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Wonderful! This is great and I commend you two for the effort you'll be putting into this. I a bit excited and have a lot to communicate so please forgive me if this is a bit long-winded and convoluted. I've been evangelizing my company, IDX Systems Corp – Boston, for going on 3 years. I've recently been given the green light to trail blaze for them with regards to multimedia development, research and consulting. I author in Authorware Pro for Windows. I need to find immediate and "cost effective" solutions to capturing Windows screens with video overlay, etc that I can eventually output to vcr for distribution. I've recently read that Lotus' ScreenCam is great product to do screen capture with. I've recently attended a demo of the FAST Video Machine Lite (the full blown studio) and thats incredible but at $13,000 is a bit for my company to handle considering. I need to massage these new technologies into their subconscience – if you know what I mean. I've been using VideoLogic's DVA-4000 and Mediaspace for probably less than 3 months even though we've owned it for well over a year. Major issues regarding compatibility with svga drivers, understanding its requirements (it doesn't like to share memory space with network comm cards), and many other issues have destroyed my desire and confidence to continue working with it. When it works its good. But I've rarely had a successful session with it. I need a capture card like a Targa 2000 (Targa runs on EISA only) but will run on PCI. I understand Diamond now has the Video Pro Card that looks good in print. I still can't find out if it will cable out to a vcr. The VideoLogic cards will only run output at 640x480x256 at 60 hz refresh rate. Its the refresh rate that makes the vcr recording look unprofessional. The video company we outsource corporate production to recommended that I create all the media pieces into the typical Adobe Premiere edit list and then take the computer over to their studio where they'll interface it with the $25,000 Lyon Lamb scan converter. This is probably what I'll end up doing if I can't find my answers. Any insights, comments, dope slaps, whatever would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Eric