RELEASE NOTES DPS PERCEPTION VIDEO RECORDER (PVR) VERSION 2.61 Release Date: March 30, 1999 _________________________________________ NOTE: An Adobe Acrobat version of this "readme" is provided with the PVR software. It is on Disk 1 of the setup diskettes, and is installed in the DPS\PVR\Help directory. If you have the Adobe Acrobat reader installed, we recommend that you view the Acrobat version of this file. _________________________________________ Thank you for choosing DPS! We believe that our products are the best available, but we know that there is always room for improvement. If you have an idea or a suggestion that you'd like us to consider, please send it to <suggestionbox@dps.com>. We would be glad to hear from you. NOTE: If you are using the CD-ROM to install this software on a DEC Alpha system, the CD-ROM Autorun feature will not operate correctly. Simply run the Setup.exe program in the folder <PVR\Alpha\Disk1>. Contents 1. What's New in PVR 2.61 2. System Requirements 3. How to use the RS-422 Deck (VTR) Emulation Mode 4. How to use A4V Timecode Support 5. Previously Released Information Not Available in the Manual 1. What's New in PVR 2.61 Welcome to PVR Version 2.61! In this version you will find a number of improvements and bug fixes: A4V Timecode Support Perception Player now includes full support for the A4V's timecode capabilities. With an A4V audio card installed in your system and the new A4V software (1.22 or higher), you can now capture timecode during recording and output timecode during playback. Both VITC and LTC are supported. Please see section 4 "How to use A4V Timecode Support" for more information. Disk Repair and Recovery A new tool has been added to Perception Player that performs an in-place disk recovery procedure on your PVR drive. This procedure will completely fix any directory integrity problems, and will also salvage any lost files that are intact on your drive, including deleted files. The procedure is safe to run at any time (it will never delete existing files) and will not harm a healthy disk. To activate this new recovery function, select the disk you wish to perform the recovery on and choose the menu Disk - Repair/Recover. Long Filename Support Perception Player (and the Codec utilities) now properly support long filenames with mixed upper and lower case. 48 kHz Audio Support Support for 48kHz audio has been added for both playback and record. Under menu Settings - Audio Play Settings and Audio Record Settings, you can now select 48kHz if your audio card supports it. Automatic Loading of Playlist Perception Player can now automatically load a playlist when it launches. There are three ways to do this. Under the new Settings - Preferences - Startup menu, you can specify a playlist to load. Or, you can specify the filename as a command line argument to Percplay.exe. Or, you can launch Perception Player with a specific playlist by double-clicking on the PLY file. Automatic Activation of Deck Emulation When Perception Player starts up with automatic loading of a playlist (as described above), it can also immediately enter into deck emulation mode. Select this option from menu Settings - Preferences - Startup. This makes it easy to build a turn-key system for remote operation. Multiple PVR Support The new Perception driver has support for multiple PVRs. If you have more than one PVR installed in your system, you can launch multiple copies of Perception Player, each independently controlling a separate PVR. Perception Player will ask you at startup which device you wish to control. Date/Time Preservation Copying files to and from the Perception drive now keeps the same date/time stamp. "Full" Disk Format Option When formatting a PVR drive (menu Disk - Format), you now have a choice between a "normal" and "full" format. A normal format behaves as it always has: the drive is "erased" but the file entries are still available to be undeleted if needed. However with a full format, the entire directory area of the PVR drive is erased, meaning that there will be no trace of any of the files left. (The raw JPEG data will remain on the drive, although it will not be accessible.) This function is provided mostly for security purposes, since after performing a full format the Recover utility will be unable to find anything to salvage. (Please note that a full format is not the same as actually formatting every sector of the disk, which is generally unnecessary.) Trimming of PVD (and WAV / AVI / AVC) Files A "trim" capability has been added that permanently trims existing files. (Menu File - Trim) The trim function uses the currently selected in/out-points to truncate the front and back of a PVD file, as well as any associated WAV, AVI, and AVC files. Captured files can be pre-trimmed before they are imported into a third party editing program. (Please be aware that the trim is permanent and cannot be undone.) File Deletion It is now possible to easily delete PVD files along with their associated WAV, AVI, and AVC files from directly within Perception Player. (Menu File - Delete) Selecting this option will prompt you for the files to delete, then delete them from your PVR drive and system drive. (Please be aware that the delete is permanent and cannot be undone.) File Setting for RGB Export (NTSC only) When exporting frames of a PVD as RGB images, the Perception driver must know whether the PVD file was rendered with superblack (meaning the entire 0 - 100 IRE range is used) or without superblack (meaning only 7.5 - 100 IRE is used) in order to perform the conversion from YUV to RGB. This "superblack" flag is stored internally as part of the PVD. A new export settings function (menu File - File Settings) has been added to let you toggle this flag for any PVD as needed. With a file tagged as having superblack, RGB black (0,0,0) corresponds to 0 IRE. With a file tagged as not having superblack, RGB black corresponds to 7.5 IRE. Note that RGB white (255,255,255) always corresponds to 100 IRE. Automatic Reloading of Audio This function (Menu File - Reload Audio) finds the associated WAV or AVI file for the currently selected PVD file, and automatically opens it. For example, this is useful if you have just selected a PVD file from one of the dropdown comboboxes. Targeted Audio Devices If you have more than one audio card installed, you can now specifically choose which device to use for playback (menu Settings - Audio Play Settings) and which device to use for record (menu Settings - Audio Record Settings). If you wish for Windows NT to choose the best device, use Wave Mapper, and NT will select the first available device that can support the given format. Separate Speed for Audio Playback You can now specify a separate speed (in frames per second) for audio playback versus video playback. In menu Settings - Audio Play Settings, if the Use Audio FPS checkbox is selected, the audio will playback at the speed specified. Otherwise, audio will playback at the same speed as the video. Audio Offset in Frames The time offset of audio (in menu Edit - Audio) can now be specified as frames or milliseconds. GPI Delay Frames You can now specify a GPI delay that will be used during manual recording and capturing of stills. Expanded Playlist Window An option has been added to show the in/out-points of clips in the Playlist window. You can activate it by selecting the checkbox under menu Settings - Preferences - Display. Expanded Comboboxes The Folder and File dropdown comboboxes have been made wider so that more of the filename is visible. To make room for this, the Disk combobox has been removed. To select different disks, you now use the Disk menu. Operation is otherwise the same as before. Window Positions Saved Perception Player and the Playlist window now remember their positions between sessions. BUG FIXES The following bugs have been fixed: * Grab Still works now. * AVI files are generated correctly now. * General stability fix for Perception boards that use the Adaptec Rev B chip. * In deck emulation mode, the correct audio now plays for all clips. * In deck emulation mode, stopping playback on a frame no longer switches fields. * Boot problems on some motherboards (e.g. Intellistations) have been fixed. * Disk naming bug with multiple PVR drives has been fixed. * PIC and TGA file importing had a problem which has been fixed. * Changing import/export settings now takes effect immediately. * Free space on the PVR drive is updated more frequently. * Canceling the Proc Amp settings correctly resets the video levels for E-E. * Can now save partial recordings that were aborted due to an error. * GPI delay frames are stored properly in the INI file. * The naming of files (in the P: drive) with more than 10000 frames has been improved. * Bug from v2.60 fixed: Problem with occasional directory corruption has been fixed. * Bug from v2.60 fixed: Changing Video FPS when Audio FPS selected sometimes crashed. 2. System Requirements * Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 (or higher) as the operating system * A host computer system with a Pentium or higher processor, at least 32 MB of RAM, and * SVGA 800 x 600 truecolor display. * 3Mb of available system hard drive space for PVR software and working files * Administrator access * High capacity SCSI-2 AV hard drive, dedicated to the PVR 3. How to use the RS-422 Deck (VTR) Emulation Mode The improved Deck Emulation Mode will allow consistent frame accuracy when the PVR is used as a source player, if connected to an external RS-422-capable edit controller. An optional RS-232 to RS-422 adapter is required for this feature to be accessed. The DPS PVR-232/422 adapter (Part number 804-001) is recommended. Setting Up: Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 (or higher) is required. Both Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation Alpha (DEC Alpha) platforms are supported in NTSC and PAL configurations. To set up your PVR as a source player in an edit configuration the following steps are required: * If you have received this software as a "zip" file, decompress this archive to a temporary directory. * From the Start Menu (NT 4.0) select Settings, Control Panel, add new programs. * Double click on this icon, select install and follow the instructions in the Install Shield(tm) program. After installing the software you will be required to reboot your system to load the new drivers. Connect the RS-232/422 adapter to an available serial port on your computer. The serial port must be in the number range of 1 to 4 without any conflicting devices attached. Serial ports above number 4 will not work. The connection route must be: Serial Port -> RS 232/422 adapter -> RS-422 capable edit controller. If using the DPS PVR-422 adapter, make sure there is power to the adapter unit and the switch is set to the "SLAVE" position. In Settings>COM Port Control select the serial communications port you will be using in the Editing Control column and activate the "Connected" check box. Only one of the "Connected" check boxes can be active at any one time. In Settings>Remote Mode select Deck Emulation as the requested mode. Load an AVC (preferred), AVI, WAV or PVD file into the PVR player application. Connect the serial cable to your PVR and to the edit controller as described above. When you select the Remote check box on the front of the PVR player the Deck Emulation window will appear on the screen, with a STOP button. If the Deck Emulation window appears with a DISCONNECTED button, select "Cancel", check your connections and settings and set the remote check box again. The most common reasons for the "Disconnected" window appearing are: * RS-422 adapter is not receiving power; * RS-422 adapter's switch is in the "Master" position (used for batch capturing); * Serial cable is not connected; * The external edit controller is not powered on. When the PVR is in Deck Emulation mode the connection window is modal. The controls on the PVR player are not active. All transport operation is performed by the external controller. As a result of this form of operation all playback selections must be made prior to establishing the remote control connection. Selecting Cancel on the above windows or selecting Eject on many edit controllers will deactivate the remote mode and return the PVR to manual operation. User Settings: Other operator-configured options are found in the Settings>Preferences pull down menu. A new style display will appear. The two Preferences tabs that are of primary use in the deck emulation mode of the PVR are Time Code and Deck Emulation. With the Time Code tab, the operator can select a new offset, or starting time code for a clip or a playlist. For example if you have captured a clip not using batch capture, and bring the AVC file to the timeline in the PVR player, it will default to a starting time code of 00:00:00:00 (00:00:00;00 if Drop Frame is selected). With the offset utility in the Preferences>Time Code tab you can change this starting time code to any valid SMPTE time code point (EBU in PAL) by highlighting the edit box and typing in the required value. By default all play lists have a starting time code value of 00:00:00:00. With the offset utility it is possible to change the starting time code value to any valid time code in the same manner as the single clip offset described above. The offset that has been entered, or the default if no changes have been made, will be the time code displayed on the PVR player and will be the time code sent via the serial RS-422 connection to the external edit controller. The time code that is included with a batch-captured AVC can also be altered, while in the player, by this method. The other Settings>Preferences tab that is of primary use in the Deck Emulation mode is the Deck Emulation tab. The settings in this tab determine the "feel" for controlling the jog and shuttle modes. The slider marked Jog adjusts the speed and number of rotations of a shuttle knob on the external controller that jog mode will require. Experiment with different settings to get the response you feel most comfortable with. The slider marked Shuttle will determine the speed that shuttle mode will react and what will be displayed on your output monitor. In the Smooth position the shuttling will be slower but will show more frames on the output, while Jumpy will be faster but fewer frames will be displayed. The Varispeed sliders adjust the point where the jog mode is disabled and shuttle mode is activated for variable speed playback. Depending on your requirements adjusting these sliders will alter the response. The Playback and Stills tab allows you to select the playback modes for Playback and Freeze frames. Operating Tips: Tests have shown that for moving video to a freeze, the cleanest, most eye pleasing results are having Play in Full Frame mode and Freeze in Field 2 mode. This will show the final field frozen at the end of the clip, avoiding the field-interleave flicker that can appear with rapidly moving video stills. These Preferences are all user-adjustable to suit your needs. These settings can also be made using the front panel of the PVR application. Using the PVR player the clip must be playing back to set the Play mode and be on a still to set the Freeze mode. All of the above preferences must be set before selecting Remote to enable the Deck Emulation mode. The PVR Deck Emulation feature is modal and the settings are not accessible when in Remote. To run the PVR as a source player deck with an external edit controller connect the serial connection to an available control port on the edit controller and operate as you would any other machine. See the operator's manual of your edit controller for details in initializing and set up as required. Varispeed playback capabilities will be determined by the settings in the Preferences tab and by the seek abilities of your hard drive. Reverse playback is not acceptable in Frame mode and may be unreliable in field mode depending on your requirements and system. 4. How to use A4V Timecode Support To use the new built-in support for timecode, you must have a DPS Perception Audio 4 Video card installed in your system, and be running A4V software release 1.22 or later. You can verify that things are operating correctly by running Perception Player and going to the Settings - Preferences menu. You should see a new tab there called "A4V". (If you do not see this, verify your installation of A4V hardware and software.) The A4V supports both VITC and LTC timecode; however, there are a few things to be aware of. First, the timecode generator on the A4V board requires a video signal to lock to. Therefore, you must ensure that you always have a stable video signal present at the Video Input connector of the A4V. This is important even if you do not plan on using VITC or the burned-in timecode window. The A4V's timecode will always be locked to the video signal, so be sure that it is genlocked correctly with the rest of your equipment. Second, if you plan on using the timestamping capabilities of Perception Player, you must be careful how you arrange your video connections. Remember that the Perception hardware has a built-in timebase corrector, which can add a variable amount of delay to your video signal. Therefore, if you connect the output of your Perception to the video input of the A4V, the A4V will essentially be locking to a different video signal than the one being fed into the Perception. In order to remove the "uncertainty" of the delay produced by the Perception hardware, you must ensure that you always genlock your Perception to the same source that is providing the timecode to the A4V, whether it is VITC or LTC. Once everything is connected correctly, you can run Perception Player and go to the Settings - Preferences - A4V tab to adjust the various timecode parameters. Here is a description of each of the controls: Playback Timecode This is the timecode that will be displayed (and output) during playback or while the board is idle. Most of the time you'll want this to be set to "Perception", meaning the timecode is internally generated to reflect the counter displayed on the Player window. So, for example, starting playback of a video clip will start the timecode auto-incrementing at 00:00:00:00, and this will be displayed both on screen and output as VITC and LTC timecode from the A4V board. On the other hand, setting the Playback Timecode to "VITC" or "LTC" simply means the A4V will loop incoming timecode straight through and ignore the timecode being generated by Perception Player. Record Timecode This is the timecode that will be used when you go to record a clip. If you set this to "Default", the Perception behaves as it always has, i.e. generating the timecode internally and starting it at 00:00:00:00. On the other hand, setting this to "VITC" or "LTC" causes the timecode to be monitored from the VITC or LTC signal coming into the A4V board. This timecode will be displayed during recording, and will be used as a "timestamp" at the beginning of your clip. So using this method, you can simply hit record at any point, and the clip that is recorded will have the correct timecode associated with it. (The timecode is stored in both the AVC file and the AVI file if any.) TC Capture Adjustment Due to the delay introduced by the Perception hardware (as described earlier), and depending on how you have your equipment connected, you may find that the A4V is "seeing" an earlier timecode than the video that is recorded on your PVR drive. You can use the Timecode Capture Adjustment to add a fixed offset (measured in frames) to any timestamp that is made. Video Source This lets you select between the A4V's Composite and S-Video inputs. Burned-In Window This enables or disables the burned-in timecode window on the A4V. The burned-in timecode window shows you the VITC and LTC timecode that is currently being monitored or being output from the A4V. 5. Previously Released Information Not Available In The Manual System Hang During Windows NT Boot - Updated in Version 2.58 This is the most important improvement in Version 2.58. The PVR driver (for Windows NT) which was included in Version 2.56 and 2.57 caused some computer systems to hang up while Windows NT was booting. Users with previously operational systems (using PVR version 2.55 or earlier) would find that after installing V2.56/2.57, they would re-boot, and while Windows NT was displaying it's blue boot progress screen, the system would hang up. This was because the PVR driver was searching for a "ROM Base Address", which in most computers is assigned automatically by the BIOS. Version 2.56/2.57 used a new algorithm for this, but caused problems on some computers (particularly Tyan and Gigabyte motherboards). Version 2.58 solves this problem. Fade Effect in PVR Player - Updated in Version 2.58 In previous versions, the Fade effect in the PVR Player could not be set to fade to any color other than black, because clicking the "Options" button (to open the color chooser) caused the PVR Player to crash. This bug has been fixed. Attaching Audio to Video for AVC Clips - Updated in Version 2.58 In previous versions, it was not possible to correctly associate a PVD and a WAV file together, for the purpose of saving an AVC file. This was because when the audio file was opened, the PVD clip chooser would jump to the file at the top of its list, rather than staying on its previous selection. If you hit the "Play" button, the correct video file would play, but doing a "Save As" to and AVC file resulted in the wrong PVD being associated with the audio. This has been fixed. Improved NT 4.0 Compatibility - Updated in Version 2.55 Currently, the user interface of Perception correctly displays all available input selections in the input drop down list found the Recorder Control Window under NT 4.0. When using previous versions of Perception in NT 4.0 some users experienced interface problems where either items in drop down lists were not displayed or various buttons were displayed in a misarranged fashion. Auto-save to AVI - Updated in Version 2.55 Currently, when capturing video clips AVI files can be automatically generated after the completion of each manual capture or batch record capture. Previously either the PVR AVI Converter or a Save As function was used to create the AVI file. Disk / Performance Test - Updated in Version 2.55 Performance test now permits performance test of 100% of available hard drive surface space. Previously there was a limitation of 80%. File name / Project name length - Updated in Version 2.55 Project name lengths of twenty-six characters and file name lengths of twenty-six characters and three character extensions now permitted in all areas of Perception. The previous version of Perception limited filename length to 8.3 characters in some areas. D1 card control - Updated in Version 2.55 Additional functionality required to control the SD-2580 / SD-3580 Perception D1 capture card is now included. LockStep plug-ins for 3D Studio Max* - Updated in Version 2.55 These plug-ins are designed so that animators using 3D Studio MAX and the Perception Video Recorder will never have to leave the MAX program window, and to simplify using video clips for backgrounds and compositing. New features allow you to output MAX's viewport previews to the DPS hardware, delete DPS files, easily set DPS image output size and names, use the DPS hardware like a frame buffer, make native DPS files that include linked audio, and playback .PVD, AVC, or .PLY files directly from MAX. Super black can be set from the Rendering Parameters menu in MAX; allowing images to be output without setup (video pedestal level). Direct Compile Plugins for Adobe Premiere* - Updated in Version 2.53 The DPS Perception Direct Compile Plugins enhance the process of editing DPS Perception video using Adobe Premiere. These plug-ins add both a Preview and Compile function to the Premiere Make menu. * (Not available for DEC Alpha platforms) Installation Tips - Updated in Version 2.53 a. Although the PCI standard is supposed to be a "plug-and-play" design, your computer may require some setup of the BIOS settings after you've installed the PVR board. Specifically, you may have to use the Setup function to assign an IRQ (interrupt) to the slot in which you've installed the PVR board. You'll first have to find an unused IRQ number, which you can do by running the MSD program, which is supplied with your Windows software. Pressing the "Delete" key, while your computer is starting up (before DOS is booted) usually enters the Setup program. The specifics of the Setup program vary with every version of BIOS software, so you may have to consult the documentation provided with your computer's mainboard. b. Also, you'll have to make sure that the PCI slot you've chosen for the PVR board is capable of "Bus Mastering". According to the PCI spec, all slots are supposed to be Bus Master capable, but some mainboards have one or two slots that are not. Again, you'll have to check your mainboard documentation to find out. Compatible Hardware COMPATIBLE HARD DRIVES FOR DPS PERCEPTION VIDEO RECORDER (06/6/97) All models of the DPS Perception Video Recorder require dedicated FAST SCSI-II hard drives. As of this date the following drives have passed compatibility tests for use with the DPS PVR-2500 (NTSC) and PVR-3500 (PAL). Manufacturer Model # Capacity Seagate ST-32550N 2.1 GB Seagate ST-15150N 4.3 GB Seagate ST-410800N 9 GB Seagate ST-34371N 4.05 GB Seagate ST-19171N 9 GB Seagate ST-34501N 4.55 GB Micropolis 4221AV 2.1 GB Micropolis 3243AV 4.3 GB Micropolis 1991AV 9.1 GB Micropolis 4345 4LP AV 4.55 GB Micropolis 3391 9 AV 9.1 GB NOTE: Hard drive manufacturers are constantly updating their product lines so it is possible that some of these drives may no longer be in production. Drives are available from DPS dealers and from hard drive resellers. Ensure that your drive is AV rated. An updated list of our compatible hard drive list is available at our WebPage. http://www.dps.com/WebDesktopDDR.nsf If your drive does not meet the below requirements, contact your supplier and request that your firmware be updated to a version that is designed for AV applications. READ TEST - Launch 'Player App' - Disk / Performance; Block Size (Sectors): 390, Max Depth (%): 80, Sample Points: 1262, Time/Sample (msec): 250, Read Only: Enabled WRITE TEST (Repeat the above steps with Read Only Disabled) WARNING: Doing this will erase information on your drive. To meet the drive requirements for Perception your Device Speed Test graph should display a gradual decline in performance as relative to depth percentage, with no abrupt performance drops for either the read or write test. _____________________________________________________________________________ Troubleshooting This section contains information you can use to troubleshoot problems you might encounter while using Perception 2.58 Problem: No video recorded: Be sure your video source (VTR, video camera, etc.) is properly connected to your computer before recording. If you choose Record Settings from the Settings drop down menu, you can verify the connection (CAV, Composite, S-Video) and look at your video both before and during the digitizing. Problem: No audio recorded: Be sure your audio source is properly connected to your computer before recording. If you choose Record Settings from the Settings drop down menu, you can verify that Record Audio is enabled. Problem: The VTR is not responding: Make sure that your serial control cable is properly connected to your computer before you select VTR mode from the player. Make sure that your deck is in remote mode and not local. Confirm that your COM port settings are correctly enabled for your system. Make sure that the RS-232/ 422 adapter is firmly connected and receiving power. Make sure that the DPS adapter is in Master mode. Problem: External Editing Control is not available: Make sure that your serial control cable is properly connected to your computer before you enable remote settings. Make sure that your Edit Controller is properly connected. Confirm that your COM port settings are correctly enabled for your system. Make sure that the RS-232/422 adapter is firmly connected and receiving power. Make sure that the DPS adapter is in Slave mode. Problem: GPI Trigger is not responding: Make sure that your GPI control cable is properly connected and the RS-232/422 adapter is firmly connected and receiving power. Make sure that the GPI trigger is enabled as the active remote mode and that remote checkbox is enabled. Problem: The Interface is not responding: Make sure that PVR is in stop mode when making GUI requests, such as enabling Monitor display, or E-E, etc. Some GUI elements do not respond during playback or record. Problem: Audio contained in AVI cuts out: Make sure that PVR's Audio Record & Audio Playback settings match. Problem: Can't stop batch record session: Make sure that you are canceling the session using the STOP button during a capture not during a preroll. ESC will skip a clip. Third Party Support Kinetix 3D Studio Max (Windows 3.1 & 95) Re: 3D Studio Max: If you're field rendering (with RENDER-FIELDS = ON), then you should set FIELD-ORDER=1 in the 3DS.SET file. Then use the Settings / Import-Export Settings menu in the Perception Player, and activate the Import Fld Order-1:2 and Export Fld Order =1:2 checkboxes. WebPage ->www.ktx.com In:sync Speed Razor Are you using the latest Speed Razor? Download product updates, current help files, Speed Razor accelerated effects and Dongle drivers from their FTP Site. WebPage -> www.speedrazor.com 1.To access the in:sync ftp site, set your ftp client to the following address: in-sync.com. 2.Login as "anonymous" and use your email address as your password. 3.The files are located in the following directories: \intel for intel based machines \alpha for Alpha based machines \dongle for the latest dongle drivers for all platforms 4.When you have accessed the appropriate directory, choose the appropriate file. (For Intel machines it is intel.zip, for Alpha machines it is alpha.zip, etc.) 5.Before you download the file, be sure you are in binary mode. For text based browsers, you must type "bin" to put it in binary mode. 6.Call or e-mail us to get the password to the files. 7.You will be prompted for the password by pkunzip. Adobe Premiere Project Window Update 4.2.1 Description The Project Window Update 4.2.1 corrects a problem that causes an error to occur in Premiere 4.2 when you save a project created using a custom preset. This update also fixes inaccurate audio output parameters produced by the Project Trimmer, enabling audio settings produced by the Project Trimmer to match those specified in the Output Options dialog box. This plug-in is designed to work with the full retail version of Premiere 4.2 for Windows, and should not be used with Adobe Premiere LE or Adobe Premiere 4.0x and earlier. Filename ->h-proj.zip Product ->Premiere Platform ->Windows NT 4.0 Version ->4.2 Released On ->07/09/96 Size ->44K Handling Notes To decompress a ".zip" file in Windows, use WinZip by Nico Mak Computing (http://www.winzip.com/) or PKZIP by PKWare, Inc. (414-354-8699 or http://www.pkware.com/). Both products are available in tryout/evaluation versions. Download the file from the Adobe FTP site at: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/premiere/win/4.x/plugins/h-proj.zip WebPage -> www.adobe.com WORKAROUND: Note: User must set PVR codec config. to the desired settings from the DPS control panel prior to entering Premiere. Start Premiere, but don't select the Perception preset you have already created. Rather, go in and set up a new preset, but the key is to not use the Configure button to set the codec preferences (located within the Compression Setting dialog). This is the cause of the crash. And this is why you must utilize the DPS Codec Config outside of Premiere. You experience this crash you can restart Premiere and select your newly defined preset. You should then be able to load previous projects, and be able to SAVE!! Known Limitations and Bugs Perception 2.53 (Windows 3.11) The driver for Deck Emulation requires a significant amount of memory, and may interfere with other programs. Perception 2.53 (Windows 95) Windows 95 does not support Deck Emulation. VTR Mode When in VTR mode .AVI, AVC, WAV and Image files cannot be opened. Clip Chooser not updating After two clips have been joined and the original files have been deleted, the Folder & File drop down lists do not refresh to reflect the changes. This can cause a DirBuildError when the user attempts to select a file that is currently displayed in the clip chooser, but is no longer available on the drive. Open Dialog When viewing files that contain spaces from the Perception File / Open dialog, they may not appear as they were saved as. (i.e., Big furry dog.avi would read as BIGFUR~1.AVI - Try to avoid the use of spaces when naming folders or filenames.) Edit (Render Audio) You cannot presently enable / or disable 'Render Audio' function from any of the Edit windows (Join, Duplicate, Split). You must enable / disable the 'Render Audio' function from the Preferences window. Transitions If you are doing a fade-to-black on the last clip in the Play List, you will have to add a dummy clip after that clip. This is because the fade is done between two clips, not at the end of a single clip. After the fade has been rendered, delete the dummy clip. Record Settings Menu -If you specify a fixed recording size (instead of "largest available") and it is bigger than the number of frames specified in the info box just below, then the recording will fail. The error message "Warning: The number of frames entered will not currently fit on this disk!" will be displayed. .PLY files -Any playlist made prior to version 2.52 cannot be utilized to rebatch digitize. Batch Digitize (Win 95 & NT 4.0) -You must now select all clips to batch digitize an entire batchlist. File Manager (Win 95) -There is no way to copy a PVD file between folders or drives. A workaround is to convert the PVD to an AVI file, and then reconvert that AVI back to a PVD. When converting back to a PVD, specify the new disk, folder and filename in the Info menu. Another workaround is to back up your PVD file to your system drive (providing you have enough space) and then restore the PVD file to the destination disk and folder. -If you attempt to back up a PVD or PST file to your system disk when there is insufficient space, an "Internal Application Error" will be reported. You will have to restart Windows, then delete the partial file Codec File Converter -If you attempt to perform an AVI to PVD conversion, and there is not enough contiguous space on the target Perception drive, you will get an error message: "CAnim Image Allocation Failed" -The Preview button does not function on PVD, PST or AVC files. It works only for AVI files. -(PAL Windows only): AVI to PVD file conversion sometimes fails. If you encounter this problem, select a custom setting with a higher data rate than used in any of the original video recordings. For example, if source video is recorded using Industrial, switch to Broadcast when converting. Note that this does not actually affect the resultant PVD file's compression. Please remember to change the custom setting back to your preference after converting. -Converting .PVD files tha exceed 26 characters will not convert using the .PVD's original file name, an arbitrary file name will be used. Most like likely avi.avi, aci2.avi, etc. -The AVI conversion applet does not warn on overwriting an existing file with the same name. This can be especially dangerous in the scenario in the above example. NT File System - Some graphics applications create image files on a line by line basis with multiple opening and closing of the current file, The DPS Virtual File System will not permit this. If you experience errors saving an image file from within the third party application directly to the Perception Drive. You can remedy the problem by first, copying the image file to your system drive, then copying the image file to your Perception drive using your operating system's file manager. -There is an intermittent problem that causes errors during a decoding of a an image file from the Perception file system. If this occurs simply reopen the same image file. The problem will not persist if the image file is reopened a second time. The image file is not permanently corrupted -If you run into a problem importing an image sequence by using either the File | Open procedure or the "Drag and Drop" method with the player application, close the player application and re-import using either of these methods. The problem is most likely to appear on the second or third attempt at importing certain types of TGA files. Miscellaneous Windows 95 Media Player: 32-bit applications: 32-bit applications such as Windows 95 Media Player are not compatible with our Codec driver for Windows. If you need to preview media use an older 16-bit version of the Media Player. Tape Backup / Restore Tips (NT Only) Limitations - You can only restore to the same drive/path from which the backup was made. - When backing up, you should not back up the P: drive, or even the PVD folder. If you do, it will try to back up the LIVE.PST file, which will cause a crash. Workaround (Backing up one drive and restoring to another) Backup from Disk2 - Restore to Disk4 - Before backup, go into File Manager and rename "Disk2" as "backup". Back it up. Rename it back to "Disk2". - Before restore, go into File Manager and rename "Disk4" as "backup". Restore to it. Rename it back to "Disk4".Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.