Bob just tells me the Spark card may work without drivers
(using MS DV-codec) with Premiere 6 - maybe there is still
life in these "old" FireWire cards yet...! ;-)

On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 23:15:10 GMT, d_ruether@hotmail.com (Neuman - Ruether) wrote:

>Thanks, but a friend has a Spark for $125, and I just
>bought one (who could resist?! ;-) for $25... Heck, I
>might just build a cheap computer around it, for old
>time's sake...! ;-)
>
>On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 07:16:01 -0800, "Bob"
> wrote:
>>If you are looking for an extra SPARK card I have the SPARK PLUS for
>>$300.00.
>
>>"Neuman - Ruether" wrote in message
>>news:3ab30e6a.2158897@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu...
>>> 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...).