Camera Dolly for cheap! Just using furniture sliders to move my tripod around. There are some small shakes but putting some weights on the tripod should do the trick. Also, remember that practice makes perfect! 😉 Featured in: lifehacker.com cheesycam.com nofilmschool.com Get updates and exclusive sneak peeks on my current/future projects! Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: www.twitter.com Picture Style: prolost.com
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25 responses to “Ez Slide Dolly Test (Furniture Sliders) – Cheap Camera Dolly”
Thanks for watching! 😀
I wasn’t too impressed, until the moving shots in the living room, then I was blown away. One more option in our Frugal Filmmakers bag of tricks.
Nice work! Thanks for posting.
Thank you for the idea! Going to be picking up some sliders today! Also, what is the song name please? 🙂
Same one that Philip Bloom uses. Link is in the description.
No grading/corrections? Awesome. But what do you mean by flat picture style? Thanks for the reply! 🙂
Nope! Just used a flat picture style. No color correction/grading. 🙂
Did you do any color correction or grading in post?
Realy incredible shots here, especially at how cheap the solution is!!! I think I may give this one a try, perhaps I’ll do a build that improves on this design, but instead put it into a unit. Hm…
seems like 90% of contemporary video production is focused on pretty image collages rolling to some cute music.. and that’s good – it makes the real stuff stand out more 😉
How did u make this?
I tried this in 2011 but my tripod was so crappy it didn’t work
what about lens?
This is sort of genius. I can’t believe this hasn’t been thought of until now. The cinematography looks beautiful, by the way.
Thumbs up if indymogul brought you here
what camera did you use for this?
IndyMogul brought me ;)
Can I get that music?
this sucks if you don’t have carpet in your house
what is the song called?
hey, what is the music used in this.
great!, suggestion: to make the shots even more smooth, shoot with a higher frame rate, but when editing remember to edit on the same frame rate shot. But seriously great job, it’s amazing, as a normall film dolly costs around $2K.
Brilliant Idea, lovin’ the video too!
Was your camera doing any image stabilization during these tests? I’m assuming you thought to turn that off.
simple n clean.. loving it