>And no matter what your video >drops to the analog realm going from one DV device to another, resulting in >multiple A/D conversions: > >Digital -> (D-A conversion) -> Analog -> (A-D conversion) -> Digital You don't need to go to analog if you just pump out through the FireWire into another Mac... -- Erica p.s. Pity about the MPEG-1. I'm going to try it myself later...