Redskins In Super Slow Motion
Posted by Matt Terl on September 15, 2009 – 2:00 pmNo, the title is not a comment on the offense running sluggishly in the Giants game. Let’s just get that gag out of the way quickly. (In fact, the faster the Redskins offense moved, the better Jason Campbell did. In plays when the offense lined up in the shotgun formation, Campbell was 14 of 17 for 155 yards and 1 touchdown. But that’s neither here nor there.)
Anyhow, one day during training camp, NFL Films sent out a crew with a camera that took two guys to operate.
It was, I found out later, a modified Phantom camera called an X-Mo created by a company called Inertia Unlimited. According to the website, the X-Mo “is a high speed HD camera that shoot can shoot at up to 6933 fps at 720 resolution and over 2700 fps at 1080 resolution with absolutely no up conversion,and actual pixel for pixel sensor/output resolution.”
What this means in plain English is that it shoots things very, very sharply in very, very slow motion. The reason it takes two guys to operate is because the video files are so large that they require an additional, separate hard drive for storage, which the second operator carries.
And here are the results, courtesy of the nice folks at NFL Films.
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The most entertaining part may well be looking at the people in the background who appear to be standing still. I assure you, they are not.
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