From the course: Video Gear: Support & Grip

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Attaching a motor to your slider

Attaching a motor to your slider

From the course: Video Gear: Support & Grip

Attaching a motor to your slider

- So Rich, we talked about some basic rail setups, but we just all of the sudden got a lot more stuff on the desk. What's going on here? - Yeah well, this all fits in one bag, believe it or not. But it is a bag that will hold everything I need for shooting time lapse. So I actually took this system out into Valley of Fire recently, put it through the trial by fire, and it held up well. I shot for 10 days on this slider. - That's cool. - And it worked fantastic, so I wanted to walk through the process. But, you mentioned motorized. - Yeah. - There's a couple of different motors here, and why do I have multiple motors, Rob? - Well, you're going to have different torque for what you're depending and what you're trying to do. If you're, you know, doing time lapse you might have one motor with a little less torque so you can kind of move, stop, move, stop and have some memory involved there. Or if you're doing video where you want constant motion, you're going to have a motor with a little…

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