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Shotgun blast not capturing…
we mounted a little Canon HDV palmcorder on a shotgun barrel, pointing at the shooter, and pulled the trigger. the glass of the lens didn’t break, and the puppy kept rolling. it played back in the viewfinder fairly well, but there was a slight hesitation at the point of the blast. upon trying to capture the footage (via playing it from a Z1), the same thing happened. the blast would not capture, apparently because it interrupted the timecode? does anyone have an idea of how to capture the actual blast?
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If the video signal drops out, as im sure it did, you wont be able to capture it into FCP. if you have access to a TBC, route your video out through it to another capture device, or try crash recording it to another VTR
Colin McQuillan
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Mortimer,
Its more than just the timecode — the entire tape path gets interuppted by a violent shock or vibration.
Try running the tape in a player and shooting the monitor with your camera.
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
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[mortimer heathcliff] “we mounted a little Canon HDV palmcorder on a shotgun barrel, pointing at the shooter, and pulled the trigger. the glass of the lens didn’t break, and the puppy kept rolling.”
You pointed the camera at the shooter or the barrel of the shotgun? 🙂
If your camera has an analog out, then try making a copy via the analog connections, then capture the copy.
Next time you might want to have the actor fake the recoil of the shot and save your camera from the sudden acceleration stress. Make sure the weapon is unloaded and the action is open. Then have an assistant give the barrel a sharp, short shove.
On a somewhat related note, I recall seeing some training videos for skeet shooters where a camera was mounted on a shotgun to give novice shooters an idea of how much to lead each target. I don’t know what was used for that. Perhaps a camera wired to a seperate recorder. But it looked pretty cool and it did help as a teaching aid.
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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[Dean Sensui] “I recall seeing some training videos for skeet shooters where a camera was mounted on a shotgun to give novice shooters an idea of how much to lead each target. I don’t know what was used for that. Perhaps a camera wired to a seperate recorder.”
I’d bet it was a lipstick or cigar camera. Small enough to attach with a loop of gaffer tape, not big enough to really interfere with the shooter. Probably just a single S-Video or composite wire coming off the back end.
Arnie
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