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News Review By Holly Ashford
Q-Ball and Red Bull dive together: Q-Ball from Camera Corps provided dynamic coverage of the Boston leg of the 2013 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. A Q-Ball was mounted at the edge of a 90ft high platform on the roof of the Institute of Contemporary Art. “This is exactly the type of broadcast the Q-Ball was designed for,” said Camera Corps managing director Laurie Frost. “It enabled the Red Bull production team to achieve shots that would have been extremely dangerous, if not impossible, any other way.”
www.cameracorps.co.uk
TrackRunner races through: “Three World Championships with one system in two months — it can’t get any better than that,” said Daniel Pfleger, CEO of RTS Rail & Tracking Systems. The company’s high-speed camera tracking system, RTS TrackRunner, was a regular fixture in high-profile sports events this year. After the Swimming World Championships in Barcelona in July, the RTS TrackRunner went on to provide close-to-the-action tracking footage for the IAAF Athletics World Championships in Moscow, and the Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg.
www.r-t-s.tv
Red TX take a bow: In March Morrissey closed out his massive US tour in an intimate venue at Hollywood High School in LA. The show’s
resulting concert film, Morrissey 25: Livefrom Hollywood High, was recorded by UK-based location sound company Red TX, working closely with producers Nineteen Fifteen and Eagle Rock Productions. Sound engineer Tim
Summerhayes said of Red TX’s work, “We arranged to
have the concert recorded by Guy Charbonneau and his son Ian who run Le Mobile in Los Angeles. The multitrack arrived back in the UK as a disc drive of .WAV files. I mixed it over a period of five days and it was a very straightforward task since the recording had been so well done.”
www.red-tx.com
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Sky Sports takes
Dejero on 92 Live Sky Sports News broadcast its first-ever 92 Live event in August, presenting live reports from all 92 of the UK’s Premier and Football League clubs in a single day. Dejero provided seven of its LIVE+ 20/20 Transmitters to Sky’s mobile broadcast teams. To cover the 92 football clubs scattered throughout England, Sky Sports divided its field newsgathering teams into 21 pods, each responsible for covering up to six clubs. “We absolutely could not have staged 92 Live without state-of-the-art cellular bonding systems such as the Dejero LIVE+ 20/20 Transmitter,” said Ian Brash, technical manager, Sky Sports News. “The cost savings were huge; in fact, for the cost of hiring an SNG truck for a day, we were able to hire a complete suite of Dejero equipment for a whole week. The LIVE+ 20/20 Transmitters gave us flexibility that we just would not have had with a truck.”
www.dejero.com
Mistika brings light to Darkness Star Trek into Darkness, directed by JJ Abrams, was finished using SGO’s Mistika. Abrams wanted to shoot on film to recreate the look of 2009’s Star Trek. The new installment was to be released in Stereo 3D, so the motion picture was shot in 2D on 35mm film and 65mm IMAX film, then converted to Stereo 3D in post production.
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Sound Devices captures Doctor Who: BAFTA
Cymru Award- nominated sound recordist Deian Humphreys has been capturing dynamic dialogue for the BBC’s Doctor Whoon Sound Devices hardware. Humphreys
records the majority of the show using a trolley-based rig, which consists of a Sound Devices 788T-SSD with a CL-9 controller. When on the go, he takes his 788T-SSD using the more portable CL-8 mixing control surface. “One of the features that I really like about the 788T is that it allows me to easily switch between a Schoeps SuperCMIT digital mic and a Schoeps analogue mic without the need for any peripheral equipment,” said Humphreys. “I will often have eight iso-tracks being recorded and two mixed tracks, so the 788T is being driven hard. It always performs incredibly well.”
www.sounddevices.com
Mistika allowed Bad Robot’s in-house post production division to work on both the 2D and 3D versions together. Mistika’s timeline and project management processes enabled Bad Robot to manage and create a complex set of final deliverables. There were four
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different masters — scope versions in 2D and Stereo 3D with an aspect ratio of 2.4:1, plus IMAX versions in both the ‘3D Digital’ and ‘3D Film’ IMAX standards with aspect ratios of 1.9:1 and 1.66:1 respectively.
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