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06-10-2004, 02:55 PM
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Re: Video Technique
Dr. Bob,
Talk to Greg Nichols. He has a contraption he manufactured that bolts to the rear shock tower bolts inside the car for track events. He takes out the rear carpet, bolts it on and is ready to go. The camera sits low between the seats with a good view of the full windshield and the stick shift. It's basically a pole with a mounting bracket base and a camera mount top. There is very little jiggle from the setup from the videos I have seen. He got a great shot of himself eating the Armco at Watkins Glen.
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JE
Talk to Greg Nichols. He has a contraption he manufactured that bolts to the rear shock tower bolts inside the car for track events. He takes out the rear carpet, bolts it on and is ready to go. The camera sits low between the seats with a good view of the full windshield and the stick shift. It's basically a pole with a mounting bracket base and a camera mount top. There is very little jiggle from the setup from the videos I have seen. He got a great shot of himself eating the Armco at Watkins Glen.
Regards,
JE
Originally posted by dr bob
OK, all you mobile videographers out there--
What's the best way to mount the camera in the car? In this video, it's pretty obvious that it's being shot handheld. Great job keeping it pretty well lined up with the pitches the car is doing.
Is there a home-brew version of a steady-cam? Has anybody experimented with a foam-damped mounting or box that might ease some of the car movements that spoil may hard-mount video efforts? I'd love to shoot some on-the-road footage of our SoCal driving events, but would like something north of the rigid mountings. And he handheld option doesn't existy for me-- Karen gets a little upset (in more ways than one) right about the time the driving gets spirited, and would get sick in a hurry if she tried to work the camera at the same time.
OK, all you mobile videographers out there--
What's the best way to mount the camera in the car? In this video, it's pretty obvious that it's being shot handheld. Great job keeping it pretty well lined up with the pitches the car is doing.
Is there a home-brew version of a steady-cam? Has anybody experimented with a foam-damped mounting or box that might ease some of the car movements that spoil may hard-mount video efforts? I'd love to shoot some on-the-road footage of our SoCal driving events, but would like something north of the rigid mountings. And he handheld option doesn't existy for me-- Karen gets a little upset (in more ways than one) right about the time the driving gets spirited, and would get sick in a hurry if she tried to work the camera at the same time.
06-10-2004, 09:41 PM
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Originally posted by Shane E.
What about a web cam and a Lap top strapped to the passeger seat?
What about a web cam and a Lap top strapped to the passeger seat?
A little quick research finds some plans for a $14 'copy' of the SteadiCam Jr, using hardware store parts and pieces. This stops the rotational fore-and-aft shakes, but doesn't address the direct up-and-down motions of the camera itself. More than a few years ago I built a seismic-tolerant hard disk mounting platform for use in a power plant located in the Sierras in a UBC4+ area. It may take some combination of these things to get what we all desire.
Ever notice that the in-car cams that the Nascar guys use are primarily focused on the stuff in the car? Wide-angle shots that have very little "movement, at least as a percentage of the frame. If they used rigid mounts and filled the frame with mostly an outside view , you'd be motion-sick in a short while.
More than a few years ago, an IMAX crew shot some racing footage from our sailboat. They mounted the camera at three points for different shots during some ocean races. One of the shots was from the stern behind the backstay, another was a vertical (down) shot from the top spreader. Nothing to isolate the camera from the boat motion for these shots. After all that work, less than a minute of our footage was used in the film. Reason? The transmitted motion, on the IMAX screen with the audience up close and personal, tended to make the audience sea-sick when more of that footage was used. The fims is "Race the Wind", and is a great movie to see if you are in to sailboating and racing.
Anyway, I don't want the viewers to get sick, so I'll keep working at this idea.