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To: QwikSand who wrote (100)	5/21/2004 4:53:57 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197

I've been trying to use Windows to digitize (so I can put it on a DVD), with the maximum possible quality, a video of one of my daughters that runs about an hour and a quarter. Unless I do significant compression on the fly (with attendant loss of quality), the result is several gigabytes. I have found that even current releases of popular Windows software limit their file sizes to 2 or 4 +/- gigabytes, at which point they either stop or open a new file (and drop a bunch of frames while they wait for the OS to open the new file). I assume this is so they can maintain compatibility with Windows 98 and other variants using the FAT or FAT32 file systems without having to maintain separate code for NTFS (which should allow much larger files). The bottom line: Windows with the software I've tried so far won't do what I want. Will a Mac? What's the least Mac I can buy (new or used) that is capable of quality video production? Edit: BTW, I intend to try Linux next, since I can do that essentially for free. JMHO. Charles Tutt (SM)