#PAR MCI Drivers?
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To All,
Will the new MCI Drivers for the PAR allow us to use Adobe Premiere as a video
editor instead of Razor Pro? I'm getting a PAR soon and will need to get Razor
Pro unless Premiere is an alternative. Any comments about the two programs
would be helpfull.
Thanks
Scott
Scott –
And anyone else who posts technical questions over the weekend. Autodesk will
be closed until Wednesday AM so you won't get any answers until then. Unless
some of the TMs in training or other members answer, Jonas, Nik and Brian are
all off barbecuing something!
Have a nice fourth!
Anne
Hi Anne,
<< Jonas, Nik and Brian are all off barbecuing something! >>
I don't know about the other two.. but I'm not barbecuing anything.
<< Will the new MCI Drivers for the PAR allow us to use Adobe Premiere as a
video editor instead of Razor Pro? >>
The PAR is not an Autodesk product. This type of question is open to the
general forum membership to answer.
jonas[adesk]
Scott – 2 AM in the morning in San Diego, and I am struggling with the same
question. I have downloaded the new MCI drivers from the library and,
According to the documentation, Premiere 4.0a will work with the new PAR
drivers. However, 4.0a is not yet shipping. There are some suggestions on how
to get 4.0 to work, but it hasn't done the trick for me yet!
The new drivers also come with routines to convert .ANI files to .AVI.
I can't seem to get Premiere to recognize the converted files, either. Neither
does the PAR Windows player. It claims it cannot find a driver for the .AVI
file.
Any advice that anyone can offer ASAP would be deeply apprecated. I am going
home to get a couple of hours sleep . . . hope to see some responses when I
return.
Dennis,
Thanks for the info, it sounds like you're in untested waters. In order to get
the PAR system up and running I think I'll stick with Razor for now. Good
luck.
Scott
I appreciate your good wishes. Hopefully someone out there is watching and has
an answer to this problem. I just got back in to the office – 2 hrs. sleep
doesn't go very far. I will stash your address in my system. When I have this
thing licked I'll pass it along.
Dennis,
I didn't see your original message, but what is exactly your problem. I can
assure you that the new DPS software with MCI drivers and AVI support works
with Adobe Premiere 4.0 ( yes I type 4.0 and not yet 4.0a who will be released
within a few weeks). Can you give me some further details what are the
problems. Maybe you have one of the older PAR boards without the decimator
chip. In this case contact the DPS folks to get the chip. Newer PAR boards have
already the chip on board.
Razor Pro is also a good alternative – it works directly with the PAR without
the intermediate AVI step – but I slightly prefer Adobe Premiere 4.0 because of
it richness of features, effects, transitiions, GOOD documentations and a
Deluxe CD-ROM with tons of megabytes of good stuff.
Emmanuel / Creative Computing
I agree with your estimation of Premiere. From the short look that I had at it,
it definitrly appears to be feature-rich.
As to specs on the system that I am using, it's your standard P100 running WFWG
3.11. The PAR does have the decimator chip. I initially had problems getting
Premiere to run under WFWG 3.11, due to a conflict with the drivers for the
Matrox Marvel II board in the system. Installing Win 3.11 and the Mvl II
drivers resolved that problem.
All of the pieces are in place, it's just a matter of learning how they fit
together. I believe my problem to be in the setting of the proper parameters
for the AVI CODEC.
So, I am printing out the documentation, will give it more attention than I did
when I was fighting the deadline, and see how things work
Dennis:
I tested Premiere 4.0 with the PAR MCI drivers, and they work quite well
(except that I have to toy around with field ordering). You have to: 1. Be
sure to have the PAR decimation chip installed 2. Install the PAR MCI drivers
using the DPS installer. 3. Use PAR2AVI to convert the PAR resident clips to
AVI (it makes an AVI whose
frames are pointers to the PAR resident .ani files) 4. Make your work with
Premiere and make the AVI output file (this copies the
unmodified frames, and creates in the PAR a temporal .ani file with only
the transition, effects, etc. frames.) 5. Run the AVI2PAR programs, which
reassembles in the PAR the output AVI file.
You have to be very careful where you put the files (the .avi must be in a dos
drive, and the result .ani files from AVI2PAR in a project directory in the
PAR, not in the root). Look at the various file path default setting in the
support programs, as they can cause problems.
BTW, I have also RazorPro. It's faster and easier to work with it than with
Premiere on the PAR, but it lacks a lot of features, and is far less
documented. Unless In:Sync comes with better upgrades, they will have a heavy
competition from Adobe. And who knows how it will be with the PVR.
Also, GO ADOBEA for recent threads about Premiere/PAR MCI drivers.
Vanny.
Vanny – Thanks for the response. The PAR we have does have the Decimator on it,
so we are fine on that point. The installation of the PAR MCI drivers went off
without a hitch, and PAR control works fine. The problem that I have is
understanding the relationships between the PAR CODEC configuration parameters
and the AVI conversion programs.
Now that I have had a couple of nights to catch up on sleep, my thought
processes are working a little better. I guess it's time to give it another
shot.
By the way, another problem I had with this setup was a conflict between the
drivers for the Matrox Marvel II board and ADobe Premiere. Re-installing
Windows and the Mvl II drivers eventually cleared it up.