You suggestiion sounds like a good one, but I face another problem, integrating stock footage from both NTSC and PAL sources into my sequences. I’ve just learned that AVID (with which I’m more familiar) is okay with this but fcp is not (lots of rendering). This person’s advice could solve both problems if he’s right. Digitize everything at the lowest possible standard of DV 25p, creating small files which will render much more quickly, and create an EDL list at the end of the project and conform on an AVID or in a post house. Any thoughts on this?