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*NEW* XENA 3.1 software available now
Hello,
We are pleased to announce a new software update for the entire XENA line, bringing many new features and capabilities!
___________________________________________________*NEW XENA 3.1 SOFTWARE AVAILABLE NOW*
Available today at the Support section of our website is the new version 3.1 software for the XENA lineup. This latest important release adds Microsoft Vista 64 support.
*New Features Include:*
– Support added for Windows Vista (64-Bit)
A new Vista installer is available on the AJA website– Machina now supports Vista 64
– XENA on Windows using the non-beta version of Bootcamp (Mac OS 10.5
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Hi guys,
A quick question. I have a dual boot system with CineForm/AJA OEM on one side and AJA Retail on the other.
If I update the retail side, will the OEM side be adversely affected by the “configuration” criteria you mention?
Thanks
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
http://www.focalpress.com
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Does the XENA LHe support Adobe Premiere CS3? We are unable to view video output via the RGB output cables, have a second card from AJA still with the same results. Is there a plugin we are missing? Looking at the latest download from AJA the contents do not show CS3. They show Adobe 2.0 and 3.0 but no CS3, is this card comptable with Adobe CS3? Thanks in advance for the help!
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What kind of media Ray? I have no problems at all, viewing my CS3 timeline through the component outputs of the Xena LH.
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Hi Jeron,
At this point we are just trying to get “Bars” to display on our output monitor through the “Machina”. All is fine on the computer monitor just no output on the large HD LCD monitor. AJA sent us a second card which does the same thing as our original card. I have been editing with Adobe 6.5 for years and display only the output video (no timeline) on my monitor so clients can see the finished product. Thanks in advance for any suggestions you may have.
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If you can provide us enough information to duplicate what you are doing, someone can try it and tell you what results they get.
For instance, If I can’t get the display to work following your specific concise instructions, then I might be able to tweak with the system and try to get it to work and share that information with you. In fact, it might be obvious that you aren’t tweaking value X on screen Y…
I’m a software developer with a video editing hobby, so bear with me when it comes to my ignorance with terminology. I do know that I found the Machina interface to not be very intuitive. Some of the simplest things I tried with it didn’t seem as easy as they should to do.
[Ray Asturias] “At this point we are just trying to get “Bars” to display on our output monitor through the “Machina”.”
…I don’t understand how I can duplicate this operation. I can imagine a video clip of just “color bars” loaded into Machina that you are trying to display out of the Aja Xena card. If that is the case, then I’m back to my “what type of media or video format are you trying to view through the card?” question.
Furthermore I don’t know what you mean by “RGB output cables” in this post…
[Ray Asturias] “We are unable to view video output via the RGB output cables, have a second card from AJA still with the same results.”
…my assumption is that you are talking about the Component Output cables. I’m sure you have the correct cables and they are working properly. I remember at one point, I had the wrong cables which I think had the wrong impedance value and I couldn’t get a signal.
Please provide us with clear, concise, step-by-step directions to duplicate the behavior you are experiencing.
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We are also having problems with Premiere CS3 and Xena LHe. Have tried to install the latest drivers v3.1.0 as well as v3.0.1 both on a WinXP Pro x64 and on a WinXP Pro x86, and although the presets files are installed, when trying to open a new project it shows the folder “AJA Xena” but not the presets in that folder. Also it does not show the card in the capture settings, but on the other hand it shows Xena ASIO in audio settings. On After Effects it seems fine. Have contacted AJA support on this matter and I hope they will resolve this soon because I don’t want to have both Premiere CS3 and CS2 installed on the workstation.
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Hello Jeron,
AJA shipped us a new breakout cable and that was the problem. We now are able to output the RGB signal to the HD monitor. Next project is to get the output monitor to display along with the computer monitor through CS3. I’m sure it is just a matter of finding the correct settings through CS3, thank you for your help!
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Tasos,
You didn’t happen to install the new Xena drivers in between the time that PPro CS2 was uninstalled and CS3 PPro was installed did you?
If the plugs show up in AE (and/or Photoshop) but not PPro, this would be the first item I’d check.
If not, did the installer end up putting the Ppro plugins in a different directory for some reason?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
http://www.focalpress.com
http://www.classondemand.net -
[Ray Asturias] “Next project is to get the output monitor to display along with the computer monitor through CS3. I’m sure it is just a matter of finding the correct settings through CS3”
Hmmm…I’m not sure that’s the case. The deal with Windows as I understand it and have encountered it is that there is only one “overlay” layer. That layer can go out to a video I/O card like the Xena…or any other card, OR you can route it to completely occupy a computer display connected to one of your display cards. (I’m not talking about the “program” panel inside the PPro interface of course.)
Have you gotten a Xena out put as well as a full screen computer display overlay simultaneously before the issues you posted about? If so, I’d be interested in how you did that as I’d like to be able to do the same thing.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Creative Cow Host,
Author/Trainer
http://www.focalpress.com
http://www.classondemand.net -
The installation of CS3 was while building a new machine, so there was no CS2 before. After the CS3 installation I installed the Xena drivers. The plugins/presets go to the proper directory, but Premiere CS3 cannot “see” them.
If I take a presets file from another directory and place it along with the AJA Xena presets files, then it will see the presets I place but still not the AJA ones, so for some reason (as I can understand this), Premiere cannot read the AJA presets. I even tried to manually put the CS2 presets in CS3 but still nothing.
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