steadycam holder for a camcorder

[mollymoo]

Hi I have a standard sony camcorder but want to purchase soem sort of steadycam holder for it so when walkign and shooting it is more stable...we are shooting some promotional stuff and need a flat shoot...anyone heard of anything..thanks

[kempie]

Steadicam and Glidecam stabilisers for "non-pro" users can cost from several hundred to several thousand pounds. There may also be budget versions by other manufacturers.

http://www.cke.co.uk/acatalog/CAMERA_STABILISE RS.html

You could also make your own...
http://www.jasonbradbury.com/jason_bradbury/20 05/11/diy_steadicam_c.html

[benalva02]

Aunsoft Final Mate, a great and useful camcorder assistant software, has everything needed to directly capture/backup AVCHD (*.mts, *.m2ts), AVCHD Lite, AVCCAM, NXCAM, TOD, MOD recordings from Hard Disk Drive/SD Card Camcorders to PC, to import, edit and create spectacular movies on a timeline. It is also powerful enough to play/convert native 1080 60p/50p footages and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

Powerful timeline-oriented editing features like split/trim video, splice clips, crop, do color correction, deinterlacing, replace audio, adjust volume, etc help you create satisfied film results. Merge/combine avchd (*.mts, *.m2ts), AVCHD Lite, TOD into only one file without any re-encoding or recompression.

Export/convert edited camcorder video to other editors (Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere, WMM, Pinnacle Studio, etc), media devices (iPad, iPhone4, droid x, nokia n8, galaxy s, hdtv, projector, etc), or common formats (mov, avi, wmv, mp4, mpg, mpeg-2, etc) with the high quality and least amount of clicks. Ultra extreme performance with support for NVIDIA® CUDATM and Intel while encoding.

http://www.aunsoft.com/final-mate/