Drop Frame count in helicopter????

[Tom Hallman]

wshultz I like your setup. It is practical, 3 days with only drop outs on the last day. It would be interesting to hear if anyone has used the new ET drive brackets with any success? I guess without monster budgets you have to find innovative ways to get things done. Then again who am I to say?

We at Pictorvision have been using the ET drive bracket as beta testers with great results in both our Wescam and ECLIPSE aerial systems. Simple to use, and NO DROPOUTS, not even one! It doesn't get any better than that.

 

[Shawn R]

We at Pictorvision have been using the ET drive bracket as beta testers with great results in both our Wescam and ECLIPSE aerial systems. Simple to use, and NO DROPOUTS, not even one! It doesn't get any better than that.

That is excellent news Tom. Thanks for letting us know. What series of helicopters were they in?

 

[erik_reichenbach]

We've done a lot of Helicopter work, and recently, a few RED jobs on Helicopters with our GyroStabilized heads.

We've come away with 100% DO NOT use the spinning Hard Drives. Use RED RAM or CF cards.

Here is a link to a huge Helicopter thread

http://205.234.135.241/forum/showpost.php?p=309913&postcount=62

 

[Accel]

We've come away with 100% DO NOT use the spinning Hard Drives. Use RED RAM or CF cards.

Not everyone has access to the RED RAM drives, and as we've said previously, we've done multiple shoots now without issue using the spinning drives.

 

[Dan Graetz]

Speaking of doing things Macgyver-style...

We recently shot in Sydney Harbour from a Squirrel using a Continental nose-mount. We ran a 6ft drive cable and 6ft EVF into the cabin. Both only just made it inside - but it was enough to work. We sat the drive on some bubble wrap and used the EVF to periodically check for dropped frames.

Using this setup we were able to record about 30 minutes of footage without a single dropped frame on a standard RED spinning drive. This included several 3-5 minute continuous takes.

very happy....

 

[Tom Hallman]

That is excellent news Tom. Thanks for letting us know. What series of helicopters were they in?

The last few jobs happend to be AStars, but should also be fine on the Bell 206.