Editing a Feature on DV

I'm going to shoot & edit a DV feature next month (final running time to be approx. 90 minutes) that will ultimately be transferred to 35mm film. I was all set to purchase a $9000 turn-key editing system (either a G3 w/Premier or an NT/Rex system) HOWEVER, the salesman at a major New York Dealer strongly cautioned me against this. He said that while DV is a great acquisition format, it's not a a great post production format. He went on to say that editing a long project (90 minutes) on Premier based system would be enormously frustrating in that I would not be rendering my cuts in real time. (He did say, however that Premier was fine for short projects of less than 10 minutes). I think there is a misconception out there about these low cost editing systems being the answer to everyones prayers...Does anyone out there have any experience cutting a long project on Premier? I would love to hear your experiences/advice. Thanks.

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