[Andrew Mehta]

My mistake – exporting straight out of flash to an ai 6 file does work.
Latest CS3 illustrator file doesn’t, but anything version 8 or below seems fine, =).

[Andrew Mehta]

Big thanks, =D.
Exported as Illustrator 6 image (ai) out of Flash – this still showed up blank, but once opened in Illustrator and then saved as an illustrator file (ai, again) it worked fine, =D, and I now have my 3D extrusion, yay! =).

[Andrew Mehta]

Thought the thread could do with a more positive sounding subject/title, ;-).

[Andrew Mehta]

Here’s my old shortcut Quick Reference from version 7.5
Years old, but I believe most of them still work:
https://www.unitedgames.co.uk/files/media100quickreference.pdf

[Andrew Mehta]

Ahh, yeah…just got Media 100 Suite, but haven’t used it yet, so haven’t actually done any video work since the “olden days”, lol. ^_^

And sorry for being slow to spot Paul was tankboy…he was using an old system a while back too, so it’s great to hear he’s now getting stuck into HD and ProRes codecs, etc.

Don’t you have any tips to offer him David? ^_^

Maybe if it’s going from ProRes to a WMV, you can ask around some of the other forums on here too, …I think there’s a Compression Techniques forum for instance.

[Andrew Mehta]

I used to make WMVs on my old setup. But it was just SD footage, and I mean an “old” setup. I exported a quicktime movie, either self contained or by ref, out of Media100i v7.5 [OS9…eek!], then booted into OSX, and ran a copy of Cleaner 6.0.1 which I found worked best for batch processing in OSX Panther [again, old…], but also works well for single files in OSX Tiger, where I typically produced small, medium, and large wmvs, using the following settings:

[Note – source was 720×576 PAL SD, 25fps, Media100i codec]

Small:
Crop: Manual
4:3
288×216
Deinterlace(odd/eliminate top field/adaptive)
Adaptive Noise Reduce (Mild)
Gamma: 30
Video Quality: Best Image Quality,
Compression Buffer Window: 3.00 seconds
Encode: Windows Media Video 7, 25fps, Keyframe every 250, 307.2Kbits/s
Audio: 32.0 Kbits/s, 16-bit Stereo Samples at 32.000 Khz, adjust volume to 100%

Medium:
Crop: Manual
4:3
400×300
Deinterlace(odd/eliminate top field/adaptive)
Adaptive Noise Reduce (Mild)
Gamma: 30
Video Quality: Best Image Quality,
Compression Buffer Window: 3.00 seconds
Encode: Windows Media Video 7, 25fps, Keyframe every 250, 512Kbits/s
Audio: 32.0 Kbits/s, 16-bit Stereo Samples at 32.000 Khz, adjust volume to 100%

Large:
Crop: Manual
4:3
640×480
Deinterlace(odd/eliminate top field/adaptive)
Adaptive Noise Reduce (Mild)
Gamma: 30
Video Quality: Best Image Quality,
Compression Buffer Window: 3.00 seconds
Encode: Windows Media Video 7, 25fps, Keyframe every 250, 1.0Mbits/s
Audio: 32.0 Kbits/s, 16-bit Stereo Samples at 32.000 Khz, adjust volume to 100%

When I downloaded Flip4Mac, I did briefly try that instead…I can’t remember how it went, all I can recall was that I had an ancient G4 running at 450Mhz, and Windows Video 7 was a lot quicker to encode on it than either Windows Video 9/Flip4Mac or Flash Encoding, so I kept to 7. =P

Given the old technology, the above is probably not that useful.
But generally, I didn’t do anything by the book, it was just feeling my way, and doing trial and error.

Likewise, sounds like you know your rough workflow. Might be wise to just do a few short clips a few seconds long, to try out different settings on, and see which are best.

Again, you sound like you’ve already done SD yourself, and were looking for HD specific tips and tricks, etc. Hopefully someone else will chime in then, and share their wmv HD encoding settings. =P

[Andrew Mehta]

Erm, am I missing where on the website this is?

[Andrew Mehta]

I think getting it back into the Universities would help raise awareness.
[Uni of Westmin switched over to FCP one year before I left – I was the last year to learn/use Media100, subsequent years learnt/used FCP instead – I should point out I was a journalism student, not video].

Only trouble is, since Avid and FCP are more widely used, students arguably need to know them moreso. That said, Media100 is a professional piece of kit.

[Andrew Mehta]

=D!!!!!

*gasp!* =D

[Andrew Mehta]

Don’t you have any projects on the go right now? I was always led to understand that you should ‘clear the decks’ before installing a new version, is that still true anyone?

Professionally speaking, you’re right.
^_^ But I’m not exactly in the middle of any video projects at the moment, and have nothing better to do with my time than eagerly anticipate the release of V14. =)