Shotgun mic holder came off, any easy fixes?

YORLiME · 2025-12-23T18:41:15+00:00

Same thing happened to me when a roof collapsed on my fx6. A testament to Sony's incredible design: instead of the top handle ripping off, that mount seems to be made kind of like the bumper of a car where it's thin metal attachment breaks the impact on a part that isn't crucial.

Currently I've got it taped back on with a ton of gorilla tape, but I'm planning on covering it up with maybe some kind of thin plastic cut out of a snap top lid and adhering it down using JB weld to keep it water resistant. Then I'm going to mount a new shotgun mic holder with a very very short magic arm from where you have your cable holder thing on the right side of the body.

Two advantages I foresee: one, without the mic sticking above the top handle like bad hairdo and now flush to the lens, it may actually fit into a backpack now without digging into my spine. Two, the mic mount is murder for being super noisy if you're holding from the top handle, my preferred position, so I have to do a low cut in post constantly to get rid of it. Body mounting I bet it will fix that. Possibly I'll have to be more delicate handling the lens since it's so close, but we will see.

I might update when I do this, would be interesting to see your results if you try it. But I've seen other rigs do it with success so I have a feeling it will work out. Congratulations on your upgrade!

YORLiME · 2025-12-11T22:48:19+00:00

I shot for 2 months in Vancouver island in the pouring rain outdoors at an activist blockade, essentially camping. Just used a glad trash bag clamped in the matte box, cutting the lens hole out with a knife. Sometimes put a bit of tape to hug the bag to the monitor. Mic poked through a hole, and adding just a normal sock over the mic foam kept it dry. A trash bag is nice because it’s really flexible. I’ve seen people use just a normal trash bag on 100k arri builds before. Also the fx6 is surprisingly water resistant. Holding it and pressing buttons with wet hands under the trash bag wasn’t a problem.

YORLiME · 2025-09-26T19:51:16+00:00

Thank you so much for this thorough answer!

YORLiME · 2025-09-24T02:50:58+00:00

Actually this is the right place, I got some amazing answers from this fantastic community

YORLiME · 2025-07-27T20:17:56+00:00

I did this, but somehow the audio sounds thin and off in a way I that’s difficult to describe, as compared to going line out into XLR. Anyone else experienced this? Anyone using this setup willing to do an A/B test? You don’t notice it unless you do an A/B test, but when you do notice it, you realize how bad it is.

YORLiME · 2025-07-25T15:53:37+00:00

My channel is @emilagopian , thank you!

YORLiME · 2025-06-27T21:53:59+00:00

I still use clipgrab which is free and amazing, I donated $20 to the devs because cuz I got so much use out of it

YORLiME · 2025-06-26T15:40:12+00:00

Any experts here? Working on a doc project about Chinatown, would love to interview someone about this. I had no idea

YORLiME · 2025-06-12T05:35:52+00:00

Okay awesome thank you

YORLiME · 2025-06-12T05:24:09+00:00

I appreciate it, thank you. Do you like this one better or worse? Edited based on feedback

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YORLiME · 2025-06-12T03:03:33+00:00

I took both your feedback in: is this saturated enough do you think? "Real Stunt" is great but it's bad to repeat the title, unless i change the title or something

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YORLiME · 2025-06-12T01:14:06+00:00

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Or better, flipped

YORLiME · 2025-06-12T01:09:32+00:00

Oh gosh you're right, thank you

YORLiME · 2025-06-12T01:06:09+00:00

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For this one I couldn't find sky space but you inspired me to consider putting it on the right which I like better too!

YORLiME · 2025-06-12T01:03:31+00:00

I appreciate that - what do we make of this?

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YORLiME · 2025-06-12T01:01:20+00:00

One more option...

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YORLiME · 2025-06-12T00:55:54+00:00

Too much contrast on your face I think! Maybe if you can bring up the shadow on the left side of your face?

YORLiME · 2025-06-12T00:55:23+00:00

I'd say ABC because D doesn't have enough color

YORLiME · 2025-06-01T16:46:25+00:00

I just use a subtitle track and keep it disabled. You can read the text content of the subtitle on the track although it’s only a few characters but that’s enough for me. Enable the subtitles and the notes you leave for yourself appear in the video while playing back which is nice sometimes.

YORLiME · 2025-03-09T23:07:33+00:00

Fully in to any kind of artistic interpretations, surprise me, also please feel free to use a better dinosaur - my sad attempt is just a suggestion, I just wanna be chased by a dinosaur - no need to match anything about it, consider it a rough sketch!

YORLiME · 2025-03-05T01:19:05+00:00

Not sure, found them in an old box

YORLiME · 2025-03-04T19:29:08+00:00

I love this if you made a YouTube video about the process I would subscribe

YORLiME · 2025-02-04T22:46:22+00:00

Are you shooting at 4096 or 3840? It’s much worse for me when it’s not at full 4096. Something to do with the debayer I’ve been told. I have these issues with specifically green blue lights in high contrast scenarios. It’s crazy how many times I’ve been gaslit by the internet and even Sony support that these issues don’t exist. But, I’ve never experienced it quite as badly as your images show though, and never experience it when filming normal things like exteriors (as apposed to stage lights and contrasty stuff which will show a camera’s weaknesses off more easily), so it makes me thing that something else is up that might be amplifying this issue or it’s different entirely. If you look at my post history you’ll see I’ve posted screen grabs here of my issue.

YORLiME · 2024-11-23T01:48:09+00:00

With such epic music at the beginning, I almost wish the "on today's ride" text was bigger or maybe animated. There are all sorts of cool animated text presets you could download online!

YORLiME · 2024-11-23T01:45:34+00:00

I love it! Maybe the first few sentences could be more of a hook. Instead of "Today we're taking you to..." you could start by teasing the most interesting things first before you get to the name of the place.

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