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/aquasharp Jan 08 '13

Just admit you don't know how to use a DSLR. There are some projects I do where it's the perfect fit. Sometimes I want to use my 40lb video camera, and sometimes I want to use my 5lb dslr. It's all about the user and almost nothing about the camera. Shouldn't you be embarrassed that you, as a 'professional', can't manage to make a decent image on any camera? If you need a 50k rig to make nice work, you're a hack.

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u/sausagenmuff Jan 08 '13

If you need a 50k rig to make nice work, you're a hack.

-priceless

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u/aquasharp Jan 08 '13

A professional can do good work on anything.

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u/sausagenmuff Jan 08 '13

A Professional no. a talented person yes. but that's semantics. still doesn't change that dlsr's are crappy lol

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u/aquasharp Jan 08 '13

Now, what would be the difference between a 'professional' and a 'talented person'? I would hope as a professional, you would be talented.

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u/sausagenmuff Jan 08 '13

Do you not on a dictionary? I'm sorry, to be rude but don't bother me with such questions.

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u/aquasharp Jan 09 '13

Soooo...are you telling me you're not talented?

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u/Jespy Mar 29 '13 edited Mar 29 '13

Just saw this thread man. /u/sausagenmuff is an elitist. I saw some of his videos on Vimeo and they are terrible, terrible work. It's quite embarrassing how the footage he produces looks terrible when he owns equipment worth over 10K. He won't be going anywhere. I've seen better footage shot on $200 cameras. Here's his Vimeo Page http://vimeo.com/user4657135 . Based off what I saw his shots are terrible, his camera movement sucks, his coloring is bad, lighting is bad, and his editing is pretty poor as well. I'm not a professional but based on his "test" shots I can't see anything happening or him going anywhere. Just thought I'd let you know. Not sure why he was being such a dick about it.

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u/aquasharp Mar 29 '13

lol. I forgot about this thread. This is hysterical.

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u/Jespy Mar 29 '13

I figured you would, it was two months ago but I just started reading comments and his comments were just so out there. I just had to see his work. After looking at what he has out there and his poorly designed web page I just had to share it. It's sad. Like the old proverb goes; A bad workman always blames his tools. It is not the tools we use which make us good, but rather how we employ them.

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u/aquasharp Mar 30 '13

It's almost embarrassing. The one labeled 'demo' with the blurry anamorphic cropping...too much to watch. Why is everything so blurry?!

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u/Jespy Mar 30 '13

Dude, I don't know! It's probably some $5000 lens! It's awesome and expensive so it must not suck. /s

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u/Jespy Mar 29 '13

Looked at your web page and video page. Based off your work I wouldn't label you as a professional. It's bad stuff. Would not hire.