chuck e:As long as you are still assembling and are leaning to PPro, check out a Matrox card. www.matrox.com. It comes bundled with full versions of Adobe PPro, Audition, and Encore. You can edit in real time and view results on the fly with a TV or monitor.
Any idea what the street price of the Matrox card is??
I seem to remember that Matrox built some of the first PC based non-linear editing systems back around '93 or '94. Avid was still Mac based and so was Scitex. The company I worked for at the time wouldn't give me the $$$$ to buy one or two.