Decklink Drivers for CS4!

[Brett Howe]

I started this post, as like many others I was frustrated with the progress on the driver front, and fair enough.

Firtly, Kristian, thankyou for keeping us in the loop. It would be much easier to hide out until the drivers arrive, but I think most people here at the cow appreciate the contact.

But Bill, your rhetoric is way mis-directed. And as for speculating on BM’s business future…it sounds like you work for martox!

NOBODY HAS RELEASED DRIVERS FOR CS4!

Not AJA, Not Matrox, Not Bluefish444, Nobody. So before you stick the boot in, why don’t you do a little research.

I have been working on a magazine article, and I have had several “off the record” comments along these lines.

I, as you all, would have assumed, that third party developers had access SDK’s to begin the support process well before the release of the product. It seems likely, that this was not the case, as the premiere release required the .1 update to even cater for third party driver support.

It was alsoo ADOBE who stated on their website, support from 3rd party cards for CS4. The card manufactures themselves, have made no such claim as yet. Interstingly, I think we need to define the term support…as apposed to AVAILABLE NOW.

And thirdly, If you have CS4, you would have noticed some differences right away. The initial setup of a project is new, to cater for the use of multiple resolution sequences in the same project, plus all outputs are exported through the media encoder now. These two issues alone require many software changes from the existing system.

So I can see the issues, and although I don’t like them, and I’m dissapointed I can’t use CS4 to the capacity I’d like, referring to them as lame and ametuerish excuses, is like telling a mechanic he’s crap because he can’t fit the chevy gearbox into your mitsubishi!

Maybe you can tell your clients instead, that the worlds largest creative software company has spread it’s own recources so thin, that in a desperte attempt to get another release out to generate more revenue for it’s share-holders, it forgot, or chose not to implememnt the very things that allowed it to become a professional option in the first place…allegedly!!

Then you can also tell them that you bought it anyway, (with or without the knowledge of driver issues) hoping all would be well by the time you got it all up and running.

For you Bill, I would suggest a “demo” install of CS3, and hopefully. 30 days will be long enough to get you through.

Hey, if you spend as much time reading this, as I did writing it, the time will fly by 🙂

Brett Howe
Creative Director / Producer
Brave Vision Pty Ltd

[Steve Connor]

Really should have checked on support BEFORE you upgraded to PP4. The problem is actually yours for NOT doing your research and assuming it would work.

Steve Connor
Adrenalin Television

Have you tried “Search Posts”? Enlightenment may be there.

[Rick Godin]

Any word on the CS4 drivers? I just did the same thing: upgraded to CS4 and Vista 64bit last month, bought the Decklink card from B&H (where CS4 was displayed as an accessory purchase) and NO GO!

At least Premiere still works in Firewire mode for time being. rg

You never get hurt in the air!

[Brett Howe]

The unnofficial word is it will be available before the end of the month.

Shouldn’t have to wait too long, all going to plan.

Brett Howe
Creative Director / Producer
Brave Vision Pty Ltd

[Jeff Pulera]

The CS4 drivers for the Matrox RT.X2 card have been out for several weeks already, and I’d imagine that it would be harder to write the drivers for RT.X2 because of all the realtime Matrox effects plugins involved, it’s very tightly integrated with Premiere.

https://www.matrox.com:80/video/en/press/releases/adobe_cs4/

Regardless of the programming complexities, the hardware companies can’t leave the editors hanging for too long. There was plenty of complaining on the Matrox forum, but they delivered. Maybe the BM users need to make more noise 😉

Jeff Pulera

[Brett Howe]

Lucky Matrox owners.

Although as I understand it, the drivers were only released early this week…it’s the press release that was out in December.

I think we’ve made plenty of noise, and the BM guys have been in touch.

I think we should have them soon

Brett Howe
Creative Director / Producer
Brave Vision Pty Ltd