User guide

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Chapter 2, Preparing Your System
5. Install Adobe Premiere
You must install Adobe Premiere before installing your RT.X100 Xtreme card. If
you don’t do so, you won’t be able to install Matrox X.tools.
°To install Adobe Premiere:
1 Close all Windows programs.
2 Insert the Adobe Premiere installation CD into your CD-ROM drive.
3 From the CD menu, choose to install Adobe Premiere. When the setup
program starts, follow the onscreen instructions. If Windows doesn’t
automatically start the setup program, you can start it manually as follows:
a Choose Start > Run.
b In the resulting dialog box, type e:\premiere\setup (where e: represents your
CD-ROM drive), and click
OK.
4 You can choose to install any other programs or tryouts from the Adobe
Premiere CD menu.
¦NoteWhen you install the RT.X100 Xtreme software (that is, Matrox X.tools),
RT.X100 Xtreme files will be added to your Adobe Premiere’s Plug-ins folder on
your hard drive. Therefore, if you later re-install Adobe Premiere to a different
directory, you’ll need to also re-install Matrox X.tools.
6. Install your third-party software
There are a number of programs for which you can install a Matrox WYSIWYG
(What You See Is What You Get) plug-in that lets you see your work directly on
your NTSC or PAL video monitor:
•
Adobe After Effects For 2D or 3D motion graphics and visual effects.
• 3ds max For 3D modeling, animation, and rendering of visual effects.
• LightWave 3D For 3D graphics and animation.
If you have any of these programs, you’ll need to install them now so that you’ll
be able to install the Matrox plug-in for them later (see Chapter 4, “Installing
Your Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme Software,” on page 33).
¦NoteWhen you install the Matrox plug-in for one of these programs, RT.X100
Xtreme files will be added to folders on your hard drive for that program.
Therefore, if you later re-install the program to a different directory, you’ll need
to also re-install the Matrox plug-in.