Hello fred, I am a big fan of your clips on Vimeo, and I would like to start using the avisynth software for editing. I shoot reg-8 and am planning to do a Rank transfer, uncompressed to a hard drive. This will be the first time I have done this. I realize it will be AVI, but I am not sure what codec to apply; I'm assuming MPEG4? Maybe you can tell I'm new at the computer end of things, but I do want to learn. Any advice you can offer will be appreciated. Brad M.