Michael Slowe
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Sorry Keiran, I read your post too quickly first time!
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Yes but Keiron Toast can be used to burn multiple copies, whether direct from the .img file or from a disc already burnt. If you want a reliable original then keep the .img file somewhere in the system. We hopefully will get far better quality on DVD’s when HD has been sorted out.
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Greg, I was tought by a great tutor (who reads this forum!) and follow instructions slavishly. I have Toast installed with Media 100 and when I have the .img file prepared I open Toast and drag the file over and after choosing a burn speed go ahead. I don’t know what the advantage is to use Toast but I use it anyway for copying DVD’s as well. Since I was being taught it never occurred to me to burn in Studio Pro. Others may be able to comment on this production route.
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Bob, for what it is worth my experience has been to follow Floh’s advice (and a tutor I had visit) and encode with BitVice. I export the production from the edit suite (by reference) and use BitVice to transform the .Mov file to an m2v. I use a variable bit rate and using a double pass take care not to set the average bit rate too high to avoid (as someone else pointed out) playing problems on various players.
I then use Compressor to prepare the AC3 audio file, DVD Studio Pro to build and format and finally Titanium Toast to burn the disc (Verbatim minus R 16x 4.7GB).
Never ever had a play problem on any machine with this production route and all these applications sit quite happily with my Media 100 HD version 11. The picture quality as DVD goes is pretty good but not of course, as good as tape (yet!). -
Neither the camera or the deck can be used in digitising into Media 100 HD, it won’t recognise the downconvert as DV. I take downconverted media from my Sony HDV deck into my Sony DSR 20 DVCAM deck and then it will go into Media 100 as DV. Others will confirm this. The resultant picture quality though is well worth the trouble, it’s better than original DV.
Michael Slowe
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Very many thanks Floh, I have now printed it out as an aide memoire. Am I right in thinking that I can only import the whole .Mov file and can only discard unwanted media once it is in Media 100?
Michael Slowe
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That’s brilliant to know! I have used them in the past but didn’t know they use Media 100. It must be cheaper to take a Media 100 HD timeline (on a firewire drive?) to them for an HD master than renting a deck. What do you think?
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I had exactly the same problem! I normally convert my HDV from the M10 deck through Convergent Design’s HD-Connect to uncompressed HD for acquiring into Media 100 (11.5.1) because that is the best away to avoid GOP compression problems. However when I only need an SD timeline I tried to digitize a downscaled signal from the deck into Media 100. I got the same message as you. I finally abandoned this route and transferred the downscale to my DSR 20 deck and then digitized from that to Media 100, no problem.
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I know I’m stupid but what is Cleaner meant to do?
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I was wondering where Bogeisan had gone to these last few years – defected evidently. See what a mistake you made, Media 100 resurrected, great new updates, great new owner, happy little editors! Get back to the resevoir and rescue your system.