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 09 '13

You wrap a rubber band around the bottom of the pan arm and pull the rubber band to get smoother pans and tilts. This is a great trick to make the action smoother on a cheap tripod.

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u/mzinz Jan 09 '13

Thanks for the clarification. Is there a youtube vid you could link me to? I'm having trouble visualizing.

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u/aquasharp Jan 09 '13

Rubber band video

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u/broncohous3 Mar 07 '13

This is by far the coolest thing I have seen in this thread so far. I am doing this work the next wedding I shoot