05Jun Furniture Sliders for DIY Tripod Dolly
Here’s an inexpensive and lightweight way to add movement with your camera at different heights. YouTube member ImagineNowEntertnmnt used furniture sliders from his local Bed Bath & Beyond (as seen here) and placed it under each tripod leg [Thanks Justin]. The furniture sliders can glide along carpet, linoleum, ceramic tile, and cement, etc. With a mini tripod, I can see this being a handy tip for Wedding Videographers who need to travel light, but have access to lots of smooth surfaces to add slow camera movements.
There’s a bit of shake in some examples which could possibly be corrected with a bit more weight hung on the tripod, or some post image stabilization, but in most cases it works quite well to add interesting camera movements to your footage. Pretty common stuff you can find at your local Bed Bath & Beyond, local hardware store, or even find available via Amazon (click here)
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June 5th, 2012 at 7:37 am
Amazon link is no good
June 5th, 2012 at 8:10 am
WOWWWWW!!!
I love this. Buying some nowish
June 5th, 2012 at 10:08 am
Hi,
my question would be,- these ones have adhesives? so that means that if you want to put it in to your tripod then it would have to stick there?
Ok if we take it off then we have to use it again, would the furniture sliders adhesive be ok for second use?
thanks,
June 5th, 2012 at 10:46 am
Hi Sigmund,
The ones I use doesn’t have adhesive in them so the tripod legs just sit on the rubber material on the furniture slider and they will just stay there if you’re careful moving the tripod.
If you want the legs to stick there, you can easily tape it or something and you should be good to go. Or if your tripod feet got spikes, you can just poke through the rubber and it should stay.
Justin Leyba
June 5th, 2012 at 11:53 am
I got the 32 pack from Amazon. Looking forward to testing it out.
June 5th, 2012 at 6:11 pm
Cannot wait to try this!
June 6th, 2012 at 9:54 am
Hi Justin,
Do you have the link to it?
thanks
June 6th, 2012 at 11:24 am
@sigmund I’m guessing you’re asking for a picture to the setup and how the legs attach to the sliders? It’s in the thumbnail here. https://vimeo.com/43490153
June 7th, 2012 at 2:36 pm
All of the sliding footage jerks too much and looks very amateurish.