Last Question: I´d be interested what the total production budget of the video (not audio) segement was.
Hiring 7x 350 (or330) + operators + etc etc. is quite a big project already. Postproduction took quite a while,too , so I´d really like to know what the budget was roughly.

Nate, can you give us an idea?

Thanks for all your very helpful and interesting threads!

Merry X-Mas to all!

ULi

Not quite $60k.

But what's important is that I was able to do post all at home, including Digibeta & HDCAM outputs.

sorry...bumping my question...but

were the camera controls operated from video village...or did each camera operator control his iris, focus, etc? if the camera operator did it all...how much time would you guess did you spend on color correction...if you had any?

Sorry, forgot to answer.

As my background is film (as opposed to live switched video), operators were on their own with everything. I gave occasional notes over comm if I wanted an iris down or up.

I spent time on color correction, but none on making the cams match. My experience on multi-camera shoots with modern cameras is that if the settings are identical, then the cameras will match.

60k - thats what I roughly estimated.

Great project - what a pity that it has been cut down so heavy on the final DVD...

Keep us on track of more f350 projects!

ULi

Looking good Nate! Did you had to convince Warner to go XDCAM HD (instead of HDCAM or so) or not at all?