Hiya, Just brand new to this list and wanted to know the climate before I started posting any questions. What's the daily traffic like on this list? What is the expert level of the list, ie. do you tolerate newby questions? ;-} We bought ourselves a Panasonic GS400 for Christmas and I have a whole buncha VHS and 8mm Hi-8 tapes (analogue and digital) that I'll eventually transfer over to DVD. I've also got a 17" PowerBook G4/1GHz that I use for capturing, editing and authoring DVD's to. I've bought a 120GB 7200rpm external Firewire drive to help me manage the various projects I'm working on. So far I'm only doing my own home video type stuff. Perhaps later when I have enough confidence and knowledge I'll start doing paid jobs. The software I use for capture and editing is Final Cut Express 1.0 (and FCPro sometimes when I have access to it) and for authoring DVD's I use either iDVD 4 or DVD Studio Pro 2.0. As a graphic designer (now working as IT for a graphic design studio) quality is imperative to me and I'll be asking questions on that later. So that'll do for now. See you on the list. 8-) Cojcolds ps. you guys use [TAN] and [NOISE] indicators in email subjects? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/macdv/attachments/20050202/071e83c6/attachment.html