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Rwanda Stills

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Jesse Rosten

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Many thanks to the Red crew for rushing #184 out the door just in time for our shoot in Africa. Here are a few frame grabs from Red in Rwanda. Everything shot with available light.

-Jesse
 
God they look like photos. Insane. Wonderful stuff. I'd love to see the completed project- not just because it's Red, but because it's Rwanda. Keep us posted.
 
Great stuff. Can you tell us any more about the shoot, what is the doco about, what gear did you take with you?
 
Great Red pics .Hope the fine quality of Red captured images could do
Something in helping those people have a better life.:sad:
 
Great pics! Can't wait to see some docu made with Red.
Plz can you post bigger ones or same footage? :)
 
Yeah, that is amazing...

I wish I was there with you shooting some of that. Looks pretty amazing. Please keep posting.
 
Ditto. Quite promising. Thanks.
 
Thanks for the comments. The doc looks at how Rwanda is healing since the genocide. Lens was Red 18-50mm. We had three CF cards (the fourth one went down in the field). Let me tell you, if you're shooting to CF in remote locations do yourself a favor and get a hyperdrive. (www.hyperdrive.com) It's kinda like the P2 Store for CF cards. You can dump footage straight to this little guy without pulling out the laptop. The director/photographer brought it along for his Canon 5D and we ended up using it the entire trip for Red footage.

Redcine is limping along right now so the clips will have to wait.
 
Tell us more about the hyperdrive!?!?! time to download? Data Verification?
 
Using a Hyperdrive to download RED CF cards in the field

Using a Hyperdrive to download RED CF cards in the field

I'll chime in... I'm the director of Rwanda: Hope Rises.

The Hyperdrive ended up saving our asses by allowing us not to be tethered in any way. While a laptop and external drive would've required at least a safe place to operate it (like a Landcruiser or shelter of some kind) and limited battery life, the Hyperdrive could safely spin away all day. I carried it in a shoulder sling bag along with our filters and an AC pouch (with leathermen, pens, slate, lens cleaner, etc.)

A full card took about 7-8 minutes to download - so, 1/2 realtime for 4K, faster than realtime for 2K. We would often shoot 2K for interviews for the sake of run time, and our 4K shooting tended to be shorter shots with pauses in between takes, so we never ran into problems not having a card ready to shoot.

I had to operate using a straight copy, no verification. The Hyperdrive does have a data verification mode, but it didn't seem to work with the R3D files... not sure why. The unit is designed for 10-15MB DSLR RAW files, so the size may have something to do with it. With that in mind we tried not to format the cards until necessary. I had a system of rotating cards & pockets keeping track of which cards were downloaded and ready for re-use. (If you needed to be sure, you could carry two Hyperdrive units and copy twice. Wouldn't be a bad idea anyway to have a second drive holding your shots if your environment is a little more intense)

The Hyperdrive runs on AA's, and would do 10+ cards before needing a recharge. And you can stick regular AA's in it, so the only limitation was the drive size.

I have an older Hyperdrive than what's on their site (HD80) with a 120GB hard drive (you can put any size laptop drive in it). The new model looks completely different, so YMMV.
 
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