Car Camera Mount

Post by **Matt** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 5:32 pm

I have updated the Camcorder Car Mount guide in my special effects section complete with a set of photos.

Car Camera Mount Guide

Car Camera Mount Photo Set

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 6:39 pm

Um, okay, Matt is all that padding there in case it falls off, or clips an oncomming car?

Post by **Matt** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 8:15 pm

Correct ! Plus it was a good way of securing the camera without bolting it down. This helped kill any vibration. The easiest way of keeping the camera in place was to surround it with car sponges, cut to fit

It did also mean that if the box did fall off the camera was encased in sponge and wood giving it a slightly increased chance of survival. Due to its excellent design it never left the car once

So although it looked fairly weird it did the trick !

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 10:45 pm

looks really good Matt

nakomass · Post by **nakomass** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 4:36 pm

out of intrest, do you have any footage from your camera mount??

Truggy · Post by **Truggy** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:53 pm

i made my own, i took a bunch load of duck tape and electrical tape....cut out the audio because of the wind...and its actually good lol

reflexive_cinematics · Thu Apr 01, 2004 11:10 pm

Matt wrote:it was a good way of securing the camera without bolting it down. This helped kill any vibration.

Well I disagree with Matt. I made something very similar to this last year, except with out the 'sponges on the outside ' I found that ANY movement of the box led to very shakey video. You want the case to be SOLID and not move a MILIMETER.

I did it with out the sponges and it worked perfectly. Maybe somehow I can post a link to the video....

Chris
Reflexive Cinematics

EDIT:

I have it in 720 x 480 size in Quicktime format and in WMV format. But the file sizes are pretty big.
Where can I host it?

EDIT:

Edited by the Mods for double posting, and twice as well!

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:02 pm

Reflective Cinematics, please stop triple posting. There is an EDIT funtion for you to use, allowing you to go back into your post and add or delete anything. Future double posts will be deleted!

Towels42 · Post by **Towels42** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 3:52 am

I found it cheaper to use the 'ol 'sticking my bloody arm out of a window' camera mount technique... Okay, not really... but I plan on making a camera mount like Matt's in the near future. This site is awesome.