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hey this is Mikey with a quick video and I want to do a review on this little gizmo right here it's called the beholder and what it is is it's a three axis brushless gimbal system for a smartphone and you can see here this little carriage that holds the phone let me just show that to you it opens up and can hold different sized phones it comes with different little sizes of padding in here so you can also hold different phones and make sure it's nice and secure really kind of a cool system what I like about this is the footage is amazing I'm after this brief review of the build quality and I want to show you some footage and what I did was I took footage using this I took footage without using it using just the built-in stabilizer into my iPhone then I also took footage with no stabilizer at all and then I also took that footage and I stabilized it using the warp stabilizer in after-effects so I've got four different versions and you can see you can compare the difference between them and we'll talk about it but as far as build quality on this thing goes pretty darn good I mean the whole thing is solid metal except for this carriage right here where you put your phone is made of plastic but that's fine because you want it to be lighter so it's easier to balance and really cool there you can see here there's a USB port and you could actually use that to charge your phone if you wanted to I test it out and it works also they have a little accessory light you can stick in there so you can kind of have a light on your phone if you don't already have one built in make sure you check out there's a link in the description with more information on this to the actual website where there has all the information on this it's about three hundred dollars there's different prices with and without batteries you can buy batteries separately you can get extra batteries it comes with this nice little box and so in the box is the battery charger it's a USB cable and then it has these little weights there's a couple of these little weights at different weight so if you've got a bigger phone that may not balanced properly then you can have a counterweight on there so it balances properly and it's not too hard to use so I just have an iPhone 5s and with that you don't need to have any counterbalance so let me just stick this in so you can see here I've got the camera on and right now it's not turned on it's just kind of moving all about but you just want to make it so it's as balanced as you can and as level as you can and then you hold it everything level and then you hit the button the buttons right here on the handle and it turns on and it's running so how it works is the roll acts the roll axis it'll keep it level the pan it'll smooth it out and the tilt it'll smooth it out as well pretty cool so that is the beholder so let's let's go take a look at the footage and see how well this does so here's the footage and what you can see is four different video clips and what I've done is I filmed it several times different ways so obviously one of the ways I filmed it is using the beholder 3 axis gimbal but another way I filmed it is using just handheld iPhone footage and the iPhone has a built-in software stabilizer that will kind of stabilize your footage and so I made sure I filmed it that way another way is I filmed that using a different app on the iPhone that I can turn off the stabilizer I wanted to see it with no stabilization whatsoever and then the fourth way is I took that completely unstabilized footage and I use the after-effects warp stabilizer to smooth it out so just take a quick second look over these four clips and just put down your guesses of what you think is what and then I'll put on the labels here in a second okay here it is with the labels on and most of you probably guessed all this let's first talk about the after-effects warp stabilizer since we are in After Effects and this is an After Effects Channel now the warp stabilizer at first glance looks like it's doing a pretty darn good job but let's take a look at the background especially over in these tree and this building here you can see that when it starts to move a little bit too much you get lots of jelly wobbliness and that is very typical of warp stabiliser even on this fairly simple fairly slow clip you're gonna get lots of wobble ease and jello so something like this in an actual production may be able to work may not be able to I'd probably want to refilm that to try to get as smooth as I can before I use the warp stabilizer but that jello wobbliness is something that you don't want to see in an actual video now the in-camera stabilizer built in the iPhone and is actually doing a pretty good job there's a lot less of the jello wobbliness as opposed to the warp stabilizer but that's also moving around a lot more and you can obviously tell that I'm walking with the camera the no camera in camera stabilizer is obviously the shakiest of the bunch but hands-down the best of the four footage is the beholder 3 axis gimbal this is amazing looking and very nice and smooth steady there's no roll there's no bounce and but it's not completely locked down like a dolly so it still feels organic movement like a glide cam so very very impressed with the footage I wanted to take this up a notch and instead of just walking backwards with the camera which incidentally is a hard thing to do I did a shot a video shoot for a company called cowl ranch where we were walking backwards through their aisles in their store and I had to use the glide cam the DSLR and it didn't turn out as nice as this so this is pretty impressive to me but I wanted to take it up a notch and where we're running through the trees so let's take a look at that so here are these same four camera setups but this time running through the trees and as you can see the beholder three axis gimbal I think by far is the best of the bunch the if we look at the in-camera stabilizer I'm built into the smartphone it does a pretty good job but still pretty shaky and it's kind of smooth and it shakes real fast smooth and it shakes real fast so I think that's the software just kind of stuff a little bit with the no software in the in camera it's pretty darn shaky all around and if that's kind of look you're going for like a Jason Bourne type thing then I guess that could work using the warp stabilizer though it's cropped in way too much in order to be able to make it fit and it still didn't really stabilize it that much and there's still some jello in the background so production setting for an actual client this is probably a no-go for me so my choice of the four of course is gonna be the beholder just because it's a really amazing footage just a couple of last little tidbits I wanted to talk about well first off special thanks to Brian who is the subject of the video he didn't know this morning that he's gonna be running through the woods until he got to work and I said let's go run through the woods and and so thank you to him and also but I wanted to talk about you can see what the beholder the one thing that was actually easier without using the Gambel system was keeping the subject center of the camera because as he turns around this corner I'm here at the beginning you can see he's almost runs off camera and that's because the the gimbal has kind of a soft pan it smooths out your pan and so even though I was turning to kind of keep up with him he was faster than they was panning so that is the one thing about this is is when you've got a subject in your camera moving back and forth it's harder to keep it centered it was easier to keep it sinan you can see that you know just bottom left he's pretty much Center the entire time but obviously it's a lot more shaky so that is one thing to consider when you're using a gimbal system like this as you can see from the footage this thing is pretty rock-solid of a really good looking footage and I'm gonna come out and say this that I do video production and I would use this on a set I've done stuff with steadicams and glide cams before using a DSLR and this is so much easier and I think the results look just as well when you're doing glide cam stay can work anyways you don't want to have a nice shallow depth of field and a telephoto lens cuz you're not gonna be able to focus on it because you can't have your hands on the on the camera while you're while you're using it so you want a a wide angle lens anyways and a deep depth of field so that's exactly what these smartphones do and 1080p really nice footage I can shoot 120 frames a second if I want to and just cell phone footage is getting better and better and better all the time this thing has about a 90-minute battery life which is pretty darn incredible you're not going to be using it the entire time and you can always get replacement batteries for it if you need to so that is the beholder definitely check out the link in the description and I highly recommend it really cool I'm going to be using it a lot and hope you enjoyed this video talk to you later see you bye