i was watching someone editing with cs3 today, and noticed they were capturing with hdlink. now i know i can download a trial version, etc., and i've searched around for answers here and on the cf site without too much sucess vis a vie working with vegas.

what i would like to know before i waste / invest any time is....

a. does hdlink work happily with vegas (ie the captured / converted files), and if so, does it capture and convert on the fly reliably?

b. is the high quality noticeable better than the medium supplied with vegas?

c. will it print back to a sony 15 vtr more reliably than vegas's ptt?

d. is it worth my while considering i rarely do compositing to any degree, most of my work is doco, so is pretty much cut to cut, a bit of minor cc'ing, titles, etc., and so far, editing m2t's hasn't caused me any serious grief?

e. wait to see what 8c has in store?

as ever, tia,

leslie