Problem with, Sound delay, Machina and Cineform XENA LHi

Hello

I have now tested my new XENA LHi card some more in CS4 Premiere Pro 4.1 and this is my report of what’s working and not working. I know CS4

Premiere Pro 4.1 is very unstable so I can’t blame AJA for everything and frankly let’s hope the upcoming v4.2 of Premiere is finally making the CS4

stable, now to the issues that I have with AJA.

1.When I play my clips in the timeline (new AJA SEQ 720p 25frame) the audio is out of sync compare to the picture, it can drift as much as 2-3 second

but it could also play nicely in perfect sync for a while, now this is very random and unexpected. For the most of time it’s out of sync and this is when I

use AJA ASIO driver in the sound hardware setup inside premiere?

I also would like to claim that this AJA ASIO driver is very poor written, it’s not stable and won’t even turn up in my sound manager or for that matter in

my music DAW. I have never ever seen an ASIO driver that not has appeared in my music DAW system like Steinberg Nuendo/Cubase (and I have

been using ASIO since the Stone Age). In every ASIO driver I used I’ve been given the option to have control of the latency (buffer) but AJA has not

even given me these option, please tell me why?

I have also tried my other card “Decklink Intensity Pro” and it has no problem of playing the same files in perfect sync (sound and video).

2.The “Machina” is acting very strange, when I play a 720p 25frame AVI file I get no picture in the Machina window (just the AJA logo) but I get a

SDI-out picture and HDMI picture? The software panel “Machina” is actually freezing when I maximize the window, and the only way to close the

program is to use the task manager and end the program there?

3.I have the CineForm “Prospect HD” and it’s suppose to work with AJA and it sort of does. I select a new AJA sequence AJA HD 1280 x 720 aspect

ratio to Square Pixels (1.0) and bring in the clips on the timeline (1280 x 720 25p AVI) and I get the red line above the clips? Isn’t it suppose to work

right away without these redline, I can’t even render these files or put some effects on it and then try to render again without success?
I can play these files from timeline thought, but as stated above with big sound delay?

4.When I try to make a custom project and click on the “AJA setup button” premiere crash, but if I instead skip that part and make these changes later

it’s all fine to press this AJA setup button without any crash?

5.Why does AJA only support (or show) Nvidia graphic card, the new AMD Radeon 5870 is lightning fast?

My computer spec:

(I have a compared this setup to what AJA has on their site and I think this is by far a faster computer setup, Decklink has no problem to play 4 track or

more Simultaneously of full 4.2.2 1920 x 1080p):

AJA XENA LHi with 4.1.3 software
CineForm Prospect HD v4.10
Processor: Intel i7 920
Motherboard: ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 with the latest BIOS 06.04
RAM: Corsair 12GB at speed 1600 (tested with Memtest 86+ in 8 passes)
Raid Card: Adaptec 3085 with 8 x 320Gb in a raid 5
System (C:): SSD Intel X25-M G2 80GB
Graphic Card: AMD/ATI 5870
Operating System: Windows Vista64 Ultimate with all the latest updates (SP2) (this is a clean installation).
NLE: Adobe CS4 with all the latest updates

Best Regards
Mikael Bergstrom
Sweden