CamCar: 1999 Miata R Sport
stock except for air horns, cruise, homemade camera mounts.
Videography at Tapoco Lodge: Russ & Lindsay Beckner
Other locations: Russ only - Road footage: Driver - Russ; VTR - Lindsay
Technical
Cameras: Panasonic AG-EZ1, AG-EZ30 (mini-DV), Sony TR700 (Hi-8 tape not used) into GVD900 mini-DV recorder.
Videotape: Panasonic mini DV, DVC Pro
Other Field equipment: Samson UHF-1 wireless microphone, Audio-Technica stereo Mic, Audio-Technica Lavalier Mic, Bogen/Manfrotto fluid head tripod.
Editing Equipment: AVID XPress (PowerMacintosh 9500-233Mhz) 208 MB Ram, 54 GB RAID hard drives; Panasonic AJ-D650 DVC Pro edit deck; Mackie audio mixer.
Software: Editing - AVID; Flying Titles - Specular Logomotion; Rotoscoping - Strata Media Paint; End Titles - iMovie (on iMac); also used - Adobe Photoshop.
All effects rendered on PowerMac 9500 or on DV iMac SE - 400 Mhz.
Incidental
The swerve and comment was caused from a small pick-up that passed a Miata on an outside curve. He was not quite back in lane when we came around the corner from the opposite direction. Unfortunately the grille cam was facing straight ahead and missed picking up the truck.
