A note on Flip... it makes great Windows Media Files for MAC playback, but the resultant file does NOT play well in the Windows world, if at all. We tried it, and are now laboriously porting video between Final Cut and a PC to do the Windows Media encoding. MSoft tends to not play well with things not MSoft, being contended in its monopoly. Richard Brown (in Florida shooting the MOSTLY all-Mac FCP-posted TV show "Shut Up and Model!")