CompuServe Messages

Hilary, Here is my $.02 worth. The 4 gig drives may only give you 15 minutes or so of storage. If you are working on a project of longer than 15 minutes or a couple of projects concurrently, you may want to budget for more hard drives. The hard drive component, though, is pretty standard for any system. I have a flyer on order and did some comparison to another viable alternative called the Video Machine. Its cost is about 12k Canadian (maybe 8k US) for the basic board and a couple of other pieces of relevant equipment. That is not counting the computer or the hard drives. On the other hand, it gives you linear editing if you want. On the whole, I feel the Flyer provides significantly lower costs if you already have a toaster system. I am planning to spend another 2-3 on what I hope will be excellent third party software, more sophisticated audio boards etc. Still – if it produces D2 – an excellent price. My one concern is that it will not easily produce layering and there is some pixellization with the Toaster for certain scalable window effects. I am not sure what the work around is, though I believe NewTek are working on adapting the software so you can have two Flyers in your system, which should allow – for only 4-5k more – the potential of some very sophisticated layering. Michael