External (FW) cd/dvd burner

Any suggestion?

You are not alone. I regularly ship out work to my PC and then bring it back to the Mac - notably video encoding or adding ROM content. I prefer to use the Mac for the actual authoring and so any way that maximises my time is of benefit to me. Using a PC just makes sense if you are able to set it up so that it is stable and communicates with the Mac easily.
The use of elementary streams in DVDSP is important - I know Sony Vegas can pick up pretty much anything, but it will need encoding to MPEG2 at some point along the way. The ease of use and flexibility will be at a price, and the cost will be the final quality. It may look OK, but compare it with as many different examples as you can - it will be lower grade if you start off with something like DiVX, WMV, etc.
We all evangelise about our preferred platforms from time to time, but for me I tend to like to keep the creative stuff on the Mac and the grunt work on the PC - it just makes sense for what I am doing and serves me well as a set up.

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