Can we shoot an hour of 8k footage ?

[aaranyan ramanujam]

Hi ,

We are planning to shoot a film with Helium 8k sensor. It is a single take film. 90 minutes continuously. Looking at the storage constraint angle. Is there anyone here in the forum who has attempted such a thing.

Will Red get us a special mag to do it ? Like daisy chaining two or more Mags or is there any other way ?

Best Regards,
Aaranyan Ramanujam

 

[Alexander Ott]

I would suggest the "Recording Time" calculator, available via the Cinematography Tools on RED's website.

When you select Helium 8K Full Frame, 24FPS and a 960GB MINI-MAG, you can see that you shouldn't run into issues, as long as you have a compression of over 8:1.

 

[Robert Berger]

Hi ,

We are planning to shoot a film with Helium 8k sensor. It is a single take film. 90 minutes continuously. Looking at the storage constraint angle. Is there anyone here in the forum who has attempted such a thing.

Will Red get us a special mag to do it ? Like daisy chaining two or more Mags or is there any other way ?

Best Regards,
Aaranyan Ramanujam

Look at http://www.red.com/tools/recording-time
at 8:1 compression on a 1TB red mag (895GB of usable space once formatted.) 94 minutes 24 fps. But when you shoot 8K wide screen its 118 minutes at 24 fps.

Best regards
Robert

 

[Russ Fill]

Just for the record those are guide lines on that table. This is a great questions as I have felt that there are variables that change the percentage of the storage per clip depending on say the type of image.. Not a lot but enough to be aware if you shoot something that has say more detail or brighter does it add to the file size of the clip?

 

[Marc Wielage]

We are planning to shoot a film with Helium 8k sensor. It is a single take film. 90 minutes continuously.

I would suggest not shooting it as a continuous take, and instead break it up into logical segments that you can later stitch together with VFX. It's much, much more practical, more affordable, and less grueling for the crew and actors to do it that way. It worked very well for Birdman (enough to win quite a few awards. including Best Picture) and made over $100 million. I think trying to literally do a single 90-minute take is unreasonable and obsessive to the point of being counter-productive. The possible exception would be in filming a live event like a stage play or a football game, some situation where naturally it does not stop... and even then, I would shoot multiple takes and figure out a way to seamlessly blend between them when necessary. As long as the illusion is maintained and the film is entertaining, that's all that matters to the audience.

 

[Björn Benckert]

I would suggest the "Recording Time" calculator, available via the Cinematography Tools on RED's website.

When you select Helium 8K Full Frame, 24FPS and a 960GB MINI-MAG, you can see that you shouldn't run into issues, as long as you have a compression of over 8:1.

you can just change setting in camera so that you see recoding time left and set compression to fit.