Re: Do I really need a capture card for editing hdv? Help!

See! This is the stuff that confuses me! Ha! Thanks for replying to my question.

So, Jim, if you had $20,000 to spend on an editing system (computer and all capturing/editing/outputting) for the Sony EX1, what you get and how much $$ would you have leftover, if any? It's posts like yours that make me think, in my ignorance, I'm WAY overspending for what I'm doing. I just want to shoot video on the EX1, get it into my computer and edit it and end up with 1080 HD quality footage. If I could save, oh, $10,000, that would be cool! My listed gear purchase is listed above. What is unneeded? Are your firewire external drives fast enough to edit 1080 footage? Is a Caldigit HDPro RAID overkill for what I'm doing? Are capture cards overkill? What's your monitoring solution, if any? Are you doing this professionally with output that could be broadcasted on an HD channel? I'm all ears!