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I have been reading and researching for some time know trying to understand the many variables involved here, and what I am interested now is knowing the experience from others. For instance, the upres process using software makes me very nervous as I have not found a good explanation on how FCS2 or After Effects or Compressor can be a good match for a hardware, more sophisticated upres. Any help on this matter?

I have also found some info suggesting that after the edit is locked and you move to Color, then you are doing 32bit floating point correction. BUT when you go back to FC, and is you have dissolves and other optical transitions, those will be rendered in 8 bits anyhow. People suggest then to move from Color to Final Cut and then use an XML to send the project to After Effects and render all those transitions in 32 bit there. It sounds time consuming. Thoughts?

When it comes down to monitoring, I would also appreciate some suggestion in different price ranges, if anyone has done some research. We are being offered a Panasonic BT-LH1700W. But I do not have enough info yet to decide if it is enough.

Paulo