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Hello everybody, hello from Spain. This is my first connection with any forum, almost my first connection with Compuserve. In fact, i became a member just to make some questions in your forum before spending a lot of money in software and hardware. I work in a local TV here, in Spain, with computer graphics. We have an IRIS with TDI Software, Chyron Infinit!, a PC with an ATVista card and an ABEKAS Frame Buffer. It is like a broadcast quality "RAM Video". I have seen 3DS2 and AniPro, and training for a few months. Now i can earn money enough to buy my home 3D equipment making animations at home. I feel this is the moment to invest in soft+hard. I have been playing in a 486DX33 with an old SVGA. Ani Pro framing is good at 320x200x256, but it is too slow when using any higher resolution. Until now, if i wanted to record Hi-res/Hi-color flics on video id need a frame-to frame video recorder, like a Betacam, that i can not afford, but may be the fastest 486 with the fastest RAM and the fastest VLB SVGA can play 640x480x256 flics at REAL 25 frames/second with Aniplay. Then i would only need a video SVHS PAL output card to record flics Real-time. I imagine a PAL SVHS (Y/C) video card with four sockets: SVGA IN to get signal from the VLB SVGA Card SVGA OUT to connect the computers monitor SVHS OUT to send computers graphics to the video. SVHS IN conected to video or camera that would allows me to: 1) Digitize still images from a Video or camera to make bitmaps for backgrounds and material textures. 2) Make luminance Key and insert 3D flics onto real video motion images. This is very important for me. May be there is not so fast computers, or that video card does not exist and i am dreaming science-fiction tales. I have heard about two new videos, a Hi8 SONY EVO9650P and the SVHS Sanyo CVR-S950, both can record a single frame and come with built-in controller. With that video card i imagine and one of these videos i could choose if want to record real-time with Ani Pro for low cost presentations or render to video with hi-res hi-color when i need it. I could keep on making questions, but i bet you experts do guess them before i write. Something more: Can i buy 3DStudio and Ani Pro directly from Autodesk? Which and how much is the latest release? I am sorry for this endless message, and for my poor english. If everything goes on all right ill try to be an active member of this amazing forum. Reading public messages i felt i have a lot of new friends here. Glad to meet you.