On Tue, 21 Jul 1998 02:51:02 GMT, tds@enteract.com wrote:
>On Tue, 21 Jul 1998 02:14:22 GMT, d_ruether@hotmail.com (Neuman-Ruether)
>wrote:

>>I've been using the original Spark for quite a while now
>>(relatively speaking! ;-), and it has been a good working
>>system, especially with the ver. 2 software (and Premiere
>>4.2 - 5 got dumped fast...). BTW, the Spark works fine
>>with cheap ($240!) 8.4-gig IBM Deskstar 8 IDE drives,
>>and should be fine with the new 14-gig version.

>With the Spark can you capture a drive full of video at one time or
> do you have to capture little pieces? Or do you mark an area of video
>to capture and it captures little pieces?

Spark 2 is supposed to be able to capture large files by renaming
2-gig chunks on the fly, but I haven't tried that. I generally
capture under 2-gig chunks manually for raw material to edit
with (just making sure I have all the material I want captured,
along with the junk...;-).

>How do you edit 30 to 50 minute video clips?

No problem. With Spark 2, you can seamlessly output
multiple files from multiple drives for a very long video.
(Premiere 4.2 used to edit...) I add one extra frame of
sound/video from each AVI file tail to each file head
for perfect joins with Spark ver. 2 software (with my
gear - this may vary with different hard/software...).

>You use the AVI file format correct? I know its limited to 2 Gig so
>how do you do it?

I used to do it (with problems...) with DV-Deck, but the
Spark 2 software assembles multiple AVI files very well.
I have put 40 minutes to tape in one pass from the computer
without problems, and (I trust!!!) I will be putting one
hour of edited video out to mini-DV tape later today...