On Sat, 21 Nov 1998 14:51:00 -0800, jscarff wrote:
>Neuman-Ruether wrote:

>> It would appear that the Sony editing software is essentially
>> assemble-edit only, without most of the tools for transitions,
>> effects, filters, etc. that would be part of any good NLE
>> software. If this is sufficient....;-)

>Is this shortcoming ameliorated by Sony's includion of Adobe Premier LE in the package? I had the impression
>from Sony's WWW site, that Adobe Premiere would handle transitions and export (?) the file back to Sony's
>DVgate Motion editing software.

Ah, I missed that on a quick reading of the Sony description...! ;-)

>Are there limitations with Sony's video capture card? Is the Pentium II 350 model too slow? Otherwise the
>$1,499 price (w/o monitor) seems like a good deal.

It does, if all works well. ;-)
BTW, the Sony description is at:
http://www.ita.sel.sony.com/digitalstudio/
(I didn't find mention of Premiere when I checked again,
but no software other than the Sony editing software
was listed, as far as I could tell...)