[Andrew Mehta]

Basically,
plug in your second screen, and everything should work.

If you need to change settings to get the second monitor showing what you want, then it’s
Apple Icon -> System Preferences… -> Displays -> Arrangement

…where you can choose to mirror, or not mirror, which screen gets the menu bar on it, and whether the second screen should be to the right, left, top, or bottom, of the existing screen, etc.

When you launch Media 100, you can click and drag all the various windows to where ever you want them, including dragging the monitor window to the second screen.

[Andrew Mehta]

I believe Floh does still check here, =).
Although Rich recently said he was busy with a production right now.
I’m sure he’ll be posting more regularly again soon,
and yes – he is awesome, =D.

[Andrew Mehta]

Hi Chris!

If you’re just using two screens with OSX, you don’t need to touch any Media 100 settings. It’s all in the Display preferences of System Preferences (the cog in the dock).

As soon as you plug in your second screen via DVI, Mac OSX will detect it, and show the OS on both screens. Then in display preferences, you can set whether the extra screen is there to give you more room, or simply show the same as on your first screen. If it’s setup to give you more room, you can easily drag any application window from one screen to the other with the mouse – including Media 100’s Monitor window.

Alternatively, you can get video cards that work with Media 100 and output the video you’re editing to a HDMI cable, which you could plug into any monitor with a HDMI socket on the back, to see the video full screen – the same as if you got some sort of converter box to take the video output from your HDe and convert it to HDMI.

[Andrew Mehta]

Still haven’t installed El Capitan yet.

Chris Pettit has, and is encountering an error that won’t let him start:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206367854853442

[Andrew Mehta]

Rich from MacVideoPromo just posted some information in a Facebook comment:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Media100Suite/permalink/1161882880507880/?comment_id=1161996073829894

To try and paraphrase, it sounds like…
…it’s expected to work,
although 2.1.6 on OSX 10.11 should be considered a beta until Boris officially approve it.
Any bugs users find should be reported on these Creative Cow forums, or on the Facebook group,
and when Boris have got enough positive feedback, they’ll remove the unsupported OS warning.

Personally, I’ve downloaded the “Install OS X El Capitan.app” update from the App Store, which stores itself in the applications folder. Rather than proceed on my current system, I’ve copied the app over to another folder, and will attempt to use it to put El Capitan on an external hard drive shortly. Once I’ve got a bootable external hard drive with El Capitan on it, I’ll boot into it, try running Media 100 2.1.6 on it, and report back.

Some of you probably already have El Capitan up and running since it came out on the 30th Sept. Would be interested to hear how others are getting on with it, and Media 100…

[Andrew Mehta]

Haven’t got a version of El Capitan installed yet, to test it with.

Downloading a copy now…

[Andrew Mehta]

Am not running any El Capitan preview,
but I just changed my SystemVersion.plist file to dupe my system into thinking it was OSX 10.11

It seems this time, Boris have removed the block that stops you running Media100 if it’s an unsupported system. Instead, it tells you it’s an unsupported OS. You may proceed, but at your own risk…
Here’s a screen grab:

Minor updates are usually free, so here’s hoping they’ll check Media 100 running on El Capitan, and release a minor update if there are any bug fixes.

Thankfully though, there’s nothing to stop 2.1.6 running on El Capitan, even if by the looks of it, El Capitan is not considered a supported OS right this moment.

[Andrew Mehta]

Actually, in my experiment, it was unticking the “Import Media to the Media Standard and Codec” tickbox that got rid of the green background.

Indeed, I’ve just tried it a second time, using the Media 100 HD codec instead of the ProRes codec, and am able to get a black background instead of green.

Try importing one of the files again, with that option unticked…and see how it goes.

[Andrew Mehta]

Sorry for late response.

Just shot an 11 seconds vertical/portrait 720p video using a fourth generation iPod Touch, and transferred it to my Mac using iPhoto, and I’ve ended up with a h.264 1280×720 *.mov video with mono 44.100kHz audio.
Quicktime Player 7 reports a 26.81 FPS.

Imported it into Media 100.
A new project, and new program.
The project was set to use Apple ProRes 422 as the codec.
The program was set to 720p 25fps.
File->Import->Files…
Then the options I had were:
Media100/Quicktime
25 fps
Video 16-235.
Convert to 48000Hz
Honor file’s aspect ratio [ticked].
Media Standard: 720p 25
Scale Image: Retain Size.

…and it comes in/imports with black pillars either side.
It is however, squashed / the wrong size.
Looks like it mistook it for 4:3 when creating the black borders.

After that, I created a composition clip, Edited it / launched RED, and imported the file in Red, then used the transform / scale tools, to bring it into the height range of 720p, and then saved, and clicked “apply” in the edit suite window. This gave me a black background with the correct video size/ratio also.

After that, I tried the exact same import settings in Media 100 again, but put a tick in the box:”Import Media to the Media Standard and Codec” – suddenly I had green pillars either side!

Running Media 100 2.1.6 on Mavericks 10.9.5.

What type of file, and what settings did you use?

Btw, this is a quick experiment – just killing time with the laptop while I wait for a coach back home. I’m not sure if I selected the best FPS to match the file’s original, nor whether the colour range should have been 0-255.

Also, I ought to play around with the import settings to see if I can import it at the correct ratio… atm, only using Boris Red gave me the correct portrait phone ratio/size.

Will experiment more when I get home.

Yours,
Andrew.

[Andrew Mehta]

This is a quick response off the top of my head: A work around is to use a composition clip the same length, and then import the footage in Boris Red [Boris Red will launch when you double click the composition clip], and if there’s a green background there, you’ll be able to change its colour, or if the green pillars are part of the actual video, you can crop those sides off.

I’ve got some vertical cellphone footage kicking about too…so when I get a moment later this afternoon, I’ll try importing it, and have a fiddle around, and see if there’s an easier way than using Boris Red.