With the right colour correction tools you can get the sky black without loosing the other shadow detail (You correct only the area of the image in question, not the whole frame), its easy on my inferno, not so sure on the PC, although something like Discreet combustion should do the trick.
I know nothing of Vegas, and whether it is getting the frame rates right. PM me your details, and I'll send a disc off to you to compare.

To the guy with the 8mm camcorder, the problem is tour camcorder really. You really have to go DV, otherwise a MAC, a PC, an SGI workstation isn't really going to help. DV makes it sooo easy, and no qualtiy loss.

If you are into making short films, go get a basic DV camera with a decent lens, and an external mike option (all the other features are useless really) and yeah, grab a mac, an e-mac or ibook is a great deal and comes with everything you need to do pretty good edits right out of the box, and it just works every time..

Mebejedi, PM me, maybe I can set you up with a better set of tools?