On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 22:59:01 GMT, Toneman@ix.netcom.com (Tony) wrote:

>I have recently built a PII440BX/ 128 Meg/ Full Tower/ NT 4.0/ Seagate Cheetah/ Adaptec 2940UW/ Rage
>3DPro AGI VGA/ Canopus Raptor, Adobe Premiere, etc. for digital video editing.
>
>Well, I bought a Sony TRV900. After seeing the Media 100 at a recent show, I have to say that I
>cannot bear to look at my screen with Premiere 5.1 and the Raptor software. The only way to watch
>my assembled movie is on the small monitor within the Premiere program. What a severe limitation
>that is!

Hmmm...
Quick, sell the SCSI stuff while you still can, buy 2-3 IBM
16/20/25/27/34-gig UDMA drives (or similar) for relatively
nothing, switch to Win 98, get a couple of cheap ATI 8-meg
video cards and a second monitor, get a Sony D-A/A-D box
(or use your camcorder) for overlay, and enjoy the Raptor
with full-motion 720x480 preview window with LOTS of
screen real-estate (with TV connection easy for full-size
additional TV monitoring!). Heck, you are close to first
class now - why dump it for a soon-to-be-a-boat-anchor
G-3!?;-) A little advance research might have gone
a long way toward optimizing the PC-Raptor system...! ;-)