CompuServe Messages

Hilary, Your comment; >>I gain the impression that at the moment the Flyer is a board, hard disk(s).. and some software. It does not appear to be a working system.<< I think you are a bit premature with your proclaimation. Although the Flyer is going through final testing as we chat here on CIS, it DOES work. I've seen it with my own eyes and I would say that it more than qualifies as a poor man's "Cube" or "Avid" since even with the purchase of a new computer & hard drives it probably will deliver the same (if not better) video fidelity for less than half the cost of any On-Line quality system currently available. I suspect the reason your son in law's plaback deck is just that, a Playback only model. With a patch panel, he could easily be using the record VTR for both playback and recording with his Cube, but perhaps he occasionally requires Dynamic Tracking (Slow Motion) which is usually not a feature supported by most edit decks. In my particular setup, I have a Dynamic Tracking Betacam source deck (BVW-15) and it doesn't have any record capabilities. Frank