Build a GoPro 60 Second/1 Minute, 360 Degree Quick Panning Timer

***Update: I think some of this film "jitter" is rolling shutter. The videos have smoothed out some by being shot in 60 frames per second.
The 60 minute time-lapse time rigs are excellent for their purpose but I wanted a timer that would record video in a 360 degree circle in a short amount of time. I came up with this 60 second version that lets me do quick 360 degree video clips or smooth pans. It's built using a Learning Resources 60 second Jumbo Timer. .

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I wanted to show you a project that I've been working on recently.
this is a
GoPro timer that you've probably seen
on youtube before.
All the videos that I found were the 60 minute variety
where you shoot time-lapse for an hour but
i wanted something that would
take video in a short period of time
so
i came up with this
this is a sixty second
timer. So it makes a 360
degree revolution
in one minute.
so that's uh... a little bit different than what's out there already.

in my situation and i didn't want to
hang around at the location for a real
long time i just need to show what's
in the area quickly, on video
or do a nice smooth pan. So that's why i
came up this.
I'll show you a real quick
demonstration of what the video looks
like and then more come back and i'll
show you how to put it together.


The only 60 second timer that i could
find, is this
jumbo timer made for classrooms and kids
obviously.
It is made by Learning Resources
and they also make a sixty minute
version the Jumbo Timer so be careful
not to get that.
You can find these on ebay,
but i ended up getting mine from
amazon.
I think it was around eighteen dollars
so it's not nearly as cheap as the sixty
minute timers that you can find at Walmart or wherever.

I'll show you how it comes....

That's what it looks like and it's
pretty easy to take apart. Just take all these
screws out,
and the two haves come apart.
Inside you'll find the timer
like this....

I gently pried it off of the needle.
I wasn't sure how fragile these are.
These do not have very good reviews on the
few that i could find
on some websites. Some people have
noted that they're fragile so i'm a little
bit concerned about that.
I was kind of
amazed to find that there are even more
metal parts in the these than the sixty minute
versions.

What i did was....
I ended up welding a
1/4 20 nut on the bottom
that's so that it can be mounted on a tripod.

For the upper part....
Again I wanted to use this with a GoPro
so i took
the dial off of a three dollar
60 minute timer that i bought at
Walmart
and I
cut the handle off with a hacksaw
,then filed it smooth
,and then stuck on a GoPro adhesive mount.
It seem like the quickest and and most
secure way to do it at this point.
When you cut off the handle it doesn't
leave much plastic
for this little
mounting nub to be attached with.

uh... doesn't leave much to be attached with so I put a little super glue
around here
just to help strengthen in a little bit.

Then from that point they
just mate up this way. Even
though they're not from the same timer

they still fit together perfectly.

From there.... Just wind it up.

I did cut out part of the bell so that it doesn't ring anymore. It's still
pretty loud but it doesn't ring like it did.
I just cut out a tiny little portion there.

a lot of this
design that i
came up with uh... actually is not mine
I've got to give a lot of credit to
user name
"getawaymoments"
on YouTube.
Look up his videos because he's
got some great stuff on the time-lapse
pan mechanisms.
Some observations that i've had:
For one thing, it's noisy.
When you're filming a scene you can
here the mechanism turning.
That's kind of annoying but it's not
going to bother me too much because i'll
turn the audio off for the stuff that i'm
going to do.
It does induce some jitter into
your videos.
For small stuff it probably doesn't
matter too much
but for real
large-scale high-resolution... on big
monitors, it might bother you.

I'm kind of concerned about how fragile it is
because of some of the reviews that I read and also just the way that i have
it mounted.
I'm gonna test it this way and see
how it works.
If it breaks I'll have to come up with
something else.

I've also found,
In my expierence,
that I like to speed up the videos.
Sixty seconds
per revolution
seems to be a little bit boring in some cases.
So
speed it up to twice as fast and
that seems to be working for me.
The timer is actually not real
accurate it's more like 50-53 seconds around if that
matters to you.
Anyway, it's fun. Just another option for
you.
Thanks for watching!