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Frank, PMFJI. >>most NLE's expect that you will be doing straight cuts for off line work. Any effects such as DVE moves or dissolves will normally be handled in the same way as single frame recording, where the effects are "renderred" at some great expense of your time.>> I thought that the selling point of the high priced NLE is that you can do on line work with effects. Everything else you said is correct, but I thought equipment like AVID and others let you do dissolves in real time. I'm suppose to be getting an AVID system in a couple of weeks to review for a magazine, so I'll know for sure, but I thought when I saw a demo two years ago, the effects were done on the fly. It's been a while and at the time I was really learning what NLE was rather than try and compare against current systems. Fred