From the course: Video Gear: Support & Grip

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Final advice on using a motion control assembly

Final advice on using a motion control assembly

From the course: Video Gear: Support & Grip

Final advice on using a motion control assembly

- Motion control is one of the highest, specialty-type tools you can have. These type of systems, Rob, actually have extra control ports. So people who are doing things like stop motion animation, this is one of the key tools they use. - Yeah, and just keep in mind that motion control systems, like anything else video gear-related, are scalable and also the price varies considerably-- - Yes. - Depending on what you're doing. Now, this one is actually probably one of the more affordable options out there, at around fifteen, sixteen hundred bucks, somewhere in that ballpark. But you can get really sophisticated as you start to get to more, you know, more control on the head. Some of the systems use computers so you can set precise key frames and edit those key frames and do numerical entry. So it can get pretty, you know, sort of detailed, and pretty expensive, but on a whole, Rich, this just opens a whole new world for video work, as well as time lapse work. And as we saw with the…

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