i looked at your competition and looks like only one other short that is on the same level as yours storywise. i voted for yours though. good luck with that.
i can't believe one of those guys spent $8k on a 3 minute short though and used Steve Bauer (Manollo from Scarface)
As far as my compression, I just export an FCP Quicktime Movie File out from FCP and then bring it into Compressor 3, and applied the H.264 LAN setting. Then I just cropped the film to fit the 2.35:1 Aspect Ratio.
