motorized interview slider?

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gutterball321

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I need an affordable motorized slider that will go back and forth for interviews. I know I have seen a bunch but trying to search them now I can only find a couple that are 2k or so. Are there any cheaper "second shooter" sliders?
 
One thing to be mindful of with motorized sliders is the NOISE! Almost all of them use stepper motors that have a lot of torque but noisy as all get out. You can usually hear the thing quietly grinding away in interviews.

The claim about the noise in the second version of the One Man Crew is that it is quieter as long as you move it slowly. The question is how slow and how quiet is it when operating it slowly.

I do have to say though, the controlled parallax movement of the One Man Crew is a thing to behold.

Anyone have experience with one?
 
The thing about the slider for an interview is that I find it extremely distracting and pointless in profile 2-shot, which is how I see many people use it. I'd much rather employ it as a tight angle on the interview subject, moving in& out from the axis. I also only find it works well if there are objects in the distant background or maybe the extreme foreground (and that one is a hard sell to me). Otherwise you don't really get the shifting perspective and it just looks uncomfortable, like bad operating.
 
EZFX has a motorized option for their EZ slider. It isn't real cheap but it does give you the option of significant slider travel since you can order it with long tubes if you want.
I've bought from them several times through the years and Kevin is a great guy to deal with.
It's also tough as my friend absolutely does not care for his gear at all and it still works good.
 
Mitch Gross said:
The thing about the slider for an interview is that I find it extremely distracting and pointless in profile 2-shot, which is how I see many people use it. I'd much rather employ it as a tight angle on the interview subject, moving in& out from the axis. I also only find it works well if there are objects in the distant background or maybe the extreme foreground (and that one is a hard sell to me). Otherwise you don't really get the shifting perspective and it just looks uncomfortable, like bad operating.
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And it's what the producers always seem to want and it makes your life so much harder than it needs to be, because you have to fly everything and work twice as hard to keep everything out of the shot. Except for the lazy people who just key from the wrong side...
 
rsbush said:
Have you looked at Edlekrone?
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Edelkrone is not a good interview option. Their sliders are fine without motors. Once you hear the motors...you will completely understand that these units were never intended for an interview setting....unless audio is not important to the production.
 
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