#MPEG
I have some friends that are doing something that sounds weird but it actually
works well for them. The take their flics over to a Video Toaster which is
built-up enough to run them in realtime. They then add their vocals from
reel-to-reel and/or music from CD and sync them with the Toaster. They run all
of this out to their MPEG encoder and therefore get around the rendering to
tape and then encoding (which loses a generation.) They are limited to files
of up to 64 MB but that still gives them something to work with on most of
their animations.
Though I mention all of this, I would not be supprised to find a direct flic to
MPEG software convertor very soon with the charging popularity of MPEG. If you
can, my advice would be to hold out a couple of more months.