It took a bit of research, and some trial-and-error, but we
were up and running with the first Spark editing computer
in about a week - that was a LONG time ago, in Mini-DV terms...! ;-) I waited about six months after the first
(Spark) FireWire card came out, and I'm glad I did - it
was about then that the first version (and last version...;-) of the Spark software appeared that actually
worked (version 2.0). It is still a quite-useable system
even now, with a better-than-average codec (slight color
and brightness correction removes its defects, unlike
with the MS and QT codecs...).

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:56:03 -0800, "Bob" wrote:

>YOU'RE LUCKY!!!

>"Neuman - Ruether" wrote in message
>news:3ab14a37.3998380@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu...
>> On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:32:26 -0800, "Bob"
>> wrote:

>> >No it will not work. I agree with you on DPS. I was a beta tester for
>Spark
>> >and Spark Plus. Their support stinks, and their product never did work
>> >properly. Not to mention their full page ads of false advertising to sell
>> >the damn thing.

>> We've had the DPS Spark running well in several computers,
>> including Win95 and 98 machines. Haven't tried it in ME,
>> but don't know why it wouldn't work... BTW, the Spark
>> WAS a pain to get running, and ONLY version 2.0 of
>> the DPS software ever worked for us, but the results were
>> reliable, and I edited several videos with it (and a
>> computer we sold with it in was used for editing about
>> 40 weddings (!!!).