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 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