Hi, I have used a Studio AV/Dv Card and Breakout box for the last 7 years. It also
works as a Video Accellerator, I used it from V8 toV9 to V9+ and all were completely stable with as many Transitions or still photos as you wanted. This was all on a Pentium 4 1.6 with 512Mb of memory.
I still have it but it is no good for my new computer with Vista, but at least with 4Mb of Ram and a 2.4 Quad 6600 it handles everything in Studio 11 Ultimate.
I am keeping my card because I
still have the old computer which runs XP so I am holding on to with it's 3 Hard drives. If you get the chance to buy a second hand Studio AV/DV card with the break-out box- Snap it up, you won't regret it.
Brian