AJA Adobe Plug-ins

Release Notes - Mac v10.6

Requirements and Recommendations

• Compatible with Mac OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) and OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks). Must be

running in 64-bit kernel mode

• QuickTime™ 7.6 or higher must be installed

• KONA, Io, T-TAP driver required: v10.6 or later

• Premiere Pro CC/CC 2014, After Eﬀects CC/CC 2014, Photoshop CC/CC 2014,

Prelude CC/CC 2014, or Speed Grade CC/CC 2014, are required.

• An Adobe-approved Mercury GPU is highly recommended.

Improvements

• Adds support for Premiere Pro CC 2014.1 (8.1)

• Fixes several audio issues in output from Premiere Pro

• Improved ability of AJA Adobe plug-ins to operate simultaneously with

applications that use AJA Core Audio drivers such as Adobe Audition

• Fixed issue with Io 4K in Speed Grade

• Improved ability of AJA Transmit plug-in to work in After Eﬀects CC 2014

Important Note

This will be the nal release of AJA Adobe Plug-ins to support the KONA 3 card.

Known Issues and Limitations

• Audio output from AJA device can be compromised when sequence framerates

do not match hardware framerates.

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This can occur when working in 720p formats other than 720p-50, 59.94, 60.

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To work around this limitation, go to Premiere Pro Playback preferences, and

set the AJA video device to ‘Match Control Panel’. Then set up a cross-

conversion to output 1080 format. For example, if using a 720p-23.98

project, set the AJA Control Panel to cross-convert to 1080PsF-23.98, which is

a valid SDI output.

• Millisecond delay controls will not function for video device in Premiere Pro

Playback Preferences.

• Only 8-bit YUV Uncompressed captures will work correctly when capturing 4K

on Mac with Io 4K.

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• ‘System Sleep’ should not be used with KONA and Io devices. Sleep modes

should be disabled in the operating system settings.

• AJA KONA and Io Core Audio drivers are not used in Premiere Pro, except when

using the Voice Over tool. Please refer to Audio setup in the AJA Adobe Plug-ins

manual.

• Timecode is not stored in crash captured clips when the timecode source is

RS-422. If this is required, use embedded timecode instead of RS-422 timecode.

• Variable frame rates (VFR) with pull down added are not adjusted for timecode.

• ‘Crash Capture’ and ‘Print to Video’ will work on Varicam frame rates over HD-SDI,

but ‘Insert Edit’, ‘In/Out. Capture’, and ‘Batch Capture’ will not.

• When insert editing on Panasonic decks, destructive edits may occur too early

on the tape. In order to avoid this, be sure that menu item 202 “ID SEL” is set to

“OTHER”.

• Preroll shorter than 3 seconds is not recommended for use with any deck, for

capture or layback.

• Premiere Pro defaults to ‘Display First Field’ in its monitor wing menus. If

interlacing issues appear on the output of AJA hardware, try changing this

setting to ‘Display Both Fields’.

• When changing from a DF tape to an NDF tape on the same deck, with the

Premiere Pro capture window open, the NDF/DF status may not be picked up

correctly. If this happens, the timecode values seen in the Premiere Pro capture

window may be incorrect.

•

This Issue will NOT aﬀect users unless they are changing between DF and

NDF tapes on the same deck, in the same Premiere Pro Capture session.

•

To Avoid This: Always give the new tape a new name in the ‘ Tape Name’

dialog that appears when changing tapes and be sure to let the new tape

spool up all the way before clicking the ‘OK’ button on the dialog.

•

To Fix This: Close the Premiere Pro capture window and reopen it.

• When capturing from or exporting to a Panasonic D5 deck, The timecode source

setting in the AJA Premiere Pro Device Control plug-in must be LTC+VITC.

Relevant Products

The following products are covered by this update:

KONA 4

KONA LHi

Io Express

KONA 3G

KONA LHe Plus

Io XT

KONA 3

Io 4K

T-TAP™

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Technical Support

AJA Technical Support is free and available to help you answer questions or resolve

issues with any of your AJA products.

To contact AJA Technical Support:

Email: suppor[email protected]

Phone: +1-530-271-3190

Fax: +1-530-274-9442

Web: www.aja.com/support

Shipping: 180 Litton Dr. Grass Valley, CA 95945 USA

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Version History

10.5.2 - Release Date: August 21, 2014

Improvements

• New Hardware buﬀering setting in the Transmit plug-in. To change the setting

in Premiere Pro, go to Edit>Preferences>Playback>Video Device>AJA

Device>Setup>Buﬀer Mode

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Standard – This mode uses an 8 frame buﬀer and is recommended for use

when mastering tapes. This is the default mode.

•

Minimum – This mode uses a 3 frame buﬀer. Using this mode will increase

the likelihood of dropped frames on the output when system resources are

not keeping up, but can improve the stop/start and JKL performance on the

timeline while editing.

•

Maximum – This mode uses a 14 frame buﬀer and should be used any time

occasional frame drops are occurring and limited system resources are the

suspected culprit. For example, with an underpowered, older Mac Mini, or a

system without a Mercury Approved GPU, this setting may help mitigate

minor frame drops.

• Fixed issue where After Eﬀects plug-in was using incorrect channels for output

• Enhanced audio handling performance

• Improved JKL performance in Premiere Pro (See also Hardware Buﬀering change

above)

• Fixed issue with After Eﬀects plug-in when displaying 16 bpc projects

• Fixed issue with Premiere Pro capture plug-in where double-byte characters in

the lename will cause an error.

• Fixed issue in Premiere Pro Transmit plug-in that caused illegal black levels when

VANC was turned on in the AJA Control Panel.

• Fixed issue where JKL around the last frame of a timeline could intermittently

cause Premiere Pro to crash.

• Fixed an issue where A/V sync might be out by 1-2 frames at start of playback in

Premiere Pro

10.5.1 - Release Date: April 19, 2014

Improvements

• Changed the Adobe Plug-In Installer to install plug-ins to new plug-in directories

in Adobe CC June 2014

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10.5 - Release Date: January 28, 2014

New Features

• Added support for Io 4K

Improvements

• Fixes issue with After Eﬀects Alpha Channel support

10.4.8 - Release Date: October 24, 2013

New Features

• Added support for OSX v10.9 (Mavericks)

Improvements

• Fixed issue where horizontal and vertical resolution of AJA device output were

oﬀset incorrectly.

10.4.5 - Release Date: June 17, 2013

New Features

• Supports Adobe Premiere Pro CC, After Eﬀects CC, Photoshop CC, and Speed

Grade CC

• Adds Apple ProRes capture to Premiere Pro CC (in OS X 10.8 only)

• Adds new Photoshop capture plug-in

• Adds 4K and QuadHD capture support when using KONA 3G driver version

10.4.5 in 4K mode

• Adds 4K and QuadHD support at 29.97 and 30 fps when using KONA 3G driver

version 10.4.5 in 4K mode

• Adds VoiceOver support in Premiere Pro. See PDF manual for setup instructions.

• Adds 16-channel Audio Capture from Premiere Pro when using AJA hardware

which supports 16-channel audio such as KONA 3, KONA 3G, and Io XT.

• Adds 12-channel Audio Export to Tape in Premiere Pro when using AJA

hardware which supports 16-channel audio such as KONA 3, KONA 3G, and Io

XT. (In Premiere Pro CC only)

• ‘Match Control Panel’ mode to AJA Transmit plug-in.

• Adds new ‘Disable’ checkbox to After Eﬀects plug-in. This allows the user to shut

oﬀ the AJA hardware without uninstalling the plug-in.

Improvements

• Fixes issue where capture of 720p in Premiere Pro can drop frames.

• Fixes issue where capture using DVCProHD or CineForm capture setting in

Premiere Pro actually creates uncompressed les.

• Fixes issue where After Eﬀects may crash when selecting 720p or 2K modes

using AJA Control Panel.

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• Improves Performance of RAM Preview from After Eﬀects when output from

AJA devices.

• Fixes ‘Print to Video’ in Export to tape Dialog in Premiere Pro.

• Fixes 1080p50/59.94/60 capture in Premiere Pro with KONA LHi.

• Fixes audio clicking when using DNxHD capture in Premiere Pro.

• Fixes audio only insert editing during Export to Tape in Premiere Pro.

• Adds the ‘Compressor Info’ metadata eld to les captured in Premiere Pro.

• Fixes the ‘Match Sequence’ feature of the AJA Transmit Plug-In to more

accurately detect 720p sequences and program the AJA hardware accordingly.

• Fixes issue where SDI Embedded Timecode from Premiere Pro was always non-

drop frame.

• Fixes issue Export to Tape in Premiere Pro could not be cancelled by the user.

• Fixes issue capturing les in Premiere Pro with Unicode characters in the

lename.

• Fixes uncompressed capture issues using Io Express in Premiere Pro.

• Fixes issue where video in Premiere Pro capture window goes blank after rst

video capture.

• Fixes intermittent A/V sync issues when repeatedly stopping/starting playback

on the Premiere Pro timeline.

• Fixes batch capture problems when using the CineForm codec in Premiere Pro.

• Fixes batch capture problem where one clip in the batch will drop frames and

fail to capture.

10.4.1 - Release Date: October 9, 2012

New Features

• Adds DNX HD 145 capture to the AJA Capture plug-in in Premiere Pro. Files are

captured in QuickTime .mov wrapper.

• Adds T-TAP support to Adobe CS6 applications on Mac.

• Adds Auto Detection of attached deck resolution, frame rate, and Drop Frame

(DF) or Non Drop Frame (NDF) status. This auto detection feature is now the

default setting in the AJA Device Control Dialog. Users will no longer need to set

these settings before capturing or Exporting to Tape. If the Auto detection must

be overridden for some reason, the user may still manually set the AJA Device

Control plug-in to a specic frame rate and DF/NDF status.

• Note: When changing from a DF tape to an NDF tape on the same deck, with

the Premiere Pro capture window open, the NDF/DF status may not be picked

up correctly. If this happens, the timecode values seen in the Premiere Pro

capture window may be incorrect.

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• This Issue will NOT aﬀect users unless they are changing between DF and NDF

tapes on the same deck, in the same Premiere Pro Capture session.

• To Avoid This: Always give the new tape a new name in the ‘Tape Name’ dialog

that appears when changing tapes and be sure to let the new tape spool up all

the way before clicking the ‘OK’ button on the dialog.

• To Fix This: Close the Premiere Pro capture window and reopen it.

• Photoshop and After Eﬀects plug-ins have now changed. Rather than setting

resolution, framerate, and framebuﬀer colorspace in the plug-in dialog, the plug-

in will now simply use the user specied settings in the AJA Control Panel.

• Capture of Audio Only and Video Only les now works in Premiere Pro.

• SDI Output of Closed Captioning from Premiere Pro CS 6.0.2 is now supported.

Please see Adobe Premiere Pro documentation for information on using the

Closed Captioning features of Premiere. For best CC performance, use 8-bit YUV

setting in the Transmit settings of the AJA card.

• Supports Adobe Premiere Pro 6.0.2

• Dramatically increases speed of RAM preview from After Eﬀects CS6 when using

Io Express from around 6fps to RT in 8-bit YUV output mode and very near RT in

10-bit YUV mode when working in a 1080i29.97 comp. 10-bit YUV mode should

be real-time in 1080 comps with lower framerates.

Improvements

• Fixes issue with SD DV 16x9 sequences and clips being output from the AJA

hardware incorrectly letterboxed from Premiere Pro.

• Mapping of audio output is now working in the Premiere Pro Audio Mapping

preferences.

• Use of the ‘Match Sequence’ mode in the AJA Transmit plug-in will now honor

the AJA Control Panel P/PsF format settings. For example, the default ‘Progressive

Format’ mode of the AJA control panel is ‘use PsF formats’. When a user starts a

progressive sequence in Premiere Pro, the AJA Transmit plug-in will match the

resolution and framerate of the sequence, and will output progressive

segmented frames over the SDI output. If a user instead selects ‘use P formats’ in

the AJA Control Panel, the Premiere Pro output will be true progressive rather

than progressive segmented frame.

• Added user message in the Premiere Pro Export to Tape dialog to indicate when

no deck is online.

• Fixes issue with audio being lost.

• Fixes issue with Video + Key (V+K) output functionality in After Eﬀects and

Photoshop CS6 when using KONA 3, KONA 3G, and Io XT.

• Fixes issue where After Eﬀects CS6 crashes on shut down when using AJA After

Eﬀects plug-in.

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• Fixes issue where true 24fps (as opposed to 23.98) captures having incorrect

timecode in them.

• Fixes issue with inability to capture RGB formats using Io XT in Premiere Pro.

• Fixes issue up-converting while capturing from analog inputs on KONA LHi in

Premiere Pro.

• Fixes issue where batch captured clips will be intermittently oﬀ by 1 frame.

• Fixes issue capturing 8-bit RGBA QuickTime les in Premiere Pro.

• Fixes issue with last frame of QuickTime les captured during down-conversion

using AJA hardware in Premiere Pro.

• Fixes issue where After Eﬀects CS6 has bad output from KONA cards when YUV

preview modes are selected for KONA.

• Fixes issue with audio output to AJA hardware being lost when using JKL keys in

Premiere Pro.

• Fixes issue with Export to Tape cancellation causing failure in subsequent Export

to Tape attempts in Premiere Pro.

• Fixes issue with In-to-Out captures and batch captures in Premiere Pro when

capturing from a Ki Pro.

• Fixes issue where capture resolution must match sequence/timeline resolution

in Premiere Pro. The AJA Capture plug-in for Premiere Pro will now lock to any

resolution of video regardless of the resolution of the project sequences.

• Fixes issue where changing the timebase in the AJA Device Control dialog

causes capture failure.

• Fixes issues where Export to Tape using most Panasonic decks will fail

intermittently.

• Fixes issues where Export to Tape using more than two audio tracks only arms

tracks one and two on the deck, causing only two tracks to be laid down on the

tape.

• Fixes issue where clicking on the timeline while playing footage in the Source

Monitor, in Premiere Pro 6.0.2 or 6.0.3 causes a crash.

• Fixes issue where dragging the CTI in the timeline while the timeline is already

playing can cause loss of audio.

• Fixes issue with desktop preview failure in Premiere Pro capture window when

capturing with Io XT.

• Fixes issue with After Eﬀects and Photoshop output having incorrect colors.

• Changed Default Device control Preroll to 3 seconds.

• Fixes issue where leaving AJA Photoshop Export dialog open causes 100% usage

of one processor core.

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