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Hi John, >> I'm interested in such a system as an amateur. << Unfortunatly there is realy not a system that will do it in the "amature" price range. The only Hybrid systems out that I know of are the Matrox studio and th FAST Video Machine with DP/R option. Both systems will run you around $20,000 plus. As far as amature level you will have to make the dissision of either Linear or NLE and go from there. On the Linear side there is the Video Director or Studio Magic. On the NLE side you have a slew of compression cards and programs such as Premeir to edit with. I realy can't comment much on these systems since I haven't used them much. But I am shure there are folks here who do and will add to this. As far as the video equip. is concerned I would recomend the following for a low end solution. DECKS… I have yet to find a SVHS deck that can out produce the Panisonic AG-1970 for a deck at it's price level. NTSC Monitor…I use a Panisonic CT-1383Y and it is a good monitor for it's price. It does not have some of the higher end functions like Blue Gun and Overscan but it still works fine. Hope this helps, Michael W. Towe Falcon Video Productions Santee Ca.