What's up everyone! Here's my quick review for the Zhiyun Smooth X smartphone gimbal. It's a 2 axis gimbal is basically a selfie stick and a gimbal combined into one. The Smooth X is extremely portable, and it's perfect for mobile filmmakers who are on the go.
What's up, everyone.
Welcome back to the channel.
My name is Alex Chung.
And today we're going to take a look at the Zhiyun Smooth X
two axis smartphone gimbal.
The Smooth X is the latest smartphone gimbal from Zhiyun,
and they've made a super simple gimbal for mobile filmmakers.
The Smooth X is like a selfie stick and a gimbal mashed together.
So like a selfie gimbal.
Is that a thing?
What?
The gimbal only has three buttons on the interface,
the joystick, the mode button and the record button.
You also have a zoom in and out rocker and a power button.
When the gimbal is folded, it's extremely tiny.
You can fit it into like a purse, backpack, a fanny pack, back pocket.
It's so small and it's so portable and compact that you can literally
take it anywhere to use the gimbal.
You twist the arm around, mount your phone, balance it a little bit,
and you are basically good to go.
Once you connect your phone to the gimbal via the Zhiyun Cammy app,
you can shoot it from the app itself.
Now, this is a different app from the Zhiyun Play app.
So you need to download this separately onto your phone
in order to connect it with the gimbal.
The app comes with a bunch of shooting options like your standard photo
and video mode, but it also includes time lapse, hyperlapse, panorama
and smart scene where you can add little text effects
and little preset video templates so that it makes it easier to shoot.
But I'm probably not going to use that function
because I want to edit my own stuff.
And speaking of editing, you can edit all your footage within the Zhiyun Cammy app.
There's no need to really export it out to the computer,
although you could if you wanted to.
But you can edit and export your videos straight from the Cammy app itself.
The gimbal is really easy to operate.
And because it's a two axis gimbal, there's no fancy features or modes.
In fact, there's actually only two modes.
There's only pan follow and lock mode.
That's it.
You can shoot landscape for YouTube content or double click the mode button
to shoot vertical for Instagram and TikTok.
You can also extend the arm all the way out
just over 12 inches to make it a selfie stick to get wider angle shots.
And you can also tilt the head to make it easier to frame your shot.
Now, the gimbal only has two axes,
which means that it doesn't compensate for that up and down walking
and especially that running motion.
And so that's definitely something that you need to keep in mind
when you're shooting with this gimbal.
One of my favorite features on the Smooth X is this gesture mode
where the gimbal looks for you to hold up your hand
and it'll start tracking your face and recording at the same time.
And it's basically like a little AI robot
that's just like following you around wherever you move.
And this is perfect if you're solo shooting
and you want the gimbal tracking you as you move around
to show the background and just keep you in frame.
If you don't want to do that gesture,
you can also click and drag the screen to select what you want to follow
and the gimbal will detect it and automatically lock on.
This function is available in the photo, video, time-lapse and hyperlapse mode,
which means you can get some really awesome looking footage.
I also really like the panoramic mode in the ZY Cami app.
All you need to do is hit the shutter button
and it'll automatically pan around from left to right
and capture seven shots and stitch it into a panoramic photo for you.
And this is perfect for getting beautiful landscape shots.
The time-lapse mode is also super useful.
When you switch over to time-lapse, you can set the interval,
which is how fast you want the camera to take pictures,
and the duration, which is how long you want the camera to shoot for.
The best part is that you can set waypoints for the gimbal to follow.
You can open up the path option and pan the gimbal
to where you want the starting point to be.
Hit the plus sign, pan to where you want to end and hit the add button again.
And you can select more points if you need to.
And when you're done, hit the record button
and the gimbal will automatically start shooting for you.
It's awesome. It's so cool.
You don't need to do any of the work.
The gimbal will automatically do it for you.
The Smooth X comes in two different colors, gray and white.
You can get the base package of the Smooth X for $60.
That just comes with the gimbal itself.
But for $10 more, you can upgrade to the combo package
and it comes with a carrying case and the tripod feet, which I really recommend.
So ultimately, if you're primarily a smartphone shooter
or you don't want to bring a separate camera on the go and you want smooth shots,
then the Smooth X is definitely the gimbal for you.
It's lightweight, it's compact, super portable and easy to use.
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