Well, we’re laying back now. The Brain Fitness Program is almost out the door (finally) after nearly 300 hours of post-production. Actually, I have no idea how many hours of post we’ve ended up doing. But it’s crazy. Between compositing nearly 2/3rds of the show, 3D animating another 8 or 9 minutes and then comping it all together, it’s been a monster of a project.

I’ve already learned several things — Shake, Cinema4D, noise reduction. SG Music created 5 themes of varying length which layer throughout the entire program in the background (always backgrounding) and  all on a dime.

Also interesting was to witness the differences (and similarities) between the F900 and HVX200. Most notably to my mind is the footage shot outdoors on a beautiful fall day in Brooklyn — bright sun, well exposed — shot with the HVX200. Looks great. Then some shots done with it simultaneously with the F900 in a lower light (sunlight, but indoors, probably 4-5.6 without an ND). A little underexposed and when you bring it up with a color corrector and the noise goes crazy. Good to know.

I’ll get to put the HVX through some more paces this weekend when I go to shoot the leaves of Vermont. Kind of excited about this, actually.