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Terry, $2k won't cut it for a frame-accurate deck for animation. $5-6k is more doable, and you'd need to add either a Diaquest, similar video controller, or perhaps one of the software-only control packages. Decks around the $2k range are reasonably frame-accurate for retrieval (play), but tend to be only accurate to within 2-5 frames. I understand that Future Video makes a controller to run many such low-end decks, but best would be probably + or – 1 frames (you asked for 50, you get 49, 50 or 51). Of course, 3D Studio does not support such controllers directly, but you can usually load up the frame buffer, and trigger through other software or batch files. Frankly, I can't see anyone spending $4k extra when they mostly just want to do is play tapes in a conference room. Kevin Krell – Computer Support Associates