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Marco, I will try to answer some of your questions, too. YC Input means that the board will except a video signal that has the Luminance (brightness) portion seperated from the Chrominance) or color. This results in a higher quality video input and output as when the two, Luminance and Chrominance are combined in one signal (Composite), they tend to mix together and cause cross-colors (rainbox like-patterns in images containing checkered or stripe patterns) and dot-crawl (dots aligning the borders of colors). TBCs or Time Base Correctors correct timing irregularities that occur during VCR playback. I believe that both the FAST and Miro products use the M-JPEG compression formats although there are utilities available to convert M-JPEG to MPEG, etc. Disk Drive speed is pretty important with these devices, especially if you want to upgrade in the future. If you can afford "A/V" class drives that typically range in size from 1-10GBs, that would be the way to go. However, any drive that can push through 700Kb/sec (which is most of them today, as far as I know) should work fine. Changing, complex images are hardest on the video capture devices, and yes, I would expect that they would not look as good. The FAST with the M-JPEG option board can be bundled with Adobe Premiere v1.1. The Miro board comes with Ulead's Media Studio software, I think. -John