Thanks for the tip robertalove. It looks interesting but as I said before my lab is strictly Mac. Unless I'm missing it the system requirements for the Vegas editors by Sony are all PC only. Maybe I missed it? Anyway, so I'm looking for a NLE that works on the MAC platform.
jester
A free editor from Avid called Avid Free DV is for both Mac and Windows. http://avid.com/freedv. Good intro tuts on the site.