James Ryan <jeryan@optonline.net> wrote: >By the way, I didn?t mean to offend anyone with the semi-pro comment. In >fact when I spoke to the Canopus tech about not being able to get Sorenson >or MJPEG-A encoded videos up on the NTSC Monitor with the ADVC110, and >bitched about how my Aurora card would support almost any codec and even >project your desktop on an NTSC monitor, he said this box was really >designed as a low cost solution for consumer equipment (VHS decks, >camcorders, etc). He didn?t say semi-pro, he said home, and I interpreted >that answer as semi-pro. I agree that if you can make it work in a pro >environment, then for you it is the pro solution that works. "Semi-Pro" isn't a social value judgement. Rather, it's simply a designation given to various gear (and services) that aren't deemed to require/give the highest demands. "Home" is even lower than this. Saying that a low end video convertor is "semi pro" or "home" can hardly be offensive. Most studios/composers certainly don't need anything high end in the video department. It would be like being offended that somebody called a talkback microphone "semi-pro". Er, you'd be a complete idiot if you wasted a high end microphone for talkback. Unless you just had extras laying around doing nothing anyway. f-erenc szabo, smarty pants Z+E+R+O+B+E+A+T "NOW POWERED BY THE MIRACLE OF THE TRANSISTOR!" <http://home.goodmedia.com/~zerobeat>