Surely if you have £7000 UKP to spend you can find the other £400 to ensure a copy ofhte Adobe suite as well. Look for deals on capture cards from the likes of DVC (where I got my rig). Or even a matrox RTX10. You will then get a bundle of realtime features as well as Premiere 1.5, Audition 1.5 and Encore 1.5. Definitely worth trying to find the money for.

If you're spending that much on the cameras then you should have some decent s/w to edit it all on.

What s/w you using now?

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