Do I need Final Cut?

Well, I'm getting a MacMini for Christmas this year (well, half of one. I'm paying for half of it) and was wondering if I should buy Final Cut Express alongside it?

I'm going to be doing a lot of video editing on it - probably what I'll be doing most on it infact but everyone always says how good iMovie is - so is Final Cut really worth it?

Any advice is appericiated, thanks!

It all depends what your going to be editing. Final Cut Express is a real nice program and probably what you will be leaning to if you want a more powerful imovie.
My advice would be test out imovie before you get Final Cut, and see if you will like it.

or go to the apple store and play around with final cut on a demo and see if u like it....

Ok, sounds good. I'll try it out and will probably get it - seems much more powerful and professional. It seems like if I could get to grips with it it would be much better - and I love trying to get to grips with things. (is that meant to be happy?)

It really is based on what you are going to be editing on their, like is it a job like thing or just for fun, do you want to do highdef video or not. I used imove for about 3 years now and its been pretty good I just changed to final cut pro hd a while ago. If you want something hard and really pro then final cut is the way to go.

Always Final Cut if you can afford it; it's a learning curve, but iMovie will develop bad editing habits if you intend to do a lot of editing. iMovie is fine for home movies, maybe even a YouTube or two, but if you want to invest any time in film-making, go for FC.

I was wondering if my graphics card is actually good enough to run Express? Here are the stats:

Intel GMA 950:

Chipset Model: GMA 950
Type: Display
Bus: Built-In
VRAM (Total): 64 MB of shared system memory
Vendor: Intel (0x8086)
Device ID: 0x27a2
Revision ID: 0x0003
Displays:
Dell E193FP:
Resolution: 1152 x 864 @ 75 Hz
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Supported
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Rotation: Supported

I think it should as it's an Intel GMA with Quartz but I want to make sure before spend lots of cash. I have the very cheapest Mac btw, the cheapest MacMini. Heh.

Any reassurance?