 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here I'm just gonna do a slideshow today for people who own the Canon Vixia HF-R800 and if you happen to have bought the DJI Ronin SC gimbal or you know Another one of the Ronin gimbals in order to increase the stabilization of footage beyond what you're gonna get was the powered image Stabilization and dynamic and if you want to know what that stabilization looks like, please feel free to search through in this channel because I've done a few stabilization tests my opinion the Stabilization on this camcorder is not that good whether you use it handheld whether you use something like a Scorpion bracket. I wasn't very impressed with any of the test footage I shot the only Stabilization I've been really happy with is when I use this camcorder alongside the gimbals So just that's my opinion. You can make your own one make form your own opinion So what I wanted to show again in this slideshow is just how you can accessorize this Kind of skeleton rig a bit in other words, you have your Vixia You have it on the gimbal and you want to go beyond using the kind of fairly limited built-in microphone and throw a bit of lighting on the scene as well So that's what I've done here. So the first thing and I'll show these at the end of the slideshow is you get these Cold shoe mounts and I'm looking at one on Amazon here. They're 18 dollars So I picked up two of those and I stuck one on either side of the Ronin by default it comes with like this kind of I think it's actually a hot shoe and it's intended for Accessories, so I just replaced that on both sides of the camcorder with a cold shoe because that's much more useful to me and That's where I'm connecting the gear into so this is the first picture you're looking at here This is with a Saramonic cam mic plus out there on the left and I'm just using 3.5 mil extension Now the one thing I will say is that I'm always worried that connecting a microphone Even though it's like whatever a tiny bit of weight is gonna throw off the calibration I haven't found that to be the case But I have used at 3.5 mil male to female extensions just just so that there's no pull From that at 3.5 mil cable on the you know on the camcorder that would sort of impede the operation of the gimbal So here's what that looks like from the side just so you guys can see the Saramonic cam mic plus is battery powered So, you know, that's what you need to have Your microphones in order that they'll work with this camcorder. So it's kind of a big chunky old microphone, but Mounted down there like where it's supposed to be mounted on the gimbal It actually doesn't really get in the frame now I presume if you went all the way down up and that shot all the way down it might get in the Frameline for the kind of shooting I've been doing it hasn't been a problem and I also have much more Compact microphones like the comic attract shot. So those would be less bulky But even with a kind of a big chunk of foam on the gimbal like that, it hasn't really You know caused an issue Here's this just from behind so sort of the operator view if you will now the Canon Vixie HFR 800 Doesn't support a camcorder monitor So the best you're going to be able to do ever is with the little LCD monitor that's part of part of the camcorder But yeah, it's not it's not really hard to see what you're doing It's this rig here is the rig from the side you can see the rowing in and Saramonic logos there and Just so that you can see as well where the Canon Vixie or how much space it takes up and this is definitely why These gimbals from DJI and other companies, they're really intended for DSLR and mirrorless and that kind of form factor Fortunately the Vixie HFR 800 is a pretty compact camcorder as they come but you know, you couldn't get I don't think like a Prosumer camcorder up. There just isn't enough space. So that's that's where I haven't mounted and that's how this looks like from sort of a side perspective Here's what it looks like from a front perspective just so you guys can see how this rig looks from all proportions Now the big problem if you will with this rig is that it's heavy The more you know to state the obvious the more stuff you add on to the Gimbal the heavier it becomes and yeah, it does get a bit tiresome when you're operating this kind of a thing for 40 minutes So now here is the next step in the rig is adding a light So I just added kind of a Ulanzee RGB light to the side But you know, this is really solid and of course there is that quarter inch at the bottom of the Ronin SC and you can actually daisy chain. So you can put a few DJI you can put a few of those extension poles together And you could put a much bigger light a much bigger camera light on the side And you can also tilt it up if you use an Accessory and again, I'll show that accessory at the end But I mean, this is great if you're doing an interview From my perspective as a sort of amateur hobbyist learning videographer If I can get a really big light on the side that I can tilt about and change the color temperature in a decent microphone And the camcorder I feel like you have everything you should need there to shoot decent Interview footage without needing to sync anything up and post because you're recording straight into the camcorder Here is the rig with the light illuminated again just to sort of give you a feel for what this looks like I haven't this is just me trying to hold my smartphone while I try to hold the gimbal So nothing is set up wonderfully, but if I was using this on a real subject I'd probably be using something like an extension bracket and I'll show those in a second Here's what it looks like from the back and as you can see this kind of gives you sense for how chunky The setup is it's heavy. It's chunky, but on the plus side if you're a crew of one You know, you're obviating the need for someone to Operate a boom pole or operate lighting. I'm not saying the results would be necessarily the same I'm just saying that as a as a big old chunky all-in-one setup. This kind of gets you all your key accessories Here's the setup with sort of me leaning to the side of it to try to keep everything stabilized Okay, so the two things that I find useful in conjunction with a setup like this And these aren't affiliate links and not promo and I'm just sort of showing you guys The rigs I've been working on so far. So firstly this thing by small rig is really handy This has as you can see a cold shoe at the bottom and a quarter inch on top and a little bit of a Little bit of distance and when you undo that bolt in the center of the screen there or that screw cap Then the whole thing loosens up and you can flex around So this is great for something like a light or actually a microphone because you can just sort of get them at like The proper angle facing your subject and play around with that. So these are as you can see $12 So I've I've got a few of these in my in my camera gearbox and The second thing that I find really helpful is these Yulanzi things Triple cold shoe adapters. It just allows you to get more gear on one shoe So if you have two cold shoes on the edge of your gimbal and you've got three to one on each Well technically you've got six accessory shoe fittings to try cramp stuff into and on to finally here is the cold shoe mount That I bought from again from small rig and you just put two screws in and you sort of You know screw that into the gimbal and then you've got two cold shoes on the side and again once you have that cold shoe You can kind of Do a lot you can get a cold shoe to quarter inch adapter You can get a cold shoe to GoPro adapter Kind of just the sky's the limit once you have a baseline standard camera connector on the rig I hope that was useful. This is just what I've been sort of I mean as I've made clear I hope on this channel many times I'm just learning video and I just make these videos to sort of document the stuff I'm figuring out in case it's helpful to other people You are on the same trajectory. 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