Peter Hoare

Like this? http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wN03uIRmYnc Stabshot seem so specialise in stuff like that. They use a gyro stabalised head, and in that video, it looks like a large motorbike shock or something built into the cameras support. A steadicam operator on the back of a flatbed truck would probably be the quickest way? Thanks.

Oddly enough, you can do this very easily in iMovie. Just put it in capture mode with teh camera plugged in and it will automaticly give you a large preview. Its slightly delayed by .3seconds or something but its good enough for framing.... You can also record directly this way but not as good as the cameras own miniDV....

I usualy try to dampen down this effect by applying the three way colour corrector and dragging the white levels down.... A lot of the detail would have been lost in the shoot so it wont ever look perfect but its the best way to do it that I have found....

Hi, Im actualy an editor by trade (mainly comercial and some broadcast work, using final cut studio 2 system) and I have been doing some camera work for some of the comerical jobs on the side. I recently decided that camera crane shots are a really nice way of obtaining amazing and awe inspiring shots, but comerical ones cost a fortune, and as im not even a cameraman, I thought I would have a go at making one, more of a project than anything else. Well my project got quite out of hand and I now have a 20ft long crane with full pan tilt electronic head, it even has pre programable movments :-D I know this is a professional forum and I am an editing professional but I just thought I would get your opinions on the crane, and with your experience suggest improvments etc etc. I have got some pretty good results from it.... Pictures Seen here with my FX1 I use for experimenting.... Video And here is a low quality video I took on a digital camera of the crane in action. Its quite hard to operate the joystick and the crane with one hand though.... Thanks for any advice, Pete.