Alternative to video light hot/cold shoe mount

I'm not a big fan of the cold shoe mount for my video light. Does anyone else mount the video light elsewhere on their setup using a ball mount? Using a single strobe I could just mount my video light to the other arm, but what about in a dual strobe setup?

5 hours ago, pby said:

I'm not a big fan of the cold shoe mount for my video light. Does anyone else mount the video light elsewhere on their setup using a ball mount? Using a single strobe I could just mount my video light to the other arm, but what about in a dual strobe setup?

Any number of ways to do it.  You could use a triple clamp on the end of your arm system and mount both the strobe and video light there. Depending on the light you have they are often quite heavy UW so you may need to play around with buoyancy if you had two strobes and one video light which would throw off the balance. 

Do you mean aiming light or video light?  I run my video lights on arms out to the side just like my strobes to avoid backscatter and also make the lighting more dynamic. When shooting macro or needing an aiming light, I run a ultralight bar (the one with the screw holes) between dual ball mounts on my housing arms.  From the center of this I either run locline or balls mounts and add aiming lights or a macro light depending on the use plan (and sometimes a go pro). Here is an image of it setup (it was really, really dark, so I used the Solas as my dive lights and the two strobes and macro for image collection).

1 hour ago, ColdDarkDiver said:

Do you mean aiming light or video light?  I run my video lights on arms out to the side just like my strobes to avoid backscatter and also make the lighting more dynamic. When shooting macro or needing an aiming light, I run a ultralight bar (the one with the screw holes) between dual ball mounts on my housing arms.  From the center of this I either run locline or balls mounts and add aiming lights or a macro light depending on the use plan (and sometimes a go pro). Here is an image of it setup (it was really, really dark, so I used the Solas as my dive lights and the two strobes and macro for image collection).

I like this setup! I just discovered the crossbar so I'll look into that. Thank you!