[quote=catmodding]Hi,
first of all, get lots of mounting gear, clamps, base-plates
etc etc. You can get them from gopro, but thats somewhat
costly. Search the web for other manufacturers, there's lots
of them.
Second, always secure the camera with a lanyard, you don't
want to lose the precious camera.(happened to me :-(
I agree with Mn3, body-cams and head-cams deliver bad
footage. A good sailor is always looking around resulting in
bouncy footage, not in the respect that I got sick but maybe
Mn3 has a bigger tv screen ;-)..
Duct-tape and pvc tape are you’re friends, if you use extension
poles make sure they are stiff, used a pvc pipe as an extension
once and got some weird footage from that.
If you have spi-pole, get a 3 ft aluminium rod and tape it to
the pole and clamp the gopro some 1,5 ft in front of it, facing
the crew.
I carry a peddle, which is taped to the boom, so I made the
handle-side (?) stick out somewhat and clamped a gopro on
it, upside-down, facing forward. Even tie-wrapped a garmin gps
in front of it.
One note on mounting cameras upside-down, in the menu you
can rotate the recording 180 degrees, make sure it is done.
It saves you lots of time while editing.
Clamped a camera on the small tiller, in front of the rudder.
Clamped a camera to the tiller bar, facing backwards to record
the wake of a speeding cat.
Duct-taped a baseplate on the bow in front of the bridle-tangs,
facing the crew.
Clamped a cam to the bowsprit , just in front of the mast, facing
the crew.
[edit] Don't know the climate where you live, I had a struggle
against cams fogging up. Find that when its hot and damp, putting
the case and cam and casing (open) in the fridge for half
an hour, is very helpful .
When its cold (frequently overhere) the anti-fog inserts help
a lot.
Haven’t managed a good mast-head cam yet, and a camera
project involving a single-line kite, towed by the cat, went
hilariously wrong…
Thinking of laminating 2 baseplates on the bows of my T
this spring.
Don’t know about you’re editing skills, but if you’re a proby,
I would suggest you keep it stupid simple. Otherwise you end
up in the studie at 4 0’clock in the morning away from the wife
and family……
Some 3 years ago I bought a video-editing suite, and had some
un-used. turned-down, sailing footage available . Here’s a clip I
made just to learn the editor-suite.
[url]https://vimeo.com/86071961[/url]
And no, I’m not going to discus the good and bad, sailing skills etc etc.
of this vid. It was just me learning the software and the available footage.
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