On Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:22:56 -0500, aelroeiy wrote:

>I am as many of us interested in starting video editing. I have a Sony
>TRV900. My computer is a pentium II 450 Mhz and with incorporated SCSI
>in the motherboard. I have a 9 GB SCSI ultrawide hard drive and can add
>easily another 18 or 36 GB. My question to you guys is what is a
>reasonable system that can be added to this system (it runs under Win 98
>and I do not think that I would like to upgrade to NT) so I can compile
>my kids and office videos and exploit the advantages of the DV format
>with the firewire output.
>I have been told by a gentleman who is interested to sell a Videonics
>system (Digital Video Mixer MX-1, edit suite A/B roll edit controller
>and video title maker) that his system is better suited for this.

Since you have a computer that is a very capable base
for a good mini-DV NLE system, it hardly makes sense to
go analogue with the Videonics at this point. Add a FireWire
card to your computer and one or two more drives, and enjoy
the advantages of lossless DV and NLE! UDMA drives work fine
for mini-DV (another advantage!), but if you want SCSI,
I have a pair of fast IBM SCSI-II 9-gig drives to sell...;-)
BTW, I have and like the DPS Spark card (with Premiere
4.2 - NOT 5.1!!!), though others like other FireWire
cards (which are often identical to the Adaptec-made
Spark, but with different software...).