On Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:15:48 +0200, "Anders W" wrote:

>After carefully studing news-groups & reviews of the various DV cards
>in the market my impression was that the DPS Spark (not the Plus version
>since I already have an Adaptec SCSI controler) was the way to go.
>
>When inquiring dealers about price and software bundles I was suprised
>to be strongly advised against it since there was a problem with "a two
>second playback delay for all the clips". Does anybody have any experience
>with this "problem" and how it would affect my DV editing?
>
>Is this a problem related to the DPS Spark drivers os the editing software?
>
>I intend to use Video Action or Adobe Premiere 4.2/5.X for editing.

??? I use Spark, and I'm not sure what the "problem" would be...
A 2-second delay, compared with what? There is a clip start-up delay
when going out to the DV camcorder, but I always add a black leader
to the first clip anyway, and the other clips in a sequence play out just
fine for assembling a long video on tape (once I have added an extra
[repeated] frame to the beginning of each edited clip before saving it
as an AVI file by "making movie" in P-4.2...). Spark appears
to be a good, reliable DV editing system, so long as known hardware
conflicts are avoided - and it works well with fast IDE drives (like the
IBM Deskstar 8 and 14).