I know, I always grin when I read statements like that. Lets see, I am doing it for work, I have thousands tied up in hardware and software but I won't spend $20, yep, that's funny, not Scottish to me :) On Jul 7, 2008, at 3:21 PM, sb wrote: > Ah, I'd forgotten that FCE doesn't come with the mpeg2 license. > > Maybe you should think of it in terms of being paid an hourly wage. > $20 instead of all the xtra work and quality loss of using other > tools? > Also, you said "a client wants..." > can't you charge the client the $20? > > regards, > > sb