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Greg, <answer of the day goes to Don Landis>: Righto – That should help any new PAR users who can't figure out the subtle adjustments to rotos directly off the PAR. I'm thrilled to be able to rotoscope and simult. write back to the PAR. Not only does it give me tremendous HD flexibility, but I can check out activity directly on the NTSC monitor. It also took me a week or so to realize I could access .STLs directly on the PAR from within 3-DS. Also, when writing an .STL to the PAR the NTSC Monitor will immediately display same write. So, now, while developing my scenes and whatnot, I can *SEE* exactly what output to tape will look like. So the whole thing is functioning as a nifty framebuffer as well. I noticed a good deal of discussion about PAR and SPBETA / Broadcast Quality. Here comes a subtle shift in the content of the conversation ::::subtle shift::: I am currently debating buying the Panasonic Pro S-VHS 850 player/recorder series. However, Sony has been offering their relatively new bare bones BetaSP Deck. A couple of those would not be that much more expensive than the S-VHS Gear. However, the S-VHS Gear would probably be more flexible as an all-out editing rig. Any opinions? I'm wondering if by final mixdown it's going to make much difference. Fully intend to derive final mixdown tape at 2nd Generation. BTW, if it sounds at times like all these variables are driving me crazy… COULD BE! <ROFL> Jeffrey