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Red drive in concert

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Hello!
A friend of mine is planning to shoot parts of a hard rock concert with a red one camera. Someone told me once that had a lot of problems with a red drive during a concert because of the "shaking" produced by the super loud sound, specially the basses. They had to work with CF cards.

I was wondering if someone over here had similar experiences, just to confirm that my friend should rather go with cards and be prepared for that.

Thanks for your time in advance!
 
If it's the only camera use CF cards. The biggest problem I had was with crowd applause causing dropped frames while recording to a shock mounted RED Drive. 95% of what I shot was fine and it was just a test. But for a real rock concert I'd want a lot of cameras covering the event personally.
 
Hi Martin,

Obviously the limitation with working with CF cards is recording time (again, obviously, if your friend can use 16Gb cards that would be much better than 8GB cards), but if your friend only wants to shoot part of the concert and not all of it, and is not part of a multicam shoot, then CF cards would be the go. He'll need a few cards, depending on how much he wants to shoot, or some kind of DIT to help download/backup the footage in order to recycle cards (but not sure how practical that would be at thumping rock concert ('Here you are my good man. Download this will you old boy and have it back to me in a jiffy...').

Having said that, people are using the raid drives for concert shoots. A couple I've been on went fine (it wasn't 'hard rock' but was pretty loud live music with drums and percussion at a top venue)--5 cameras all to raids (and they weren't shock mounted).

A test would probably be in order to be sure beforehand.
 
Joel, James, thanks a lot for your observations. This will be a one camera shooting, the idea isn't to get the whole concert, they will only need a few moments of it. So, though the use of cards may be a bit complicated (most of the times I'm the good man who download things in a jiffy, hehe), well... it should work well.

Anyway, once again, good thoughts to have in mind, thanks for your time!
 
I will also be shooting a rock concert in April.

We hope to have (at least) 5 cameras rolling all the time. And the concert will be about 100 mins.

So using CF cards is totally out of the question for us.
So I would love to hear how people have been getting on with the RAIDs.

I know people say "Test it", but as every venue will have different acoustics, etc and I can't get into the venue before the concert (except for the sound check), it would be more useful hearing lots of anecdotal evidence.

Thanks.
 
Can anyone give more detail about the Green Day Concert that was used on the latest Red Reel? Was only one song recorded or was it an entire concert? Hard Drives or CF Cards?

I too have some upcoming concerts to shoot and would benefit greatly from other's past experience on this.
 
danbrazda said:
Can anyone give more detail about the Green Day Concert that was used on the latest Red Reel? Was only one song recorded or was it an entire concert? Hard Drives or CF Cards?

I too have some upcoming concerts to shoot and would benefit greatly from other's past experience on this.
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I've posted on it before here, but I'll recap.

We shot the whole 2.5 hour concert with 11 cameras. Knowing we couldn't find enough RAM drives to make a difference, we endeavored to just make the regular drives work. Almost all of the concert has been edited and delivered, about 10-12 songs are available through different outlets.

During soundcheck almost all the cameras were dropping frames. The answer was to simply wrap the drives in multiple layers of heavy fabric to block out/soften impact of as much sound as possible.
 
NateWeaver said:
I've posted on it before here, but I'll recap.

We shot the whole 2.5 hour concert with 11 cameras. Knowing we couldn't find enough RAM drives to make a difference, we endeavored to just make the regular drives work. Almost all of the concert has been edited and delivered, about 10-12 songs are available through different outlets.

During soundcheck almost all the cameras were dropping frames. The answer was to simply wrap the drives in multiple layers of heavy fabric to block out/soften impact of as much sound as possible.
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Thanks Nate. I did a search for your prior thread via "Green Day Concert" as well as searching your previous posts via your name but got nothing regarding the concert. If you have a moment can you supply the link to the thread? Thank you in advance.
 
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Just a quick follow-up.
As they say: test, test, test.

So last week I took 3 different cameras to record a concert. A Sony Z1, a Sony EX-3 and the Red One.

I was very close to the speakers, and it was VERY loud. But I didn't have any dropped frames with any of the cameras. All 3 performed perfectly.

I have combined the footage from all 3 into a 1080 MOV, and will put it on Vimeo (as soon as my awful broadband connection allows!!! I hate Orange!).
 
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