Is the right program

Hi all, I have a few questions about FCE 4.0 that I hope that can be answered here. I just assumed the duties as the Audio Visual Tech for my church and I've been given freedom to order some new equipment for recording the services. We have a small church so we don't need the best of the best which is why I'm considering FCE. My objective is to be able to record and edit the video and audio and burn to dvd. So here goes.
Will FCE 4 be a good program for this?
Will FCE support multitrack recording? (for Pastor, choir & musicians)
If multitrack recording is supported, what type of audio interface is required?
Computer of choice will be the Macbook Pro 2.8 GHz, 320GB Serial ATA @ 7200.
I thank you in advance for your input.

Hi,
FCE 4 is a video editor program, where you can manage your video/audio montage.
It manages 99 video and 99 audio tracks.
With that said, FCE 4 has a feature called "Voice Over" which allows you to record your own voice to be used as a track to combine with the footage that you have shot with the camcorder.
FCE doesn't have an audio recorder for instruments as Garage Band or Logic do.
I think you have to manage your audio sources between the hardware (mics, mixer etc) and other softwares if you want to manipulate them before making your movie. Once you have your audio tracks, you can then manage them through FCE4 as part of the movie you want to produce into DVD.
FCE 4 can produce the proper video export to be managed through iDVD for making the DVD.
Hope this might clarify a little bit.
Armando.

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