Cool. Did you use any 35mm adapters btw, or just straight with the HVX200?

We went straight to HVX; no adaptor, due to a limited budget, time and lighting constraints. Have a Letus Extreme shipping soon, though. Will use with a DVX and HV20 now, and a Sony EX3 later.

Are you talking about the Echo?

But of course!

We'll be playing NewFest in New York City; the festival runs June 5th through the 15th. Exact date coming soon.

Thanks!

Thanks Muttley; love those Vegas Forums...

Thanks Roger! Checked out your videos and added you as a contact; nice work. It's good to run across Vegas supporters on Vimeo. It's about to make a nice jump in June with the new DVD Architect with Blu-Ray authoring and burning and the release of Magic Bullet Looks v3 for Vegas.

Thanks Gecko; the film was actually inspired by real events from the writer/director's childhood.

well it looks great and can't wait to see it

We're screening in festivals all year. Upcoming screenings at readyokmovie.com - temp site, full site under construction. Thanks for the interest!

Who the hell is Benjamin Linus? And what's the Orchid Station? And what year is this?

Damn that Frozen Donkey Wheel!

Thanks - Vegas is really underrated, but it can be difficult to use in the professional world. Everyone and their brother is on Final Cut now, and to be honest, we have a Final Cut setup three feet from the Vegas station. Kind of jump back and forth. But nothing beats Vegas for speed, and it just "feels right" to us. It's difficult for people who are used to the old A-B roll style of editing though.

Hey Anthony, thanks for the interest. To answer your questions...

We shot entirely to three 8 GB P2 cards.
Each card, as it was filled, was backed up to 2 identical 500 GB hard drives for redundancy. We stored the duplicate drives for safety and edited the film with the other two drives via USB2 and firewire.

The one thing we learned from the shoot was that we probably should have moved from Sony Vegas to Final Cut Pro for the editing. IT would have made our post-production sound work much easier, as our sound designer and editor worked with Pro Tools and Vegas could not output an OMF for him.

Quick? Well, relatively. I'm working in the edit room now, preparing the film for delivery to festivals and our distributor, and while I wait for files to render and transfer, keep going on Vimeo....

Thanks for the kind words about the film; we've been very lucky with the people who have helped us make it look the way it does.

I honestly can't take a lot of credit, as the footage we started with was pretty flawless, thanks to our Director of Photography, Elizabeth Santoro. When you see footage that looks great, no matter the camera it comes from, it's usually because the production had a great DP. It's all about lighting and composition. Thanks to Liz, half our battle was done when we went to color correct and grade. We did all the CC ourselves in Sony Vegas, though. No outside company was enlisted.

Good luck with your training in FCP and AE. And stick with it! They're both great programs and will serve you well.

Oh, and if you want to see the film, we're playing the Long Beach Q Film Festival on October 12th. Since you're in LA, that wouldn't be too far from you, I would guess. You can get more info at our website, readyokmovie.com. Just go to the festivals page and follow the links.

I'm hoping the Panasonic GH1 looks good. It's gonna have 24p

Yeah, but no shallow depth of field because of the smaller sensor. And I love the look o f all the 5D footage I've seen...

Of course, it all comes down to Canon updating the firmware...