Cameras and Formats

I know this is not strictly a discussion group for Cameras and Formats so I apolgise in advance for posting, but my options for advice are drying up and I figure that subscribers of the Final Cut Pro group will perhaps be able to assist.
We're a music services company based here in Egypt. We're starting to get into multimedia as we have a nice pro recording facility. We've been asked to produce some web videos/short corporates for companies based here.
At the time of writing we are looking to buy a camera in the UK in the next 2 weeks to bring over to Egypt. Ideally we want a 3CCD/CMOS 'prosumer' camera and have spent the last few months researching our options - like one should before you spend money you don't have, for a camera you don't really need, for work you probably won't get!
So for around the £2k mark, we've narrowed it down to either a used Sony Z1E (with around 400 drum hours), a new sony V1E or a Panasonic AVCHD camera such as the AG-HMC71 or AG-HMC41.
Now we're stuck. As there are pros and cons for all of the above cameras and we literally cannot afford to spend more to move a step up in order to get a camera that would do the lot.
We've heard that AVCHD workflow is the way to go...but that it's hard on the NLEs. Then there's the Z1E, which is industry standard pretty much...and then the V1E is light, shoots great HD picture but has some wierd shutter thing and also the zoom stutters apparently...?
Can anybody help us with this decision?
Thanks.
Craig

Sorry Andy. New to this forum stuff.
Here's my set up for our audio/visual work:
IMAC 24 /2.93/4GB/640/256/SD/MSE/KB-GBR
iMac has Logic Pro / Sound track pro / FCE soon to be upgraded to FCP and is dedicated to a/v work.
Not sure this is relevent to camera operation and NLE work but we also have a Firewire MOTO audio interface and Euphonix Digital mixers attached to this iMac via Ethernet for automated audio mixing in Logic Pro. A firewire Lacie external drive is also in use.
Hope this helps?
Thanks
Craig

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