First Canon 7D Test with Glidecam

Canon 7D Glidecam Test from Cristina Valdivieso + Jon Connor on Vimeo.

So we have a shoot later today and so we decided to give the 7D a very rough test on the Glidecam. Very Rough. The house is extremely dark and we shot at 6400 ISO even though I would never recommend going over 1600 ISO, personally. But in order to keep things in focus we had to bump it up to F/11 and therefore, needed to compensate for the lack of available light. We also wanted to test out shooting 60p in the 720p mode and conforming the footage with Cinema Tools to 30p for a nice slow motion effect. Thoughts: Sure the actual footage looks grainy and is basically crap from a visual standpoint but I really like the fluid smoothness of the gliding in slow motion and can't wait to get outside and give this a proper run through today. We are getting paid for the job this afternoon and I normally wouldn't throw caution to the wind and use a tool I basically just pulled out of the box but then again, what fun would life be without living a little dangerously. Anyway have a look and stay tuned for more and (hopefully) better composed "real world" footage coming as soon as we are done the shoot and I have some free time to post a couple clips.
Thanks to @cristinavaldivi for her Glidecam work.
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P.S. 30 Seconds of footage took 30 mins in Compressor. I didn't do anything to it before hand just brought it into FCP 7.0 after Cinema Tools. Running a Mac Pro 8 GB 1066 MHz DDR3  2.66 GHZ Quad-Core Intel Xeon with an Internal RAID 5 set-up and Snow Leopard. Seems like it should be moving faster. Any ideas? Contact me on Twitter @jonconnorvideo .