Re: Premier CS3 with AJA Xena... please help.

Thank you very much for responding.

While I understand that the Xena product (in this case LH) is designed for HD-SDI and component analog capture; the AJA presets includes HDV presets which I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) are designed to facilitate live playback of the Program Timeline from Premier over either HD-SDI, component, live conversion to SD, etc.

As you may know , the above-mentioned competitor you had experience with is now an AJA-based system and allows you to output multiple streams with selectable resolution and aspect ratio. Please let me know if the same arrangement can be set up with Xena and Premier.

Premier worked like a charm before we began shooting HDV 720. As an SD system Premier by itself (without AJA) ran great and provided no cause for complaint.

The issue may be related to the HDV 720 format in general rather than a Premier or Xena problem, but here goes:

I have never been able to capture HDV material over firewire into Premier without the app freezing up at the end of capture. Then I am forced to close Premier with a "Program not Responding" dialog. Then I open the project again, and import the file from the capture bin, hoping that it isn't a corrupt file. Even succesfully captured files take several minutes to import into the Project bin.

I am using an internally configured RAID in a 4-core Windows XP workstation with 8GB memory and 2TB storage.

CS3, Windows XP, and AJA updates are all current (unless AJA has made an update release in the past two weeks). I have carefully examined my deck settings and firmware updates are current.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read this post.

I really appreciate it.

Max Federman
However, these problems occur on another CS3 system that hads standard internal drives and no Xena card.