The same video on the RT-2000 took only 20 minutes, giving me a whole hour and 40 minutes to experience the exciting traffic trends in my highly overpopulated urban nightmare of a city. Hopefully, others who save time using this product will use it more wisely. The RT2000 is a real joy though, and if you consider your time valuable, this product should be at the top of your list. Media Cleaner 5 EZ is a huge time saver and does a good job of automatically preparing video for a variety of outputs. Overall, the amount of on-line support is good, and easily navigable, which is a plus.
Quality is a real issue for many video aficionados on a budget.
It was a joy while testing the RT2000 to have not a single dropped frame, super fast previews, and wonderful real-time transfers from the DV camera we tested with. We can't emphasize enough that if you're considering purchasing this bundle, make absolutely sure your system meets the requirements first. Installing this bundle in an older Compaq Presario 5600i produced a completely different experience, and made the point that Matrox is not kidding around with its recommended specs. Having said this, anyone with a reasonably well equipped system that meets these posted requirements should see projects that are quicker to produce, and should have a much smoother experience in doing so. On the whole, this is an incredible package, but once again, uninitiated users should not expect to sit down and suddenly begin producing high quality video as if by magic.