Matt Vatcher

Viewing and Funeral Information: Saturday 27 th and Sunday 28th 5pm to 9pm Eduardo Sarmiento Jr. Highland Funeral Home 3280 Sheppard Avenue, E., (Warden & Sheppard) Scarborough, ON M1T 3K3 Telephone: 416-773-0933 The Funeral will be on Monday : TBD In lieu of flowers the family would greatly appreciate donations to assist with funeral expenses. Please PM me if you like too.

On September 23rd at 1pm Eduardo Sarmiento Jr, a Toronto based Gaffer, sercame to his injuries after suffering a massive stroke this past Friday. If any of the DP's out there have had the pleasure of working with this talented, YOUNG, and creative Gaffer, you will know that it is never easy accepting news such as this. The wake of his death will be felt for years to come as he has touched the hearts of so many. Details of funeral arrangements to follow, pending interest.

Hey People: Long time reader, first time poster, haha. So here?s the down low, I have started a production company and a project has come down the pipe for me to pitch on. The show is for MTV Canada and they want me to bring them a way to shoot ?affordable? HD for the series. Basically they want to shoot HD on a SD budget. I have all the equipment, including an HVX200, and could do the show no problem. But the only hiccup is the producer isn?t convinced with the whole P2 card workflow. His concerns are, one, archiving the footage, which really isn?t hard, my answer is through DVD burn or burn onto Blue Ray. Two, the wait time of downloading footage off the P2 card onto some other format, be it a P2 Store, or a lap, or both. My answer for this being, more P2 cards, and maybe two P2 stores. My workflow would be P2 card to P2 Store to Laptop to external hard drive to DVD or Blue Ray for archiving. Keeping backups of the footage along the way. So I am putting it to you guys to help me out. I am trying to attack this from all angles, so anything that you may know that you think is a valid argument post it and let?s discuss. Some notable things are that this camera, to my knowledge, is the only way to shoot true 1080p not a compressed version of it as what 1080HDV would give you. With enough P2 cards (let?s say 4, 4 gigs) you will never be waiting for a card to be downloading because you have enough to cover the time. Also, if you know of other ways that work better for you, such as, other cameras (ie. Canon HDV XL series, what he recommended) post it, because I?d like to hear it. My Business partner and I have been toiling over this for a while now so any help you could offer would be great! Cheers, Happy posting

Hey there: I'm not indian, however I am DP'ing an international bollywoodesque film. If you have any questions.