Locks for each axis are the best thing I could have ever asked for. 360 rotate as much as you want! (not to mention there’s p-taps up there on the TB-50 mount for your monitor and teradek which is huuuge) SDI! There is an SDI input next to the camera on the gimbal and an output on top above the gimbal that allows the unit to spin freely without any cabling to get wrapped up as it spins. The risk of the camera falling over while sitting has been dramatically reduced. The feet on the Pro Ring are bigger than the Movi’s and fold in and out. The case itself is well laid out and has a schematic to note where everything it comes standard with goes.

The Pro Ring comes apart in halves, which saves a tremendous amount of space. The Ronin fits beautifully in the DJI-made case that is a fraction of the size of Freefly’s. It picks up where the Movi left off when it was released in 2016, and many of my gripes have been addressed - so lets see a list of notable improvements I’ve found as an amateur gimbal tech: The Ronin 2 not only has double the payload capacity, but it’s also superior in several key areas (he says, joyously slapping a shipping label to Pennsylvania on a Movi case). So we did what any rational people would do and bought a Ronin 2 and listed the Movi. This could be the answer to many of our problems. One of us happened to stumble across the Ronin 2 B&H page and noticed that it has a 30 pound payload capacity. It just didn’t make sense to be removing the R7 and swapping to internal recording every time we wanted to hop on it. We were struggling with the Movi and were starting to see it as unsafe for the camera and production. That leaves 4 pounds for a lens, accessories, counterweights, and a follow focus. The Venice fully stripped with the R7 attached is 11 pounds. Had we bought the Ignite Digi offset arms, we still would have been riding the limit of the weight capacity. It needed a ton of counterweight because we just couldn’t get the internal ND’s (one of the heavier/more dense bits of the camera) behind the center of the tilt axis, which was a big issue. The Movi has a 15lb weight capacity, which worked great when we had our RED, but the Venice had some issues being fully built with the R7 and a cinema lens on it. See, we owned a Movi Pro for a few years. That was the case until we purchased our Ronin 2.

Movi pro vs ronin 2