Want to buy a copy of Final Cut Pro 4 or 5 with all the manuals, extra, CDs, and DVDs, and extras attached. Please send me a private message.

What kind of machine are you running it on? I'd really think if you're gonna buy it, get the new HD version. It comes with a lot of awesome thingers like Motion - the best motion graphics program I've ever used EVER. Its like After Effects only takes the simple takes and keeps them simple instead of keyframing for hours to get a box travel left to right. And Soundtrack is fun, and DVD Studio Pro is nice.

Also what is your budget? FCP is pretty expensive, and most people won't sell their old boxes because you can pay a small fee to just upgrade to the new stuff. FCP Express is pretty good for basic editing.

I'm going to use the old version to buy the upgrade if it's 4; the cross-grade if it's 5 because I'm using a MacBook Pro ATM ;)

We're filming a short and I need the full version for me and my editor. It's for a film that we are going to feature in an Asian and Asian-American film festival.

Our total project budget is $375,000. Some of our leading actors are working pro bono. This is a hobbyist project as I have self-taught myself with cameras, editing post-production softwarem, etc. Which is why I haven't had much time to deal with Ayonae Ro of late.

Oh yeah, someone put in an offer; thank you all for your help. We're buying 4 so we can buy the upgrade/crossgrade for 5.1.

I'd love to see it when you finish - I'm on the screenings board for the DC Shorts Film Festival which is one of the top "short" film festivals in the country.

Short films are easily my favorite. The financial burden is minimal so you get a wide range of submissions from all sorts of people - not just Hollywood people. You get a great story in 15 minutes time ... opposed to 2 hours of a story which is generally overplayed. This weekend I'm audio / editor for a short we're making for the 48 Hour Film Festival, gonna be my first time editing under such a tight deadline ... when we finish I'm gonna throw it up on my website.

I was driving home from my office and I realized you said $375,000 not $37,500. Damn. I can't even fathom how to spend that much money on a short. I just did a "professional" short with 3 days of shooting and 3 weeks of post production that was only $80,000. This included rentals of a Cinealta, steadycam, a grip truck with jib, a 4 man crew (2 grips, 1 dp, and 1 audio), 4 professional actors at SAG rates, and a location. Oh and of course Craft services :) And on the East Coast our rates are generally higher than anywhere else in the country, except for maybe LA.

Where is your money going?

Porn Stars I hope.

lol. Seriously though. I am sure a lot of folks here would love to see/updated as prgress goes forth!!!!!!

Since the weekend is now over, I've got some time to breath. 48 Hr film festival has come and gone and my group must have pulled the short stick ... we got Horror.

The way the festival works is you have from 7 pm Friday to 7 pm Sunday to create a 5-10 minute film. In addition to those time constraints, to prevent you from having a script in place before you start you must also include a selection of items (different items per city) in your film and a random genre. My group picked horror and we had to include "Tim Tate, Homosexual Glass Artist Extrodinaire", a fire extinguisher, and the line "This is the last time."

Not the best film ever, but for a 48 hour deadline I think it came together pretty well. I edited. 50% of the evaluation comes from how well you intergrate the above things (character, line, prop) into the film and the other 50% is how good your film is. Winners go on to compete nationally for the big prize :)

http://gannagency.com/films/48HFP2006/