NOw you want to go onto your next feature, but your whole budget was blown on the 4500 for the film transfer, not to mention the camera. NO problem, DV is cheap, so you shoot it, comes out looking fabulous. People want to see it, "OK!!!!"whoopieee." YOu decide you want to make a simple little DVD. Well, your next feature is 18 min long, and you edit it all in PAL, you, didn't do any NTSC monitor corrections, becuase there is no program that will allow you to do it, so you did it on your computer monitor. Next you go to render out your project so that it will be NTSC compliant. YOu set your settings and press Render and wait for the little dialog box to tell you how long it will take. . . . And wait. . . and wait some more . . . and 27.5hrs later you have your file, whooopie. You press play, and it starts going, the credits go by, and then your main character comes on screen (he's a cowboy) and starts to move around as he gunfights his first villan at age 8. You notice these really large artifacting blocks whenever there is lots of movent. "what the hell!" you demand (not ask). To make things worse there seem to be interlacing artifacts in your beautiful 24"progressive" footage. "what is up?" you now ask demandingly. :-X So you look online for some software that can convert your PAL footage to NTSC. There goes another $2000 buckaroonies. You finally end up with your DVD, but since you didn't color correct on an NTSC monitor, the colors are not at all how you had pictured them, and you are out about 1 weeks worth of time and another $2000. You decide that since you now have all the stuff to edit your PAL footage and go to DVD (your only option BTW besides the computer monitor) that you won't be doing any more film transfers because frankly, there isn't the budget, or even really the need (with the DVx) to get the look you were after. While if you were an NTSC user, you would have totally surpassed all of that hassle with viewing your stuff on a TV and you could still go to film, have money left over for an animorphic adapter and match the resolution of the PAL camera that you shot with in Squeeze mode, because you didn't have the animorphic adapter for the PAL camera, the camera costs more by itself then the NTSC version as well. So there are your options, choose wisely, and if you sole intent is to end up with film, there are lots of cheap 16mm cameras out there that would save you lots of time and money, as well as shooting 35mm itself. IT really isn't so bad and scary after all. 