ON THE FARM Partly produced by ProSiebenSat.1 Puls 4, ATV’s Bauer sucht Frau has high- end production values
task, with up to ten contestants, all standing at their own stations, plus the presenters to focus on. Because the potters are working under time pressure, the camera operators – and later, the editors – rely heavily on time stamps for sorting through footage and keeping the show’s events in chronological order. To film Series 7, Love Productions used a combination of Sony FX9 and A7S III cameras, plus 12 GoPro Hero 11s – capturing the contestants from all angles. The team incorporated Atomos Ultra Sync One and Ultra
Sync Blue timecode devices, connected wirelessly using Atomos Air Glu technology, to simplify the post-production workflow. In the video village, the team mounted Ultra Sync Ones to the FX9 and A7S III cameras, capturing synchronised audio and video content. With 25 hours of battery life, the Ultra Sync Ones could withstand an entire day on set and then some. Meanwhile, the Ultra Sync Blues were paired with the Hero 11s, embedding timecodes within each file and transmitting this information
to the Ultra Sync Blue iOS Slate app. This set-up synced 22 cameras and six multitrack audio recorders in total, making The Great Pottery Throw Down a breeze in the edit suite. From up above Police shows never seem to go out of style (originally airing in 1989, Cops , now in its 37th season, is one of the longest-running shows in US TV history). CBS/Paramount+’s Chopper Cops takes to the sky, centring on the Marion County Sheriff’s Department and its elite Air One police pilots
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