[Martin Slidder]

Hey great advice Nick and yes I am VERY easily distracted!

I completely understand where you are coming from with regards buying ‘almost for the sake of it’ but there are reasons for my approach.

Firstly I have a personal project shot on HDCAM which was being edited at my old workplace before I left. This still needs alot of work and the cost of hiring an edit suite and editor will be very expensive.

I need this cut in a few versions to use for a website etc and was wanting to learn more about editing when hiring a cost effective editor.

I’m lucky enough to have some money put aside for this so would like to set up the edit suite asap and your advice about buying 2nd hand camera’s or even using dop’s with their own camera’s sounds good.

The main questions I have are……

1. What are your thoughts on the apple monitors???

2. Apart from Mac pro, monitors, final cut software what other editing equipment is vital if say I do end up buying a Sony PMW-EX3 with downlaodable SxS cards???

Thanks for your help and I’ll also have a look at the other forums