User's Manual

8. Ramp (SMS TL and Video): Ramp controls how smooth your starts and stops in your nal

footage are going to look. A low ramp means you are going to have an abrupt start and stop

and a high ramp means you will have a very smooth start and stop. The number you select for

your ramp in SMS TL is the number of frames in the nal footage that show acceleration and

deceleration. If you have 50 frames of ramp, you will have 50 frames at the beginning of your

shot and 50 at the end of your shot where the footage shows acceleration and deceleration. If

you are shooting in Video mode, your ramp will be represented as duration in seconds. This

will be the time at the start and end of your shot that is ramped.

9. Lead in and Lead out (SMS TL only): Stationary lead-in/out is the number of stationary shots

at the beginning and end of your programmed move. For example, if you set “24 in 48 out”,

your program will re your camera 24 shots at your set interval before any movement occurs.

The ST4 will re your camera 48 shots at the end of the shot, after movement has nished. If

your nal footage of your compiled shot is 24 FPS, then these “lead in/out” settings result in 1

second of stationary time at the start of your shot and 2 seconds of stationary time at the end

of your shot.

10. Add Frames (multi key-frames): Watch video for more details here: https://vimeo.

com/185580976. Here you can select how many additional key-frames you want to add to your

two-point move. Add one for a 3-point shot, two for a 4-point shot, and so on.

11. Select Axis Move Type: Here, by axis, you select between a 2-point move (Start/End) and

multi-key-frames (3-7 depending on what was selected for Add Frames on previous page) for

each axis. If you select Pan, for example, and set it to start/end, then that axis will only move

between the start point and end point. However, if you set Pan to multi-key-frame, the pan will

transition from the start-point through all the middle key-frames and to the end-point smoothly.

Here you can also change Focus Fz motion from curved to linear. As a result, your Fz will

move directly to each key-frame without arcing the motion between points.