Sandy Salinas, my brother Chops, and I arrived at KVIA Studios around 10am. Arturo Portillo was there to greet us. Since the studio already had lights, we didn’t need to bring a lot of equipment in. Karen Moore, Benny Ontiveros, and Monica arrived shortly after 10am and we all walked into the KVIA studios. Benny began to assemble the JVC110HD camera with the Redrock M2 adapter with Nikon Lenses while I went over the scenes with Karen and my brother snapped stills for us.

We started filming and finished with a lot of time to spare. Since Benny was shooting to a Firestore Hard drive, we didn’t have to capture anything. Wow. I really wish I could have had this thing 3 years ago when we did SANTOS. We are still shooting with a miniDV backup just in case. As much as I love hard drives, they sometimes can’t be trusted. We loaded the footage in and I started editing right away. I love this new work flow!

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