let's crash cadillacs

[jasonk]

here's a quick grab of a scene from last night's shoot.

we used three cameras shooting at 500fps and a varicam shooting at 60. the DVX provided coverage in case things went horribly wrong with the other equipment.

it blows out horribly once the car gets airborne - we probably had a little too much dust packed into the engine and had no way to meter that before the shot - but it's pretty sweet:

http://www.bubble-squeak.com/ae_list/dvx_crash.mov

 

[BrandonC]

Re: let's crash cadillacs

Are you going to have to reshoot, or is the footage from the other cams usable?

 

[jasonk]

Re: let's crash cadillacs

footage from the other cams came out great, by the looks of things.

 

[IncMedia]

Re: let's crash cadillacs

hahahaha. "the other cams"

Can you show us the footage from the DVX? Just curious.

 

[jasonk]

Re: let's crash cadillacs

sorry yeah, that was the DVX footage. the other cameras output huge proprietary uncompressed files that will require some work to get into usable format.

 

[RomanJaquez]

Re: let's crash cadillacs

He he! looks like you guys had some fun time. I can't wait to crash my 1992 Toyota Corola and my friends 1991 Mercurity Contour. They both look pretty good just that we are ready to donate them and I want to sooo badly crash them or blowthem up or somthing like it in front of my DVX.
;D

 

[jasonk]

Re: let's crash cadillacs

heheh yeah it was pretty fun. the stunt driver said he'd set a personal best for distance. i'm gonna keep the high-speed stuff under wraps until the whole thing is done though. it looks so rad.

 

[jasonhlv]

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I played that clip, and my dog went apeshit when she heard the girl screaming.

 

[jasonk]

Re: let's crash cadillacs

yeah it's a pretty piercing scream.

here's the shot from the varicam - the one where our operator had to grab his rig and run. this file plays back in real time; again, saving the slo-mo stuff for the end result

http://www.bubble-squeak.com/ae_list/varicam_crash.mov

 

[jasonk]

Re: let's crash cadillacs

these are the other cameras we were using, by the way. start saving up now

http://visionresearch.com/phantomv5.html

 

[taubkin]

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Wow 95 THOUSAND fps?!

BTW, what happened to your cam operator? Was he in a safe distance?

 

[jasonk]

Re: let's crash cadillacs

yeah, the car stopped about 12 feet from him, but it was definitely a little concerning for a few seconds, we couldn't see anything through all the dust.

i guess they have another camera that goes to 150k frames a sec. are there even that many frames in a second? dude i bet freaky **** happens, like you start to see the matrix or something.