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Tom, >> The one really nice feature of the Alladin is the ability to design your own effects… << I find that quite amazing myself, as when I did one inch editing I used an ADO 3000 for that kind of stuff and it couldn't do alot of what the Alladin now can, which is pretty wild… as a matter of fact the edges on an ADO in stock configuration were jagged, you had to buy an additional module to produce a soft key, which I believe was part of the DigiTrail package… So can you build a cube with it? <g> I have to ask only because it used to be such a big deal… <g> and because I used to build them on an ADO with a single channel… which was a pain… as it was all on the fly… VLAN handles the interface, and apparently the timing… is any of this TBC'd directly or internally in these decks… I know next to nothing about this level of video… so that's the reason I'm asking. Can you do match frame edits with VLAN? This is an important capability if you want to be able to do transition between multiple effects without a cut or dissolve between them… like go from a wipe to a spin to a quad split etc… (the quad split might have to be pre-built…) So how many channels does the Alladin have for these effects and how many source decks will the VLAN/OZ system handle? And one more…<g> how many ME banks can you build on and (part two of one 🙂 do they cascade…? ;^) Hey I gotta ask you're treading on new territory and inquiring minds want to know… <MBG> John