The Way I see it

a joel.witwer original

Over the past year, I've developed a pretty steady camera hand meaning that I can achieve smooth motion shots that look decent. Even as good as I've gotten, nothing I do can match the quality of motion that you can get with a glide/steady cam mount. This said, yesterday, I found a filter in Final Cut Pro called "smooth cam" which, mixed with my steady-ish hand, can make it look like I am using highly expensive and specialized gear!

In the video above, the clip on the left is my raw footage and the clip on the right is the footage filtered with "smooth cam." The difference isn't HUGE, but it's all the little things that go together to take my video making skills to the next level!