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Hi Dave – The Flyer is designed to give 20MB/Sec with the correct pair of drives, and that will support uncompressed D2 video. Since the Flyer is one of the few NLE systems providing true, realtime A/B roll with realtime transitions and DVE, its viability was dependent on the sustained speed of the available drives. All the Flyer hardware supports that speed. The Flyer is a board designed to go in a Newtek Video Toaster computer. If it could be hooked up to control other similar products, it could be installed in a different computer, since the Flyer/Computer interface is on the level of a serial communications port. Since there is no other interface presently available, it must be installed with a Video Toaster in an Amiga (A2000, A3000, A3000T, A2500, A4000). The Flyer is practically a complete computer system on a board as it contains three SCSI-II controllers, stereo audio digitize and playback A/D – D/A conversion, and video digitize and playback A/D – D/A conversion as well as harddisk file management for the Flyer drives. Hope this helps – Happy Flyin' Hank Videology, Inc – Where you get all the P.O.M.P. under all Circumstances