Hasta La Motion!

Hi all,
All of my work (up until now) has been with HD footage. Today I was handed a 5min short, that was Scanned from Film (35mil)
I am very fuzzy on "color spaces, 4:2:2 , Lin vs Cin, etc..

How do I know what color space this footage is in? Is it 4:2:2 ?
In Nuke, is there a way to find out?

Also, The scanned footage is on a Mac pro, which was rendered out as an QT (pro res ). If it was rendered with the wrong (pro-res setting) will that screw up my color space?

When the guy rendered it on FCP, I told him to pick 4:2:2,
How can I tell if it is 422 , linear, cin,10bit, 8 bit?

My biggest problem is that NUKE 32 bit, Can’t read the QT.
It says No such file or directory. Yet, when I select the file, it shows the movie in the "preview" window .I could scrub thru, it but. as soon as it comes in, I get the error.

Thanks,

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Hi guys i am interested in motion design and vfx. But where i live there are no schools only online like gnomon digital tutors and fxphd. Planing to spent some serious money to educate my self by baying tutorials. I would like to become motion designer by summer 2011 that is my plan right now i found my self shity ass job that only pays for rent and food but gives me time to educate my self. I am planing to structure my entire year and a half like a normal school.

I will teach my self Cinema 4d After effects, real flow and since i have interest in vfx i would like to know Houdini and nuke and i know that every software has its learning curve specially Houdini. My question is this am i trying to do to much here? if i try to do to much here will it bite me in the ass and burn me out. Or should i just concentrate on one area such as motion design, Cinema 4d and AF. What do you guys think? Are any foy you self thought and how did you approach it? I am thinking should i drop Nuke since i am learning AF all ready or i should know both of them?

Thanks guys for your help.

budget amount is not issue now.

my current config.

core 2 quad 2.83ghz,8gb memory, 1gb asus 9400 graphic card.

i am providing services for animation walk through and modeling.
i am using 3dmax and vray.

my problem for buy new one.

i want to make a single file of .max with 600000000 polygon.
currently my file was reach at 600000 polygon. but my pc is not performing well.
(view port is not moving smoothly)
project delivery date is near. but my work is much pending, regarding of pc problem.

which machine is best to me??