Of course, the expensive part of producing music is employing a musician, so the lynchpin of Soundtrack (besides being a solid sound editor in the Final Cut Pro tradition) is the disc containing 4000 music clips and sound effects.

The magic of video editing happens in the timeline. Any motion image software operates on the same basic principles of arranging video and sound clips into tracks that play concurrently, media or ‚'assets' coming into frame according to how you arrange them.

Most multifunction centres connect straight to your PC via a USB cable, and if you've ever tried to share a printer over a network of different operating systems you know how tricky it can be. If you have a small office or home network it's worth looking at models that connect to your router and let you install the software to access them on each system.