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Adding movement when using sliders

Adding movement when using sliders

- So now let's talk about sliders. Sliders are a great way to be able to move your camera horizontally not panning from the head, but actually physically moving the whole camera horizontally but it's still being stable. We use one of these probably, I would say the majority of the time we're shooting we're on a slider. - You know, and they're great to like slide to side to side but we think it's like really powerful to actually move in. - Yeah. - So like a product or, you know do a reveal and pull back from our product. - Yeah, I think at first most shooters will just zoom to get closer to the product but actually physically moving the camera closer rather than zooming will produce a much more cinematic look. - Yeah, I mean, think about it like this, like in real life when we see something and we want to look at something closer we're not zooming with our eyes, are we? We're looking and moving closer. So it gives you…

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