On Thu, 03 Dec 1998 08:02:06 GMT, jkey@iquest.net wrote:

>From pouring over these posts night after night, I get the idea that
>nonlinear editing on the PC is a nightmare of incompatibility problems.
[...]
>If you're one of the lucky know-how people with a
>delightful and functioning PC-based Firewire editing system: What CPU,
>motherboard, RAM, Hard-drives, videocard, soundcard, DVcamera, Firewire card,
>editing software combination are you using? For anyone responding with
>helpful info, I thank you. And probably so do the other people trying to
>sort through these endless layers of advertising dung.

If you're interested in a trouble-free turnkey mini-DV editing system,
I'm offering this, which has been in operation, and used for a period
of time without problems....

The computer is $3600, plus shipping, ready for editing
mini-DV (FireWire in/out), and it consists of:
- AMD K6-233 CPU with MMX
- Abit AX5 ATX MB
- 96 megs EDO RAM
- DPS Spark FireWire card
- Turtle Beach Tropez sound card
- 8.4-gig IBM Deskstar UDMA program drive
- Two 9.1-gig IBM SCSI-II video drives
- Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI controller card
- ATI Xpress 8-meg video card
- 24X CD ROM + floppy + keyboard + mouse
- Enlight mid-tower ATX case, (tastefully...;-) modified
with extra vents and three extra large fans (the interior
and SCSI drives remain cool!) - and it is fairly quiet, too
- 17" monitor
- Premiere + Windows + DPS Spark software

I have edited several videos on this computer, varying
in length from 5-minutes to one hour.
This may be an opportunity to acquire a
thoroughly-tested, debugged, and reliable turnkey
mini-DV editing computer at a reasonable price.
(Setting up your own can be, uh, phun.....! ;-)
BTW, the software allows seamless output of long
(1-hour+) videos. Input can be batch-captured, but
I prefer doing manual (2-gig minus) captures...
Also BTW, the Spark site is kinda useless for getting
real compatibility info - the TRV-9/900 should work
fine with it...