What a fun weekend!
Thursday: Pick up a van-load of equipment in a vehicle slightly too small to contain it. Damn. That night we set up a mini-studio in Pete's garage, to make sure we understand how things are going to go down on Friday.
Friday: 9am we are in Sandringham and start setting up a four-camera outside broadcast live-to-tape rig. Essentially, that's three triax chains (Sony DXC-D50WSPL, if you must know) and a DSR-450 which we also used to get footage of the crowds downstairs and outside before the main event, an interview between Dennis Conner and John Bertrand, the competitors in the historical 1983 America's Cup. Here's a pic of part of our control area:
If you look closely, that's my nose on the left :)
Saturday: Our small crew of four (Friday we had six) splits up between rigging a small catamaran with radio communications gear for the day, and visiting the docks to mount two HVR-Z1P high definition cameras on the yachts to be raced. The afternoon was spent shooting a yacht race between Bertrand and Conner on Open 60 class yachts, a bit of a cross-promotion with the Volvo Ocean Race (coming soon to Baltimore and New York!), which is on Open 70 class yachts.
John Bertrand skippering Ericsson
The grey blob near the mast is an HVR-Z1P in a rain bag mounted to the instrumentation rack.
Sunday: Capture, capture, capture. We have somewhere on the order of 20 hours of video to wade through in the next couple of weeks. Woo!
Friday: 9am we are in Sandringham and start setting up a four-camera outside broadcast live-to-tape rig. Essentially, that's three triax chains (Sony DXC-D50WSPL, if you must know) and a DSR-450 which we also used to get footage of the crowds downstairs and outside before the main event, an interview between Dennis Conner and John Bertrand, the competitors in the historical 1983 America's Cup. Here's a pic of part of our control area:
If you look closely, that's my nose on the left :)
Saturday: Our small crew of four (Friday we had six) splits up between rigging a small catamaran with radio communications gear for the day, and visiting the docks to mount two HVR-Z1P high definition cameras on the yachts to be raced. The afternoon was spent shooting a yacht race between Bertrand and Conner on Open 60 class yachts, a bit of a cross-promotion with the Volvo Ocean Race (coming soon to Baltimore and New York!), which is on Open 70 class yachts.
John Bertrand skippering Ericsson
The grey blob near the mast is an HVR-Z1P in a rain bag mounted to the instrumentation rack.
Sunday: Capture, capture, capture. We have somewhere on the order of 20 hours of video to wade through in the next couple of weeks. Woo!
