Rainshadow,
Man that is AWESOME!
I think most everybody that has called much at all has to have a lion at the top of their list. I know it is ours! I am green with envy, but giddy with excitemnt for ya! Great Job!
The footage can be "zoomed in" on most any editing program. We have done it from time to time. Also a marker or highlighted circle is easy to do. The only problem is that the video quality greatly degrades the more you zoom it up. A few percents is fine, but a large scale "zoom" will be very grainy and very noticable. It is no "magic bullet" for sure. Sometimes I sure wish it was! Captureing it on tape, while calling, and shooting, is a great accomplishment!
The problem with calling/filming by yourself is that one or the other has to suffer, you either dont get the shot, or the footage, the vast majority of the time. A dedicated camera man is worth its weight in gold, and for good reason. I am excited for you to be able to run the camera the rest of the year, and let somebody else shoot. To get "great" footage you have to be 100% dedicated to the camera, and I think you are capable of such. Just remember what you see on the camera is what you get in the end. Every jump, bump, and deep breath will show up. The only way to get good at it is to go out and do it. We filmed an entire season with 20+ really good kills just to see if we could do it, none was video quality, but we learned a ton. The practice season made our first "real" filming season better by leaps and bounds. I am anxious to see what you come up with in the future, I think it will make me a deeper shade of green!
Great Job!
Todd