News - Freelance Camera Crews Albuquerque

Albuquerque, NM – The PDW-F800 camcorder is the newest member of our CineAlta HD line. It is equipped with three 2/3-inch type CCDs and a “Power HAD FX” progressive CCD with 1920 x 1080 effective pixels. Stunning-quality HD images can be captured at a data rate of up to 50Mbps using the MPEG-2 4:2:2 compression.

Our F800 is seening lots of action behind the scenes of “Knockout” and most recently on the USA Indoor Track & Field Championships on ESPN for Windfall Productions.

The F800 is a great addition to the growing arsenal of HD cameras at Production Outfitters. It provides multi-format recording flexibility including 1080i, 720P and SD, which comes with HD/SD conversion and cross conversion between 1080i and 720P. With features such as Slow & Quick Motion (over-crank and under-crank recording) make the PDW-F800 ideal for cinema and TV drama productions, as wel as ENG applications.

Production Outfitters is experiencing a busy fall season in New Mexico.

Production Outfitters is experiencing a busy fall season in New Mexico. Recently our crews wrapped behind the scenes production and celebrity interviews for NBC Universal’s feature film “MacGruber, starring Will Forte of Saturday Night Live, using our Sony F900R HDCAM package.

Director of Photography John Britt and Sound Recordist Erik Donald worked long hours and several overnights to capture outstanding scenes and interviews with Producer Lorne Michaels, Will Forte, Val Kilmer, Ryan Phillipe, Kristin Wiig, and Director Jorma Taccone.

Production Outfitters provided crews, equipment, and location management to the Digital Kitchen from Culver City, CA in the production of The Buzz – a new entertainment news channel owned by AT&T for a segment on the television series “Crash,” starring Dennis Hopper.

Lighting Director Gary Marsh and the Production Outfitters crew worked with Vision Qwest Productions to shoot a live interview with Kristin Wiig for their satellite tour promoting Mike Judge’s new feature “Extract.”

Producer Cathleen Kane along with Director of Photography Glenn Graham and Sound Recordist Allan Crawford traveled to Amarillo, TX to shoot a profile on the 2009 Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leader Award, to be presented in Washington, DC, later this year.

Production Outfitters recently added a Panasonic AV-HS400N live multi-format HD switcher to their multicam equipment. This switcher is the heart of their HD Multicam Flypack This flypack allows a cost effective HD multicam solution. With a variety of HD and SD video recording decks and 1/3 inch, ½ inch, or 2/3 inch cameras, any budget can be accommodated. With its multi-plex feature, up to eight sources plus preview and program are all displayed through one HD LCD monitor. This eliminates the expense and headache of additional monitors and cabling.

Recently this package went to Finland for the International Karaoke World Championship. The entire package shipped in 5 cases, each weighing under seventy pounds, and provided HD multi-cam coverage as well as live streaming worldwide.

This same flypack was recently configured for use in covering the TFR Series of Champions tennis tournament in Albuquerque, NM for broadcast in India.

Recent acquisition of the Sony Z-7 HDV Camcorder has rounded out our HD camera line up, offering a very high quality HD image to clients faced with tightening their budgets this year.

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Sony PDW-F800 HD XDCAM

Fall 2009

Freelance Camera Crews Albuquerque