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IMAGES The G-DRIVE mobile SSD became an essential part of the team on the Paradex II shoot
has been flying for quite a long time now and has reached a pretty amazing level while I had only been training intensively for about four months at the time. I have to admit that I had great teachers from the start as well as good contacts who made it easier to progress very quickly. I trained on a simulator for up to ten hours per day at times and exhausted about 30 drone batteries a day in training. It’s worth noting that I’ve been flying drones for about ten years, but FPV was something new for me, but at least I came to it with some pretty solid fundamentals. How did you plan your overall storage workflow for the trip to ensure you had a painless offload and secure backup? Each of our team had two G-DRIVE mobile SSD drives as well as two high- capacity ArmorATD drives as secondary backups and two G-DRIVE ev RaW as extra security backups.
“Every time the drone landed, we could transfer the footage without needing a laptop”
What was your choice of camera for the project and what resolution
For offloading the drone footage, I relied completely on the Western
did you shoot in?
Digital My Passport Wireless SSD 2TB so every time the drone landed, we could easily transfer the footage without needing a laptop. I wasn’t taking the risk of taking off again without offloading the images first as with the risk of drones crashing, at least I’d have the footage from the last flight!
The main camera was the Sony FS5 with the Atomos Shogun (4K, 60fps
or 4K Raw, 120fps), with a secondary Sony A7R III (4K video and Raw photos). For the drone work, I chose the DJI Mavic 2 Pro and Mavic 2 Zoom (4K, 30fps) and all of the FPV shots were made using the GoPro Hero6 at 4K, 30fps. You use a lot of drone footage in the film. Can you describe your storage workflow for backing up your drone content?
The drone footage is exceptional; how long did it take to achieve that
Do you use an SSD as a part of your overall storage mix and has it
level of expertise?
accelerated your workflow?
There were two of us involved in the FPV (first person view) drone footage, Josselin Cornil (J-True) and myself. Josselin
In fact, the entire Paradex 2 project was completed using the G-DRIVE
mobile SSD connected via USB! People that know me, know that I’m very fussy about workflow and I’ve absolutely no latency issues working with SSD. If only video editing software was as reliable.
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