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[Ben Oliver]

its totally perspective. i have the most barebones system known to man. cost me about 5 grand total.

i have a dual 1.8 g5, 2 gigs of ram, a 256mb video card

6 firewire drives, and 2 old monitors. a dsr-20 deck i have on extended loan, and a pair of cambridge soundworks speakers.

honestly, i do more editing these days on my ibook than my g5, its portable, and it works just as well for dv (any collor correction, etc, i do on the g5.) for a person who just spent 1400 bucks on an ibook, that is totally capable of editing, 100 dollars is an expense, especially for a software program that may be used once or twice.

i know people who edit professionally with imovie. (im not saying they are any good, lol) its just that the times have changed, and yeah, things are getting cheaper. and if you think about it, 100 dollars for a program that will let my mac encode windows media, i’d rather buy a cheap win box, and the encoding there….

that said, i have flip and it works great, lol. (i didnt pay for it though, my office did, lol) i wanted a pc.