PPro CS5 with Matrox RT.X2 board and software

This is on a 64 bit windows Vista Pro PC.
I would like to remove the board and un-install the Matrox software (Matrox effect patterns, Mx Tools and WYSIWYG plug-ins).
If I use the Windows ADD/REMOVE to do that will it affect my Premiere Pro CS5 in any way?
I understand that in doing this any video that used this software would no longer work, which is fine.

Thanks for the response Jim.
I decided to byte the bullet and uninstalled Matrox and the RT.X2 board.
I had no bad effects on Premiere Pro other that the sound, due to the fact that it was provided through the Matrox board.
Un-installed and reinstalled the audio board I had originnaly in the PC and assigned thos hardware to the audio in PPro and ALL is well.

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I want to know if the Macbook Pro with the ash key board and as the cd rom infront is more recent than the one with the black key board and as the cd rom on the side.

Hi Tracy,
I'm guessing "ash" is the silver colored keyboard, the same color as the rest of the MBP? If so, that machine, with the optical drive slot on the front, is the older machine.

Fresh install of PPro CS5.5 on Mac - missing presets and AVCHD support

Oh, this is crazy. How on earth is this not bug-fixed?
I'm in the middle of setting up a new editing suite for my Secondary school where I am a Media Studies teacher. I've got a handful of Macs running fresh installs which I've installed new legal, site licensed Premiere Pro CS5.5 installs on. By default, as in many workplaces, the Macs require admin passwords for internet and install settings, which I applied. None of the machines have had trial versions od PPro CS5.5 or previous versions of PPro.
The issues:
None of the fresh installs contain the presets for AVC-Intra, AVCHD, Digital SLR, XDCAM EX, XDCAM HD422, and XDCAM HD. Which is kind of a disaster, as we have brand new Panasonic HDC-SD900 AVCHD cameras waiting to load up footage for editing.
Further to this, none of the macs will load or recognise the AVCHD footage when I try to add it. I get "unsupported compression type" errors.
Am I missing something basic here, or am I about to enter the "delete everything adobe, reboot, reinstall, reboot" loop from hell to try and fix an entire roomful of machines? Is there ANY way to check if the presets are on the Macs? Is there any way to link them back into PPro if they are? And finally, is there any way to get CS5.5 to recognise AVCHD as a recognised format (which is why I bought the site license in the first place! Premiere Pro is meant to have the easiest AVCHD compatibility of all the editing suites!).
Grr. Dammit.
Ideas?

Okay, this turned out weird. Fixed now, but WEIRD. After the deafening silence on this forum, I went and did some reading on other threads and with other people having similar (but it seems not the same) issue. It seems that there could have been three different causes: here's what I did to fix things, I'd be fascinated if anyone with closer links to Adobe comes up with the technical explanation of why this turned out the way that it did.
Possible issues:
(1) Install may need to be done as Admin, rather than standard user on a Mac
(2) firewall/proxy server maybe isn't allowing some anonymous callback from premiere to adobe to register presets/codecs
(3) something else weird involving registration... some people have had issues with time zones, of all things. see below.
What I did:
(0) Took everything off the school network and put on my home wireless network: no firewall, direct connection to internet.
(1) Tried Ann Bens's suggestion above. Was unable to deactivate software while logged in as Admin on my mac. Came up with error code 255:255 in the notification box, even though I never had a trial version installed on this box. This was the same error I got at school, so I'm tentatively ruling out proxy/firewall issues.
(2) Read the forums some more. I'm in New Zealand, it's currently daylight savings time (GMT +13) here. In http://forums.adobe.com/message/4007876, someone in NZ had a different but similar problem with registering/deregistering Premiere Pro software during NZ daylight savings time, and found that changing to ANY other time zone fixed their issue.
(3) Thought "what the hell", changed the time zone to Samoa (couldn't bring myself to do Australia...) and rebooted as admin.
(4) Successfully deactivated software, no error messages. Interesting.
(5) Uninstalled premiere pro. Rebooted as admin.
(6) Ran adobe cleaner tool. Found some scraps, killed them off. Rebooted as admin to be on the safe side (still on Samoa time)
(7) Installed Premiere, no issues at all. Registered, no issues at all. All preset settings present and correct, no issues getting AVCHD files.
(8) Changed time zone to NZ day light savings time.
(9) Everything still works.
Hm. Adobe, SOMETHING is wrong with the way your software is handling timezones and registration of codecs/software on Premiere Pro CS5.5. Seriously, does anyone have a clue why this might be happening?
So, solved. Shall I give myself a tick for "correct answer" and "helpful answer", given I solved my own thing with no help from tech support?

CS4 projects in CS5 with Matrox

After one week of testing, I thought I could conclude that CS5 PP & AE were giving me a workable new production system.
I have got 12 Terabyte of CS4 projects I need to use.
Many of these projects now only work for 90%, but I could repair them a bit so CS5 would not crash etc.etc.
PP showed which Matrox plugin used to be at which spot and that it just wasn't working anymore.
Playback was possible and PP reacted on scrubbing and interface changes.
It was obvious the projects were a bit mutulated, but I could see what they used to be.
I also bought and installed Boris Continuum to compensate for the lost Matrox effects.
But now something terrible happened.
I opened an older PP project I was working on, but now the brand new PC has turned into the familiar nightmare mode again.
PP tells me the Matrox effects are missing. Not so very nice, but as I said, I can fix that somewhat.
However, somehow PP now has become horribly sluggish with CS4 projects.
PP does not react on mouseclicks like it should.
The output image hardly updates.
I MUST remove the non-working plugin references, in stead of just disabeling them in the effect tab.
I can not see, which plugin was on those exact spots, it just says Unknown so I need my old computer to figure out how to repair things.
The old PC reference is not an option, as my boss wants me to throw it out.
I find myself in deep trouble.
I convinced my boss, not to buy an Avid, as we have 12 Terabyte of very precious CS4 projects.
I told him I could use Boris to emulate the lost Matrox effects.
Now I have this CS5 set, which does not even allow me to reconstruct CS4 projects.
I just don't know where to look for support anymore; Adobe will point to Matrox and Boris, and they will point in the same circular way.
Is there anyone who could say something constructive, in stead of "please report this as a bug"?

I am in the fortunate position of never using the multitude of "special" effects with which the older versions of Matrox cluttered the Premiere installation. As a result, for me, the transition to CS5 using the Matrox beta drivers for my RTX2 has been no problem. I simply opened the couple of projects that I wished to work on in CS5 and went ahead. I deliberaterly waited until my "live" projects were at a minimum level before upgrading.
The new system is so fast and flexible, even with a three year old system and a GTS 250 graphics card, that I do not miss the Matrox acceleration in hardware at all. The few effects that I did use that are no longer available, e.g. Matrox Move and Scale, are now real-time with the Adobe version on my relatively feeble system.
Clearly, where a project uses Matrox effects which are no longer available, these will have to be removed and replaced, and it is probable that they will slow things down in the meantime. Once they are removed, there should be no more problem.
This is by no means the first thread I have seen relating this kind of problem. I wonder how the upgrade to CS5 was carried out? I always keep an image of the basic Windows set-up, immediately before I install Premiere, and always start from that. This ensures a clean start with no Matrox of Adobe debris around to cause any problems. I always install Premiere and the rest of my Adobe software, before the rest of the office software.
If Harm Millaard does pollute this thread with his customary abuse, my advice is to ignore him, and hope he goes away.

PhotoShop CS5 with Windows 7 64 bits and/or Windows 7 32 bits

Hello
I just bought a new computer with an Intal QuadCore, 8 Gb of memory and Windows 7 - 64 bits edition
I plan to upgrade from a former Photoshop CS3 onWindows XP and it was a 32 bits edition
Is the Photoshop CS5 supported on BOTH Win 7 32 AND 64 bits ? Or are they different versions ?
I plan to either have a dual boot Win 7 32 Bits -    Win 7 64 bits or separate hard disk on racks, so I'll still be able to use 32 bits softwazre that don't run on 64bits
But if PhotoShop CS5 comes in 2 versions, I need to decide which one I should buy
Thanks for any help you vcan provide
have a good day
PS : Is the problem with PhotoShop CS5 running on AMD processors solved ?

Windows 7 x64 is a separate build from Windows 7 32 bit. Windows 7 Ultimate comes with BOTH.
There isn't a separate package of Photoshop CS5 for 32 bit or 64 bit. Photoshop (since CS4) installs both 32 bit and 64 bit software on a 64 bit Windows system, or only 32 bit software on a 32 bit Windows system.
Photoshop CS5 is fine with every variant of Windows 7.
Photoshop CS5 is reportedly fine with modern AMD processors, though I have only used Intel.
The detailed system requirements are here: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshop/systemreqs/
My own (personal, subjective) opinion is that ATI (AMD) video interfaces are better than nVidia.
Hope this answers your questions.
-Noel

Keeping 5.1 audio from PPro CS5 to AE CS5 via dynamic link?

Hi,
I have a project edited in PPro CS5 with 5.1 audio which is showing and working correctly.
However when I use dynamic link to open up PPro sequence in AE CS5 to do my online editing it seems to be importing it as 2 CH Stereo. So when I use Adobe Media Encoder CS5 to render out final online/edited video from AE i can only get it to wok with audio settings set to Stereo.
If I try to select 5.1, this is the error I get...
- Source File: K:\Video Projects\Laurel Creek\Laurel Creek.aep
- Output File: K:\Video Projects\Laurel Creek\Laurel Creek_FinalConcept5_h.mp4
- Preset Used: Custom
- Video: NTSC, 1920x1080, 59.94 fps, Progressive
- Audio: AAC, 384 kbps, 48 kHz, 5.1 Channels
- Bitrate: CBR, 26.00 Mbps
- Encoding Time: 00:00:00
27/03/2012 2:34:32 PM : Encoding Failed
The source and output audio channels are not compatible or a conversion does not exist.
Any ideas how to get AE to see the source 5.1 audio which is originally in PPro sequence so Media Encoder will render out a 5.1 file?
If I change my above custom preset to 2 CH Stereo, the render works, no errors, and video/audio plays fine (which makes sense as AE file is 2 Ch Stereo). But I am looking to keep the source 5.1 audio that my camera records in.
Thanks.

Yup, I've got a new lossless recommendation: Quicktime's PNG codec. It's 10-bit, supports alpha channels, and generally has smaller file sizes than Animation.
If you also have FCP 7 on your machine, you could also give ProRes 422 a whirl. Good codec. Not lossless, but you have to re-render something six times over before you see any kind of image degradation... and for the file size, that's approaching the realm of the magical.

DW CS5 with PHP - book question

Hello,
I'm working my way through the book "Dreamweaver CS5 with PHP" by David Powers and I've enountered something odd when it comes to code hints. On page 225, on step 3 I typed:
$dbWrite = new Zend
...And code hints pop up, but neither Zend_Db_Adapter_Mysqli nor Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql are among the choices offered. The closest I get is "Zend_Db".
I also tried typing "pdomy" like it says in the book, but still no cigar.
I finished writing the code and tested the script in step 5 and it works fine. I just don't understand why those classes are not included in the code hints.

Also, the same thing happened in step 5 when I tried to type $dbWrite->getConnection().
no code hints popped up at all.

Solaris 10 x86 w/ Matrox G450 dual head and xinerama

I have solaris 10 x86 with matrox g450 dual head and x.org x-server. The problem is to get xinerama work. When xinerama isn't enabled, two different desktops work well - or, they work, but they are pretty useless because I can't move windows between them. So, I have to enable xinerama, but it seems, that neither JDS/Gnome nor CDE haven't been built including support for xinerama.
When I enable xinerama, X.org-x-server starts fine and there's dtlogin. When I login and it passes execution to gnome, it fails and x-server restarts. Same with CDE. But if I put 'exec /opt/sfw/bin/xterm to my .dtprofile', it starts ok and I can do some testing..
% dtwm
X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 149 (XINERAMA)
Minor opcode of failed request: 2 (XINERAMAGetScreenCount)
Resource id in failed request: 0x0
Serial number of failed request: 18
Current serial number in output stream: 18
% gtk-demo
The program 'gtk-demo' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
(Details: serial 13 error_code 3 request_code 149 minor_code 2)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line<br />
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
% gtk-demo --sync<br />
The program 'gtk-demo' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
(Details: serial 13 error_code 3 request_code 149 minor_code 2)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line<br />
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
If I start /opt/sfw/bin/fvwm2, it works fine too, so the problem seems to be gtk/glib/gnome and CDE. One odd thing is that, normal CDE-programs, like dtterm, dtcm, dtcalc etc. works fine. But dtwm doesn't work in xinerama mode.
So, would anyone have any suggestion what could I do? Do I have to recompile my own GNOME, or could Sun do something to the next Solaris 10 update? (As far as I understood, current Solaris 10 release doesn't include zfs yet, so there will be update soon, I think)
- Tuomas M

Hello,
I'm also using a g450.
Now I'm trying for 5 days to get it work with xinerama under Xorg and/or
Xsun.
Can anybody tell me how to get it work ?
I would like to see a working xorg.conf.
(I don't know how to configure 2 screens for Xsun. Mybe someone can give my his configuration file(s) ?)
Thanks to all who will help me !!!
p.s. here is my latest attempt of xorg.conf which does not provide xinerama for me:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Multihead layout"
Screen 0 "Screen 0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen 1" Rightof "Screen 0"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "Xinerama" "true"
# Option "Clone" "off"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
Load "bitstream"
Load "type1"
Load "Xst"
Load "IA"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/sun/"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/F3bitmaps/"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
# FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
# FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
# FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/"
# ModulePath "/usr/X11/lib/modules"
EndSection
# Input devices
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
EndSection
# Core Pointer's InputDevice section
Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier and driver
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Device" "/dev/kdmouse"
# Option "Emulate3Buttons"
# Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
EndSection
# Monitor section
# Any number of monitor sections may be present
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "nec"
VendorName "NEC"
ModelName "NEC LCD"
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 50-90
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "nec2"
VendorName "NEC"
ModelName "NEC LCD"
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 50-90
EndSection
# Graphics device section
Section "Device"
Identifier "Matrox"
Driver "mga"
VideoRam 32768
BusID "PCI:01:00:0"
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Matrox2"
Driver "mga"
VendorName "Matrox"
BoardName "Matrox Millennium G450"
BusID "PCI:01:04:0"
# Option "MGASDRAM"
EndSection
# Screen sections
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 0"
Device "Matrox"
Monitor "nec"
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "Matrox2"
Monitor "nec2"
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection

CS3 in MAC OSX7 gives licensing stopped working following replacement of logic board and hard drive.

Repair of MacBookPro with OSX7 replaced logic board and hard drive. CS3 notified that licensing has stopped working. It worked before the repair -- and I believe that I had a similar problem in the past. The Live Chat said that they were not compatible -- which doesn't make sense since it worked fine before the repair. How can I get it going again. Chat room said I had to buy new product which seems crazy.

Repair of MacBookPro with OSX7 replaced logic board and hard drive. CS3 notified that licensing has stopped working. It worked before the repair -- and I believe that I had a similar problem in the past. The Live Chat said that they were not compatible -- which doesn't make sense since it worked fine before the repair. How can I get it going again. Chat room said I had to buy new product which seems crazy.

Problems with my K8N Neo 2 and my 6800GT

I just got my MSI K8N Neoboard with af Winchester 3200,
when Iam playing or do some 3Dmarks.. my suystem hangs/freeze for a couple of seconds... it dont reboot just freeze and then gooing on.
At first I thought i have OC to much ( 400/1100 ) on my 6800GT.. so i tried going down on 375/1000....
i did not freeze so much now.... but still, I can only play for 2 min without failure.
on me old board Asus A7N8X i drove my VGA at 400/1100 without any problems.
I have tried som different drivers 66.93,67.42... without luck...
What is wrong..... is there a problem with this AMD 64 board and a 6800 GT

hi Howdiaudi
welcome to the forum
if youve not seen it 6800 cards-a no-no with nforce boards? may give you some ideas/solutions
there are a number of other threads about your card which you'll find with the search function
hope you get sorted
good luck

Got new logic board, now software is making me go through authorization?

i just got a new logic board installed on my 2007 MacBook Pro. now any time i open any of my software it makes me go through the authorization process (asking for serial #) - its as though with the new logic board the software actually thinks that its been installed on a whole different computer. just wondering if this is normal or if there is any way to get around it. I do audio production on my mac so I have literally hundreds of different plugins installed many of which have complex product authorization schemes. Thanks in advance for the help.

+*its as though with the new logic board the software actually thinks that its been installed on a whole different computer*+
That's exactly what's happening. Most modern authorization/activation routines look at the hardware giving specific values to various components. When something like the logic board is replaced, the application pretty much sees that as a different machine.
I believe Apple does have the ability to set the serial number in a new logic board... although it has to be done by Apple. This alone may not bypass the need to reactive some of your applications. It depends on the specific activation scheme the application is using. You're probably best off just re-activating your applications. I've never had problems getting software re-activated when dealing with the software vendors due to this situation. Fortunately, OS X itself doesn't require activation. As something of a techy... I've replaced motherboards on desktop systems regularly and even Microsoft has never given me a problem with reactivating Windows.
It might be a pain... but hopefully you'll just have to go through it once.

Problem with Matrox Mini, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570, Premiere 5.5.2 and After Effects CS5.5

Hello,
We have a couple video workstation PC's in our office.
Premiere and After Effects have been crashing lately with increasing frequency - about every two minutes now.
Here is the setup:
Hardware
Matrox Mini - Matrox Utility release 5.5.1
Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 - Driver release 275.33
Intel Xeon X5660 2.8 GHz processors
24 GB Ram
Software
Adobe CS5.5, specifically...
After Effects 10.5.0.253
Premiere 5.5.2
Windows 7 64-bit
We have two 21" LCD monitors in dual display running from the computer, and the Matrox Mini outputs a preview signal to a 15" CRT.
The crashes occur when I have After Effects and Premiere open at the same time. I am editing in a Matrox 720p29.97 timeline in Premiere. I imported several compositions from AE into Premiere through Dynamic Link and am matching audio with the animations in comps. When I switch back to AE to make an edit in the comp, After Effects generates a crash warning and then gives me the opportunity to save the project under a new name. After saving, it closes down completely. The Matrox WYSIWYG Control Panel in the system tray crashes during AE's crash, disabling the preview to the CRT from Premiere and AE. Since the Premiere sequence is a Matrox preset - in order to have output to the CRT - this freezes the timeline; the video and audio no longer play. When I save and then try to close Premiere, Premiere freezes and will not close without a force quit via the Task Manager.
In order to deal with this temporarily, I am editing in an AVCHD 720p30 sequence preset in Premiere, which doesn't send a preview feed to the CRT, obviously, since it's not a Matrox preset and the CRT is connected via the Matrox Mini. It's more than a minor inconvenience, since I use the CRT for color accuracy.
It is frustrating, since we did not have this problem until the recent CS5.5.2 update. We have tried changing drivers for the GTX 570 and changing the Matrox utility software to other versions, but no luck.
Is there a combination of GTX 570 drivers, Matrox software releases, and AE/Premiere settings that will make this work? I know there are "Known Issue" posts with Nvidia cards on Matrox's website, which include the GTX 570, but, again, this problem started with the Adobe CS5.5.2 update.
Any help here would be great, and I am willing to provide more information about the system and our crashes if it helps find a solution for the community, as I know this is not an isolated problem after reading Nvidia's, Matrox's, and Adobe's forums. I just can't find a hollistic solution on any of the individual manufacturer's forums.
Thank You.
Jordan

I've been running with Matrox for years, starting with the Axio LE. I do 75% broadcast work and find that the Matrox works very well with my kind of workflow. Monitoring is critical and since we have to deal with 3rd. party solutions, Matrox was my pick dating way back to 2006. Sure I've had frustrations with it, but I've made far more money off Matrox than frustration.
   Here's my nearly crash-free setup:
Gigabyte GZ-X58A-OC moboard
Intel 990X (only overclocking to 4.0)
24Gb of Kingston HyperX Ram
GTX580 Graphics Card
Matrox MXO2-LE w/Max
Crucial 240Gb Sata III drive (the one that has a nearly perfect score on Newegg's site)
2 x 2Tb WD Blacks Raid 0
2 x 1Tb WD Blacks Raid 0
Win 7 Ultimatte (it's a high-end version of Windows that's great for keying!)
CS5.5 Suite
Boris Red 5
Boris Continuum Complete 8
Trapcode Shine, Form, 3d Stroke, Starglow, and Particular
Optical Flares by Video CoPilot
   The reason I list all of that software, is that it all seems to get along together, including with Matrox! So, I can't say I highly endorse Matrox because I've never tried Black Magic or running an external monitor off of my video card.
    I use After Effects with all sorts of plug ins and rarely have crashes. If I put in a long day I'll have the usual crashes here and there (mainly with PremierePro), but nothing that has required evan a soft reboot of the computer.
   My frustration with Matrox is mainly the delay that often comes with Adobe coming out with a new release and Matrox taking 2 or 3 months to catch up, though when Adobe went from 5 to 5.5, there was no delay at all.
   I think that a lot of the people who trash Matrox probably haven't used a Matrox product in years. But before you listen to me, I must confess that I was an early adopter (and advocate) of SSDs and even today, many people on this forum think they're still a waste of money!
   I'll close by simply saying that I've not left Matrox after 5+ years, but keep in mind I haven't had the bad experiences that so many others seem to have had, but again, perhaps they had those bad experiences long ago.

Continuing problems with Matrox and Premier Pro CS5.5 Mac

What is wrong with Adobe and Matrox? Can't they get it together! Ever since switching from Final Cut Pro 7 to Premier Pro 5 and then 5.5 I have been having problems playing back footage from Premier through the Matrox Mini X02 box and then HDMI into a Sony HD monitor. No matter what I do with installs and re installs, the problem persists. The problem is that the Matrox software/hardware seems incapable of providing one simple little thing...playing back my Premier CS 5.5 1920 timeline into my Sony TV. The sound stutters and stops, the playback freezes and Premier won't start again until I reboot my Mac. Sometimes I have to repair disk permissions to get Premier to work again. My hardware should be adequate. I have a MacPro 3.1 2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon running in 64 bit mode under OS X 10.6.8, with 20 GB of RAM and a NVidia Quadpro FX4800 video card. I am running a Raid drive for the video.
Now I know that Adobe is trying to get as many FCP users as it can so I am wondering if there are other Mac users on this forum who have swtiched and who are having the same problems? I have read the reports on the Matrox forum and there seems to be a real saga over the Mini Max 02 and its software. There have been countless software revisions!
Should I abandon Matrox and go for a Black Magic card. I understand the Black Magic Pro card only does 1920 interlaced. I want a card that will be able to transfer anything Premier can display on its timeline and put it on my Sony Bravada. So that means progressive as sell as interlaced.

Hi all, matrox came good with a monitoring solution for premiere pro which now works perfectly. Not tried it with a deck connected but at least I can see what I am doing...
Here it is:
Please check the following procedure. You can just do steps 5 to 13 at first. If it does not work then redo all steps. Let me know if it helps.
1.    Uninstall the Matrox driver using the Matrox Uninstaller. The system will restart.
2.    After the MAC has restarted, go to yourusername->library->application support->adobe->Premiere Pro->5.5 and delete the 'Adobe Premiere Pro Prefs' file or use the ‘Preference Manager’ application: http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/
3.    Restart MAC
4.    Re-download and re-install the Matrox driver software
5.    Go to System Preferences -> Sound -> Output
6.    Change the default device to anything other than Matrox
7.    Open a new project and select a Matrox sequence preset.
8.    Open the Premiere Preferences menu.
9.    Click on ‘Audio Hardware’ and set the default device to anything other than Matrox
10.   Click on ‘Audio Output Mapping’ and set the ‘Map Output’ to anything other than Matrox
11.   Close Premiere and re-open (only if you made any changes)
12.   Open a new project and select a Matrox sequence preset.
13.   Select a Matrox sequence, load a video clip, test playback.
Note: In Premiere, if you are working in a Matrox sequence and want to also output the Source window content through the MXO2, then you can do so by opening Premiere Preferences -> Player Settings -> and setting the value to 'Matrox Player'. Your source window video and audio will now be output through the MXO2.
Note: Audio output through the system sound card is not supported when working in a Matrox sequence.

Tests with Speech-to-Text transcription in PPro CS5

As a follow up to my earlier thread about the apparently reworked or, at least, enhanced speech transcription capability in PPro CS5, I just conducted a few tests to see if it is indeed any better than what we had come to expect of it from CS4. The results are, well, encouraging...
QUICK BACKGROUND: I have an approximately two-minute long voiceover, verbatim from a script, professionally recorded, that was originally delivered to me as a 192kbps, 44.1kHz MP3. Since transcription won't work on MPEG assets (at least, not in the trial which is what I'm using--the files import, but the transcription "analyze" button is grayed out), I used Soundbooth to convert it to a 48kHz, 32-bit floating point WAV. I created a couple of copies, so that each one would have its own transcription metadata. I always used the High quality (slower) option.
I ran the test four times, as follows:
Just the WAV, without a reference script
The WAV with a verbatim reference script as a text document (.txt), with "Script Text Matches Recorded Dialogue" option checked
The WAV with a verbatim reference script as an Adobe Story script document (.astx), with "Script Text Matches Recorded Dialogue" option checked
The original MP3 in Soundbooth CS4
I've linked to a text document with the results of these tests (no editing), along with the original text from the script, if you're interested in seeing how they stack up: right-click and save as.
As one would imagine, #1 (no script) was... not perfect. However, I think it did a decent enough job for most purposes. Granted, this was a professionally-recorded voiceover, with not competing background noise, but it was still marginally useful. What's funny to note is that the transcription process seems to trip up every now and again and then it seems to lose its momentum for awhile. It'll bobble a "difficult" word, and then for half-a-dozen words following, it's all over the place. Once it regains its footing, though, it'll be pretty much spot on for a sentence or so. Unfortunately, this repeats, but again I think you could make use of it.
For #2, the transcription was LEAGUES better... but still not perfect. That part is bewildering to me. The transcription generated a couple weird passages--for example "Enjoy" became "and Gillian"--which I could understand if there was NO reference script. However, my impression of how the reference script should work--particularly if the "Script Text Matches Recorded Dialogue" option is activated--is that the transcription should basically copy and paste the reference script into the metadata, NOT invent words and phrases that don't exist in either the script or the dialogue/speech. This process actually preserved capitalization (though punctuation was discarded), so that means it is definitely using that reference script; there is no way to discern capitalization from the spoken word.
I thought that maybe, just maybe, I could eliminate the anomalies by using Adobe's own script format, generated by the new Adobe Story--hence test #3. I copied and pasted the text into a new Story script, downloaded the ASTX file, and used that as a reference script as above. Unfortunately, it fared no better than the text document (I suppose this makes sense, but I was hoping...), but it was still about 98+% accurate. I'm reasonably satisfied.
For giggles, I tried test #4, where I used Soundbooth CS4 to transcribe the original MP3 file. Since CS4 doesn't have the reference script capability, this would more or less pit the transcription engine in CS4 against that in CS5. As expected, it turn the dialogue into textual chop suey, BUT... it actually did BETTER than CS5 sans reference script did on some phrases! Observe:
Original script: Our Club is YOUR CLUB.
CS5, no script: our love is your laugh
CS4, no script: our club is your class
Mish-mash that only Mad Libs could love! For the record, the tests that used the reference scripts were spot-on, capitalization included.
So, I'm feeling better about using this for the massive documentary and archival project I'm about to embark upon. I have human-typed transcripts for most of the interviews in this project--over 100 interviews, constituting some 200-plus hours--and keeping that text with the footage is going to be a great thing. There are some flaky things--I wish the punctuation could be preserved--but all in all, the reference script addition seems to make this feature much more plausible in a working production environment.

Did you link the Adobe story script through OnLocation? For some reason this is required (to my knowledge) to do an exact match.
When you import an adobe story script into OnLocation; it creates a shot list that is linked to the script. You then either shoot footage ot fill the shot list; OR link existing assetts to the shot list. This creates the linkage between the adobe story script and the shot list.
If you just add itin premire; I think it is the same as just linking a text file. But if you have ONE assett to ONE script; perhaps you will get the same results anyway. In Onlocation you can link multiple assets to one script.
Then all this metadata come in to Pr script attached.
Some more details pasted from Help:
Improve speech analysis with Adobe Story, OnLocation, and Adobe Premiere Pro
You can use Adobe Story, OnLocation, and Adobe Premiere Pro to create the most accurate speech analysis. Import a script written in Adobe Story into OnLocation. OnLocation produces a list of shot placeholders for each scene. Either record these shots using OnLocation during production, or link the placeholder shots to their respective video files when you import the video files into OnLocation. In either case, OnLocation embeds the text for each shot from the original script into the metadata of the shot.
When you import the clips into Adobe Premiere Pro, it automatically uses the Adobe Story script as a reference script. When Adobe Premiere Pro finds enough matches with the embedded script, Adobe Premiere Pro replaces the analyzed speech text with the embedded script text. Adobe Premiere Pro carries over correct spelling, proper names, and punctuation from the reference script, benefits that standard speech analysis cannot provide.
The closeness of the match between the embedded script text and the recorded dialog determines the accuracy of matched-script text. If 100% accuracy is important, edit and revise the script text first. Ensure that the script matches the recorded dialog before using it as a reference script.

PPro CS5: Titles have wrong color and thickness in Timeline

Hi there
if i'm writing a Title in PPro CS5, everything is ok and like in PPro CS4 in the Title-Window. Then i'm changing to the Timeline and the Title gets bright and thin in the Program Window. The Title has not it's origin color, as selected in the Title-Window. Also it has a different thickniss, it is hard to read on TV.
Here is a Screenshot of the Title in the Title-Window (picture above with green border) and the Title in the Timeline-Program Window (picture below with red border):
http://666kb.com/i/bj4dbxa1nxbv53s6b.jpg
Anyone here has this problem too?
Thanks.

I found out something important. Having the Titles rendered with the Mercury Playback Engine ON causes the problem. Turning it OFF and the titles are the same as shown in the Title Window or in PPro CS4. I'm using a Zotac GTX 285.
Anyone here has the same problem?
Thanks.

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