CineAlta Magazine Issue 2

In Retrospect…

There are many things that can go wrong on mobile EFP-style production, and you depend on your equipment to deliver as planned. I’m happy to report that our football, volleyball, and Jeep productions basically went like clockwork. The venues were good, the crew was cohesive and, as icing on the cake, each part of our equipment list performed very well. The final edited pieces definitely reflect that — smooth football sequences, clean volleyball pieces, and dynamic Jeep sand dune footage.

The Sony F55 is a great entry into the 4K RAW (and 2K RAW shooting arena – very lightweight, intuitive ergonomics and layout, quite modular, clean codec, wide dynamic range, good price point, etc. The Fujinon Cabrio zooms are amazingly lightweight, optically very crisp and clean, with the great bonus of offering powered servos for EFP-style work (or cine-style work without them). The Miller Arrow 55 tripod supported the rig perfectly, and enabled very smooth pans and tilts. The Clik backpacks then helped us to quickly and comfortably transition from one location to another.

As a producer who is also a director, DP, and cinematographer, I always appreciate it deeply when the planned equipment works as it’s supposed to. Happily, that’s exactly the way these productions went. My kudos to Sony, Fujinon, Miller, Clik, Adobe, and FilmConvert for creating the diverse products that danced together so well for these productions. The bottom line is that in the field we were able to quickly generate the high quality, filmic-looking images we needed, and then in post create exactly the edited pieces that we’d envisioned!

We simply and effectively picked the right horses for courses to be run on that weekend.

Steve Gibby is a multiple Emmy Award winning producer, director, DP and cinematographer who’s contributed to several hundred international and national television programs that aired on 18 different broadcast and cable television networks.

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