Above the stark, almost lunar Mongolian landscape, an eagle circled and pivoted in an equally empty but piercingly blue sky. The ease with which the great bird maneuvered and traversed the heavens contrasted with the rugged trail we had to follow in order to arrive at Mongolia's annual eagle festival.
Along with our two Panasonic AG3DA1 cameras with matching NanoFlash 3D
external recording units. The production kit also contained a RedRock Micro
Matte Box, ND filters, a Vari-Zoom one hand controller, and assortment of SDHC CF cards and six 1 TB 2.5-inch hard drives to capture as much as possible. To keep us powered up and shooting, we used Panasonic batteries and Anton Bauer Dionic 90 batteries.
We also carried in two laptops, one with Grass Valley™ EDIUS® 3D beta version software (now publicly available as a Preview Version). It may have been risky to take a beta version software package into field conditions like this, but what better way to test it than in a real-world application. And it performed beyond expectations. EDIUS was installed in a Toshiba Qosmio i7 laptop, running a 3 GHz CPU, 8 GB DDR3 RAM, with a lightning fast NVIDIA GTX 560M graphics card, with 1.5 GB DDR5 RAM.
"During our on-site production, we stretched EDIUS's capabilities to the limit and beyond. It never failed us."
Al Caudullo is Chief Cook and Bottle Washer, 3D Evangelist, Producer, 3D Stereographer and Editor for 3DGuy Productions. Al has won the Association of Virtual Worlds award for 3D Excellence, and has used his thirty plus years of video production experience as a foundation for stereoscopic image capture. As principal of 3DGuy Productions, Al served as 3D Stereographer and 3D Editor many on projects including film, TV and corporate production. Clients include Panasonic, Hitachi, Imagimax Studios, 3DeeCentral, Polaroid, Spatial View, Toyota and many others.
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