Red Bull BC One
Red Bull BC One is the world’s stage for 16 of greatest B-Boys to compete against each other in 1 on 1 battles. BC One has traveled the globe and on November 18th 2009, BC One came home to New York City, the birth place of Hip-Hop.
This show presented many challenges one of which being an international cast and crew, with dancers from over 16 different countries.
For this ambitious and exciting shoot I had 10 cameras, one jib, a dolly, a stedi cam, a super slo-mo camera, and one 3D camera, which was used for a promotional video for Red Bull. It was cool to have the 3D camera but it took up valuable real estate on the floor.
One item I felt was a must was a super slo-mo camera, now there was a lot of talk about using the Red camera for its slo-mo capabilities but I decided to use the Sony HDC3300R
HD Super Slo-Mo Camera for multiply reasons, the deciding factor for me was that I needed a camera that could be incorporate into my live line cut, which was being broadcast not only to the live studio audience but was also being uploaded to the web. The Red camera is a non-synchronous camera and at the time of our production the HD-SDI output of the camera only did a character out, which would not work in my line cut. I also felt that because of our short turn around using the Red, which requires a massive amount of render time to turn R3D files into a file format that you can start editing with would just use up to many resources and time.
The way the Sony camera works is it takes three HD SDI streams and feeds that to an EVS which records the three separate signals and then with some computer magic combines the three signals to create an impressively smooth 180 fps HD signal, which is a little more then three times slower then real time. Since the camera is taking three separate 1920 x 1080 HD signals I was able to DA one of those real time signals and use it in my line cut, but enough talk here is what it looks like…
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