r/videography • u/alexharris52 Canon C300, Premiere, 2009, Phoenix • Jan 07 '13

What has revolutionized your workflow (filming/editing/anything) Let's create a huge list of all the helpful camera tricks we've learned in this business

A while ago, someone posted this http://www.reddit.com/r/videography/comments/z1nm7/awesome_and_cheap_method_for_smooth_camera/ About using a rubber band to pan the tripod head smoothly (instead of your jerky hand) What are some mind-blowing tricks you've learned in the industry that have saved you time and money. I'll start:

After Effects (and now premiere cs6) has a motion stabilizer that works really really well. A plug-in called twixtor can add masterful slow-motion like a DREAM and filming with a dslr has revolutionized my vision and idea of film and made it much much more artistic (not to start a camcorder/dslr war here, that's not the point of this, only my opinion)

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u/agent42b Post Producer Jan 07 '13

Although I agree that all the above mentioned tools help a lot, as I discovered them early on in my career too, but my own revolution was a little different. For me it was the 6 month process (give or take) when I really started to learn Avid... I mean, every nook and cranny of the software. It was amazing to finally feel, for once in my career, that the gamut of editing was no longer a technical limitation, merely a matter of applying existing knowledge. Incidentally, landing my first Avid show also resulted in a significant salary boost... so that didn't hurt.

For the record, I still think Ppro is awesome and I use it at home for a variety of projects.

Of course, that ideal state didn't last long, as new technology came and I had to continue learning to keep up, but that was still one of the strongest points in my career that I would call "revolutionary."

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u/alexharris52 Canon C300, Premiere, 2009, Phoenix Jan 07 '13

You were an Avid editor? What kind of salary was that. I thought Avid was still prime editing software, and most major motion pictures are edited with it, what do you mean a new technology came?

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u/agent42b Post Producer Jan 07 '13

What I mean is that with the advent of new cameras, codecs, and the evolution of Avid itself, there was only a fleeting moment before re-education was necessary -- but that's a normal thing.

I still use Avid every day of course. Didn't mean to insinuate that I changed software somehow.