accessing Media 100 digitized footage in other programs

[Curious Turtle]

Hi,

Yes. The media is just Quicktime files, so as long as the application can read QT and has the software codec installed, it will import the files.

Note that some apps cannot edit the files natively and will transcode to a different codec that it can work with. It’s best to avoid moving between lossy codecs too many times as this can degrade your image.

HTH

Ben

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[Lynne Margulies]

Thanks Ben!

[Michael Slowe]

Ben, I had this very query when I couldn’t get access to an HDCAM deck for mastering and I wanted to take my Lacie drive to a production house for transfer to tape and was told by a number of people (including the fabulous Floh) that it had to be done on a Media 100 system. I couldn’t find anyone with both Media 100 AND an HDCAM deck and was resorting to sending the drive abroad until luckily I managed to rent the deck here in London.

[Curious Turtle]

Hi Michael,

If you take it into another system and you have to transcode it to a different codec than the full uncompressed Media 100HD then you may lose quality, but you should be able to do it. If you can wait for the transcode to happen!

If you have the codec installed it will read the QT file. This is why one can edit happily on a Media 100 system then send it out to a different one for effects or compression. Full disclosure: I’ve never tried this for HD material but it’s a standard workflow for my SD projects. But I don’t know why it wouldn’t work.

Also, if you’re going to a Windows machine, then do a search on the forums for problems with QT7 & the transcoder.

All the best,
Ben

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