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The fruits of our labor can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnogG6LfKy8
First off, I'd like to thank Terry Sheets Band for letting me use them for an experiment. Second, I'd like to thank Andrew Blankenship and Todd Packard for joining me for this shoot. For this, we had 4 cameras running. My GH2 with the flowmotion hack and kit 14-42mm lens, a T3i with kit lens (not sure which), a 7D with kit lens (not sure which one) and a Kodak Playsport camera. I had the GH2 and Kodak on tripods, Andrew and Todd controlled the T3i and 7D handheld. The Kodak stayed stationary as a cover camera. Not to my surprise, the GH2 was the champ of the night. Not to hate on the other 2 DSLRs, they are great cameras, but the 7D fell to the common overheating problem, and unfortunately the T3i ran out of battery. I was able to run the GH2 non stop on the battery for the whole first 45 minute set the band played. The GH2 also had the best color grading due to the flowmotion hack. All the shots were pretty dark, so bringing the color out was difficult at best on all the cameras, but the GH2 did a great job. None of us had used the 7D before so we ran out of time to figure out how to up the ISO on it to handle the low lighting condition. But as you can tell, all the footage is pretty grainy due to it, but I think it put a bit of a grungy look to it, fitting for the band's personality. Editing with FCP X was a mixed bag. I would mostly say this because I'm editing on a near 5 year old MacBook Pro... 2.4GHz with 4GB ram. I also had my media stored on a FireWire 400 drive. There were several bottle necks in this process of using the multicam edit feature. Playing back 4 HD streams at once was a disaster. I think this is primarily due to the FireWire 400 bottleneck. I'll try tossing it all on an 800 drive when i have the chance, but I've heard ThunderBolt is absolutely the way to go. It did however line up the media perfectly! I think having good audio is key though. I recorded the band in to Logic using a L/R feed from the board and 2 room mics fed into my Profire 610. Mixed in Logic, and exported out for the video. Overall, things that I would do differently next time: 1)Better lighting. 2)Better lenses. 3)Extra batteries for everyone. 4)Firewire 800 drive 5)or Thunderbolt Drive on a better computer. My crew was good, the coverage was good, and the band was great. I've got another multi cam shoot I'm putting together for the late spring, so we'll see how that turns out, if I don't do another one sooner!
