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Wayne, I had a long talk yesterday, with a NewTek tech. BTW, your name is known around the place. It seems that the only drives that NewTek has actually check is the 2GB Quantim Atlas drives. I believe this means checked using the new HQ5 setting. I was told that the reason the command is hidden, is because NewTek doesn't believe that any drives can handle this compression properly. When I told the person that I was using two Seagate 9GB drives and that the quality at HQ5 looked excellent, I was told that I was in the minority. That is to say, most people using 9GB hard drives are having problems using the HQ5 compression. The fact that I get a drop frame error after about 8 minutes of recording was normal, so I was told. The hard drives start to recal after about 10 minutes of use. I was told that one person who had two identical 9GB drives, purchased at the same time and with the same specs, found that only of the drives would record properly. But, now as I type this, I remember someone here, was it Gary, who was able to record a non-stop clip to almost fill up the hard drive. NewTek is working on fixing all of the bugs. Any of the enhancements will not be seen for some time. Again, I am sumerizing the talk I had. They are aware that some effects have problems and 4.1 will not be released until all of the effects are fixed. No set date on the 4.1 release. They want to make sure everything that is suppose to work, works before it is released. So, I guess that is good news and bad news. I have not had any stuttering on my drives since I learned to leave out certain effects. And as Frank has pointed out, you need to leave room on the hard drives. Don't fill them up. The only time I start to notice problems is when I'm running with only 9 minutes left on a 9GB drive. But, we are not alone. My loaner AVID system has been showing some small problems. Most of them are computer problems that just require running Norton's Utilities to fix. Fred