Thank ya! Thank ya! Actually, thank Eugenia.

Thanks man! I'm a big dork & like doin' em. I'm gettin' up at the ass crack of dawn tomarrow, to start one for a DIY dolly system.

Yeah, right! Cool little trick.

Ha haaaaa! That's great! No, that one is not! The one I had the camera on is the bang 'em up pod. Just got the Manfrotto & haven't had the chance to use it yet. The rubber bands are low budget. That counts... Right?

Well I guess, but you cant really do much with just a rubber band. But cool video anyways. :-D

Thanx man! Yep HV20! Had the window open and some extra lighting in the room, which helps a lot!

Camera settings: Just filmed at 60i, neutral (it's best to color it up & tweek it in post) and used the "Cine Mode" setting.

Editing with Vegas Pro 8
Project settings are as follows (everything stays the same except what's mentioned below).
Template: HDV 1080-60i (1440x1080, 29.970fps)
Field order: None (progressive scan)
Rendering quality: Best
Deinterlace method: Interpolate fields

I applied sharpening, some saturation adjusting & some contrast adjusting, that's it.

Render as:
MainConcept AVC/AAC (mp4)
Frame size: 1280x720
Profile: Main
Frame rate: 29.970
Field order: None (progressive scan)
Pix asp ratio: 1.0000
# of reference frames: 2
Choose variable bit rate (Max 5,000,000 & min 4,500,000)
Audio: Sample rate is 48,000 & bit rate is 128,000

Hit ok, save and your good to go!

Didn't realise Main Concept would do HD. Been using WMV myself and it's a little pants, cheers for the tip-off, gonna give it a blast.

Time for BIG pants!

FYI Jay Boy... "pants" is brit for crap.

No problem man!

Right on! Glad you liked it!

And a BIG thanks to you for watchin'! Glad you liked it.

Thank you Rast! I can call ya Rast, yeah? That shoebox is a
cool effect to use. I just made another one, but it's too short. Can't focus on close ups, so I've got to get a bigger one.

Thanks friggen a lot! It's amazing how smooth the pans are using this trick.

YES! YES! YES! Cheap tripod = cheap (not smooth) results! In with crap! Out with crap!

Just to be clear, Eugenia, I never said 'it didn't work'- I said "I was missing something"

After re-watching this video and noting that I don't have a fluid head video tripod-after thinking back to my technique, I was not stretching the band enough---even though I am on a cheapy tpod, I am going to try it again. I appreciate everyone's friendly tips; it does help.

Alright kids, easy does it! I think there has been multiple people with some questions on this. It's ALL MY FAULT! I forgot to mention the official Vimeo rubber band.

You need your own cable television show; you are hilarious.
We're cool; it's all good.

Alrighty then. Didn't know if you guys where gonna' have to put on the gloves & get into the ring. If it comes down to it, I'd like to shoot the vid on that one!!! :o

No problem! Glad you liked!

This works well with a good tripod. A crappy pod is not gonna' produce smooth pans, even with this trick. Glad you liked it!

Thanks Oskar! I've always wanted to visit your city of Reykjavik! Beautiful place, Iceland. You lucky bastard you!!!

:) Oh you should.. But Reykjavik is not where you wanna be if you visit Iceland. You wanna go outside of town and see mother nature at her finest ;)

But really, super good tip. I'll also be building a dolly soon and I loved your instructions in that video as well. Thanks a bunch!

Thanks man! It's always fun to see the looks you get when shooting out and about & using these tricks.

Yep! Trying different sized rubber bands is a good experiment as well. Pans will also be jerky do to not having enough weight on the tripod and tension adjustment being too tight or loose. Thanks for the tips as well!

You are welcome, Daniel son.

Thanks Al! Glad it helps! The better the tripod, the better this will work. It works excellent with a fluid head pod!

Thank Ya! Thank Ya!

No prob man!