Hi, thanks for the reply…well, dvc pro HD is easy to deal with…100 Mbit/sec is easy….i am thinking of HDCAM SR…4:4:4 1:1…..i would prefer a medea corp. (now avid) drive…i have 1 medea on combustion for SD work, 2 medea on Avid for SD and HD work and one medea on Protools for audio recording….but, i am a little short on cash this time….i just want to capture and record back the footage..nothing xtreme…after all, once i am in combustion, i play the footage from ram and it will not be, 2 layers of HD with pip….i will just capture from VTR and record back to VTR…4 of these drives gives around 280-300 MB/s…i thought that would be enough…but, i will check for other options.
Pekin