Shape Multi-Purpose Mounting Cheese Plate With IDX This precision-machined, one-piece cheese plate is mounted on a 15mm ROD BLOC (¾” thick) for optimal stability. The 33-hole cheese plate (¼” thick) enables you to mount a variety of accessories & devices on your camera support system. The IDX plate is screwed on the MULTI-PURPOSE MOUNTING SHAPE CHEESE PLATE. Here are some of the more common accessories used with the SHAPE CHEESE PLATE: rods, articulating arms to hold LCD monitors & converter boxes including the AJA Ki Pro Mini. You can attach a plate & battery on one side & an AJA Ki Pro Mini on the other. SHAPE CHEESE PLATE works with both Anton Bauer 3-Stud & IDX V-Mount style batteries. You can use the MULTI-PURPOSE MOUNTING SHAPE CHEESE PLATE to mount a variety of accessories, brick style batteries & battery plates. The battery plate & battery mounted on the CP33 can also be used as counterbalance. You can still add more counterbalance by attaching counter-weights to the back of the rig along with the SHAPE CHEESE PLATE. One single red knob enables easy & fast adjustments of the plate on the 15mm rods to also counterbalance the camera support. Magic arms can be mounted directly into the 15mm holes of the plate. They are ideal for mounting lights, monitors & audio devices.