Follow-me Insta360 camera mount? How?
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Did you guess how the Insta360 camera was mounted to get the follow-me style footage?
You probably noticed that the camera did not appear to be attached to a fixed point, and moved about.
The "follow-me mount" was achieved by attaching the camera to a long cord attached to a rotating rod at the top of the mast. The camera just hangs down, and amazingly the software does a pretty good job of steadying the shot even though the camera swings and spins around.
I think the follow-me footage at the beginning of the video looks a lot more fluid and natural compared to the footage at the end of the video where the camera is mounted to the boom with a 60cm extension.
It's not a very practical mount, as the swinging camera can easily be damaged by a hard hit to the mast or boom. It could be improved by creating some stability to prevent the camera from spinning eg adding a small flag or tail (like a kite tail). Fortunately there was no camera damage on this first attempt!
Great shots…. Brave to do that! I may try a off the clew mount… maybe lol. Thanks for sharing!
That works well. I couldn’t get my clamp mount to work, simply too unstable. I will need to try your option.
Thanks! An extension off the back of the boom works well. I used an old piece of batten tubing.
James, the result looks awesome but I have a hard time understanding your setup. I assume that you have a clamp attached to the top of the mast, but how do you have a rod freely rotating around that clamp? Is your camera dragging on the sea floor when you get into the water?
@@marquis.de.france Correct, there is a horizontal rod at the top that freely rotates. It can spin 360 degrees. The line to the camera is attached to one end of the rod. The other end of the rod spins on a vertical bolt which is attached to a 30cm long PVC sleeve that fits over the mast & sail. Yes, when the sail is flat on the water, the camera would sink. So don't drop the sail:) I wrapped the camera line around the boom until I was ready to use it, then let it go when the rig was upright. Not very practical, and you do risk damaging the camera!
Thanks James, the videos provided by your setup are quite impressive. A practical design with a similar viewpoint would likely become very popular because it is better and more stable than the harness mounted “stick in the back” design (i know: I have one of those). In your clips, all view points of your “follow-me” design are shown to be around the back end of the boom. I agree that it is probably the best angle, but is that what you saw too in your recordings? I was also wondering if there really was a need for a 360 degrees spin? It seems that a similar outcome could be achieved with a rod with a “flexible’’ or “soft” connection to the mast parallel(ish) the sail (without the need of 360 degrees spin). The challenge would then be to make some type of V shaped connector linking a flymount on the mast (pointing forward) to the rod (pointing backward). Please understand that I am not criticizing your design, I am just enthusiastic about the new possibilities that it inspires. I wish that some gear would be available for sale to take these types of shots. Well done!
@@marquis.de.france Thanks for your good feedback. Is appreciated.
I was hoping to be able to get a 360 view while sailing by swinging the camera, but once you are sailing the wind+apparent wind is too strong and pushes the camera backwards...that's why the video is all from behind the boom. It might be possible to get 360 view of a gybe though, but a bit risky on damaging the camera.
If I understand your idea, it sounds like a better way of preventing the swinging camera more. A long rod clamped over the mast sleeve perpendicular to the mast and a line from the camera to a clamp higher up the mast for support might also work?
@@goldney i can see a couple of issues with that design. (1) For most sail, the mast does not extend beyond the top of the sail, so it will difficult to install 2 clamps. (2) The top of the mast is not vertical when sailing, yet the rod should be close to horizontal. Somehow, you managed to overcome these 2 issues.
@@marquis.de.france Here's a link to a short video showing the mount. The large pipe just slips over the mast and the notch allows the pipe to go down either side of the sail. It's quite a tight fit, so there was no need for a clamp, but could be clamped or taped etc. You are correct, it needed to be at an angle, so I cut the pipe at an angle so the bolt would stick up vertically.
ruclips.net/video/OV16Schfa90/видео.html
James, you say it’s connectd by a chord. So the camera just hang and streteched straight when you fly?
Yes correct. I put a small 60cm PVC rod at the top of the mast to let it rotate and keep it away from the sail. The chord was attached to the rod.