Help! Just getting started...

Hi, I am a newbie to the world of documentary film. What exactly do I need in order to work from the latest version - Final Cut Pro 6? Currently I have only a 13" MacBook laptop. Think absolute beginners terms - which computer/laptop supports the program at a minimum? Which programs should be purchased, etc. etc.
Thanks so much!

You don't say what format you'll be working with. That alone would determine what you need. If dv or hdv you would need at least a machine with a firewire port. Dunno about your mac book-- just bought my wife an aluminum one for Christmas, and it has no firewire port-- so it's right out the window for video work.
You'll also need a drive or two exclusively for media, graphics, narration, etc. Putting media on your system drive is an absolute no-no. You cannot expect one little drive to reliably run the OS, run the application(s) AND record and play out relatively huge media files. Something's gotta give, and os x is very good about protecting itself: you'll have dropped frames and all sorts of other nonsense with your media.
Just starting? You can probably do most anything you can conceive of with Studio. But there are other programs-- photoshop, after effects, pro tools come to mind immediately.
You'll hear a lot of advice, most of it good here-- but what's your budget? The optimum system would a be a tower with as much ram as you can throw at it, up to 1 gig for each processor. At this point, any more than that is overkill. And a big comfy chair. Most editors like two monitors-- all that screen real estate is a good work space.

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> > DId you look at the Groupwise developer PDF or the sample code on the
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> > > Alan Humphries
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> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
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