Shawn Pringle

Thanks everyone, I'm going to give a shoulder brace a try with this camera. Much appreciated :-)

Thanks for the quick reply Steve. The reason we have to use this camcorder is because it is simple to use, and we will be training real estate agents, who are notoriously technophobes. We've been working hard to try to make it as easy as possible and when you introduce any other type of camera, like we tried initially, we lose them. Deer in the headlights syndrome. They get scared when you start saying things like "firewire" and "editing software". So we have to keep it simple, and this little camcorder is the key. However, shots are shaky so we need some easy way to smooth them out. Again, they are technophobes so editing software won't really cut it, unless it can automatically smooth the footage out. Is that possible? There has to be a way to make the footage steadier. I also looked at http://www.spiderbrace.com ...think this will help? Thanks again :-)

First of all, I'm new to all of this. I am trying to setup a system to film real estate properties smoothly and easily. After much camcorder research we've decided to keep it dead-simple with the Flip camcorder (quality is not that big of an issue...but steadiness is). I was wondering if someone could advise me on how I would use a steadicam with the Flip camcorder (http://theflip.com/products_flip_mino.shtml) . I recently bought this steadicam http://cgi.ebay.ca/Camcorder-Camera-Stabil...1QQcmdZViewItem ...but the problem is that the Flip only weighs 3.3 ounces, and I cannot for the life of me get the thing to balance. It either it too top heavy or too bottom heavy, and I don't know what to do. Might you have any suggestions? Do you know of anyone that has used the Flip and a stabilizer successfully? Thanks so much for any advise! Shawn