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Building the Slider

Building the Slider

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Building the Slider

Alright Rob, we talked about this in the studio, but now we're out in the field. We're working with Irene Papas today, and making a video about her yoga studio, and she's just getting ready to do some warm-ups, and let's experiment with this one-man band slider. Yeah, I think this is a great tool. I've been looking for something like this for a long time, and the fact that it's motorized-- It's a robot. It is kind of a robot, but no, in all seriousness, the name of it makes a lot of sense because if you're a small crew, which a lot of people are, you might be on the principal camera, but then want to set this up on the side of the scene, or even in the front of the scene like we have, and so you can roam and get other shots yourself, and because it's motorized and because it's parabolic, it's a lot less of a hassle to deal with than say a traditional slider where you have focus issues, distance from the subject, and all those kinds of things. And it's a really useful tool that I've…

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