I’ve been asked by many people to help them with setting up and using their Merlin with the Canon XHA1 and so decided to make a tutorial video to help others. This tutorial is supplementary to the DVD that you get with your Steadicam Merlin and is specific to setting up the stock Canon XHA1 and Steadicam Merlin. Before I bought my own Steadicam Merlin I was very curious to know what it even looked like. I’d seen enough footage but didn’t really get a good look at the device itself, so I hope this tutorial satisfies the curiosity of folks like me as well. For me this was more an exercise in shooting and editing this kind of thing and I should apologize for the bits that are out of focus. It was the first time I had used the HV30 for anything more than a point and shoot kind of thing and it was on full auto. After seeing the footage and the out of focus parts, I sat down and played with the camera and figured out how set it in manual focus and such and planned a second shoot...