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Hello, I have FAST's Movie Macchine Pro w M-JPEG and Adobe Premier 4.0. Does Adobe ever answer mail addressed to them in their Application Fourm? I've posted a couple of items for them, and haven't gotten any reply. My problem/question/thought: With the FAST stuff I can capture video and audio just fine. In the tests I've been conducting, 20 secs of video & audio takes about 10,700,000 bytes of disk. Now, I expect that when I capture a pair of 20 sec clips, and edit them together into a single .AVI file, I should get a file of about 21,400,000 bytes. I'm trying to get to this because I'm losing enough resolution at 16:1 compression when I create the clips. I'm not interested in further compression. But, so far, the resulting 40 second clips are occupying only 13,300,000 bytes or so – not much more than the space of the original clips! Further, the resulting 40 sec clip doesn't look as nice as the individual 20 second clips, and of coursse, none of the three look like the original! What am I doing wrong? The following are the configuration parameters I'm using in FAST's stuff and Premier: FAST's Movie Capture: 30 frames a second, (29.97 for some reason doesn't work) 1/2 Image Size, 320×240, Keep Aspect Ratio, 16:1 compression, 8 bit stereo at 22Khz. Premier 4.0's settings: Timebase: 29.97 Compression: Settings: AVI Method: FAST M-JPEG Depth: Millions 100% Quality Frames: 30 Data rate: Nothing checked Preview Options: Size: 320×240 in front Video rate 30 Mode: Effects to disk Type: Full Size Frame Process at: Same as project Video filters: On Audio rate: 22KHz Format: 8 Bit – Stereo Build: Disk Play: Disk Audio Filters: On Output Options: WorkArea as AVI Movie Video Size: 640×480 4:3 Aspect is NOT checked! Type: Full Size Frame Audio rate: 22KHz Format: 8 Bit – Stereo Type: Uncompressed Interleave: 1 Second – whatever that means? Thanks for your help! Bill Metzger, San Diego