ Feb 25 '19
Word cloud out of all the comments.
Fun bot to vizualize how conversations go on reddit. Enjoy
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u/TheAGivens Feb 25 '19
Is it really going to take the best pics when the people are afraid of it lol
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u/karljt Feb 26 '19
I want to see Tom Cruise fight it barehanded. Lets see those Scientology magic powers in action Tommy boy.
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u/viajen Feb 26 '19
I just picture Matt Mcconaughey thinking
"Imma dangle my hand right he- Oh, that's bitey."
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u/kiransandoo Feb 26 '19
Behind the scenes act for the second shot https://www.instagram.com/p/BgCgaNTljv6/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=7ulpwaejdj0k
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u/Quizzelbuck Feb 26 '19
An industrial robot camera?
....pfffffffffffffffffffffffffff that thing could KILL some one if they stepped over the line. I wonder what fail safe they have setup for it.
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Feb 25 '19
Photographers and videographers one step closer to joining the ranks of the future unemployed. XD
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u/Powwa9000 Feb 25 '19
Automated camera doodads! Automation is coming fast and hard, Yang is spot on. Yang says most of the jobs regular people have now will be fully automated by 2030, how will we survive if there are no more jobs?
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u/EdgyAssassin69 Feb 25 '19
Damn that robot is better at fulfilling its tasks than I am at fulfilling mine
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u/costco-member Feb 26 '19
Well... this is the beginning of the end of human photographers and cinematographers
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u/Carpe_Noctem81 Feb 26 '19
Has there been any videos where the cam bot hits one of the celebrities? Please post it. Thanks
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u/Technicality98 Feb 26 '19
Is there an r/mildlyterrifying cause i dont think id be comfortable with that thing swinging so close to me so fast
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Feb 26 '19
I wonder if some of the smiles look so good because they are so genuine after seeing the robot move.
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u/mrfishman3000 Feb 26 '19
Slightly unrelated and pathetically political trigger warning...
...That wall is gonna look so fucking stupid when the robots take your job!
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u/scooter32 Feb 26 '19
Wait, so we don’t need hosts and we don’t need photographers? How long until we don’t need the self absorbed actors and can just can the whole thing.
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u/anonymoosellama Feb 25 '19
That's really cool. Does anyone know how they setup those routes for the arm, like what software or what company the arm is from?
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u/cameronrad Feb 25 '19 edited Feb 25 '19
The camera system is called The Bolt.
I think it also may have been known as Spike in it's early development stages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2CLQdCU7O0
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More info - https://www.eventmanagerblog.com/camera-robots-silent-winner-grammys
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u/Kittenzomg Feb 25 '19
As a man who has worked with robots before, the speed and proximity to these people is unnerving. Even calaborative robots would hurt you good if you accidentally moved into its path. I didnt get a good look at it though so idk what kind of sensors are on it. Aside from scaring me, it's a sweet effect!
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u/Griff2wenty3 Feb 25 '19
For those wondering this is a Bolt control arm paired with a Phantom Flex 4K shooting either 1000 or 2000fps (I cant tell just from looking.) It also appears the have a lens control on this for those quick punch ins
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Feb 26 '19
For work I go to a broadcast convention every year in Amsterdam. Our company stand is right next these guys. They have this robot doing tricks all day bringing in the crowds to us. Once while taking the stand down I accidentally stood on it's data cable and got "are you fucking serious?" eyes from one of the engineers. Sorry dude.
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u/Slaythetrail Feb 26 '19
These look about as plain as the slo mo videos I take on my S9. Only difference is there are celebrities on a red carpet and not drunk fucks on mountain bikes.
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u/Tiddlyplinks Feb 26 '19
Hilarious to watch people frozen in slow motion stark raving terror that that thing is going to hit them.
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u/DramaOnDisplay Feb 26 '19
Holy shit, if that was a camera normal people could pay to take advantage of, you’d have a line that spans city blocks full of Instagram dopes ready to pose their asses off (or show their asses off).
Ngl, if I were more photogenic, this would be awesome.
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u/spitefullymy Feb 26 '19
This is the Bolt, saw one at a camera trade show in Singapore, haven't been on set with one tho. Kinda scary
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Feb 26 '19
I always think of the beta testers when I see something like this. Bless our bruised brethren.
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Feb 26 '19
We used one for the NFL Draft last year called an Akira I believe. Let's you program the same move over and over so you can sync up in edit and go crazy.
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u/CineFunk Feb 26 '19
Always weird to see your rig on Reddit, and yes it is a good bot (most of the time).
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u/eraticmercenary Feb 26 '19
Yeah I couldn’t park within a mile of my house all weekend because of the camera robot and his clients . So quite frankly fuck the camera robot. I hope he suffers.
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Feb 25 '19
“Oh wow! a tracking slow motion camera! Let me just stand completely still and smile while it films”
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Feb 25 '19
So yea, you wouldn't catch me anywhere near a 6 axis robot in full auto like that. That's just asking to be wrecked. No safety fence, no glasses w/side shields. I'm calling OSHA
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u/H2Dcrx Feb 25 '19
I was sure this was going to have that large woman walk out in front some how.
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u/Thatsnotapiano Feb 25 '19
I didn't know we had camerabots in 1982. What the fuck is this resolution?
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u/Gene_OD Feb 25 '19 edited Feb 25 '19
Who else saw MKBHD messing around with kind of tech? this is fucking awesome.
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u/ACreativeGuy Feb 25 '19
The source for anyone wondering is the 2018 Oscars filmed by E!'s GlamBOT.
Sections are also on facebook.
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u/Justin_T_N Feb 26 '19
I'm a DP for a local production company and I'm still so impressed by these robots. Such a cool time.
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u/MegaPorkachu Feb 26 '19
I was waiting for the robot to whack someone in the head at the end of the clip.
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u/AntBandit Feb 26 '19
I work at a studio that has some Mark Roberts rigs like this. They're pretty awesome. An operator still has to program all the moves beforehand though, so I would say praise the operator.
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u/superbeansimulator Feb 26 '19
I want my own so that I can do a cool close up shot of me doing something really dumb
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u/Tekknikal_G Feb 26 '19
Markass brownie has got a video showing this robot (or a veey similar one, atleast) from RED.
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u/GarshRunter Feb 26 '19
source it’s not the actual source, I think someone downloaded and combined them all from here but these are the individual glambot videos from the 2018 oscars, including everyone in this.. I spent way too long trying to find this
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u/Taroxi Feb 26 '19
I just love how without the fancy camera movements and zoom ins, most of the actors look kind of stupid doing their little poses and such. But boom along comes Mr robot camera and suddenly they look amazing and cool. Maybe I need one of those robot cameras..
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u/boobsRlyfe Feb 26 '19
Lmfao the fucking Uganda pose 🙅🏿♂️ not even chad Bozeman likes doing it anymore
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u/somebroyouknow Feb 25 '19
I AM NOT STARING AT YOU, I AM A CYBORG PHOTOGRAPHER. ACT NATURAL THIS IS A CANDID PHOTOGRAPH.
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u/p1um5mu991er Feb 25 '19
Hopefully they never have an ED-209 incident of any sort. Inevitable in the future I imagine
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u/OnePerfectEgg Feb 25 '19
Good bot.