From the course: Video Gear: Support & Grip

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Choosing sliders and rails

Choosing sliders and rails

- We've got four different sliders here. We're gonna start, sort of, walking through the basics. Now, here's a low end. We actually covered this a long time ago on the show when we explored putting a GoPro camera into action and this is a small, simple one, but it actually works pretty well. You know, I would put a little bit of wax or furniture polish on here and it slides and it's useful for, sort of, a constant movement or a constant speed movement. And this is really a metal bar, it's a bit heavy, but it's solid. - Yeah, it's a metal bar, it's got some tripod mounting points down here. The thing about sliders like this, and as you kind of heard it as Rich was sliding it there. (sliding) - Not necessarily silent. - Not necessarily silent and it's also not the smoothest, so putting a little bit of grease, and there's different opinions about what you should use. Some people use a little lip balm or some Vaseline. Other people are big fans of WD40-- - I like furniture polish. - Yeah,…

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