Yes Norman. I have since discovered the MX O2 Mini will only work with Adobe. Matrox and Adobe have a fairly tight development agreement and have had for quite some time.
The new Decklink Studio
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/decklink/
May well work with Vegas with the new v9 drivers as It's designed to work under DirectShow. You wouldn't get any of the accelerated effects that you get with Premiere but if the capture / output and monitoring work this would be a good uncompressed capture board. The Sony Vegas distributor here in Australia is having a look at this option to see if it can co-exist with Vegas.
Why Sony don't get their finger out and sit down with people like Blackmagic to make sure Sony users have more than the AJA devices for output and monitoring I don't know. Both Sony and Blackmagic are missing out on sales. For Vegas to be accepted in the wider professional market it must develop more hardware interfacing.
From Sony's point if they wish to promote an even wider acceptance of the XDCam file based work flow and help sales of XDCam hardware the more complete Vegas becomes Sony can only benefit. To help towards that end uncompressed support of SD and HD is important. We shoot almost exclusively with XDCam and edit native MXF, have done so now for the last two years. Yet for network delivery we still have to deliver on Digi-Beta for SD and HDCam for HD. This requires SDI / HDSDI uncompressed I/O.
I look with a certain amount of envy towards Premiere and FCP with their wider range of hardware interfacing. Sad when you stop to think that Vegas is as good and in many ways far better than either of those as a craft editor. Without further hardware interfacing Vegas as good as it is will float around on the edge of the Pro market and sadly will never quite fulfil its true potential.
Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney
