Re: Slightly OT: Multi-Camera Shoot - 384 Hours

Steven,

I don't have a lot of personal experience with setups like this, but no one had replied yet, so I thought I'd give it a shot.

That's a massive amount of footage you're dealing with. I would personally be very wary of trying to do that whole project without tape backups. Even if you can spring for that much storage, with tapeless formats you need to have your footage protected. I would suggest renting 4 HDV camera that support timecode in. Just change tapes in a waterfall pattern over the course of a couple minutes so someone is always rolling. The odds of you absolutely needing the shot from any of the camera in that minute or so are pretty slim when you're dealing with that much footage. Even you want to do some sort of time-lapse, I really doubt you'd notice those gaps.

This give you tapes to pull from rather that trying to keep an insane amount of data around. Unless some part of the process happens at super high speed, HDV should suit your needs just fine.

Of course all of this is from knowing how long and with how many camera you want to shoot. Knowing what you want to do with the footage and the goal of the final product might impact some of these decisions.


Zak

"You can't fix coverage in post."