[Andrew Mehta]

If it is just a Break-out-box problem, you can get new ones cheap enough on ebay (I’ve seen ’em for around £10).

Regarding needing new software keys for second hand cards you buy, if the seller doesn’t give you one, you should be able to get M100 to email you one. When I bought my P6000 off of ebay, to replace a faulty Vincent 601, M100 sent me a key for it, free of charge. =) Of course, that was back in the Optibase days, but I don’t think it would be unreasonable to ask if you ever need to. ^_^

[Andrew Mehta]

So for now, a Z1 and Media 100 Producer is probably still the way to go?

I’m not too bothered at the moment really though – it’ll still be a fair few months before I’ll have the cash for any major upgrades.
But I might lookup SxS online, as I hadn’t heard of that till now…

[Andrew Mehta]

Sorry – am new to HD workflow.
I guess I want it mainly for kudos…plus both PS3 and X360 give HD output.
To be honest though, the avenues for publishing would be the internet, or DVD.
But even on the internet after compression, the HD resolution is expected in some instances, and I think a bit of willy-waving goes on regarding who is capable of what.

That said, will be interesting to see how deeply Blu-ray penetrates the home market over the next few years.

And I guess if I ever did work with someone who required HDV out on MiniDV, I could just export from M100 to another programme that does output to HDV?
Again, ‘cos I’m new to HDV, I ought to ask my friends at White Night Films who use predominantly FCP and Z1 cameras, how their workflow works, and what formats their clients request media output to.

For now, I’m still working in SD.

Btw – have moved to Central London now, if anyone wants to meet up. ^_^

Yours,
Andrew,
P.S. – I also posted on HD Workflow a while ago – wondering, upgrading to HDe or Producer aside, what camera is it best to go for when working with HD and Media100? Your criticism of HDV makes me wonder if Z1 would be the way to go or not. What other choices are there for a similar budget? Would a P2 camera be better?

[Andrew Mehta]

Whilst I understand HDV is a dodgy compression thingie, I’ve been used to mastering to tape at the end of an edit – usually via Firewire to MiniDV.

It’s a shame someone could hand me footage shot using HDV on MiniDV tapes, and after my edit, I wouldn’t be able to hand an edited version back to them on a HDV MiniDV tape. =P

Are you able to use Firewire to monitor whilst editing at all?
I.e. if you just had Producer on a laptop, without a breakout box? =P

Overall, I understand why it’s how it is, or accept the reasons given, but wonder if, even if you edit in a non-HDV codec, whether output back to a HDV camera or deck via Firewire afterwards, is gonna be something M100 will look to introduce?

And if not, what would be the best method to get a HDV MiniDv tape of a final project?

[Andrew Mehta]

This landed in my inbox:
“Media 100 Version 12.5 Now Available, New HDV Support”…

…I rushed to these boards, to tell you all I was falling in love…

..then I read Bobby’s “no HDV on any laptops, yet,”, and decided it best not to rush into romance straight away…

😉

Not that I’ve got any hardware to run it on yet, of course, but getting there.

Am now Sub-Editor at GameSpot UK, as of this week, which is kinda cool. But it’s just a 3 month contract at the moment.

[Andrew Mehta]

I’m oldskool myself, and encode everything WMP7…at the settings I have [300kb @ 288×216, 500k @ 400×300, 1mb @ 640×480] I’ve not noticed much difference between encoding WMP7 with Discreet Cleaner in OSX Panther, and encoding WMP9 with Flip4Mac in OSX Tiger…except, on a humble G4, WMP7 encodes are a lot faster than both WMP9 and Flash Encoding.
If I had a faster computer, I’d probably encode everything in Flash, as it’s the most universally acceptable, and now the standard for online video, following its use in YouTube, MySpace.tv and others, etc. But I find WMP7 easier to encode and host.

Btw- you can use Cleaner in OSX Tiger too, but it crashes after the first encode. So any batch encoding of more than one clip, I usually boot into OSX Panther, from an external hard drive and encode there, where I don’t get any errors.

Yours,
Andrew “Very old skool” Mehta.
^_^ Will upgrade when I get cash. 😉

[Andrew Mehta]

I’m guessing it’s the one under the 12+ catagory here:

https://www.media100.com/support/downloads.php#null

Although I haven’t tried it myself yet….

[Andrew Mehta]

The Intel codecs were watermarked with the Producer trial version before. A nice big Media 100 logo in files decoded with them…

Well what a lovely gesture, then. ^_^
(i.e. making the codec free and un-water-marked)

Makes it feel like Christmas. =)

I also just got a new flat in London, and a new job, so hopefully won’t be so broke from now on.

Merriment all round. ^_^

In fact…

…I might just nip downstairs…

….for a quick go on Christmas NiGHTS. =)

[Andrew Mehta]

=P Tsk.
And there was me, going to ask for a swap. ^_^

[Andrew Mehta]

Good to hear more good M100 news. ^_^
This forum is higher up on the Cow homepage too now isn’t it?
Sandwiched between Premiere and Final Cut….;-) You must be proud.

Although technically…didn’t the codecs come free with the Producer Trial before? I guess now the trial comes free with the codecs, huh? 😉
Just teasin’ ya’…

As soon as I get a new Mac, I’ll probably upgrade. Atm, my old G4s with 512mb RAM won’t let Producer install/run. =P Parp.

^_^ Went round my mate’s the other day…he’s got a Intel Mac Pro running Pro Tools HD 7.4…^_^ =O *slobber*