From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Cameras & Lenses

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Using sliders and dollies

Using sliders and dollies

From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Cameras & Lenses

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Using sliders and dollies

- Rich you only have to log on to Youtube and Vimeo and places like that, and watch, just search for DSLR. And the one thing you're going to see is a lot of nice smooth lateral movement this way-- - It's like one giant infomercial for sliders. - It really is. I mean the thing about that look of a sliding movement has become really really popular. I think it's really effective in my personal opinion. In some places, it's not really motivated, just kind of get the camera in motion, it doesn't really serve to tell a story. But at the end of the day, the technique and the tools used to achieve that look and that feel to the camera movement are pretty straightforward. And the first tool that I want to talk about is the basic non-motorized, non robotic slider. And we have one of 'em right here. And this guy's pretty simple, all it really is a couple pieces of metal that have some sort of nuts here so you can lock down the feet to the surface that you're on. There is a little bit of a…

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