Thanks Ben and Walter.
A Kona card is my ultimate aim, but ’till I can afford it I’m having to live with using the direct HDV input via the firewire port. Apple claim that native HDV brought into the timeline does not suffer any loss if it is not processed in any way, but I assume that there will be losses if any filters or transitions are used. I have also read that native HDV is not ideally suited to any colour correction process so these two facts would appear to suggest that using the intermediate codec is the preferred method, am I correct?
What improvements in sustained data transfer rate will I get by using an external RAID in comparrison to internal drives in a RAID?
Appologies for the basic nature of the questions, but I’ve just emigrated from the PC!
Geoff