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Building the Slider
Alright Rob, we talked about this in the studio, but now we're out in the field. We're working with Irene Papas today, and making a video about her yoga studio, and she's just getting ready to do some warm-ups, and let's experiment with this one-man band slider. Yeah, I think this is a great tool. I've been looking for something like this for a long time, and the fact that it's motorized-- It's a robot. It is kind of a robot, but no, in all seriousness, the name of it makes a lot of sense because if you're a small crew, which a lot of people are, you might be on the principal camera, but then want to set this up on the side of the scene, or even in the front of the scene like we have, and so you can roam and get other shots yourself, and because it's motorized and because it's parabolic, it's a lot less of a hassle to deal with than say a traditional slider where you have focus issues, distance from the subject, and all those kinds of things. And it's a really useful tool that I've…
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Making killer backgrounds for greenscreen46s
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Shooting defocused still plates3m 5s
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Shooting defocused video plates2m 56s
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Defocusing backgrounds in Photoshop CC5m 12s
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Shoot plates with a light field camera3m 23s
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Post-processing a light field camera6m 41s
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Gear overview4m 15s
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Evaluating the keying footage from a Canon camera5m 34s
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Evaluating the keying footage from a Panasonic Lumix GH43m 7s
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Evaluating the keying footage from a Sony a7S5m 29s
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Blending a key with the background with Light Wrap by Red Giant5m 58s
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Blending a key with the background with Lighwrap by Digital Anarcht3m 39s
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Improving the quality of greenscreen shots40s
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Using a hard cyc greenscreen backdrop2m 51s
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Studio lighting for greenscreen projects3m
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Testing the backdrop with a monitor2m 23s
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Testing the backdrop onset3m 15s
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Shooting in portrait mode2m 29s
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Gear overview6m 59s
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Creating affordable textured backdrop with lights32s
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It’s all about creating patterns1m 19s
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Creating a hand-cut gobo2m 35s
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Using a pattern backdrop1m 48s
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Creating a gobo with a transparency projector2m 1s
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Using a projector to create custom backdrops2m 55s
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The challenges of powering the GoPro HERO42m 56s
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Battery options for the GoPro HERO44m 15s
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Which battery runs the longest in the GoPro HERO4?4m 42s
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Which GoPro HERO4 battery charges the fastest?5m 6s
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The form factor and price of GoPro HERO4 batteries4m 46s
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The winning battery2m 47s
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