[3D Roundabout]
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 manoeuvred and traversed the heavens contrasted with the rugged trail we had to follow in order to arrive at Mongolia’s annual Eagle Festival. …
The kit
My colleagues had brought in much of our film and editing gear earlier, including two Panasonic AG-3DA1 cameras with matching Convergent Design NanoFlash 3D external recording units. The filming kit also contained a Redrock microMattebox, ND filters, a VariZoom VZPFI hand controller, and an assortment of SDHC, CF cards and six 1TB 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. It may have been risky to take a beta version into field conditions like this, but what better way to test it than in a real-world application. EDIUS performed beyond expectations. It was installed on a Toshiba Qosmio i7 laptop, running at 3GHz CPU, 8GB DDR3 RAM, with a lightning-fast NVIDIA GTX 560M graphics card with 1.5GB DDR5 RAM. …
The festival …
Behind the scenes …
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