The Amiga Video Toaster Flyer is a great system, we are still surprised how much we use it. We can't use it for Oil Change the movie though since that is all shot in HD. Newtek had no solution for HD editing even on Windows so we started editing the film on Final Cut Studio. We have FCP & SpeedEDIT @ DiscreetFX. We are used to the NewTek workflow from way back in the Amiga Video Toaster days so we like SpeedEDIT better. We did start the editing of our film back in 2006 on FCP though, only because SE was not available and Oil Change is shot in HDV so our VT[4] could not edit it. Ironically our PowerMac G5 dual that is only two years old died.
Apple has been rude and a big pain getting it fixed since we did not have AppleCare. So the film is being re-edited with SE. FCP is a nice program and can do just about anything if you like the interface, we don't. But if you have any Mac issues Apple can be a pain to deal with. So depending on your needs the Flyer and or SpeedEDIT might be the solution for you. Mac OS X is nice, better than Windows but I think you will find Final Cut's interface a pain.
