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Hi Dave – With the complete Toaster/Flyer system and sufficient hard drive space to hold all your raw footage for your largest drive (6-10 minutes per GB) the minimal studio would need a camcorder to capture raw footage (and produce stillstores for presentation), a play/record VCR (with no need for frame accurate editing control) and a TBC for Flyer digitize input. This system could do A/B roll and therefore would replace the two editing player decks and editing system otherwise required. And, of course, the Toaster part of the package provides character generation with 350 scalable PostScript fonts (40 – 400 lines), chroma effects, luminance keying, 24-bit paint program, and full 3D modeling and animation. Most systems can't offer true D2 quality, and none of them come close at that price point with all of those features. Since the initial captured video is loaded directly into the Flyer, your final output tape is bearly first generation, and the Flyer can easily make many masters by just pushing 'PLAY' each time. Since the output is in realtime, it takes 30 minutes to create a master of a 30 minute tape, but it only takes the user a second to push 'PLAY'. If you had the output hooked to a DA, you could make many in the second. The savings in dollars depends on what format you're using. Certainly you would save more in Beta SP then Hi8. Or cut your investment by selling your uneccesary gear. Definitely revolutionary!! Hank Videology, Inc – Where you get all the P.O.M.P. under all Circumstances