Decklink Drivers for CS4!

[Kristian Lam]

Hi Brett,

Noted 😉

regards

Kristian Lam
Blackmagic Design

[Craig Howard]

Call me cynical but…I doubt we will ever see a driver for Premiere CS4.

Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

Adobe CS3 Premiere Pro Production Premium Suite
Windows XP32:Assus P5k Mob,4mb Ram, 1333 fsb
P2 Workflows

[Brett Howe]

Craig….your’e cynical!

Please explain your conspiracy theory????

Brett Howe
Creative Director / Producer
Brave Vision Pty Ltd

[Craig Howard]

I have seen an Adobe Version upgrade create unsurmaountable problems for software developers to overcome in the past.

My guess is that the issues with CS4 Playback and Scrub could be causing BM a headache.

Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

Adobe CS3 Premiere Pro Production Premium Suite
Windows XP32:Assus P5k Mob,4mb Ram, 1333 fsb
P2 Workflows

[Anthony Smith]

I’m taking my PCI-X Decklink out of my recently fried G5 Mac (with FCP) and putting it in a newly built PC. However, I’ve just discovered that CS4 isn’t supported.
Trying to find a copy of CS3 to purchase is nigh on impossible. What to do ?

Flicking through the latest B&H catalogue, I’ve noticed that they’re offering turnkey systems featuring Blackmagic products bundled with CS4….what gives ?

Smudge

[George Sey]

I believe you Buddy. It looks like CS4 as a whole is stronger without the Decklinks. so Decklink might end at CS3.

[Randy Johnson]

I spoke to someone at BMD today they said about a month. Maybe a little more. Maybe id better send my Intensity pro back just in case while I still can. I only have CS4 and have no interest in going backwards.

Randy

Randy Johnson
Rando1968@comcast.net

[Bill Buchanan]

Hmmm. Familiar refrain from an organization close to going belly up, which I hope is not the case. That said, time to consider AJA et al solutions.

Bill Buchanan
Buchanan Film Co

[Kristian Lam]

Hi,

I can go on the record and say that we are committed to CS4 support but there are major architectural changes going from CS3 to CS4 which requires a lot of work to be done. Unfortunately, we can’t provide a date at this point as there are factors beyond our control which will affect when we can ship. Hopefully, I will have more information in the next few days.

As for us going belly up? Sorry, we’re planning to hang around for a while 😉

regards

Kristian Lam
Blackmagic Design

[Bill Buchanan]

I thought my post would get your attention. I’m not the least concerned about BMD’s issues with the “major architectural changes going from CS3 to CS4…” That is BMD’s problem and only BMD’s problem. Such a lame, amateurish excuse is the equivalent of me telling a client/broadcaster that I can’t make a deadline for deliverables because I have a software or some other problem. That’s not their problem; it’s mine and I would and should suffer the consequences.

In my view, BMD should have had a driver out for CS4 a long time ago. Though CS4 is still considered by many pros to be an ‘alternative’ editing app, I find it in most ways a professional editing tool that rivals if not equals FCP and Avid.

Come on. Get your engineers off your asses and get that driver out, please.

Bill Buchanan
Buchanan Film Co