The static trigger fires every camera in the array at exactly the same instant. Time stops, and the camera appears to keep moving around the frozen scene. This is the classic bullet time shot.
Why Accuracy Matters
Even a millisecond of error between cameras shows up as a jump in the finished footage. Our trigger is hand built around a microprocessor control unit driving trigger boxes of six cameras each, and it holds every camera to the same instant, so the freeze is clean all the way around the array.
The trigger runs standalone, or linked to our bullet time software for a full visual interface of the firing pattern. The same hardware also fires sequential and ramped patterns, plus custom patterns built per shot, and switches between them in seconds.
Getting In and Out of the Freeze
A frozen moment usually sits inside normal footage, so we record lead in and lead out video on cinema cameras at each end of the array, grade it and cut it onto the bullet time shot. There is more on the whole system on the trigger overview page.
Contact us to talk through a frozen moment shot.