Video: Red Ones and helicopter mounts in action

There's a new video out for the Seattle-based Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band song "Albatross, Albatross, Albatross." I know, Crave isn't a music blog, but I figured you guys who are really into gear would appreciate the behind-the-scenes video--not because this stuff is normally interesting, but this particular video features some really awesome gear.

You'll immediately notice a duo of Red One cameras being used. For those not in the know, Red's flagship camera shoots ultra-high-def video that rivals film in most ways. You can't buy a TV to play back its video in its full size yet. But that's not the really cool part.

The real fun comes in around the 49-second mark, when you get a shot of the AerialPan remote control camera mount. The custom-made helicopter does something new: it makes HD cameras fly. If you're a film geek, you're already drooling. I can't imagine there was any boring downtime on this shoot.

This post was updated at 2:45 p.m. PDT to clarify the type of camera mounted on the helicopter.

[heyralph]

Don't mean to be picky but this is a tech site so you need to get your tech right. The Red isn't a video camera and it doesn't shoot HD. The camera is more like a fast stills cam shooting RAW images. Great clip anyway. Where do you get one of them choppers?

[dcurley]

You, good sir, need to get YOUR tech right. Indeed, you are partially right, the Red CAN shoot stills, and shoot at INCREDIBLE qualtiy like unto RAW images... but it VERY MUCH is a video camera, shooting over 120 frames of video per second at incredible cinema resolutions. I think you need to go back to your Sony Handicam with 1 1/4" CCD and Canon Cybershot 8 MP point-and-click.

[iambradk]

For what it's worth there is some other tech that needs to be.. gotten right..? The camera mounted on the UAV is not a RED One, it's a Panasonic HVX200.

Cool video though.

[heyralph]

dcurley, you wear your ignorance like a badge. Go and look up the definition of a SMPTE video signal and ask your teacher for help with the big words. The Red One does NOT shoot video. It DOES shoot a sequence of still RAW images, compressed and wrapped into a stream to present as R3D MOVIE FILES but they most definitely are not video. The stills you've seen taken from the Red One are in fact single frames taken from R3Ds movie sequences. And, no thank you, I will not go back to a handycam. I'll stick with my Red One thank you very much.