[Daniel Levy]

Thanks! This looks very promising!

Daniel

[Daniel Levy]

I contacted AJA today. They said they’ll release drivers for CS4 in the first quarter.

Patience isn’t one of my strengths…

[Daniel Levy]

That’s exactly what I did. I created clips in Premiere and they play back beautifully there and in Machina.

However in Vegas 8.0c, there’s a >2 second AV sync offset. I’ve tried shifting the video and audio back and forth to visually synchronize, but that’s a pain with each clip. Has to be a better way.

I’ve made Quicktime files in Premiere.

[Daniel Levy]

Thanks Tim. I did post the question at the Vegas forum too. So far, not much help.

I did get Premiere to work fine when I produced Quicktime files instead of AVIs. I noticed that Premiere has a ton of input and output settings specifically geared for the AJA card, whereas Vegas has a scant few.

Sadly also, tech support at AJA has very little knowledge of Vegas. Looks like Sony has not spent the time to gain a high-degree of compatibility with that company nor with customers.

[Daniel Levy]

Monica,

In response to several of your questions:

1) You should render file as an MPEG2. That’s the standard DVD format, and is compressed over an AVI. As Douglas noted, you can choose the amount of compression in producing the MPEG2 in order to make it fit on a standard DVD.

2) In that vein, I’d recommend a dual-layer burner, which gives you 9 GB capacity. DVD Architect Pro 5.0 which comes with Vegas Pro 8.0 works very well in producing such discs. With that software, you can even produce files for professional in-house duplication.

3) My earlier comment about producing a Blu-Ray disc was based on having an MPEG2 file of 14 GB size. Sounds like that’s not an issue for you. To answer your question though, you would need a Blu-Ray DVD reader in your computer to read such a disc, not a standard DVD reader.

[Daniel Levy]

Thanks for your thoughts, Steve.

[Daniel Levy]

When I capture in Premier, I can scrub through the resultant source clip and hear sound fine. Plus the AV sync is spot-on. Excellent! An enormous improvement over Vegas!

However, when I drop the clip into the timeline and try to play it from there, I hear nothing. How do I tun on audio in the timeline?

Thanks for helping a novice with this software. I’ve previously edited extensively with Velocity and I had no such issues.

[Daniel Levy]

Curious, why don’t you burn a Blu-Ray disc instead of standard DVD?

[Daniel Levy]

I downloaded a trial version of Premier, and the setup is definitely more straightforward than in Vegas. I can see that the Xena board is made to go with it.

With Premier, both video and audio captures but I don’t hear audio from the balanced analog audio outputs. I can see the VU meters bouncing with the video playback, but hear nothing. Very confusing as Machina plays fine through those connections.

I’m routing through a Mackie mixer.