[Juergen]

As far as I know you have first to set up your system hardware properly, means first installthe harddrives and create your Raid. Attention: I lost 2 months ago two projects because in my Raid0 one HDD crashed. If you work commercially use Raid5.

Storm Edit, Storm Video, Storm Audio software package: Those are outdated softwarwe packages from Canopus. I think they are not supported any more. You could use them to do quick and rough cuts in realtime. I never used them, as I always captured in AVI2 format and worked in PPro. Anyway: This programs would come last.

Secondly I would install PPro, as this is needed to copy the Canopus plugins later on into the right foulder.

Than you can install the canopus dirver software and plugins. First you want to find out whether you have a Strom I or a Storm II, before you go to the Canopus download section and download the latest driver for Strom and Adone Permiere Pro 1.5.

last not least you can install the additional canopus software if you want.

This sequence of installation was as well erported to work fine:
– OS (Win XP)
-SP 2
– device drivers: Chipset,Grafic- card,Sound-card,Raidcontroller,LAN,Storm 2
-Premiere 1.5
-Premiere Plugin
-Storm 2 update
-Video out Plugin
-MPEG Craft LE (CD, s.o.)
-Procoder Express (CD)
-Mpeg Craft Update
– all remaining patches

Hope this helped.

cheers
Juergen

Do I install this first, or does PPro go on first?

I also received a HighPoint ATA Raid Management Software to control my multiple hard drives for video capturing.

At what stage do I install the HighPoint?

[Juergen]

Which version of PPro? For PPro 1.x you may simply download the driver from the Canopus support site and install it after the PPro installation.

For PPro 2 you might have bad luck. One of both sides, either Canopus or Adobe, seems to have no more interest on OEM business. This is why there is no driver available for the new Premiere version.

regards
Juergen

[Juergen]

Thank you Greg.

Unfortunately it does not work. even with the registry hack I goggled it seems not to work with Cs2.

many regards
Juergen

[Juergen]

Thanks for reply. You described exactly what I want to do. But if I copy the mask imager into the layer mask, PS created a new layer with it.
Does an image for a layer mask need to have a specific format or size to go into the layer mask?

Juergen