On Sun, 26 Jul 1998 10:57:02 +1000, "Steffan Klein" wrote:

>just checked the DPS newsgroup re Spark and found a scary reference to grey
>pixels which you can get when returning edited dv material via firewire back
>to dv tape.
>Does anyone no more about this?
>Does it happen quite often?
>If I understand this properly, it is related to either the output speed or
>the software codec.
>
>Any chances it won't happen on the radius Motodv?
>
>I have a job on order which will be run through several technical tape
>quality tests before being accepted - and can't run the risk of this
>happening.
>
>If these pixels are a problem, I won't buy a card just yet and rather edit
>in a studio via media 100 and VHS offline cut. Can't afford it to get a
>quality stuff up and then have to go to the studio to edit, anyway.
>
>I would run the Spark on a Pentium 200 with 64 MB RAM - WIN 95.
>I know it is not the fastest, but I use mostly hard cuts and only the
>occasional disolve (story is for a TV science program)

It is hard to say that this will not happen, but if you are using
compatible hardware and software properly set up, it should not...
(It did not happen with the Spark software [old and new] or
Adaptec's DV-Deck on an AMD K6-200 with 96-megs and IBM 9-gig SCSI
drives - and it does not happen now with a K6-233 processor, and IBM
8.4-gig UDMA Deskstar 8's - but it did/does happen when the audio
interleave is improperly set [set by experiment...], or when I try to
output from the Premiere timeline using Adaptec's Premiere plug-in.
As to the interleave, try 4-frames on capture, 2-frames when using
"make movie" in Premiere to start...)