LIVE broadcast of on set for a big GH13 music video shoot

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I had a huge 16 hour long music video shoot yesterday (pickups from the last one) and had my portable 4G satellite truck replacing backback with me and broadcasted much of the shoot live from my website.

It was a real hoot as the actors not in the scene could watch the shooting as they were waiting, and then people would be texting my site link to their friends, going up to the camera and waving at their friends live, and then the friends were talking back in the chat window. All of it was rather amazing although I did have some technical glitches trying to broadcast in 720p live because we were deep in a thick building location. Mostly though it worked very well! Next time for live events not in perfect studio conditions I will bump the qulity down to iphone ipad compatible. Not hd but still very clear and smooth framerate without the insane upload bandwidth.

There were all sorts of cameras on set, my three GH13s although I mostly shot with 2 at a time, and then a GH2, Canon 7D, t2i, and the Canon 60D.

You can check out out and actually watch different setups and scenes on demand at http://blackout.com or http://livestream.com/blackoutsbox

When I would change setups and playback the footage, the canon people were asking me "WHAT THE HELL!?!?!? WHAT CAMERA IS THAT!?!?!?" :happy:

I am now going to collapse for a day and then it's off to Sundance! I'll be doing some live broadcasts their as well as making a little mini documentary so keep an eye out!

Rock the casbah,

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mpgxsvcd said:
How do you feel the GH2 did against your GH1's? Was the GH2 footage unusable because of MUD?
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I am really trying to avoid these types of discussions anymore because people just can't read what I am saying without coloring it with their projection even though I am trying to just give helpful non brand or camera loyalty based information. I just did an extensive explanation in this thread: gh1 or gh2? http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?235334-GH1-or-GH2/page2

And again someone came in and took it the wrong way and trolled. So I just don't even want to talk about it anymore... but I'll answer your specific question and then let's move on and just keep making movies:

For MUCH of the shoot the GH2's image was as good as my hacked GH13, however, when the smoke particles came and there were tons of them lit up with glitter and sparkles and fur coats... the GH2 did have problems and it did breakup or block up in certain areas of the image. That's just that and lets not talk about it anymore. Get BOTH GH13 GH2 cameras if you can't afford a AF-100 and even the af-100 will have the breakup issue at 24mbit in some cases so I plan to record from its hd-sdi out not its avchd codec.
 
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Blackout said:
I am really trying to avoid these types of discussions anymore because people just can't read what I am saying without coloring it with their projection even though I am trying to just give helpful non brand or camera loyalty based information. I just did an extensive explanation in this thread: gh1 or gh2? http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?235334-GH1-or-GH2/page2

And again someone came in and took it the wrong way and trolled. So I just don't even want to talk about it anymore... but I'll answer your specific question and then let's move on and just keep making movies:

For MUCH of the shoot the GH2's image was as good as my hacked GH13, however, when the smoke particles came and there were tons of them lit up with glitter and sparkles and fur coats... the GH2 did have problems and it did breakup or block up in certain areas of the image. That's just that and lets not talk about it anymore. Get BOTH GH13 GH2 cameras if you can't afford a AF-100 and even the af-100 will have the breakup issue at 24mbit in some cases so I plan to record from its hd-sdi out not its avchd codec.
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts on that. That is very useful information. Hearing what you said just makes me more anxious than ever for the GH2 to get hacked.

Have you tried the 1080p Slow motion mode on the GH2? I was surprised at how much resolution it has. It appears to be sourced from 1080p @ 30 FPS as opposed to 1080i. If we could just have 50 mb/sec 1080p @ 60 FPS I wouldn’t ever need to switch formats.
 
mpgxsvcd said:
Have you tried the 1080p Slow motion mode on the GH2? ...If we could just have 50 mb/sec 1080p @ 60 FPS I wouldn’t ever need to switch formats.
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In the AF100 forum, Barry recently mentioned that in overcranked 1080p60 mode, the AF100 records at 35Mbps:

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthrea...-Rates-to-me&p=2214431&viewfull=1#post2214431

Clever how formatting 1080p60 as an overcranked mode allowed Panasonic to boost the bitrate and still remain within the 24Mbps AVCHD spec.
 
No I honestly have NOT done much more tinkering with the GH2 than I have explained in the threads I have posted thus far. Only about a day and a halfs worth and what I saw on various other peoples downloaded raw .mts files. I just haven't felt a big pull or need yet to get a GH2 there's just not the want or excitement there was when I first saw the GH1 footage (still with simple frame not crazy movement) and then the mind bopggling jaw dropping excitement when I saw the hack. The hack is when I said "now I can really make a movie on a quality level I am happy with". So I have my GH13 setup and it works and I see minimal advantage to buying a GH2... I might, but better to put that grand towards my own film or the af-100s I plan to buy. But I may get one if I keep getting gigs at the rate I am. I've been a busy bee.

leaving for SUNDANCE TOMORROW! WOOT!

gotta go pack up stuff and get all my mobile broadcast and mics and cams ready.... you'll be seeing plenty of updates from me from there. Very excited.
 
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