Hey guys,
I'm working with a company who is doing a start-up TV show and I'm in charge of basically everything video and photo, the show is a televised obstacle series. Anyway, we have one of our cams who's rolling with the race leader, and he's going to be on an ATV. We're running a Panasonic AC-160 and I'm trying to figure out the best way to rig this guys camera up to shoot, and I've had a couple ideas that I'd like feedback on or other thoughts if you are willing to offer them...
1. Glidecam X-10 Smoothshooter rig - most expensive and really should have a pretty experienced smoothshooter operator.
2. just a glidecam w/o the smoothshooter rig ( less expensive, may be unreasonable to expect of a shooter for 25-40 min while riding an ATV)
3. a Shouldermount rig - lowest cost, least amount of exp needed by operator, may make problems with how we're going to secure the operator to the atv.
Etc...
Any other thoughts or ideas you guys may have would be appreciated, thanks :)
Dave
(oh, and in-case anyone is wondering, they were already locked into adobe suite, but their Closed captioning is terrible compared to Vegas with Caption Assistant from VASST so I'm definately running Vegas Pro in as well, and props to Vegas for CC workflow and file embedding)
I'm working with a company who is doing a start-up TV show and I'm in charge of basically everything video and photo, the show is a televised obstacle series. Anyway, we have one of our cams who's rolling with the race leader, and he's going to be on an ATV. We're running a Panasonic AC-160 and I'm trying to figure out the best way to rig this guys camera up to shoot, and I've had a couple ideas that I'd like feedback on or other thoughts if you are willing to offer them...
1. Glidecam X-10 Smoothshooter rig - most expensive and really should have a pretty experienced smoothshooter operator.
2. just a glidecam w/o the smoothshooter rig ( less expensive, may be unreasonable to expect of a shooter for 25-40 min while riding an ATV)
3. a Shouldermount rig - lowest cost, least amount of exp needed by operator, may make problems with how we're going to secure the operator to the atv.
Etc...
Any other thoughts or ideas you guys may have would be appreciated, thanks :)
Dave
(oh, and in-case anyone is wondering, they were already locked into adobe suite, but their Closed captioning is terrible compared to Vegas with Caption Assistant from VASST so I'm definately running Vegas Pro in as well, and props to Vegas for CC workflow and file embedding)