On Sun, 26 May 2002 21:12:13 -0700, Roger Stevens wrote:

>HELP!!!
>
>Long ago... well several years at least, I used my then
>state-of-the-art DPS Spark+ (a.k.a. Adaptec 8945) on my Win98 setup to
>create Batch Capture Edit files( i.e. *.BLY).
>
>Now... I run WinXP and, for those who know, Adaptec screwed us all by
>NOT making drivers for the 8945 and WinXP (or Win2k for that matter).
>
>So.... I'm running a generic 1394 card these days which works just
>fine for importing directly into Premeire.
>
>However... I now want to go back and re-render my old projects in full
>720x480 DV. The problem is, I can't use my old edit decision files
>made with the Spark+ capture software because it will not work in XP.
>
>Does anyone know of any way to convert the old Spark BLY files into
>Adobe batch capture format??
>
>I'm really in a bind on this one!

On the Spark - you may find that it can work as a generic
OHCI card... On the batch capture list, I don't know of a
way to use the old files other than to open them and copy
off the in/out figures (these can be written into Raptor
batch-capture software, anyway...). Good luck (from a
fellow former Spark owner...;-) in finding a way...