Warms Springs Productions Shoots Fox News Legends And Lies: the Patriots with Panasonic Varicam 5 4k Camera/recorders

Warm Springs Productions (Missoula, MT), currently producing more than 75 hours of programming on various television networks, has just begun shooting the second season of the Fox News Channel docu-drama series, Legends and Lies, with a pair of Panasonic VariCam 35 4K camera/recorders.

Warm Springs made the investment in the gear to cover an exceptionally large-scale, six-month production that will involve more than 600 actors on locations throughout the United States; the 12-episode season of Legends and Lies, executive produced by Fox News host Bill OReilly, will debut in spring 2016.

Warm Springs Productions has long made Panasonic P2 the companys preferred acquisition format, shooting Historys highly-rated Mountain Men and HGTVs Log Cabin Living--among many other series, specials and pilots--with a variety of P2 HD 2/3 shoulder-mounts, with P2 HD handhelds as B cameras and for specialty shooting.

We have just been waiting for a camera with the cinematic handling of the VariCam 35, said Warm Springs president Chris Richardson, who shares the executive producer credit on Legend and Lies. And when we saw the demonstration of its dual native 800/5000 ISOs, the low-light shooting blew our hair back.

On our very first day on location, we were shooting in an alley while it was getting dark--we were still only at 800 ISO and the footage looked amazing.

While the first season of Legend and Liesfocused on heroes of the Wild West, the second season will profile the patriots of the American Revolution. The VariCam 35 is a perfect fit to authentically replicate the minimal lighting, the living by candlelight, of the 1770s, he added.

Richardson has outfitted the VariCam 35s with Fujinon 19-90mm Cabrioand 85-300 super 35 zoom lenses, and is shooting the Fox series in 2K, 12-bit 4:4:4. That gives us a lot of information and the leeway of 14 stops in post, he said. Weve had amazing experience with Panasonic cameras since the beginning of our company, and we wanted to shoot Legends and Liesin P2-were deeply familiar with the workflow.

The VariCam 35 is so focused on post-production, an especially important criterion for us as we handle post for all our shows, Richardson continued. The ability to record proxies alongside the 2K master is very helpful.

Richardson explained that the production is always shooting with the two VariCam 35s, one for the tight shot, the second for the wide shot. We try to get as much as possible on our first and second takes, but this is a docu-drama, and we need to shoot a lot.

We know that the VariCam 35 will give this second season of Legends and Liesan epic, beautiful, cinematic look.

Richardson said that over time Warm Springs intends to deploy the VariCam 35s 4K recording capabilities across the full range of the companys productions, including the creation of 4K graphics for Legends and Lies.

For more information about Warm Springs Productions, visit www.warmsprings.tv.

About the VariCam 35

Panasonic's VariCam 35 is an unparalleled tool for high-end filmmaking, commercials and episodic production as well as live 4K events. The camera provides superb image handling in multiple formats ranging from pristine 4K RAW to more practical 4K, UHD, 2K, HD and HD ProRes capture.Several assets set the VariCam 35 apart from other high-end cinematography cameras, includingdual native ISOs of 800 and 5000, allowing DPs to realize incredible image quality in extremely low light situations;its ability to record three simultaneous video formats (4K 2K Proxy, or UHD HD Proxy);an optional high-speed 4K uncompressed RAW recorder (CODEX) that will capture uncompressed 4K VariCam RAW (V-RAW) at up to 120fps;internal AVC-Intra 4K / 2K / HD recording to 120fps;support for an ACES workflow for full fidelity mastering of original source material; and in-camera Color-Grading via CDLs / 3D LUTs.

For more information about the VariCam 35, visit www.us.panasonic.com/varicam,or contact Panasonic at 877-803-8492.

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