Hi--

>How have you been? ...i dont know if you remember me, its alex; the guy
>with problems with my spark, premiere and canon optura; its been so long
>and i still cant playback from timeline to my DVdevice(optura),

Neither can I, at this point. I would (am...) going no further with this
attempt, since other means are more reliable...)

>now i
>read one of your posting that you were able to export via using DVSOFT
>print to video from Premier, is this correct? ..

Yes, but only when the Spark software was not on the computer.
Since I prefer the more reliable Spark assembly of AVI's for
long-video output (and to use Spark for capture [at 4-frame
interleave!] and playback], I removed DV-Soft from the computer
(it makes Spark not reliable...). Use one or the other.
BTW, you can still play off the timeline to the camcorder/TV
short clips if your CPU is fast enough (450mHz...) - this works
for checking bits on TV.

>this is exaclty my
>problem, can you tell me how you did it, was there some files or
>settings that i need to update, etc? ..ie. what files should i get from
>Adaptec or DPS..btw, i just got the latest Spark v2.02 beta

If you can get Spark 2.0, use it - 2.01 is useless, and I would
therefore wonder about 2.02... (DPS is being weird with this software,
they should just offer the stable v2.00 until certain that the updates
work!).

>- you also
>mentioned that i can open mutliple avi files in spark and playback
>smoothly, you mean there wont be any gap when the soft switch from one
>avi to the other when its done playing?
>again...i would appreciate any help from you! )
>thanks...take care!
"Peter Lee"

When you get simple record/play functions going with Spark
(forget DV-Deck and long-term time-line playback!), then
try the Spark playlist feature... To use it, in Premiere,
cut the last frame of each segment to be saved as a finished-edit
AVI file (to a "clean", unfragmented, preferably separate drive...)
and copy the one frame of picture and sound. Add this one frame
to the beginning of the next AVI-to-be-saved (do not remove the
cuts! - and make sure that the work-area bar covers the cut frame
at the end of the clip [and the extra frame at the biginning of
the next part to be saved, when you do that]). Each saved AVI will
then have one repeated frame at the beginning of each clip when you
"export to movie" in P-5.1 (NOT P-5!!!), or "make movie" in P-4.2.
In Spark (ALWAYS turn the camcorder on before opening Spark...),
open the last clip first, then hit the small right-pointing arrow
to export it to the play list. Open the next to last, do the same,
etc. - until all the parts are listed. When you want them to go out
to the camcorder to tape, press the two record buttons on the camcorder,
and when it is up and running, click on the down-pointing marker on
Spark (it is a good idea to have at least several seconds of black
at the beginning and end of the long set of AVI's since the affair will
hic-cup at both ends of transmission). It should play the set of AVI's
with no indication that there are separate AVI's... At the end, it will
take a while to finish after transmission - wait, it has not locked up.
With this, I have made a few one-hour edited tapes - it works reliably.
(BTW, I just bought another Spark card and another copy of P-5.1,
to make another Spark DV-editing computer for...??? ;-)