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noggin Founding member
derek500 posted:
This should be in UHD/4K, as all recent Amazon Originals have been produced in this format.

Will be a big selling point.


Be interesting to see if they do go UHD/4K. Have there been any other factual Amazon Originals ? Shooting drama in 4K/UHD is one thing, shooting a show like Top Gear is another.
BR
Brekkie
noggin posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Are there UHD/4k mini cameras yet that can be used inside vehicles?


There are some appearing. But you'd probably also be able to shoot the in-car stuff on good 1080p stuff if you wanted to and upscale for those sequences.

Suspect this means the show will go entirely 24/25p with no 50Hz motion on any internal 'studio', and circuit test, elements ? (Traditionally the studio and Star in a Reasonably Priced Car elements have usually been 50Hz - and look 'odd' on most iPlayer versions - excl Sky HD iPlayer and non-Tivo Virgin)

I wouldn't be surprised if they avoided the studio element - after all the show isn't Top Gear.
DE
derek500
There's an interview with Andy Wilman in Broadcast and he says there'll be some studio segments.
MS
Mr-Stabby
What was the deal on Dunsfold? Did the BBC lease or rent it? Could Clarkson and co rent it back out again for the new series? I can't imagine Chris Evans would use it as it would be compared too much to the Clarkson era.
NG
noggin Founding member
Mr-Stabby posted:
What was the deal on Dunsfold? Did the BBC lease or rent it? Could Clarkson and co rent it back out again for the new series? I can't imagine Chris Evans would use it as it would be compared too much to the Clarkson era.


Same goes for the new Clarkson/May/Hammond/Wilman show I guess. They'll need a clean slate too.
DJ
DJGM
Either the new Chris Evans fronted Top Gear or whatever Clarkson and co come up with for Amazon ... both shows will most likely still need access to a test track. The owners of Dunsfold Aerodrome will probably offer access to the track to either show, but I would hazard a guess TFI Top Gear will get first dibs, since (IIRC) the test track was created for Top Gear in the first place.
BA
Bail Moderator
There's no reason to not shoot edit deliver on 4K, all the "film" stuff can be shot in the same way as usual on FS7/F55 in 4K and there's an abundance of 4K minicams now for the in car stuff, heck even a GoPro can do 4K now.
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A former member
Are there a lot of 4k computer screens?
TV
TVMan
The Track was created as a testing area for Lotus
DE
derek500
623058 posted:
Are there a lot of 4k computer screens?


Don't know, but most if not all UHD TV's are Smart and have built in apps for Amazon and Netflix.

That’s how we watch UHD.
NG
noggin Founding member
623058 posted:
Are there a lot of 4k computer screens?


At the moment the UHD/4K Netflix and Amazon stuff is limited to UHD Smart TVs and a very small number of HDCP 2.2 enabled external boxes (I think the nVidia Shield console is one)
Last edited by noggin on 1 August 2015 1:09pm
NG
noggin Founding member
Bail posted:
There's no reason to not shoot edit deliver on 4K, all the "film" stuff can be shot in the same way as usual on FS7/F55 in 4K and there's an abundance of 4K minicams now for the in car stuff, heck even a GoPro can do 4K now.


Yeah - though the multi-camera stuff they did in the studio is a bit more of a challenge if they continue with that way of working (i.e. OB truck with multiple lightweight cameras).

There ARE some 4K OB trucks (Timeline and Telegenic both have them) - though you wouldn't want to shoot studio stuff, particularly handheld, on the Live F55 Franken-camera , so you'd really need to use 2/3" HDC4300s, and I think Timeline are the only people with them at the moment - and they won't have 14:1 wide angle lenses that are really needed for 4K handheld multi-cam until next year (but that is in time)...

But then they may well decide to do the studio PSC. (And if they have to shoot 24/25p not 50p then they will have to embrace a different style anyway. Whip pans and fast jib moves look horrible at 24/25p, as anyone who has watched Top Gear on 25p iPlayer will have seen)

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