Day 2 here the beautiful capitol city of Ohio -- Columbus -- if you haven't freshened up on your geography lately. The last time I was here was during The Arnold Classic a few months back and the weather is pretty much the same, cold, windy and wet. Although it is now 40 degrees and not 19 so there is green on the trees.
We're shooting with two Panasonic AF100s and a mix of Lumix, Nikon, Sigma and Pentax lenses. We also have a small slider dolly that has been fun to use a bit too. Mostly, however, we're sticking to our guns -- handheld and sticks. Today consisted of welding, drilling, cutting, scraping, grinding, pressing...a lot of 'ings. The commercials are gonna be great and the concepts are pretty solid but quite simple, just the way we like it. I've been going overboard lately and complicating a lot of things when in the end we need a solid storyline and stellar footage. Luckily we have five more day of just that!
We have a 4 card SDHC offloading solution for now (this post talks about the problem). It works well -- we just offloaded 4 16GB shot cards to redundant drives at once (see the picture below) and had no problems. It just isn't as clean as the cube with four slots. It consists of a Belkin USB four port hub, two Lexar Professional compactflash/SD card readers, a SanDisk reader and the MacBook Pro SDXC card slot. To offload the footage we're using the trusty ShotPut Pro application. Love, love love it! And checking all offloaded footage in Final Cut Pro (soon to be Final Cut Pro X -- AND we'll be able to edit in the native codec rather than transcode everything)!
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