As for the introductory "film" course, there's no doubt you start
with a Mini-DV or DVCam camera and a G4 Mac with Final Cut Pro and
iDVD. Total cost probably less than $5,000 with your educational
discount.

        is that [gulp!!!] five grand per student??? . . . or five grand
for the class??

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