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Hi Tim, >>>But where does that leave, say, normal television shows or industrial video? Let alone folks who are doing wedding videos or shows for public access (the readership I write to/am a part of)?<<< Well for what it is worth here is my 2 cents worth. I think the solution to the question of when should I use NLE or Linear editing is a hybrid system. What I mean by haybrid is a system that will work as a NLE ( non-linear ) editor, but will also controll decks and work in a linear enviroment. This way you could digitize in high compression and get the time saving assets of working NLE. Then you could go back to tape for your final assemble of the tape. I see this as the only solution for those folks that work on long projects such as weddings. As far as how long it will take to get the editing enviroment into a totaly non-linear prosses will be 5 years tops. Why do I say this????? well here is the way I look at it. The main thing holding back NLE is the fact that it takes so much storage space to hold video in the digital rhelm. This is due to the fact that current compression scheems aren't that great. What we need is better compresion right??? Well with all the cable systems talking about video on demand and interactive cable, they are going to need to store all this stuff somewhere. The only way to do it is go digital, compress and store it on main frames. So with all that said you can bet you bottom dollar that every GEEK in this great nation ( not to mention all the other great nations) is holed up in some closset working on a better mouse trap :-)) And just think how rich he or she will be in the end. Now I know that some folks will say that video contains to much information. You just can't compress it enough without quality loss to make it truly managable. My answer to that is that not to long ago people said that the Berlin Wall would never fall, or that man would never walk on the moon……and then it happened. Just my opinion, Michael W. Towe Falcon Video Productions Santee Ca.