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> I'm just curious of how the quality, sound, and broadcast look of VLAB-M > compares with the Flyer. How does VLAB projects look when you're done? > Do they look like they can be broadcasted on TV? About how many minutes > of video can you put on a 2, 4, 6, and 9 gig hard drive? My interests in > this board are increasing. Quality depends largely of Your hardware. MS reported a Warpengine System as the best choice, although Cyberstorm+SCSI is as reliable as a vanilla A3000. Fastlane sometimes seems to make trouble and a vanilla A4000/040 is not able to reach any useful quality because of the badly designed RAM-Interface. A4000/030 is very better (but renders very slow). There are two issues: -Picture Quality and -Render speed (all effects except hard cuts have to be rendered) Render speed is ofcause directly proportional of CPU speed while picture Quality depends on the RAM- and Harddisk/Hostadaptor Throughput. So my vanilla A3000 has nearly the same maximal quality as a 040/40Cyberstorm. the quality issue is a very diffuse thing. The term "broadcast" has never be clearly defined and its common meaning differs largely between germany and USA. You have to remember that VLM has been designed as a consumer system, and IMHO it is good enough for semiprofi purposes. Because of Newtek's ignorance the Toaster/Flyer is completely useless in PAL-Europe and therefore I've never seen this beast in action. AFAIK the differences are firstly based on the fact that Flyer has two digital video streams and wipes/dissolves are performed in realtime unsing the toaster's switcher. These realtime FX are limited to the capabilities of Toster's Switcher. VLM has only one digital video stream and has to render ALL Effects. But You can perform nearly all Ideas You have, because it is a full packed with effect modules. If You are editing normal videos with unspectacular effects, I assume You would be more satisfied with a Toaster/Flyer. But if You are intended to make Music (especially Tekno 🙂 video clips, VLM would be a more flexible system. (Has the Flyer any Modules for rendered 3D-Video Effects? dunno) And at this time VLM is not intended to control video recorders (such upgrade module, i.e. for offline editing is under development) You can think of ca. 15 Minutes per Gigabyte Video. Unfortunately is it impossible at the moment to use HD's larger than 2GB for VLM. This is a limitation of AmigaDOS. Audio qaulity is no issue because you can adjust it from 9000Hz 8Bit mono to 48kHz 16Bit Stereo as You like. Very intersting is the forthcoming Draco from Macrosystems Germany which is designed as a digital video computer. VLM will be available at the end of this year in a special Darco version which will allow much better picture quality. (comparable to that of the PAR?) …waiting for my Draco…