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Mariano Costa

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  1. Mariano, is it holding level? Does it drift or need recallibrating after some time?

    Oh, that's not my video, don't have the wave yet. I was curious about the helix but having heard that it's not very reliable and given that the wave comes from Christian Betz I'll rather go this route, even though it doesn't have a "high to low mode" range.

  2. The guy who did that video explained on his website that the bridge is 100 years old and wasn't built with that height clearance in mind. To protect the bridge those yellow lights and a steel beam had been installed, that's what these trucks are grinding into.

     

    Regarding my original video: I really wonder if these people ever took a moment to take a look at their invention and judge for themselves if this is A ) practical and B ) the most stupid looking thing that ever entered a movie set...

  3. Victoria was the first and probably last German movie I watched for a long time. The logistics were insane (kudos!) and a few bits were nicely done acting wise (for example in the cafe when the girl played piano) but the rest: meh...story was mostly awful and the camera work: not my taste... I think it was an interesting experiment but proved once again how essential good editing is.

  4. Don't worry. It seems that the current version is tough to set up properly and takes more time than the warp stabilizer inside of premiere pro.

     

    Generally these software stabilizers almost never will replace any kind of mechanical stabilizer as you need a very fast shutter speed and high or gigantic resolution (depending on the amount of jitter). You either go for it for a certain effect or, like it was intended in the first place, use it because someone didn't do his job and delivered crappy shots.

  5. I think one of the changes that is happening is that we now have a similar situation like it was when the Steadicam came into existence. Back then directors and dops underestimated how extremely complicated Steadicam operating was, put the rig on and very quickly handed off to the pros. With gimbals we have the situation again, only that this time, thanks to smaller + lighter cameras and electronics which does most of the fine grained work the operator has to do before, it is doable and everyone seems to own a very capable rig. "Luther" and other shows are good examples. At this point it is very diffuse to tell what is going to happen.

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