i have 1000's of dats. probably 500-1000 that are masters. i have been told to transfer them before they stop working. i have final cut 5,6,+7 on 3 dif computers. also have a box that does aes/ebu to firewire. also have a fostex d5 dat with aes/ebu out. with final cut i can log and capture, but it wants to see a video signal. with the video signal it eats up 8-10gb of hd space per hour. i can then convert the audio to aiff and that reduces the file to normal dat size. anyone know of a better way? i have also been told of internal scsi dat readers for sale on ebay for cheap that work with pc's. i am worried about the learning curve with this method, plus it might eat the tapes. anyone know of a "how to" when using these scsi dat readers? thx in advance