Without a doubt, Linux is better as we all know and the choices and selections it gives us is enormous compared to any other OS out there.
True, but the number of choices is irrelevant when you can only choose between bad and mediocre. There isn't an audio editor on par with cooledit for example - I'm talking about more professional requirements here. Ok the Linux programs are cheaper - irrelevant if they don't get the job done in the first place. People always ignore that point. All comments I've collected so far indicate that the same holds for video editing + mastering. k3b is pretty good for CD mastering. What's the equivalent for DVD editing/mastering[1] - including menu generation, format conversion, noise reduction, contrast/brightness adjustments if necessary, compression optimisation ("I want to compress just as much to make this fit a DVD"? No hobby-level results please. Especially the noise reduction is difficult - just taking a basic algorithm out of a text book and calling it "noise reduction" in the program-menu is unlikely to cut it for practical use. Get off your wishful thinking guys and look at the performance of the apps you get. Then imagine to be someone who needs to master their wedding video as well as possible and who does NOT care about the OS to use. Linux is not going to come out in front of Redmond here, possibly not even in front of mac-osx, in both features and user-friendlyness. Then you still need to install it ;) Volker [1] Not talking burning here, but creating the files necessary for a video-DVD playable in commercial players. -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.