“old” Media100HD better than the newest version ?

[Jaeson Koszarsky]

I’ve experienced a similar “changed hardware, lost feature” with an older NLE on my Amiga. Updating from MovieShop4 to MovieShop5, also required updating hardware. With the old hardware, there was a real-time chromakey feature. But it was lost along the way with chipset changes & upgrades for the new hardware. The new system was definitely worth it and feature rich but many lamented the loss of the real-time chromakey that now had to be duplicated with software rendering.

The latest version of Media100 offers a lot of new features that make it worthwhile. There are Media100 re-rendering options that can achieve what you want to do with custom re-cropping but certainly not as ideal as the realtime hardware solution of yesteryear.

I use Sorenson Squeeze when I want to crop & reframe my raw footage before bringing it into Media100. I need to convert the MTS files anyway before using Media100. For a straight quick conversion, I use Clip-Wrap. For other needs, like crop/reframe/etc, I use Squeeze to make prores files.

[Dave Mccarthy]

Yes, the software conform can set a custom crop area. In addition the crop area can change inside the duration of the clip, meaning you can create a “pan and scan” effect, zoom, etc.

[Marcus Warren]

Is the kind of crop you want something that you can achieve in RED? Even if you have to run RED stand-alone?

[Marcus Warren]

Dave, you should ask Boris to just left you have Media 100 free and clear and see what you can do to modernize it.

I bet that you have a list of improvements and new features you want to implement and there’s probably no one better to do it than you.

Yes, I know that it takes 10s of thousands of dollars to make it a 64 bit program, but somehow, I think that you could find backing and interest that others simply have not been able to achieve.

[Michael Slowe]

Marcus, how much better off would we be with a 64 bit version? Would we have better images or is it because newer software would be operational with such a version?

Michael Slowe

[Marcus Warren]

Michael, becoming a 64-bit application would allow Media 100 to access more memory which should be useful in running very complex projects. Secondly, becoming fully 64-bit allows M100 to run on macOS released beyond Mojave. Mojave is the last macOS that will allow 32-bit applications to operate. Third, to run on any macOS beyond Mojave, M100 will have to employ newer technologies. The M100 Quicktime structure will have to be abandoned, replaced by AV Foundation or whatever, meaning that M100 takes advantage of the benefits of the newer structure, whatever they might be.

Will the shift to 64-bit mean better quality images? I don’t know, but it should mean that M100 can handle 8k images and beyond, and, possibly, run faster and be more responsive.

[Michael Slowe]

Thanks Marcus. It seems that I have to stick now with my Media 100 version 1.7.1 which, to be honest, does all I want. I also use BitVice to encode my DVDs as it has a wonderful ‘downscale’ HD to SD and the discs look almost as good as BDs. If I upped my OS there are quite a few applications which would no longer work for me. What I might do is to shoot 4K in future because within Media 100 I am starting to re frame using the Motion Editor window. Can I place 4K clips on a 1080p timeline or do I have to have the programme set to 4K?

Michael Slowe