Why do people put there hand in front of the lens when someone does a stair set or something and after they land they put their hand infront of it. whats that mean?

That gets on my nerves.
If it's a sick trick or something, that's great, I will understand that.
You don't have to shove your hand in front of the lens for me to notice.

On youtube there was something that said it was for you to know if that was a laned trick or not when your editing everything...?

Yeah its so that when you import the footage to the computer you don't have to watch everything. you just look for a hand then capture the land.

Well, that makes good sense then.
But why not edit it out?

^Yeah, and wouldn't you have to look through all the videos anyways to find the on with a hand?

Well usually you put your hand some time after so you can edit it out without sudden change of the trick or whatever your doing. (in movie)
Well all you have to do is fast forward and when you see the hand you know thats the land. If you wouldn't show the hand you would have to watch one by one to find the landed one.

Yeah its so that when you import the footage to the computer you don't have to watch everything. you just look for a hand then capture the land.

True.

Well, that makes good sense then.
But why not edit it out?

Probably someone did it once and everybody else thought it looked cool.

Probably someone did it once and everybody else thought it looked cool.

that proabaly exactly what happened

cool i learned something!!

Well usually you put your hand some time after so you can edit it out without sudden change of the trick or whatever your doing. (in movie)
Well all you have to do is fast forward and when you see the hand you know thats the land. If you wouldn't show the hand you would have to watch one by one to find the landed one.

well you have to look through them anyway, and you will see the land before the hand. (ryhmes). but i think people do it cause it looks weird with a fisheye

Show off their muscular hand.

well you have to look through them anyway, and you will see the land before the hand. (ryhmes). but i think people do it cause it looks weird with a fisheye

You don't have to look through them. Like sonix said, fast foward. You can barely tell what's going on if it's at 8x or something. A 5 second hand shot shows up prominently though. But yes, that's what it's for. People don't edit it out probably because they want to add emphasis to the trick. Like, the hand adds intensity. Iunno, that's how I take it in. But it never works, since nowadays it's the kids who suck who keep it in.

I personally don't do the hand thing, unless it was as a joke (SHOOP DA WHOOP). I go through all my footy and pick what I want to montify. OH SNAP.

You don't have to look through them. Like sonix said, fast foward. You can barely tell what's going on if it's at 8x or something. A 5 second hand shot shows up prominently though. But yes, that's what it's for. People don't edit it out probably because they want to add emphasis to the trick. Like, the hand adds intensity. Iunno, that's how I take it in. But it never works, since nowadays it's the kids who suck who keep it in.

I personally don't do the hand thing, unless it was as a joke (SHOOP DA WHOOP). I go through all my footy and pick what I want to montify. OH SNAP.

I guess this only applies to all you lucky people with real video cameras then?
Because with my digital camera I usually just start filming before they do the trick, and then stop a few seconds later..
and that makes a clip on the video..

and if i was to go through and just record the whole day with out hitting stop..then i see the land before the hand?

half hand FTW

Why do people put there hand in front of the lens when someone does a stair set or something and after they land they put their hand infront of it. whats that mean?

The real reason is because it means cut the clip here. But most people just do it because they think they do it to look cool.

cuz their hand is amazingly awesome

this has most likely been answered 5 million times already, but here it goes....

the hand in the lens is for marking the landed footy.

when you film, you have to go back through the footage to capture the landed tricks.

instead of watching it in normal time and nearly falling asleep,

you watch it in faster time and look for the hand in front of the lens... this is a trick you

want to capture to your comp.

the hand is supposed to be edited out for the final production.

Yeah its so that when you import the footage to the computer you don't have to watch everything. you just look for a hand then capture the land.

true.

That gets on my nerves.
If it's a sick trick or something, that's great, I will understand that.
You don't have to shove your hand in front of the lens for me to notice.

Dude it's for DV camera's it's not Hardrive so you have to RR and FF thru footage so the parts with the hand are landed tricks...

Wtf. I have a crappy photo camera that takes amazingly good videos, and whenever there's a non land I just delete it straight away. I only ever keep the lands or stomps/really close attempts.

^Thats what i do now with my sisters digi cam

Wtf. I have a crappy photo camera that takes amazingly good videos, and whenever there's a non land I just delete it straight away. I only ever keep the lands or stomps/really close attempts.

you can do that with you photo cam,

but its not that easy when you are using mini dv or hdv and filming more than one person...

also, i NEVER go over footage on a tape.. you lose quality and you may accidentally erase a dope trick or part of a line

anyways, the hand in front of the lens is to mark landed footage for putting it on the comp.

I honestly don't know, but I think it's sick whenever they do it and it's there for almost a second and the scene ends and continues on with whoever's part I'm watching. Not just holding some limp hand there for me to see...

EDIT:

Oh, I guess hokus pokus just ****ing told us huh... lol with meh mad rhymes..

its a editing technique used to mark footage.

Established a billion times.

thanks i never new that!

wow that is good thinking, i always got annoyed at that haha


Well, that makes good sense then.
But why not edit it out?


well if you think about it they do, i mean a skate dvd has like over 200 tricks, you dont see 200 hands :P

sometimes at the end of a montage it works out good.

I usually do it because i like the way it looks in videos, it just adds dramatic effect. but also so people know the lines over and they dont expect any more tricks to go down during that current film clip.

Awesome bump.

its just annoying, like why dont people just edit it out? we dont need to see someones hand, and then like a close up of the cameraman making a cool face. its just all those bish-ash hipsters that try to make a 'hecka tyght' teaser for a 'film' theyre never actually gonna finish. dangit that gets on my nerves.

The hand is completley worth it, it sucks **** trying to look for a trick when someone tried it 80 times in the same spot. The people that don't edit it out is because they think it makes them cool. It probably started from someone forgetting to edit it out on the banger and then everyone started doing it. If your doing any type of serious edit then there should be no hands for sure.

i really couldn't tell you haha i don't understand that either

Now that we've established what it means... Closed.