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Christophe, 1. You can render directly to the DPS hard drive OR you could render to your normal hardrive and copy the .tga files to the DPS hardrive later. You might want to do it later because of video post operations (post processing etc). The DPS will work with any version of 3ds. You can only use the drives which DPS approves (for speed reasons). At the moment that is one 500mb IDE and one 1.3gb IDE, I believe. The drive is mounted internaly only, and is connected direct to the DPS card. The DPS is video only and uses its own file format which is proprietary and a highly modified version of motion JPEG. I don't think it is possible to interleave or include sound while you are recording. It would probably have to be added later. Audio dubbing? I usually record to betaSP because my animation is often only a small part of the total presentation. A complete presentation often includes animation, live video, music, voice etc. so it needs to be edited. The editing is done at betaSP (or D2) to preserve the quality throughout the editing process and through several generations. If no editing was necessary then it would be OK to make a first generation VHS or SVHS tape. >> Is the DPS card also a display card or does it stand completly seperate from my display cards?? >> It is completely seperate and only outputs a TV (NTSC or PAL) signal.