[Jacques Gaines]

Thank you for your replies. I guess what I wasn’t clear on was preview. The fact that rendering has to be done to even preview effects and changes etc. I used to be on Sony Vegas which, at the time of DV editing, had a fantastic ability to show you your changes on the spot and quickly. Although not perfect. It gave you a very good idea. Unfortunately 1080 hd kinda destroyed Sony Vegas’ ability to do that. I think there might be some work flow modifications that I need to be looking at. I believe that the hardest thing to really NAIL is work flow. What you start off with and how you end up with the final result is so enormously important it isn’t even funny. Last question for now:

What is the most important hardware upgrade in your existing Mac that improves on work flow and the PREVIEW issues I have addressed. RAM?, Video card? Processor cores?

Please illuminate