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- Hey, guys, what is goin' on?
So I've got a little trick for you
that I think a lot of you will like,
and that is how to use a gimbal,
one of these guys, for a slider.
The reason that you would use a slider is
that it gives you those very silky,
smooth moves, just like this.
The issue with the gimbal is sometimes
you got a little bounce up and down,
you know, you got some other things going on,
and the gimbal is smooth,
but it's not, like, crispy, super just gliding smooth.
And you can, you know, do the whole this,
but you're not gonna keep that exact level straight across.
You might bounce up and down,
and it might have a little bit of a shake to it.
So when you combine this gimbal with a tripod,
you can make a silky smooth slider shot.
Now the reason you might to this is, like,
for us, for example, we're traveling all the time
and having a slider with you
in your pack with the gimbal, tripod,
all the other accessories,
it's just another piece of big gear.
Even the ones that pack down small,
it's still a piece of big gear.
So you always want to try and minimize
as many pieces of gear as possible.
You know, if you're gonna have a gimbal with you,
you might as well use it with
your tripod to make the slider action.
So basically, a lot of these gimbals nowadays
will have the little (clicking) tripod on the bottom.
And so what you do is you hook this to your tripod,
and then you gotta get your camera
in the mode that basically allows you
to move it in any direction, up, down, left right,
and the camera stays in the exact same position.
So now that you've locked the camera,
basically, any movement that you have,
it's going to keep staying in that same position.
When you put it on the tripod
and you move it from left to right,
you get this beautiful silky smooth slider shot.
Now the one downside to using this as your slider
is that you are gonna create a little bit of an arc.
So it's not gonna be a straight across.
When you're doing this, as you notice,
there's gonna be a little bit of an arc,
and it's gonna move less on the ends.
So, basically, it's not huge slider movements.
It's small slider movements,
and you might have a little bit of feathering
at the beginning and end in terms of
how much you're moving the shot.
So keep that in mind,
and, you know what, it's one of those things
that, once you play with it, once you start going out there
and shooting a bunch of slider shots,
you're gonna realize where your best parts
with the gimbal are till you do your slider movement.
Basically, from here to here it's
a pretty awesome, smooth motion,
and it doesn't bow that much.
It's when you start going, you know,
too far is when it really bows.
The beauty of this, as opposed to bringing
something like, you know, there's the new
piece of equipment called a wing
which is just another form of a slider,
or you have, like, these more compact sliders,
the issue is, like, it's just gear
that you don't need to bring with you.
You know, to get a lot of these smooth, silky shots,
just like that, just a gimbal,
and it gets you that perfect motion.
So I've been playin' around with this
while up here in the San Juan Islands,
and it's been awesome.
You can get these cool, silky smooth motions.
I carry this, I carry a tripod, and I carry my cameras.
Now I have take some of the gear that I have
and made another piece of equipment.
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Guys, I hope that was helpful.
Let me know your thoughts in the comments below,
and I'd love to see some of your footage
that you've used if you've taken your gimbal
and made a slider out of it.
All right, guys, make sure you subscribe,
and I'll see you on the next one.