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I had some similar questions in the early days of owning my PAR. I did some comparisons and your assumption is correct that JPEG is still JPEG no matter where it occurs. Compression ratio beyond 2:1 is going to be lossy. Whats worse is using any form of double JPEG. Like using JPEG files for texture maps from the CD-ROM etc. and then JPEGing again for the PAR. I often wonder if some of those who see blatent artifacts in their SVHS output from the PAR arn't really double JPEGing and don't realize it. This is why my Rotoscoping work gets a bit nasty as compared to straight animation. Why I think my betacam output of simple animation from the PAR is acceptable while I have always said the Rotoscoping output is OK for 3/4 or lessor format only. As for NLE, I'm still undecided as to what's best. I think I might get my feet wet with the Premier product since I can get it for a low price. It is supposed to work with the PAR but not as well as Razor PRO. If I like working in this NLE environment I might move up to Razor Pro and then on to the DPR from FAST. For now I have to make some bucks to pay for the recent purchase of three betacam SP decks, and a DAT recorder so I'm not even considering NLE at this time.