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Ok … I have a crud understanding of your equipment and technique. I would suppose that your notebook would HAVE to be color to do this right? I think I could get by with a small amount of high quality LE so that I could do titling, SFX, etc. and mix this back into an MX-1 as a source? If so then maybe I could start with my current 16mb ram and add more HD and appropriate cards/software? As a point of reference here's where I'm starting from … > TR-700 Hi8 cam > 3 PC WFWG network > 486SX40, 16mb, 340mb+540mb ide; ISA graphics accelerator card > 486SX25, 18mb, 130mb ide (Toshiba 4400SX monochrome notebook); > 386DX33, 8mb, 210mb ide; ISA graphics accelerator card > cdrom x 3; > MediaVision PAS-16; SoundBlaster 2.0; > MusicQuest MidiPC and Roland JV90 synth; > NEC 15FG x 2; > HP550C InkJet Color Printer (and HP IIIP but that's b&w) > Video Director 2.0, PowerPoint 2.0, WFW 2.0, Excel 4.0 > NAD 21 monitor (not S-video but this is available in my home theater setup) and stereo video speakers > Mitsubishi U82 HiFi S-VHS, JVC HR-D470U Stereo HiFi VHS, Sanyo HiFi SuperBeta > Sony WM-D6C Portable Stereo Cassette Recorder > Sony CDP-505ESD CD Player And I do have one other expense worth mentioning … underwater photography (slides) and so I plan to add an u/w video housing and lights. This alone could be $1,000 but is more likely to bump $2,000 although it can be added a piece at a time. I'm getting the sense that my PC horsepower is marginal at best for NLE. But, if I can get started with a rational upgrade plan that's ok. If I were doing this from scratch then I'd likely be looking hard at PowerPC's. But this is not the case, alas. -jts