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Hi Leslie. Sorry you're having difficulty framegrabbing with the IV-24. I also have a Hi8 Sony camcorder, and have successfully used it as an S-Video source into the VIU and framegrabbed from it. If the video looks good in the PIP or in Genlock mode, you shouldn't have any trouble. To framegrab, you don't want to use PIP. Framegrabbing captures whatever you see on the screen basically, so if you're running IVCP2, you can keep hitting ALT-F6 until you have video only on the screen and then hit ALT-F10 to grab. You can specify the file through the framegrabber settings in IVCP2. In Desktop Darkroom (which is definitely friendlier for viewing, grabbing and manipulating images), you can run the program, specify the resolution, and at the main screen hit "F" (freeze/preview mode) to preview the incoming video, and "G" to grab it when you're ready. Darkroom will the show it to you in the selected display mode. To see it in 24 bit, you can do "D" (for display). I hope this helps, Paul. P.S. – Regarding Caligari24 supplied with the IV24 not running on a 68000, I wasn't aware of that, but we do expect people doing 3D graphics to have an accelerator card. It will be excruiatingly slow otherwise.