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The best 2K (MPEG-4 compressed) footage I've seen to date

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The best 2K (MPEG-4 compressed) footage I've seen to date, shot on EPIC:
dl.dropbox.com/u/5673574/retina-f35.mov
source: https://vimeo.com/42805692

Good job, Justin O'Neill / Royal Galactic Media
The quality / compression is really quite amazing.

Four Questions:
1. Was it originally shot at 5K, then exported and down-ressed to 2K?
2. What lens did you use to shoot this F35 fighter?
3. What application and which settings did you use to export this fine-looking output? Premiere Pro CS6, Final Cut X, Avid Symphony, Sony Vegas, something else?
From what I can tell - it's 2048x1078p, 23.976fps, MPEG-4, 33.6Mbps, MPEG-4 Visual, Advanced Simple@L3.
4. Any chance of you giving us a DropBox link to a similarly compressed footage, but which plays-back at 60fps (not 23.976), with the camera set to timebase of 59.94fps?

Not related to the above, but if anyone here missed it, Jarred's Snappy is the best ProRes footage I've seen to date (shot on Red One M-X @ ISO800 in studio controlled lighting):
http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?39096-Meet-Snappy-ISO-800
direct download: http://red.cachefly.net/snappy.mov
 
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"Canon zoom" but which focals and series?
 
Eric Z said:
4. Any chance of you giving us a DropBox link to a similarly compressed footage, but which plays-back at 60fps (not 23.976), with the camera set to timebase of 59.94fps?
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Hell, how about the R3d of the fighter!
 
Justin O'neill,
Care to shed some light?
 
Congrats on getting clearance to post that footage! I've got tons of fighter jet footage in non-approval-no-clearance limbo.
 
Matt Ryan said:
Canon 24-70 II
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It's out? I have the "current" one and can't wait to toss it. It's way soft unlike my 70-200 L II which is sharp as a tack.
 
Jarek Zabczynski said:
It's out? I have the "current" one and can't wait to toss it. It's way soft unlike my 70-200 L II which is sharp as a tack.
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haha my bad. It's version I not II! Justin had a pic up of him in the cockpit with it in another thread.
 
Considering the fact that he had to keep some distance from the jets, I'm guessing he was shooting at 200mm or more.
 
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Eric Z said:
Considering the fact that he had to keep some distance from the jets, I'm guessing he was shooting at 200m or more.
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Eric, he was in a jet lol. He used the 24-70!

He was in a Air Force f16 jet, shooting other Air Force f16 jets. They were flying next to each other very close. There was a thread on here with pics of him in the passenger cockpit of the jet and shots of him shooting in the air. You can't hand hold a 200mm steady moving that fast to capture images.
 
Oh, so I guess that the jet he was sitting-in had the canopy open (while on the tarmac, of course). The footage is really sharp & clean.
I'm sure they did a good job in post, but the material had to be great straight out of the camera.
 
You can't fly at the speed of sound with the canopy open. Here's the pic of him in the cockpit with the 24-70. This is how he shot everything from the air.
 

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Nice! Curious too
 
In a Navy jet?

He was in a navy jet, shooting other navy jets.
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An F16 is an Air Force jet, although the Navy does use some for Top Gun Training.
The footage was also shot at Edwards Air Force Base. Very distinctive tower.
Lots of private contractors test at Edwards, so one can see just about anything there.
 
Randall Weatherington said:
In a Navy jet?



An F16 is an Air Force jet, although the Navy does use some for Top Gun Training.
The footage was also shot at Edwards Air Force Base. Very distinctive tower.
Lots of private contractors test at Edwards, so one can see just about anything there.
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As you can tell I'm not a military man haha. I'm sure it is Air Force if you say it is.
 
F16 canopy trivia.

The canopy on an F16 is 3/4" Lexan. Although they form it with as little distortion as possible, some can still be detected. One just has to move one's head or camera back and forth to get the distortion out of the way.
As of a few years ago, a canopy bubble cost $8,000. I'm sure it is more expensive now.
Yes, Lexan does scratch, although not nearly as bad as plexiglass, so the maintenance crew does have to frequently polish the canopy.
 
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