My nephew wants to do film editing. He insists he needs a Mac G5 with Apple Final Cut Studio for the job. Complete price is over $5,000. Is there a Windows program that would do the job so I can take advantage of cheaper PC hardware? David Null
The nearest Windows equivalents to Final Cut Studio are Adobe's Premier Pro 1.5 ($700) and Pinnacle's Liquid Edition version 6 ($500). There are, of course, much cheaper and even free programs, including Windows XP: Movie Maker 2.1, which is the equivalent of Apple's iMovie. By the time you've added the required hardware, the result may not be that much cheaper. However, this is one of the times when it's probably better to ask on a more specialised forum, such as the Digital Video Editing site.
