Pizco Films was started just a few months ago when Pedro Pizarro set out on a life-mission to create a film company that would be known globally in the near future. Pedro Pizarro was funded by his father, Pete Pizarro, to start his own company at sixteen years old.

Pizco Films started as a company just dreamt up by the minds of the teens who have fabricated visions of careers in the film industry. It has now become a real company under Pedro Pizarro, and is just starting to take off.

The team at Pizco Films has just begun to get serious about all of their filmmaking careers, and about the movies that they are currently working on releasing. Pizco Films has a bright future ahead of itself. With drama, action, comedy, and other short films on the horizon, many viewers will get to experience the finer side of life soon enough.

THE EQUIPMENT:

Many people believe that editing can be done with just a simple computer in just a few hours. Once they dig deeper into the world of editing, they realize that digital video editing is one of the most demanding processes to ever run on a computer system. Another note, if something crashes or takes a plunge while you are editing, you usually tend to get extremely mad from the loss of data. This basically means you will have to restart from scratch. The team at Pizco Films did not want to take any chances with Windows PC editing, so they have purchases the following equipment to aid in their editing.

- Dual 1.25 Ghz G4 Processors

- 2 GB of total system RAM

- 4x DVD Burner

- 20 inch Apple Studio Display

- Macintosh 10.3 Panther Operating System (for reliability unheard of with Windows XP)

The shot above shows the editing system that is used at the Pizco Films Studio (which conveniently happens to be located in the room of Pizco Films' founder Pedro Pizarro).

Recently the Pizco Films team purchased a Panasonic DVX100a (pictured below) to film their upcoming summer film of 2004 and other shorts which should be released later this year.

In addition to the system that they have bought from Apple Computer, they have also bought many other add-ons which have been crucial to the video editing process.

- 1 Terabyte Lacie Bigger Disk

 250 GB Maxtor External Hard Drive

- 250 GB Maxtor External Hard Drive

- 250 GB Maxtor External Hard Drive

- 80 GB Maxtor External Hard Drive

- Klipsch ProMedia THX Certified Speaker System

- Samsung Analog Television Monitor

- JVC Super VHS Deck

- Epson Perfection 2400 Dpi Scanner

- Audio Technica Professional Grade Microphones

These are all of the important hardware tools that make up the professional editing system used at the Pizco Films Studio. Hardware isn't the only thing needed, though. To make all of this hardware function properly, the Pizco Films team uses many software applications which are below.

- Final Cut Pro 4 HD

- Soundtrack Digital audio Mixing

- DVD Studio Pro 3

- LiveType Dynamic Titling

- MacCast MP3 Conversion Tools

- Cinema Tools

- iBlog personal weblog software

- iChat A/V communications software

The Pizco Films Team is proud to be working on independent films and hope to please audiences nationally by the time that they graduate college. Look for our movies in theaters by the year 2011.