Need some help on Scarlet X getting Airborn

[Sandor Kruise]

well , we make flying platforms basicly and want to get a Scarlet into our flying rig.

its basicly a aircraft VTAL with 8 motors , it can lift 6 pounds and more.
but more weight is less flight time, so we want to get the best of all.
we allready do a lot for televison and commercials , since we are very flexible we can fly almost anywhere , where a full size cant go.
also no cranes needed on remote locations
heres a sample video : http://vimeo.com/26319519
this was shot with a sony HXR-50MCE until now it was for us the choice to use , but with new technical stuff we use we can lift now much more.
now we want to step up a bit i guess

what we need is also live vieuw from the ground.

now my questions :

live out can we connect somehow a analog transmittor , we dont want to drag convertors into the air
can we use power from our aircraft , instead of the heavy batter,s, we got 9 volts to 25 volts and over 16 amps.
can we use a remote to start and stop the recordings,if so can we do it with a electric signal (like a shutter cable).
if we order a scarlet what is the lead time to get one?

hope someone can enlighten us.
as for faq and support , i called red in the UK but they seemed a bit bored with my questions exept no on the analog signal..
sorry but that was the feeling i got..

regards Sandor kruise
www.digitech.nl

 

[Ian McGrew]

Hey Sandor,

Your reel online looks great! You guys sure are good at flying that Oktokopter! Have you ever looked into getting a Cube HDSDI? http://cube.teradek.com/ The range isn't all that long... but you can get a great picture if you plan on being somewhat close to it.

 

[Sandor Kruise]

hi yes we looked at that but the latency its to large
i am pretty sure we need a COFDM TX for this , we do it now with analog.
i am worried with the scarlet we need to make at least a hdmi to analog signal to use it for our " view finder"
or we need a good microwave HDMI TX unit to use it..
thanks for the showreel my customer filmed all that we just make the equipment for it.
i want to be the best with providing aerial footage , if we want to deliver class a material i guess we need to record in 3 K , stabilize it down to 1K to and get the best stuff out there.
i see already we need the REDmote anyway .
i am just a bit afraid that all the red stuff is for me" the money pit" , not sure what lenses , not sure what equipment we need to import the video stuff to our mac and render it in FCP..
all in all lots of questions.
i can tell you what someone needs to get this into flight , but dazzled in choosing RED stuff.
we also want to rent it out incl pilot , to production studio,s.

if anyone can help , great thanks