[Richard Barber]

Thanks, Michael, that’s encouraging. I’ll try installing Avid onto my laptop tonight. I won’t be able to test the Aipteks until next week because my colleague already took them out of town to where we’re shooting, but I’ll try it out next week.

One question (from someone who’s not the most technically astute editor on the block): when you say: “consider loading all the footage onto one (or several) systems and running each clip through a program like Sorenson Squeeze or ProCoder” do you mean just load it all into a drive, then run each clip as described? The idea being that then I’ll have new clips that I might hope to import with less time and trouble into the Avid?

I’ll report back when I’ve tried some of this. At this point I’ll need to make it work one way or another, even if it means turning it into analog and back to digital again, though you’ve given me hope it won’t come to that.

Richard