Media100SW Work Flow

[Michael J c]

I still don’t know what is going on then… It doesn’t behave like that for me when I uncheck audio (I do it all the time).

The import should also go extremely quickly too… I’ve tested M100 with FCP files and they came in close to instantly. You should probably be working in the 8bit or 10bit Media 100 codec… You should know though, I don’t think there is a way to have your TIMECODE come with the clips. All your imported clips TC will start at 00:00.

Obviously, you’ve thrown yourself a big curveball making this your first attempt on the Media 100… Just curious, why do you need to cut on the M100 if you have an FCP?

I just finished a Media 100 sw job and it performed great. All footage was imported from a .tga seq (CGI)… I ended up having to make a digibeta so I had to export a self contained movie and bring it into my old Media 100i xr to output to tape.

Also, you were asking where you bring in clips to do dissolves. Use your main video track and alternate between V(a) and V(b). This is where Media 100 shines IMO. You just over lap your clips where you want the dissolves and can shift-click the transition mark forward to make an instant dissolve transition… You can then move it around as if it were it’s own clip. You can also double click it to change the type of transition it is.

Good luck.

[Michael J c]

That is “shift-click-drag forward” the transition mark. Just to be clear.

[Matt Short]

I don’t understand why you don’t just edit on FCP?

[Bobby Mosaedi]

addressing the long-import problem:

how are you importing your clips? if you are doing a file-import, there is a checkbox that says: “import files to the media standard and compressor”. Do NOT have that box checked. It seems like instead of directly accesing your fcp files, it is re-encoding them using the 844x codec… that is totally unneccesary. FYI, even when it does a “instant” import, m100 still seperates the audio and video into individual accesible files. So, if you check your media folder, there will be 3 files for each clip: V, A1, A2 (if necessary).

Correct me if i’m wrong… i know for a fact i have done instant import with final cut DV footage in M100 HD, is there no support for realtime playback on SW?

Also, you cannot check and uncheck your audio and video tracks for your clips if you are trying to modify them from within the timeline. To do so, you must double click your source clip from a bin, mark your in and outs, select which tracks you want then drag from monitor window to your timeline, or just press f12 to place it where your CTI is parked.