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Roger: >> 1. Picture quality. What I was shown were low quality VHS but they had used a rental video as input and they usually are in a very bad quality from the beginning, they couldn't show me anything where they had used an input from a camara in any quality. I hoped they could show be something from Hi-8 or S-VHS. But I think this is what you can get for that price. I think this quality is a good start for learning the technic.<< The Miro DC1 captures at 'about' second-generation VHS quality; it captures at 320×240 in NTSC, which is half the resolution vertically and horizontally of the source material and then doubles the captured video when playing back. The resulting video quality is fairly high for this type of card, especially if you use high quality source (_not_ VHS rental tapes <g>), and keep the compression fairly low to avoid artifacts. >>I want to work with several audio tracks with for example, atmosphere, speaker, music, sound effects etc. These needs then to be mixed together were I can set volume, fading and also equlization per track.<< Premiere 1.1 and 4.0 can do mixes and fades of 3 or 99 (4.0) audio tracks; you can set the level of each channel/track down to a frame by frame level. Premiere currently doesn't do any EQ or more than minor effects on audio, and you'll probably want to pre-sweeten or post the audio for a complex project. >>2. They told me that MAKE VIDEO could take several hours depending of the editing. I wonder if I could MAKE VIDEO on a part of my film for preview but they said this is NOT possible. Again is this possible in Adobe Premiere V4?<< Premiere's Make Movie, when used with cuts-only material, is very fast and takes just minutes. If you layer many complex effects on your video, it can take longer, sometimes much longer; it depends on how you work and what your needs are. If you do serious editing with some dissolves and wipes and a few titles, the rendering process is quite tolerable. If you are doing an MTV-style video with thousands of flying clips and titles and psychedelic effects, it can take a long time to render. >>4. Is there any more detail information about Adobe Premiere V4 that goes deeper than the datasheet?<< Sure: what do you want to know?