Okay so we're needing to buy a new machine that'll be used exclusively for movie related work, encoding, burning to DVD etc etc and we were kinda hoping some of you folks who do a lot of movie or DVD related stuff could give us some pointers as to the type of setup we'll be needing, nothing to fancy right now just the basics to get us going.

Should we be looking at an Apple Mac for movie orientated stuff or is an IBM machine just as good?

What about memory requirements etc, we're going to be needing a variety of software packages to get us started so any of those you could advise we bundle together with the purchase would also be appreciated

Your thoughts?

Regards,

Lee