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Fred, The FAST system uses 2 drives as 1 logical unit. It looks at the drives as it would VCR's. You can mix digital video with analog tape, go analog to analog or digital to digital. The effects are real time and editable. You can also create alpha wipes (organic in Toaster talk). Ther are no color effects like borders etc in the T4000. It supports SMPTE VITC, LTC, and the proprietary 8mm time code. Controls virtually all machines and with the SC Box stripes LTC. Supports 422, 232, lan & lanc controls. 8 tracks of audio etc,etc. I'm using off the shelf barracudas (4.2gig) with 180kb/frame output. Make sure yours is equipped with 16 megs video ram for an accurate test. FYI I've used Cube, AVID, FAST, Media 100 and DVision. Most of my freelance work lately is on AVID 1000, 8000 and Media 100. I also demo AVIDs for the local supplier. When you ge the unit the toughest part is the setup and machine controlthey just give you too many things you can adjust. If you have any trouble with the setup/use drop me a message. Karl