To be fair, Cedar Point supplies all the POVs we host on our site on DVDs. If the park can do a good enough job of supplying footage to us, I don't even need to shoot it myself!
We remember that awesome I305 video you did, Robb... did they end up mounting that for you & allowing you to use their equipment, or was that a different case?
In that specific case we provided services for their media day. We shot all the B-Roll and media rider cams for the Intimidator 305 Media Event.
It depends on how much time I have! I've been in situations where I need to mount and dis-mount a camera after one ride and situations where the park gives us a coaster for 8 hours to film on.
If we have "unlimited" amount of time, I'll usually do about 5 to 10 takes on each camera, sometimes with different settings. For example the Gold Striker video we did, I had a couple of hours to shoot on that ride, so we did lots of different settings. The POV that ended up on the YouTube channel was shot in 1440 instead of 1080 and it looked fantastic!
Thanks for that insight. It is always great to hear the first-hand details about various setups. We know that you might have mentioned this somewhere else, Robb, but do you still use a GoPro 2? Or Go Pro 3? We are looking at possibly upgrading and picking up a good setup for coaster-riding and similar situations; would you happen to have camera and accessories recommendations? Thanks again for your time and expertise!