High Speed Filming

Here is how the work lines up. High-speed filming captures action at extreme frame rates to deliver the dramatic slow motion that anchors so much of New York's commercial, broadcast and sports output. The Phantom Flex 4K and the wider Vision Research VEO 4K and T-series sit at the centre of the workflow, sourced from AbelCine in Long Island City and Stockwell on the Manhattan side, with ops credited on Madison Avenue product spots for global brands, Coca-Cola work shot around the One Vandam headquarters, Lavazza pours captured in Midtown insert studios, Wall Street financial commercials demanding precise liquid slow-mo, and the Brooklyn Bridge Park drone-meets-high-speed sequences that have become a signature look for New York visual content.

RED Komodo and V-Raptor bodies join the package when productions need compact form factors for rigged cars, narrow studio inserts or POV positions. On the broadcast side, Phantom packages also feed NBC sports replay for Yankees games at Yankee Stadium, Knicks at Madison Square Garden, US Open tennis at Flushing Meadows and weekly Sunday Night Football, alongside the SNL Studio 8H cold-open inserts and Late Night replay segments that depend on dependable on-set high-frame-rate capture.

Stages at Steiner Studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard — thirty stages across fifty acres, the largest US studio complex outside Hollywood — plus Silvercup in Long Island City, Kaufman Astoria in Queens and Broadway Stages across Brooklyn provide the controlled lighting settings that high frame rates demand. Our crew arrives with on-set DIT, real-time playback monitors and flicker-free HMI and LED packages sized to the frame rate, so directors review takes at full fix between setups without leaving the floor.

Bolt and Bolt X motion-control rigs from AbelCine pair with the Phantom bodies for repeatable robotic moves on Madison Avenue product details, cosmetic and beverage tabletop work and the high-end automotive insert pieces ordered out of New York Auto Show campaigns. Our team aligns scheduling with the thirty-per-cent New York State Film Tax Credit plus the ten-per-cent NYC uplift through the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment and lines up IATSE Local 600 cinematographer, Local 52 grip and electric and Local 700 editor coverage. DIT crews then manage the multi-terabyte daily transfers that 1000-frames-per-second 4K capture makes, feeding Picture Shop, PostWorks NY, Harbor and Nice Shoes pipelines.