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Any news on a new version of Media 100 software?
Just curious if anyone has heard any news/rumors about an updated version of the Media 100 software coming out in the near future. I think the last 2.1 update came out in August of 2011!
Jason W. Tower
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Jason, as a matter of interest what is it that you require that isn’t available with the current version?
Michael Slowe
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It isn’t so much of a new feature that I’d like, but rather I’d like to see more from the company in terms of communication about tested drivers for video output devices and new devices. The release notes for v2.1 lists driver versions that are quite outdated and there’s no mention of Thunderbolt device compatibility.
Jason W. Tower
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[Jason Tower] “Just curious if anyone has heard any news/rumors about an updated version of the Media 100 software coming out in the near future. I think the last 2.1 update came out in August of 2011!
Jason W. Tower
Fiddler Films”Hi Jason,
were you able to get any updates with the m100 and matrox mxo2 combination? ty -
Unfortunately I haven’t heard anything new from them since the email I received on May 28th. Will let you know if I receive any updates!
Jason W. Tower
Fiddler Films -
I’d like to see some bug fixes. I still get that hang-up frequently when exiting RED5 back to M100. I get random glitching in title/comp/filter rendering. It will go away if I unrender & render a 2nd or 3rd time. Is OSX 10.7.4 approved?
Featurewise, BorisFX rolls out a lot of new filters for RED/Continuum but not all are available for Media100 users. I’d really find beat reactor useful.
For Media100, clip nesting/grouping would be nice. You can drag a group of clips to the bin & back but they’re still individual. I used the nesting/grouping a lot in MovieShop5 on my old MacroSystems DraCo. I could drag an entire timeline into another and use in as an single clip. In Media100, I need to export & import files to achieve the same.
I hadn’t really used Media100 audio bus tracks before watching one of Floh’s tutorials. They’re useful. Something similar for video tracks could be useful too.
Importing movies with the option to ignore an embedded alpha or the choice to import only the video or audio of the movie file.
A view option for tabbed windows for bins, like tabs for pages in a web-browser. It would clean up some of my clutter.
Import from video DVD option. We sometimes get spots from clients on DVD that need tagged or changed. I usually the free MacX DVD ripper but it’d be nice just to have a direct import option for Media100.
Better firewire device control. We have some sony HDV decks that we still use but the device control isn’t accurate or robust enough for batch digitizing. It always has difficulty pinpointing the timecode. A fuzzier search might work. Rather than find the EXACT frame, find & accept something that is close enough & before the point you’re looking for, acquire the slightly larger clip and just adjust the in/out points once the clip is in the system.
Snapshot/freeze frame. Sometimes I just want to hold a frame for several seconds. I could export the frame and re-import but how about a tool that makes it more automatic. Select the frame, keyboard short-cut the tool, and viola, a new still clip is at your disposal.
There are probably other things I’d like but time to get back to work.
Jaeson
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Media100 Feature Request:
Select In Range ALL Tracks – an expansion of Select In Range In Track. -
Just hold down the option key when in the program menu and you should be able to select in range in all tracks
Jason W. Tower
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[Jaeson Koszarsky] “Select In Range ALL Tracks – an expansion of Select In Range In Track.
“🙂 This one is easy to fix. Simply use the “Select in Range” command from the “Program” menu, which shows up when pressing the Option/Alt key. And if you want to use it often (as we do), you can assign it to a keyboard shortcut via the System Preferences->Keyboard->Application Shortcuts. I have mapped it to Option-Command-J, which is close to Option-Command-H for “select from here”
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Good to know. Just tried it and it works. Thanks.
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Gerry,
Media 100 version 2.1.1 has been released with a fix for the Matrox issue! Get it here:
https://www.borisfx.com/downloads/
Jason W. Tower
Fiddler Films
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