If I win, this is what I'm going to do : go from 3/4 to digital-beta (a very high grade broadcast format), then capture the digital beta into my final cut pro system @ 10bit uncompressed, (a substantial quality jump over dv). Then I will do whatever digital cleanup etc is neccessary, and output an mpeg2 directly from my uncompressed file using Mac's amazing program Compressor. I'm an editor for a living, and I love this movie, so I'd love to see what this "rough cut" is....