R U using Boris BCC or RED? If so what filter?

PS Glenn - We charge our clients $175US an hour for DG fast channel postings. Limited distribution may be cheaper on BetaSP tapes (we charge $40US a dub). So with shipping, if they go over 4 dubs, DG is cheaper for them. Our clients pay for the DG access, we don't. We generally end up charging .5 to 1 hr per spot to format/post deal with their process

Glenn - DG Fastchannel aren't the easiest folks to deal with. But since their stuff is all automated, they need to be iron clad in their rules. During certification, they tend to comment on artistic issues, like "Logo font is too thin". Of course the client provided their logo in a low-res state, so you can't do anything to resolve

R U using Firewire or RS-422. I use the standard BVW-75 driver (using RS-422) and it works great, but one would think the DSR-1500 driver would work.

Joseph - Just saw this... LTO1 is about 50GB a hour (uncompressed) and is old technology. LTO3 is 325GB an hour (uncompressed) and one LTO3 tape holds 400GB. This is the unit I was talking about, it will read LTO1 and LTO2. Sweet, but pricy. http://www.quantum.com/Products/TapeDrives/LTOUltrium/LTO-3/Index.aspx $3,000US, which is about $500Euros now

Halleluiah!!!

heck yeah, forgot about those! good call.

Blkdog - I'm curious, right now if you do anything while the timeline is playing, say like mark an in-point, or turn off monitoring of a track, MCA stops. Does NitrisDX fix this annoying attribute?

Yeah once you learn the unusual Avid GUI, they shouldn't change it too much. Like each Photoshop rev is kinda a pain as you figure out how they switch things around in the Tools palate.... and you're not sure why. How about a MCA rewrite from the ground up! You guys are probably tired of hearing me say this, but if they could assimulate the

Righto I see you're in LA, so that's probably very popular for film work. What's everyone else out there doing.. useing ADATs? I seem to recall there were some 3rd party boxes that helped it chase time code, but back then the Alesis folks didn't understand video applciations, but that was 10 years ago. Anyway I'm no help. Good luck