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Final advice on using a motion control assembly

Final advice on using a motion control assembly

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Final advice on using a motion control assembly

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- Motion control is one of the highest specialty type tools you could have. These type of systems, Rob, actually have extra control boards, 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, depending on what you're doing. Now, this is one is actually probably one of the more affordable options out there, at around $15, $1600, somewhere in that ballpark, but you can get really sophisticated as you start to get to 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 detailed, and pretty expensive, but on a whole, Rich, this just opens a whole new world for video work as well time-lapse work, and as we saw with the turntable here, potentially even things like product work. - Yeah…

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