Texas Stadium Implosion

[Ed Gutentag]

Just shot with 2 RED Ones and 2 RED with MX sensor the implosion of Texas Stadium in Dallas Texas.
The 2 cameras that were closest to the Implosion did lose some frames from the concussion and noise of the dynamite that was used to take down the stadium.
We were running one camera at 96 FPS and the other was going 64FPS.
I could not use CF Cards and rish losing the shot so I went with the drives knowing that this might happen.
Thought I would post this to let people know.
Ed Gutentag

 

[Steve Freebairn]

Sounds like awesome footage Ed, next time we meet up, I'd love to take a look.

 

[Michael Totten]

Topanga !!! I used to live up on Henry Ridge Road... sorry I know it's totally off subject, but I can't help myself.

 

[Rick Darge]

Is the footage salvageable Ed?

Glad you found a pair of MX cameras

 

[Jeremiah Warren]

Ed, how close were you? I was standing in the Red Lot, I didn't expect the blast to be so powerful at the distance we were at.

 

[David Battistella]

watch it here....

http://www.google.ca/search?client=...8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=5BHNS7_fGcOC8gbUo8R5


David

 

[Jeremiah Warren]

The implosion, or the RED footage? I've already seen the implosion.

 

[Scott Crawley]

I thought the drives were more succeptable to vibration than other recording mediums. One of us seems to have it backward.

 

[Jay Gannon]

Yep drives will skip under vibration, CF cards or RedRam would have been the best option here.

 

[Jeremiah Warren]

Did a promo video that had a RED as the B-Cam shooting high speed footage. The subject being filmed involved a couple of machine guns firing on full auto. The force from those guns caused the camera to loose all the frames when the guns were going off.

The DP ended up switching to CF cards, but I was surprised that even that set off the HDD. The vibrations weren't *that* bad from the guns.

 

[Jean Déraps]

I think what he meant was that CF cards, although they may have been the best medium for vibration resistence, may not have had enough storage to capture everything at those frame rates...you wouldn't want a card to be full half-way through the shoot.... as for REDRam....well they're just expensive to equip 4 cams with them.

 

[Scott Crawley]

I think what he meant was that CF cards, although they may have been the best medium for vibration resistence, may not have had enough storage to capture everything at those frame rates...you wouldn't want a card to be full half-way through the shoot.... as for REDRam....well they're just expensive to equip 4 cams with them.

Right... But those were the options; spend the money either on media, additional coverage, or both, decrease the frame rate, or cross your fingers and be prepared to cry. Isn't that always the way with slo-mo? ;-)

Hindsight is great. Thanks for sharing your experience.