[Dan Brown]

Hello

I cut with fcp and shoot with an sd DVCAM SONY DSR450. II work for a uk tv news show -not HD yet)
My colleague has just purchased an EX1R and we can import the footgage with no problems and cut happily with it. The problem comes with the rest of my edit set up in my office. My monitor is not HD. I route the output through a firewire to a dvcam deck anyway. And if I print to tape it it to a dv cam tape. Can anyone set me straight on the situation – to cut and view with hd you will require a hd monitor right ? Also is there a way to cut in HD and then covert to a sd happy format (QT movie?). Is it best to shoot SD on the EX1R or convert the HD to SD on the mac – please help !