The Best Way to Pull Focus on a Shoulder Rig

Chadwin Smith
Chadwin Smith
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Published 2021-02-17
Using a shoulder rig is a great way to add energy to your footage, bring the audience right into the action and help things feel more realistic, however pulling focus on a shoulder rig and keeping your image sharp can be hard to do. That's where the Tilta Nucleus side focus handle or side focus grip comes. This shoulder rig is mostly made of SmallRig parts and they're all linked below. The rig was built out with the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6k, but it could also be done with the Pocket 4k, new pocket 6k Pro, or pretty much any other mirrorless camera like the Sony a7siii, Fujifilm X-T4 and so on.

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Tilta Side Focus Grip geni.us/tiltaGrip
Nucleus Nano amzn.to/2ONOZFd
Smallrig 15mm Rosette Support geni.us/15mMount
Rosette Extension Arm geni.us/rosetteGrip
Wood Side Grip geni.us/woodGrip
Blackmagic Pocket 6k geni.us/Pocket6k
BMPCC4K geni.us/Pocket4k
NATO Rail mount geni.us/natorail
Dual Grips geni.us/Grips
SmallHD Focus geni.us/smallHD
EVF Support Arm geni.us/NATOmonitor
Monitor Mount geni.us/MonitorMount
HDMI cable geni.us/SmallHDMI
Pocket 6k Cage geni.us/smallrigCage
Samsung T5 SSD geni.us/T5ssd
D-Tap Power Cable for BMPCC4k/6k geni.us/pocketDtap
15mm rods geni.us/15mmRods
Base Plate geni.us/Camvate
V-mount Plate geni.us/TiltaVmount
V-mount battery geni.us/vmount
Shoulder Pad geni.us/ShoulderPad
Top Handle geni.us/NatoArri
Matte Box geni.us/BaseCampVND

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Who is Chadwin Smith? I am an aspiring cinematographer. I love creating videos and showing others how to light and shoot better videos! I also review tech and gear. Based in Arizona, USA
All Comments (21)
  • @chadwin
    And now the NEW Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6k Pro is here! Internal ND filters, a tilting screen, brighter LCD, longer battery life! All the things we've been asking for! Except the EVF.....no one asked for that......haha! What do ya'll think? Is it worth upgrading from the Pocket 4k or 6k?
  • @ken9778
    This is genius. The reason I turned my camera into a cinema rig was because I stumbled upon one of your videos. I’ve come a long way now and learned a lot. So thank you and keep up the awesome content!
  • @scottpollock6549
    This video was so in depth and informative you absolutely earned a sub. Can't wait to see what I can create with these helpful tips!
  • @simbasimsstudios
    This is great. Thank you for sharing. Keep creating great content.
  • @encoremultimedia3511
    Good tips. I like that you mixed SmallHD and Tilta products, two of my favorite equipment accessory makers.
  • @Alecgodwin
    You beat me to it. I was gonna make a video about this. lol. Now ill have to direct them here cos you nailed it. Thats my favorite Tilta accessory cos it is universal. Great Video!
  • @Matt.Gillard
    Your gear and rigs have come so far! I love it!
  • @MegaDanCrow
    Fantastic! I am on the path to this build.
  • @seanhindsbk
    Video is priceless. Great job. I used everything and did it. Works great.
  • @All2jPro
    Great video… great rig…this is the reason we went with the Niceyrig/Camvate accessories And the PDMOVIE LIVE AIR 2+ instead of the tilta… there tooooo many workarounds and things you have to buy to get it to work the way you want… for the same base price… PDM gives you totally wireless powerful motor with clamp on controller and memory with 2 second calibration. Absolutely loving it…
  • @AaronFilmsStuff
    Great idea man! I've been looking into a setup similar to this for my shoulder rig so this was nice to see! Maybe one day we'll run into each other filming stuff here in AZ!
  • @DruMUSIC06
    Nice one man, now time to aave up for those.
  • @jimperez2941
    Thanks for the response. Sorry about that I thought maybe the wrong one. But I sent it back to Amazon because I found just the pad by itself and the rods by themself too, which came out to be cheaper. You help me learn about the Tilta handle for Focus pulling. So it's all good.
  • @cineformat6298
    As always very informative video, thanks , keep rocking)
  • @DynamicPhil84
    Awesome video, great explanations! I had no idea these tilta side handles were compatible with the nucleus nano. I was looking at the Nucleus M system and it is way more expensive for not much of an advantage here.