Q: Camcorder mounted from ceiling for musician shoot?
Hello,
I'm pressed for room in my small studio where the three tripods I use with my camcorders get in the way. The other challenge is as a performing musician, I stand and the tripods don't extend to head height which is just a better looking shot. So, I came up with a great idea!
How about a camcorder ceiling mount? Now, it could be a fixed surveillance type mount but have a more flexible design that would allow you to pull the camcorder to a variety of heights and angles. That way I free up floor space and get a wide range of easy to construct camera angles starting at head or shoulder height.
Anyone seen this idea? Please make (3) and I will buy them!
Thanks for any links to same or alternative ideas,
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), Logic Pro X; Final Cut Pro
Posted on Dec 5, 2015 2:41 PM
SFSaxguy wrote:
.... He used it for this shot: https://www.facebook.com/...
FBvideos are for FBusers only => I see no video under that link ...
'drone' effect ...
keywords are glide-cam and gimbal
First is something like that (the cheap grandchild of famous Steadycam®):
looks easy, but very tricky to adjust! Based upon physics/inertia, you have to create an equilibrium btw cam and counter-weights ... most people make those glide-cams not heavy enough - yes, it HAS to be as heavy as possible; a GoPro on top is nonsense...
The high-tec version are active, motorized gimbals, like that (speaking of GoPro…)
That's some awesome piece of technology: once 'leveled', the camera gets automatically 'stucked' in position, depending on version/price, 2 or 3 axis are stabilized..... has some magic look when in action, you find several YTvideos, showing these tiny thingies in action; the first ones (for bigger Hollywood cams) cost >15k$, the one in the pic is under <300$ ....
SFSaxguy wrote:
...don't want to shoot outside the green screen)?...
hu? A moving camera in a green-screen?
That's top-notch, master-class! no trivial ....
Asks for camera-/background-tracking....add another 100$ on your shopping list for TrackX from coremelt ... and a few hours to learn to use it ....
Posted on Dec 8, 2015 1:30 PM






