Re: 315 High Desert and heavy wind

Greg Scholl Wrote:
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> Roger and all,
> Regarding wind, I had an encounter with another
> video company in 1991 while doing the Rotary.
> This cameraman had a sound guy with him, and had
> one of those big busy windcovers, that are called
> Zeppelin Windscreens I think. Anyway the
> cameraman told me those things were incredible and
> really knocked out all the wind. Well I saw their
> video, and it did knock out all the wind. The
> problem was it knocked out a lot of the steam
> sounds as well. For example when the engines
> plowed out Cumbres they were not working hard, but
> there were a lot of neat steamy sounds as they
> passed the cameras, but in the other guys video
> you heard Nothing!!! So there are sometimes
> trade-offs. I decent medium windscreen is the
> answer.
> Cheers,
> Greg
>
> PS No wind is the best scenario, and it makes the
> cold morning steam and smoke hang there which is
> nice.


Maybe we only shoot on days with no wind.