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Your advice and that of others would be welcome. I am planning to develop graphics/other and HI-8 video materials in the Amiga flyer and port it over to our Fast Machine MJPEG card. Then, we want to develop interative presentations using full motion video – delivered from a laptop – and through Director. The preferred solution would be that the Fast Machine card (or a second card) could be attached to the laptop. This would have the benefits of 1)one less conversion to MPEG 2)full editing capacity. The big question is whether or not Fast Machine or any othe Motion Jpeg card runs with a laptop. I would buy whatever laptop I required that wasn't exorbitantly expensive. The other question is how to ensure the overall quality when the image is projected to a large screen. If a motion JPEG board cannot be hooked to a laptop, then it seems to me the files need to be converted to MPEG. Here, my plan is to use XING CD and an MPEG player board attached to the laptop. I think Panasonic has a laptop that can take an MPEG player card, maybe other laptops do as well. My questions are: 1) Are any of these strategies viable? Are there other strategies? 2) Is the quality from hi8 to amiga flyer to motion jpeg to MPEG (full screen, full motion) going to be okay if done at minimal loss – or will it be a mess. Any advice on overall approach or specific equipment would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Michael