Re: Close ups

Well, you might have one other trick available, if you shoot HD but deliver in SD, the HD wide shots can be tightened-up a lot in post and still work for SD. I would say you could zoom into a hi-rez HD shot about up to 25% and get away with an "acceptable" (YMMV) SD master, but that would be pushing it.

I have faced a similar situation when I have to shoot non-pro acting talent in skits and the like. I shoot that multi-cam with a locked-down wide cover shot and the close-up cam placed as close to the wide cam as possible. I jam synch the time codes so both shots have the same code. If the talent gets a take right, which is rare, O have my wide and my tight already, and can move on. When the talent is untalented, or the action hard to reproduce in some other way with precision, double-coverage is cheaper in the long run over trying to single-cam it. The time saved in shooting and in post pays for the second camera.