Rwanda Stills

[Emmanuel Cambier]

AWESOME

Emmanuel

 

[M Taylor]

Thanks guys, very useful information ! Looking forward to seeing some clips...

 

[Tom Lowe]

Looks fantastic. Were you using any filters/mattebox?

 

[Jesse Rosten]

We had a Petroff 4X5 wide angle matte box. Filters were Schneider True-Pol, and Tiffen NDs: .3, .9, 1.2. I used the Pola and the .9 together for most of the mid-day outdoor shooting. Only used the 1.2 once or twice.

 

[Anthony Gratl]

the picture of the children standing in a row breaks my heart. you can see the hurt on their faces. these are the kinds of things that are important in this world. why no world leaders stood up and stopped that genocide is beyond any moral comprehension, except of course the political realities of how many leaders operate: africa? doesn't africa have diamonds and oil? which is why Talisman Energy, a canadian company, operated for years in the sudan, darfur region, with full permission from the canadian government. TE is widely suspected of funding the conflict, which is now genocidal, to access resources.
For anyone whose interested, there's a great book "shake hands with the devil" by Romeo D'Allaire, a Canadian general heading up the U.N. mission who was in the middle of the slaughter, and defied U.N orders to withdraw to try and save people.

Anyways, thank you very much for sharing your experiences sofar. I wish you safe speed on your journey through this film. Thanks for the hyperdrive tip to. As a doc maker, that'll definitely come in handy. BTW, how did you find the flow and run-and-gun pacing with the Red?

 

[Isaac Brody]

Great shots. Wow, you really don't need an SLR when you're shooting with this do you?

 

[Robert Mott]

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.

How big was the hard drive that you were using?

 

[Trevor Meier]

Rwanda shooting storage

Rwanda shooting storage

The Hyperdrive had a 120GB drive in it, which was adequate for a single day of shooting. At the end of the day, we'd offload to a dual 1TB RAID mirror (I used the wiebetech dual firewire enclosure - small enough for carry on).

I brought eight 1TB drives with me, the idea being one set would fly home with me, the other with the DP. We only ended up shooting about 500GB of footage, so what we had was way overkill.