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When to use a slider

When to use a slider

- Hi, my name's Rich Harrington. - And I'm Robbie Carman. - Welcome to this week's episode of Video Gear Weekly. We're going to take an in-depth look at sliders, both for time lapse and video. And, Rob, we've got three different ones here. - We do. And sliders, like any other piece of video gear, are going to come in a huge variety. I mean, you only have to look at YouTube and Vimeo these days to know that sliders are everywhere. Over the past five, six years, I think sliders have become ubiquitous with video. I mean, everybody's using them. They were kind of popularized in mass right around the same time as the DSLR revolution launched. And people realized, "Oh to get professional results, "I need to put my camera into motion." And things of that nature. And now you can buy sliders that are uber-simple and pretty cheap. To motorized remote sliders that you can do robotics moves with for crazy time lapse and video work. So they do run the gamut. And I think, Rich, this week we kind of…

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