Welllll, very interesting. Somewhat surprised that there is no real data on running vue on both machines like there is for photoshop and other aps. It appears that JavaJones's work is going to greatly help everyone in the future, certainly I look forward to his results. It seems that my best bet is just to have final cut on the MAC and not bother with anything else there; and try to find someone to come out and hook up a network for my PC's (i did the pathatic xp wizard for those two days, my time is more valuable than to waste like that again) and upgrade to that platform. A friend of mine just made the transition from PC editing to final cut - and her advice is that I'll be doing lots of long renders just for final cut, so that pretty well nails it. (We both have the same background: Avid, Premiere, Liquid, Media 100). Thanks y'all, your time is appreciated - cu you in the galleries. dragonfly