I wrote them too, just before posting this.  The page that JBP linked to above is from April 15 (or 13th; confusing).  That's quite a while ago, and I would agree that at least they could come out with a beta, warts and all, as they did for FCPX and MC6.  I hope it doesn't mean there are problems getting Mercury Transmit to work with their products.  It's one of the new features that I was anticipating most.

Curious that Bluefish, a smaller (than both BMD and AJA) Australian company beat them to the punch on this.  Anybody heard anything about Matrox Mac?

Well, at this point, the driver for Kona is available, and the bad, bad, news is that it's indeed Lion only.

This is the ONLY reason I have for upgrading to Lion.  Every other piece of software I own is running just fine on 10.6.8.  This includes Media Composer 6. 

I've got a test partition on which I have Lion installed, and it's a freaking nightmare.  I've spent almost three days reinstalling software, drivers, plug-ins, with days to go before I get it all done (I have over 5000 fonts, 3/4 of which weren't recognized by FontExplorerX, forcing me to reinstall and recategorize them.). 

This is the most painful "upgrade" in my history with Mac, which goes back to System 4 or 5.

I HATE the new auto-correct feature, the security measures that think I'm not an Admin when I am, and the fact it just seems a lot slower than Snow Leopard.  Two of the Zaxwerks plugs for Ae are a hundred times slower. 

I'm starting to hate Apple.  And I'm going to start hating AJA too, if they don't come up with an Adobe driver for 10.6.8.

Sorry, I'm venting.  The last three days have been hell.

Well, I figured somebody would respond and make feel like an idiot for having such a hard time.  In retrospect, I should have wiped my drive clean, installed 10.6.x from disk, then 10.7 via the web, then the 10.7.4 combo updater, then take 24 hours to install all my software, fonts and plug-ins.  I might have been time ahead.

Mountain Lion is supposedly just months or weeks away.  I really hate Apple now.

A real challenge with a dual-boot system is my AJA Kona requires different firmware for each OS.  So, when going back and forth, I have to keep re-flashing the firmware, and reboot again.  Bottom line is that I'm going to have to live without full-screen in Pr until I can get a Lion partition stabilized, optimized and as dependable as with Snow Leopard.

I do appreciate the empathy, though, lasvideo.