Shooting with 7 Red One in Chennai for Music Concert

[gbalaji]

Working on Music Concert shot with 7 Red One Digital Cinema Camera in Chennai, India. I am DIT / DAS / Post Workflow consultant for the project.

More details about the project in couple of days. Day 1 snaps taken from my Iphone below.

 

[BigLu]

NOOOO WAY.
Thats out of control.
So love that idea.

Sweet.

In India?
wow.

 

[Elizabeth Lowrey]

That's quite a challenge! Would love to hear some details.

What type of concert? Classical?

 

[Steve Sherrick]

Way to go G! Keep us updated on the process and how it all works out.

 

[Pierce Cook]

I assume the small army you hired to protect them was standing behind the photographer?

Very cool.

 

[Raphael Varandas]

Nice Job man...

 

[jimhare]

Great! Did you work out your sync issue? I'd like to know how you go as I'll be shooting shows in Australia this way. First test is next week at the Sydney Opera House.

Keep us informed!

Best of luck! :w00t:

Jim

 

[Taimoor Salahuddin]

Zadardast!, Insane, I'm also concerned about what type of concert this is. Are you going to place the cameras on the seats like for the concert? Also also, what about the lenses some of them don't have em on!

 

[arun]

So at last it happend in india thats nice... post some footage or pic too let us know who all the guys worked behind the project.( heard soon redone coming on BIG screen too kamalhasan's new movie marmayogi) revolution starts here now let us hope to see some mindblowing exprience....cant wait to buy this cam....

 

[Raphael Varandas]

Hey G...what about your workflow on set?How many Data Manager Stations,
REd Drive?? VEry Good...the real Rebellion:w00t:

 

[Senthil]

This is an Indian Classical Carnatic Music concert that was shot at a fantastic concert hall in Chennai (Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall).

The primary target is cinema screens and the project will be delivered as a 2K JPEG2000 Digital Cinema Package with 5.1 sound.

The performance was captured with 7 Red cameras @4K 2:1 and the audio was recorded live to a multi-track disc recorder @48KHz, 24-bit.

This was a two day shoot. All material was backed up on location using a MacPro connected to an Avid MediaRAID 16TB with two copies of all files. Secondary backup to DLT will happen today.

Post workflow planned is offline on Avid Media Composer in DNxHD, conform and grade on Digital Vision Film Master directly using the R3D files - to be tested! - and output as 2K DPX files that will be encoded to a JPEG2000 DCP using QubeMaster Pro.

 

[gbalaji]

Thanks Senthil about the project update.

Regarding TimeCode sync we tried using Jam Sync and External Time Code fed to all cameras for few seconds. The internal clock reset to original time code after every battery change. It doesn't work out for us. We used Clap and Flash to match 7 cameras by feeding Live reference sound to one of the camera.

We faced glitches with couple of the cameras. Red Drive not detected in one camera. In another camera, when we play a clip, camera automatically reboots without any warning and hangs and was forced to remove the power cable to reset the camera. For another camera which we had it on Jimmy Jib, we had a take running for 23 minutes, At the end of the take, camera shuts down due to overheat. Red needs to work on solving heating issues.

Technical Crew.

Show Conceived & Executed: Real Image Media Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Director: Jayendra
Director of Photography: P.C. Sreeram
Sound Recordist: Sridhar
Art Director: Rajeevan
Technical Director: Senthil
DIT / DAM: Balaji (me)

 

[Michel Hafner]

This is an Indian Classical Carnatic Music concert that was shot at a fantastic concert hall in Chennai (Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall).

Don't forget to release a Blu Ray of this some time. Who's performing?

 

[David Birdy]

Great stuff Balaji

Set the camera to "Hot" mode.. to avoid overheating problems!

System menu / Setup / Maintenance / Fan / Hot

Dave

 

[gbalaji]

Snaps

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Attached snaps.

 

[jimhare]

That looks great! I'm going into the Sydney Opera House tonight to do my first camera tests. Would love to share info on all the ins and outs of multi cam shooting. I'm used to doing it with a full O/B crew but really looking forward to using RED.

Congratulations!

Jim

 

[Michael Schrengohst]

Wild, will this be available as a DVD in USA?

 

[Christopherang]

Hiya Arhna. Pat on the back for the shoot.
Never fails to answer questions on shoot.
Looking forward to the final edit.

 

[Babu Kantamneni]

Karnatic in 5.1 and 2k.
cant wait.
Babu

 

[Yean Loon]

Sweet....i spy my camera in there somewhere!!