Benchmark: DPS Spark Plus Capture Card (page 2)

Still Buggy After All These Years

In spite of the rather serious drawback of not being able to monitor video on the computer screen as you capture, the Spark Plus performed well in all other ways. It installed itself flawlessly into version 5.1 of Adobe Premiere, which was a great timesaver. It had no problems controlling the VCR functions of every camera we connected to it. As for the problem with the capture preview window: a call to DPS revealed that the latest version of the Spark drivers simply doesn't support preview capabilities. Earlier versions of the drivers (available at DPS's FTP site at ftp.dps.com) support preview, but not batch capturing. A note to this effect slipped into the manual might have saved a lot of frustration for potential installers of this device.

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