5 Gimbal MISTAKES That Are Ruining Your Shots

Check out these 5 gimbal mistakes that are ruining your shots and avoid doing them in your wedding videos!

Camera gimbals and stabilizers are a great tool for wedding filmmakers but they need to be used correctly to get the best gimbal shots for wedding videos. There are lots of interesting shots you can get, but it's important to be intentional and practical when it comes to gimbal movements. So, we've put together five gimbal mistakes that we see time and time again in the wedding filmmaking world. These 5 gimbal mistakes can sometimes be covered up in the editing phase, but we feel it's incredibly important to be intentional with your filmmaking and to avoid any "fix it in post" type attitude when you can. So, make sure to watch and see all five mistakes that we see wedding filmmakers making over and over and continue executing the best cinematic gimbal shots

This gimbal shots tutorial will tell you the things to avoid when getting good gimbal shots, and will touch on the gimbal movements you should be after when you learn how to use a gimbal..

We hope this wedding filmmaking tutorial helps you out and if you like this then you'll surely love our wedding video behind the scenes videos, wedding bts, wedding video breakdowns, as well as our podcast, gear reviews, film critiques, and other videos up on our channel!

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0:00 Intro
0:25 Mistake #1
0:56 Mistake #2
1:18 Mistake #3
1:51 Mistake #4
2:42 Mistake #5

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[WeddingFilmSchool]

You guys have any other mistakes you're seeing or making yourselves? Let's share them below!

[waynosfotos]

Some good tips. 👍
I have another hack that people rarely mention and really helps with the RS2 and the RS3 models (as the handle is right at the bottom of the gimbal) is to add a monopod, this acts like a counterweight to the camera around the fulcrum of your hand. This makes it like a gimbal/steadycam in one. Making it easier to hold, rest on the ground and get high and low shots. Also thanks for the wedding reviews, love them. 👍

[Write_Film_Edit]

I'm glad to see these lessons compiled here. I don't shoot on gimbals much, but when I do I've definitely made several of these mistakes in the past. It took me a while to learn that just because I could fly my camera anywhere didn't mean that composition and motivated movement could be thrown out the window. My shots are more consistently usable when I slow down, identify a subject, and use the gimbal for a small, motivated movement while maintaining good composition.
This week I'm actually going back to re-edit an old video I shot back in my early Glidecam days, and I've been horrified by how that footage does all of this wrong. 90% of the shots have no subject and no purpose. The camera is constantly moving (too fast and too far) because it can, and that just doesn't work.

[ashtonloitz]

Great tips, I just started out and I was not happy with my gimbal shots so this helps a bunch! Also love the Zelda shirt!

[IICNCELEDII]

Great to see you are still uploading :)

[johnbivins]

Yep, pretty much used to do all of these! a Great video watched it 3 times, didn't think about the more than 1 step WOW! I have a Roni RS2 pro still learning a lot!

[kingweddingmedia]

One I spotted in myself was too much parallax shots, and often in the same direction - the final edit can become really repetitive. Mixing things up with some parallaxing, some push ins, some rotational top down etc gives you much more variety and less repetition!

[cbflazaro]

gimbal doesnt compensate the Z axis if you hold it vertically. I hold it on an 45 deegree angle on all axis so the motors also compensate for vertical bumps.

[vladimirtalijan]

The biggest mistake is using a gimbal all the time, it's not an image stabilization alternative.