[Andrew Mehta]

Am not always right about this stuff, as I’m not as experienced as some Media100 editors, but it could be that somehow, the effects aren’t letting the video be seen beneath, hence rendering over black instead of rendering over the video footage.

Some others had a similar problem in this thread from last year:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/4/857919?univpostid=857912&pview=t

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/4/857919?univpostid=857912&pview=t

[Andrew Mehta]

Media100i 7.5

File>>Import>>[Scale Image Box] *Fit to Video, or *Retain size – one of those should make the difference. Either fitting it to 16:9 if that’s what your hardware settings are, or else retaining 16:9 if that’s what it was exported as.
Try both, get lucky.

As Floh has been saying, it’s all about the settings in the import window when you import the clip into M100.

[Andrew Mehta]

I wanted to enter this, but the most impressive thing I did recently I did 80% in Boris, 10% in After Effects, and 10% Quicktime transition in Media100.

I’m assuming the effect would need to be 100% done in Boris to qualify…?

[Andrew Mehta]

Lucky me, with version 7.5

Hope by the time I upgrade, they will have sorted this stuff out.

[Andrew Mehta]

Couple of points I missed:

The LE versions I don’t think used the DV option. You’d need to upgrade to XS or XR.

Try testing with different wires and different TVs or VCRs, before forking out for a new BOB.
And try all the different hardware settings, just to be sure.

Bruce hasn’t updated his website for a year. =P

[Andrew Mehta]

Depends what board you’ve got, and then if you have a DV daughterboard plugged into it.

I used to have a Media100 Vincent card.
DV was greyed out.
Then I went on ebay and bought a Media100 P6000, which had an extension slot for a DV Option to be added,
so I went on ebay again and bought a Sony DVB1 or whatever its called, and plugged it into the P6000. Emailed Media100 for a correct license key to get my Media100 to work with the P6000[license key I had before was for the Vincent], and hey presto, DV suddenly not greyed out, but alive and working.

But, look, this doesn’t really solve your problem.
Try testing your system with a different break out box. They crop up on ebay for around

[Andrew Mehta]

Don’t want to patronise, but are the hardware settings correct? Edit>>Preferences>>Hardware.
Not trying to play NTSC on a PAL monitor or vice versa are you?
Is the resolution correct?

I’m not too much of a pro user, still on version 7.5, so dunno what else to suggest, aside from testing it with different TVs, checking the wires and connections, or perhaps it being a faulty junction box (am assuming it plays back okay in the monitor window on your mac).

[Andrew Mehta]

Yeah, I’ve used boris fx to do it.
Change the face of the media track to 16:9 aspect, and then scale the thing to 70% to fit it on 4:3.

Tricky thing is getting the footage in.
I usually export by ref,
then create a composition clip in m100, double click it, import the by ref file, change the media face to 16:9, and change the X/Y Scale under position, to 70% or %75, depending how it looks, then quit and save settings. Then stretch the composition clip to the full length of the imported clip…or just type in the length and hit enter, and then hit render. (If you give the Comp Clip a name before rendering, you can then search for the name of that file in your media folder, and import that back into your M100 bin as a legitimate green clip, that won’t accidently get unrendered later.)
Then you can export your newly rendered clip as your letter box file, or just play it as a letter box in the timeline/whatever.

Bear in mind, even if your original anamorphic 16:9 was exporting as a squashed 4:3, it would play back as true 16:9 on a 16:9 monitor.

[Andrew Mehta]

=P There’s only four weeks left till the end of Q1 2007, and the beginning of Q2…is it really coming as soon as March?
I had resigned myself to thinking it’d be Q2 now…
….not that I can afford an Intel Mac eitherway atm, but would love to upgrade in full later in the year if I get the funds together.

[Andrew Mehta]

Wow! O_O…hidden menu items. (What is this? Microsoft Word? Lol)

^_^ But it works, so thanks. =)