High Resolution Revolution

This is an outline of the new edit suites my company will be setting up in July:

That's Two 24inch Dell LCD Monitors, Quad 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5s, Avid Mojo SDI, and Final Cut HD.

There's really no need to have both Final Cut and Avid on the same machine, but if the option is available, why not go for gold. In my humble personal opinion Avid is a better piece of software to work on trimming and timing, especially when clients are sitting in with you. However, if the name of the game is simple keyframing, light compositing, moving titles etc., then Final Cut Pro is the way to go. So, it's going to be nice to have both options at the click of the mouse. By the way, our original systems which consist of Avid Media Composers, 1.5 GHZ G4s, and old school monitors ran a bill of $55,000 a piece. Our new set up will cost under $10,000 a piece. And Avid has released the Media Composer software for the Mojo, which means two tracks of real-time effects. With SDI we can also connect digitally to our Digibetas, DVCAMs, and HD decks.