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Ha, It sounds to me like you want to be able to do digital video editing and to accomplish that you will probably want to add a Windows Video Capture Card like the Fast Movie Machine or the Miro DC1. Both are good products that allow you to capture video and audio to a hard disk, and then digitally cut and paste clips and graphics together to form a finished video. The output quality of these devices is sub-vhs quality, which I guess means that when people watch it they will know that it was not "professionally" produced, but it can still be enjoyable, 'course. The Movie Machine is a one slot solution when purchased without the optional M-JPEG module (which gives you hardware based compression and decompression for a higher quality) and sells for about $500 retail. You also may consider, with the prices of harddrives as low as they are, going ahead and getting yourself a nice fast gigger or so to hold the vast amounts of data that digital video editing creates. -John