Well Europe must have it sorted then because I've seen some so called "professional" videos over the years and the footage of actual sequences were poor. Some of the TOC stuff wasn't bad but the planes are 1/2 as big again and really then it was only the freestyle stuff that looked what I would call good.

No doubt it would add many thousands of dollars to have a professional outfit film such an event or parts of it, and post production time isn't cheap either and I doubt it would turn a profit but the promotional value surely would outweigh the "cost" for a major event like the WC's.

Another angle would be to liase with a local University that has a media department and try to turn filming a major event into a student activity. Some students at the Uni I work at did some media project thingy at our local club flying field, I'll look into the quality of what they managed to do.

BTW I work in the Faculty of Engineering and I normally wouldn't be caught dead talking to anyone in Arts (or psychology for that matter), but I'll make an exception for the greater good....