Patrick Lally

I can't seem to find a ways to delete my 5yr old account. Can this be done for me, or should I just stay around and shut up and learn until I have something worthy of the group to post?

My apologies to all.

I fear you may yet live to regret saying that. I fear for us all in fact :-|

When you don't have a rig, but are using a tripod with one outstreached leg as a balance, walking with knees bent and not using heels much helps. A technique to emulate steadicam, although it's a killer. Instead of the weight of the rig killing you, it is the unnatural movement. Yes, there's warping here, cannot get around that, and in some cases you will get zooming in and out. But a useful reference for the millions of people using Youtube to make shakey videos. I shot this knowing that it probably wouldn't be that steady, but that I might be able to fix it in post. Never saw the YT deshaker option come along in June 2011 or so. Not perfect, but it is fire-and-forget (it's not being processed on your CPU time). We have a huge hill to climb educating people that the current standard of phone cam stuff is rubbish. Yes, I know that's because the form factor makes it VERY hard to do steady shots, but the first step is to get folks to try. It get worse. I am seeing professionals using a lot more shakey cam and crazy zoooming in and out as if this is the New Way. It sucks. It sucks of very boring source material trying to be beaten into something it is not.

This was done with a Fujifilm HD2000. Using a tripod as a stabiliser, the original film was very shakey, but very consistently shakey. Passed through the YouTube stabilizer to get this result. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd5lQyFpphY Still using a certain steadicam walking technique to TRY to get steady. The result was very consistant wobble, that software was able to work well with. Never mind about the technique, is this any good as a shot? :-)

Here's a link to the interview to preserve the formatting:- http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=87662 I spent a lot of time working out the questions, and Garrett responded by giving some great answers. This is not an interview about history, but more about what turns him on and what he is doing right now. Email interviews like this need a lot of homework. Yes, they are leading questions, based on a month or two of working out what to ask. It's not a case of many emails bounced back and forth, I sent one email, with the final questions. I hope this contributes in a positive manner. Thank you Garrett for sharing your thoughts. http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=87662