This is a pretty interesting idea. Trucker-life always seems to have a certain romantic quality to people who dont do it: open road...new things every day, etc. (If you're not married it's probably a whole different level!)
If you own that rig, maybe put some kind of swivel-mount on the dashboard. You could feed the video out to a laptop to see where you're filming. Could even have a "notch" that you know is pointed right at your face. Would get rid of a lot of the shake.
Also I'm not sure what kind of camera it is, but there might be better ones out there for filming on the road....of course a smaller camera has it's advantages too! heh
Thanks.
It is just a small multi-function camera. Slightly larger than pocket size, but not by much. Actually, mounting it to the truck would increase the shaking quite a bit. You can't believe how much a truck vibrates, shakes, and bounces as it's going down the road. The little camera has shake reduction technology, but it just can't handle all of the motion of a big rig bouncing down the road.
Most of the really shaky looking shots were when I had the camera zoomed in on something, which really increases the shaking effect, like the "speed trap ahead" sign. That was shot at 10x zoom.
My truck actually rides quite nice, I'd hate to see what the video would look like from a cab over.
