05/05/2025
Collaborative concert filming. Cool.
Metal band KoŠÆn wanted fan content for their 30th anniversary concert documentary. KoŠÆnās videographer, SĆ©bastien Paquet set up a new workflow using the Blackmagic Camera app and Blackmagic Cloud to make it all happen.
āThe KoŠÆn guys have always been technology savvy, so they immediately liked the Blackmagic Camera App to the Cloud idea for their fans. We had literally hundreds and hundreds of fans all wanting to be part of this project, and Blackmagic Camera app being synced to Blackmagic Cloud was the way to make it all happen.ā
āTo get the KoŠÆn fans working with Blackmagic Camera app and uploading their footage to my DaVinci project, all we sent them was a preset file for their phone. Using a camera preset guaranteed the same recording format and upload settings for everyone. And for timecode sync, all we needed was the time of day for each phone! Now if we had a bit more time, I could have used a QR code for the presets, which would have saved a lot of time.ā
āThe night of the concert was pretty much the first time this had ever been done! I don't know of any band or artist that has empowered 200 fans to film the band from their own perspective on their own devices. And then to be able to share the footage and include it as an official recap was priceless.ā
āThe fansā content totalled 11 hours of footage, so I had lots of content to work with to bring this piece to life. It was challenging no question, but the fact that Blackmagic Cloud could support that much data seamlessly was very impressive. I could just scrub through it all instantly in the DaVinci Resolve project and there were hours of stuff for me to play with.ā
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