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Yup, my partner had the TARGA 16 for a few years already…..we got 3DS, purchased a used 5850/5800 suite from the local university, added a Diaquest, and……we were doing cheap animations for industrial level work. Word of mouth kept us busy enough that we've been able to add two 486's a TARGA 64 and a few other goodies……enough to interest the local TV stations……now we just haul a portable 386 w/TARGA 64 to the studio and dump onto their 1". We don't have a controller to run their deck, but the sequences are usually only 2 seconds or so (60 frames), so we've written a batch file to load the saved TGA files to the frame buffer and wait until we hit the "any" key, before loading the next. While the particular frame is loaded, the deck operator just hits their edit key. Do this 60 times and it's done! Cheap, effective, and not too time consuming. They get the quality they need and we…..get paid! -Jeff P.S. the SONY PVW-2800 is an entry level BetaCAM SP without all the bells and whistles of the more expensive models. Apparently the recording quality and transport is quite comparable to the expensive units.