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Matrox VFW Codecs - Creative COW's user support and discussion forum for users of Adobe Premiere Pro. My old PP 2.0 projects won't open the video files, I assumed because I didn't have the VFW codecs. When I tried to install the ones I used on my old machine (dated July 2006), the process. The Matrox Video for Windows (VFW) software codecs let you render and play back Matrox.avi files in your VFW programs without having Matrox video hardware installed. This version provides codecs that were previously available only on systems that have particular Matrox video hardware, such as.
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This used to be a full-fledged editing program in the early 1990s, what has happened, I wonder? @Stunko, I'm sorry, but that's just a ridiculous comment in view of the fact that over 250,000 people have downloaded Lightworks and 500 more are downloading it every day - and that's before the Linux and OS-X versions are released. Meanwhile, Oscar-winning films are being edited with it, and the new version will be arguably the fastest NLE on the planet. As @drkuli said, this is nothing to do with Lightworks as such. The issues around the Matrox codecs are well documented in this thread and elsewhere in the forum. The new release of Lightworks, due very soon, will have a completely different codec set-up, and will not require the installation of the Matrox codecs, which were only ever a temporary measure.
Why don't you re-read the thread, and then, if you don't want to mess around with the Matrox codecs, wait for the full (non-beta) release, which will 'Just Work'. Thre is no reason to 'mess around' with the Matrox codecs, because according to Matrox, none of their current capture and input/output interface products even work with LW Beta. If they are, Matrox is not fessing up to it. All they have heard about that their products will work with is the Adobe, Apple, and Avid editing programs (in alphabetical order).
User drkuli had started this tropic by saying how much difficulty he has had with the Matrox codecs installation. Now he is saying that it is simple. I guess I am not following which way it is - difficulty or simple?
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I am also not following why I need Matrox codecs in the first place when I cannot use Matrox products to import or export my footage, according to Matrox? For now, we'll continue using Vegas Pro and Edius, and I understand that by late this year there may be a finalized 'Alpha' version of this Lightworks editing program available, so at that time one can pay for it and then compare it for real against the NLE competition.
Since we don't use much stuff from Adobe, Apple, and Avid, this comparo would only be against Vegas Pro and Edius. So far, we didn't have much, if any, problems with these two. Personally, I would rather just work with a paid program without hustle and constant experimentation, if at all possible. I'll pay for it - after somebody else does the work on it, in other words. Thanks for the heads-up, people!
@Stunko Just to clarify: We don't use the Matrox codecs because of Matrox hardware. We use them because they provide a useful codec framework for the Free Beta version while we're working on a more advanced framework that is now about to be released with the new Windows version. The new version doesn't require the use of the Matrox codecs. You may be mixing up the idea of hardware drivers with codecs. @drkuli looked into some issues with installing the Matrox codecs, and found a solution. If you use the advice in this thread, they're not normally difficult to install.
There's no need to wait for an Alpha version of Lightworks: we're a few weeks away from a full release which is neither Alpha nor Beta, and which will have full codec support in the $60 per year version. Matrox is not the highest authority in the matter of what their products do or do not.
There's much more things they haven't heard about. As a former tech support employee of Matrox users' site I can tell it for sure. The difficulty of finding the solution for VfW codecs' installation is strictly dependent of how much laziness (or stupidity) we assume on the installer author's side. If user Stunko doesn't understand it, I cannot help more. EDIT Actually, googling for '8.3 filename' and reading the results may help.
Thanks a lot, jwrl, I really did not know that. So, first comes Alpha, then Beta, and then the final 'release' version of something, right? Thanks again. Drkuli's commwent: 'Matrox is not the highest authority in the matter of what their products do or do not.'
I must agree. After all, why would any manufacturer of any product have any idea what their own products are designed for and can do, right? Didn't even think of this one until now, thanks again for pointing it out. Installing a program or codec. Unless your computer is somehow seriously messed-up, until now for me this usually involved double clicking on the installer file, and that was about that. Therefore, I still have no clue what an '8.3 filename' could be, and why I would need to know anything about it just to install a 3rd party codec.
I'll look into it now to make sure, although I understand that in a few weeks or months, one will not longer has to be bothered with Matrox codecs in LW, anyhow. @jwrl is correct. Software being developed enters alpha stage first.
Most developers only let a small group of testers have access to their alpha builds. Once a reasonably stable package is achieved, the developers can choose to release the software as a beta release. During this stage, feedback loops are generally used to facilitate the production. Once the software engineers are content with their product, they can choose it to release it as a full release. Even after the full release is available, it is good practice to keep some form of feedback loop engaged so the software can be refined and adapted to ideally suit all users needs. @Stunko, @drkuli has kindly shared his wealth of knowledge he has built up with us.
As he mentioned, he provided tech support service to the users of the Matrox site. As a former tech support employee myself, I can roughly identify with this role. If users of a product or service are having issues, these issues must be defined before they are addressed. @Stunko, have you even tried installing the Matrox VFW Software Codecs? A codec is a piece of software designed to compress and decompress a specific type of data stream, thus named CODEC, or COmpression/DECompression.
The Lightworks Beta application takes advantage of Matrox VFW Software Codecs as they are used for compressing and decompressing video and audio together and apart, are free to the public, and are reasonably fast. Sure, this is not ideal, but @Forum Admin stated that a more advanced and integrated solution is being developed currently. Matrox released a new version of the VFW Software Codecs yesterday. Out with the old and in with the new! Link is below: Help yourself.
If installing the new codec, Lightworks may or may not have to be uninstalled and installed again after successful uninstallation of the old codec and installation of the new. I believe I have to boot in safe mode to get this thing to install again, as the installer hangs after unpacking. Thanks for that lead, Ben. Wow, BUILD 33 already!! And they are still calling it VERSION 1.0. It's Matrox, after all.
They are still hanging in there, against all odds. The codecs being provided by this Matrox thingy, the only one we have ever used is uncompressed.
But here it is called 'Matrox uncompressed,' so I am not quite sure what is the actual difference between a 'Matrox uncompressed' and any good old plain uncompressed SD or HD? Also, I sort of never actually considered uncompressed a CODEC. After all, what do you compress or decompress here when all you have got is uncompressed, right? There is also a 'Matrox M-JPEG' being mentioned, but only for playback. Well, if it was M-JPEG2000, that would be very good especially on the export side of things, since all digital cinemas use M-JPEG2000 codec for their films being projected, and nothing but M-JPEG2000, as per the Digital Cinema Initiative specs.
I know you can use M-JPEG2000 with GV Edius NLE, hopefully with LW paid version as well soon. Other than the occasional uncompressed, the three main codecs we ever did work with are DPX for the scans, Cineform for the intermediates, and now DNxHD. Hopefully when one can pay for the Windows release version of LW, some or even all of these will be available in the program. Happy Easter! As far as I know, you don't need Matrox codecs in lwks.
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You can keep them for use in other applications, but you don't need them in the way you needed them in the earlier versions of lwks. I just wanted to install lwks on my old XP Pro laptop and then remembered the whole shlep about the Matrox codec thing.is it still valid for lwks? If so.please do update the installation guide cause it doesn't say anything about it. Then again, considering that the Installation guide says nothing about it, and the file was updated now in May, I assume it isn't relevant.but good to check.