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VooDoo art? Right! Reminds me of that frame grabbing job I did last year. The voodoo programmer claimed he could get 15 FPS full motion full screen video in 24 bit in 640X480 res using his proprietary technique. I did the frame grabbing, he put it to a file structure and then had a one-off to CD-ROM and, just as I predicted, it was all a hoax. While I won't be as decisive as you about the MAX and it's future I will be surprised if it is a money maker for Matrox. Remember the prediction I made last year? I said that in one year (this December '94) that frame by frame will be dead! I still say this is a true prediction. Do you know that since PAR I have not read one single message on this forum about doing single frame by frame recording. I did read a few messages about Quick Pass but when John Ellis bought his a year before I predicted this PAR would change the way we think about recording animation I felt the prediction was a done deal. There are still some discussions on other forums about single framing, softVTR and BCD devices but when I educate those inquiring minds that the PAR exists the discussion quickly changes to "where can I get one of these?" I think if I told them about the MAX with all those special requirements they wouldn't be interested.