[Andrew Mehta]

You probably all saw this… but….

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Media100Suite/permalink/967092923320211/
(Floh reveals he spoke to Boris on Wednesday)

[Andrew Mehta]

I must have been blind!

An email addy for Boris himself is right at the bottom of this web page, =):

https://www.borisfx.com/Customer-Promise.php

[Andrew Mehta]

Just sharing two further videos.

The first is a quicker way to change SystemVersion.plist … allowing you to run Media 100 and your Yosemite apps side by side.
[Maybe make a backup of SystemVersion.plist before doing any changes though]:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152394100812015

Post by Andrew Mehta.

The second is a video showing that the latest update 10.10.1 appears to take away the blue outline around clips when drag and dropping. Unless it’s just an OS setting I’ve got wrong somewhere, =P:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152393632342015

Post by Andrew Mehta.

[Andrew Mehta]

I made a video of the problem, the same night I was posting to this forum:

Post by Andrew Mehta.

[Andrew Mehta]

I’ve had success exporting a byref movie from Media100, opening it up in Quicktime Player 7, and then exporting via File->Export and entering similar Quicktime Movie Options to what I originally set in Media100.

My guess is, somewhere in the move away from Quicktime to AVFoundation and/or the move from 32-bit to 64-bit, the options in Media100 to crop a Quicktime file on export, are just plain ignored.

What’s interesting, is that you can still put a Quicktime component in the Macintosh HD->Library->Components folder, and you’ll be able to use it in the Media 100 Export file dialogue box.
I just chucked in XiphQT.component and now I can export to Theora and Ogg from within Media100. Only catch is, the components don’t let you chose a crop size. >_<.
The components do show up as codecs in the Quicktime Movie options also, if I want to choose them from there. But these are the same Quicktime options whose size and crop settings weren’t working earlier, =S, and a change in codec doesn’t make a difference.
So what can we do?

Export by ref,
open the ref file in Quicktime Player 7,
and go to File->Export, and set the crop settings there.

It’s not really “in” Media100, but at least with a byref file, you’re not rendering/converting twice.

Quicktime X wouldn’t open the byref file when I tried.

[Andrew Mehta]

Have tried this myself now.

I saw the option to preserve aspect ratio using crop,
but it still squashes the image.

It’s as though Media100 is trying to squash it to the resolution before Quicktime gets a chance to crop it.

[Andrew Mehta]

Oh! I’ve seen your video now, and realise a composition clip wouuldn’t work, since you’d be constricted by the timeline’s resolution. You’re looking for a crop, not just letter boxing. Sorry!

[Andrew Mehta]

I recently had a stretching issue on importing footage from an iPod that was taken with the wrong orientation [tall-screen instead of wide-screen]. I solved it, by doing a composition clip and importing the footage into the Boris Red composition, getting it as I wanted it, saving and rendering.

I only have a Media100 demo running on an external Yosemite hard drive I only sometimes boot into, so I’ll have to wait until I next boot it up, to have a play about and see what else I can find that might help you do what you want.

[Andrew Mehta]

Good to hear there’s another way to do it, as the way I did it renders other Yosemite Apps unusable (Quicktime Player won’t start, for example).

I’ve been out of video editing for a while, and don’t have much equipment. I’ll probably attempt an edit at some point within my 14 day trial period, but will be using Standard Def video from a MiniDV camera. I’ll report back on how smoothly it goes if it helps.

I did have some problems opening an old project, but I put it down to not having all the media present (it did the usual search for media, and claimed a few files were missing – it still opened the project, program, and bins okay though). I’ll try again shortly with a project I know I have all the media for, and see if that’s any more successful.

[Andrew Mehta]

Again, an awesome tutorial Floh, =).

Hope you don’t mind. I went ahead and shared it on the Facebook Group.

I also didn’t know the exact definition of the word “vignette” so gave it a google, and came across this on the Boris FX website, which shows the 3 Way Colour filter being used as Floh describes, =):
https://www.borisfx.com/videos/BCCAE/Cinematic-Look.php