Darth, For a home hobby type of movie production DV is an excellent way to go. You can get a semi-pro level video output board for $2,500 to $3000. You can combine this with Adobe After Effects and an AE plug-i called Cinelook published by DigiEffects to get a very "film look" final video. The problems with film transfer are file size and cost. FIlm resolution frames are over 2000 pixels, file sizes that will suck up 59 gigs pretty darn fast. And your rendering times will be huge. DV frames are 720x480 (or 720x486 depending upon hardware). This frame size renders faster and takes up far less storage space. Any professional video works at this resolution. As to the cost of film transfer, it can cost up to $250,000 to get quality film transfer for a full length film. Film transfer is going to become less of an issue in the next couple of years as DV is gaining a bit more respect, notably thanks to Blair Witch. Many of the film festivals are considering accepting video submissions as there are a lot of artists appearing who where unable to afford producing films on film. You could set yourself up with a mean workstation, excellent, pro level video IO board, a powerful software suite, high quality DV camera (NOT Digital 8) and several rendering machines for $35,000. You could turn out very high quality work with such a set-up (and even less hardware if neccessary). John Hostick