LIGHTING
 

Mike,
Shot a no-budget 2 years ago with an xl1.... paid EVERYONE with Pizza and Chineese Food.

Our lighting consisted of hardware store reflector light with regular light bulbs of different wattage...we colored them with a blue magic marker to match dayight and left them as is at night.
Also we had onr "painters light"
Not complicated....not expensive......
just very MOBILE and it WORKED cheaply....
check out some stuff at
http://www.stillriverpictures.com

You do the Best you can with what you have....
Don't get boggled down in the technology....

just my 2cents

peace
jack celli

Here's a quick question about DVFilm maker.

Will it turn regular 60i footage into 24p? I realize it's supposed to not be as good as magic Bullet but at 1/10th the price well...

I looked at the demo of DV Film Maker last week, and all it did was de-interlace your footage (quite slowly), and didn't seem any better at doing that than FCP or After Effects solutions. So no, I don't think it does 24p. That's a much more complex problem..... I should know, I'm working on code that does just that at the moment.....