[Darren Christianson]

Yes, I just loaded premiere 4.2 updates, Quicktime the newest version, updated media encoder,and installed the 4.2 AJA Xena Driver,as instructed by the release notes. I’m running 64bit Vista with two quad core intel’s and 16GB of RAM.

I’m running it through some test. It seems to do well as long as everything in the sequence is native framerate,frame size, etc for the sequence.

It’s all good until I tried to mix and scale video footage in a sequence. It seems that it has some distinct playback issues with scaled footage in certain types of sequences namely, 1080i sequences. It hangs and loops the top 1/4 of the screen when scaling footage. I’m working with mixed HD and SD 24p footage. I have been experimenting and got better results when using the AJA preset for 1080p/sf 23.97 sequence. I am now working with interpreting the footage in several configurations to see if I get better results with other preset sequences. I’ll post what I find over the next couple of days.

[Darren Christianson]

Well…Got back to it later today. Swapped around the AJA card into a different PCI slot. Loaded the 3.5 AJA drive and voila! Loaded without a single hitch. So. my PCI slot selection was the hitch. It was great. Machina seems to be working, but alas Premiere CS4 doesn’t see the card. Any clues?

[Darren Christianson]

I’m currently waiting for AJA’s official Response. I’m sure it will be to simply …uhh…update to uhhh VISTA 64. Not what I want to hear, but probably the answer I will get.

I have only found second hand references on the web to people using xp64 with xena. i.e. https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/217/986.
No one with first hand knowledge.

I think it is probalby possible to use XP64 with XENA, and my suspicion is that windows is crashing the xena Vista64bit driver, becuase it is not “LOGO” certified (meaning they didn’t pay the ransom money to microsoft) and furthermore Microsoft doesn’t want to support its own product. It’s a wonderfuly stable and dependable system. I like it. CS4 is working brilliantly with XP64.

I’m sure there is some magic button or WINDOWS service that needs to be disabled during installation, but I’m waiting for the answer to that one Or some other magic spell. Geez. Why can’t we all just get along.

I’ll probably find myself installing VISTA64 (also this week), crossing my fingers that it is compatible with all my other software, hardware, motherboards, raid controllers, etc. GEEZ.

Maybe the new sales team at AJA will see that many in the media industry prefers XP64 to Vista64 and push to make XP64 a viable option for its XENA customers. I mean isn’t about what the customer wants. Is there a fix for using Xena with XP64? Anyone. Anyone.