Linkin Park Live @ Smokeout Festival 2003 (Please see updated description)

Linkin Park performance of Breaking the Habit at the Smoke Out Festival at NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California. Saturday, November 15th 2003
Promoter Chang Weisberg, Production Assistant Carla Gomez, Production Manager Brian Valdez.

Technical camera facilities by Jonas Jensen Studios, Inc (Fremont Studios today) dba Progressive HD Mobile under contract with Clear Channel Inc.

Produced by Clear Channel Entertainment, Joe Townley President, Project Manager Katherine Torres, Director of Operations Dawn Olejar for,
Eagle Vision USA, Steve Stirling President, Evan Haiman Producer, John Gallarello Production Associate.
Directed by Brian Lockwood
Digital SD Second Stage Director: Anthony Pagano
Technical HD and SD Facilities Manager: Scott Jonas
Progressive HD EIC: Dan Johnson
Digital SD EIC2: Dave Wallingford "Woody"
Calrec Digital Tracking Sound Engineer: Mark Miller
PHD & DSD Lighting Director for Cameras: Jeff Ravitz
Digital SD Second Unit Tech Manager and Jimmy Jib Operator Michael Jensen

You are viewing and listening to the live line cut reference record in SD from DVD recorders for the production/band off line viewing. The HD masters were taken from the event site at the end of the night by the production producers. (After the show, we heard the band was not interested in using the recording.)
(Today 2023) Linkin Parks management has contacted us and is very interested in finding the masters for historic value. If they still exist, could anyone with information about the HD masters "storage trail afterwords" please contact [email protected] or Linkin Park management directly. There were 55 Digital D5 Tape's (each about the size of a hotel bible, lol) in total for the event. (Linkin Park was on 8 or 9 of them.) The HD video recorder/player equipment is still available, but limited, to restore and even upgrade to 4K.
Thank you,
Scott Jonas

These Progressive HD Cameras were the first 6 High Definition 720 Progressive Scan cameras being used in the world. The mobile unit was originally built by Panasonic for ABC Television's live broadcast season of Monday Night Football and the Superbowl of 2000, and then afterwords repurposed for entertainment acquisition. The cameras, originally Panasonic's hand built 720 progressive scan prototype's during ABC football changed, (1 year later), to Ikegami's newest production line, 720 progressive scan, HDK-790 studio head's and HDK-79 hand held models. (1080P was unheard of at the time) The lenses on the unit were all Fujifilm/Fujinon's HD zoom lenses. The production unit in 1999 was valued at over $8,000,000 and constructed in record time.

(Smoke Out main stage had a 7th added HH camera.)
The lenses are all B4 mount, mixed HD & SD;
2. 66x Studio Box Lens at FOH
1. 5mm x 55mm on 24' Jib with dutch roll stage left,
1. 5mm x 55mm on 30' Jib stage right of FOH ).
1. 8.5mm x 153mm on Fisher 10 with track and dutch head.
1. 4.8mm x 48mm wide angle on stage handheld (Mostly Drums)
1. 5mm x 55mm Handheld stage right in the pit.

This model Ikegami cameras were the first to operate via fiber optic cable and all recorded onto Panasonic D-5 recorders. (9 in total, 7 camera iso's, 2 line cut). The camera crew was primarily LA based, sound recording crew was Seattle based. Sound was tracked through the mobile production unit's $500,000 Calrec, Alpha 100, #001 digital console to pro tools and backed up on 2 Mackie HDR's.

HIGHLIGHTED PROGRESSIVE HD SHOWS 2000 - 2005
NSYNC - New Orleans, Superdome
Heart "Live in Seattle" Paramount Theatre
Red Bull Fluetag - New York, LA, San Francisco and Miami
Teddy Pendergrass - LA Wiltern Theatre
Blind Boy's of Alabama - New York Beacon Theatre
2003 Super Bowl, San Diego
Linkin Park - Smoke Out Festival, NOS Event Center, San Bernardino
Cypress Hill - Smokeout Festival, NOS Event Center
Busta Rhymes - Celebrity Theatre, Phoenix AZ
Little Feat - The Pageant Theatre, St. Louis
Farm Aid - White River Amphitheater, Auburn WA (Seattle)
76th Annual Academy Awards, Kodak Theatre, Hollywood, Ca

Jonas Jensen Studios dba Fremont Studios, has been in the live video and film production business for over forty years, specializing in multi-camera facilities, studios and lighting with it's home base in Seattle Washington.

Fremont Studios today continues to pioneer the industry by providing mobile multi-camera 4K cine S35mm camera's and sound recording facilities for entertainment and corporate production throughout the country.

http://www.fremontstudios.com
http://www.fremontstudioslive.com