Greetings to this learned list...

the title is not an attention grabber for my attempt at War of The Worlds (duh!)

but a serious question on recommended tripods

being a 35mm camera man most of my life I understand the difference it can make to your pics but being quite new this video doobrie is a different story...

my old tripod is great for stills but crap for tilting and panning is well ...... a joke (even copious applications of copperslip to the mechanism made no difference)

its only 13 weeks to Christmas..... any recommendations?

budget about 100UK pounds

thanks