[Arthur Dent]

HolyCowSeattle,

Are you using and AJA based Media100, or the older Optibase HDx hardware?

I do not believe the older optibase hardware supports the new frame size (720), progressive frames nor andy 24fps frame rate…

HTH
A.D.

[Arthur Dent]

I’d blame optibase for that, at least not Media 100 in it’s current form…

Producer will allow you Standarad Def DV based editing via FW in/out, and WILL work on your G5 (with 2GB RAM), but will not work with the p6000 HW.

Media 100 does offer a customer order PCI-X version of the AJA based product line… I know this isn’t what you want to hear, but at least you can get into the current software with, say, the AJA LS (Standard Def) HW and still use your existing G5… Give M100 a call or send them an email to find out if that’s an option for you.

HTH
A.D.

[Arthur Dent]

BTW – I don’t want to jinx you, but NON-Lossless boards did not always work in a G5 Expansion chassis configurations . . . the bad video frame errors are very likely the result of using a non-lossless board in the magma chassis… BUT even if you had a lossless board, you can’t use lossless in the chassis…

A.D.

[Arthur Dent]

HMM… What version of Producer are you using? I do recall a bug in v11.5 where a real-time draft mode setting would reset back to draft mode any time you opened the media destinations preference, that got fixed in 11.5.1 tho…

A.D.

[Arthur Dent]

AH! I’ve seen this before – I’ll bet you’ve rendered to the animation codec using the default settings. You need to specify using an ‘i’ or keyframe (I forget the exact terminology) frame every ‘1’ frame, I think the default for animation codec is every 10 to 15 frames.

I also believe if you force render the graphic in m100, that issue will go away.

HTH
A.D.

[Arthur Dent]

The boris upgrade isn’t that bad… check out their webstore:

https://artel-software.stores.yahoo.net/borisred.html

Looks like the RED upgrade is $295 USD (You will NOT also need graffiti).

you can also download a trial version from Boris first to make sure it works in your config before you buy:

https://www.borisfx.com/product/red/

HTH
A.D.

[Arthur Dent]

I serously doubt that RED 2.5 was ever tested in m100 8.2.3 or on OS 10.4 with QT 7.x which I assume your using if you’re running m100 8.2.3.

Looks like you have some seriously mis-match versions of software here.

with 8.2.3 you should be at graffiti 4 and RED 3 (though RED 4 works, I don’t know about Graffiti 5).

Time for some Boris upgrades at least… But at the same time, you should give some thought into moving to some newer version of M100 as well – sooooo much faster and more flexible, but that’s just my $.02…

A.D.

[Arthur Dent]

You can buy training DVDs for Boris RED – RED includes the capablities of FX and Graffiti and adds more 3d capablities too.

The UI, Keyframing and fundamentals apply across FX, Graffiti and RED – so a training DVD for RED may still be useful even if it’s for RED.

https://artel-software.stores.yahoo.net/trma.html

HTH
A.D.

[Arthur Dent]

EEessh… that is the most enimic feature in media 100 – Use Boris for that, MUCH more control, better support for oversized images – and settings for motion blur which you won’t get in in MO…

A.D.

[Arthur Dent]

Truth be told, I’ve never been overly impressed with the quality of the conversion via sotware in media 100 – it uses the same scalers as in quick time which is not great.

Couple of suggestions :

Master your HD timeline via HW to SD using the board to do the down convert (and aspect ratio converstion) – this is the fastest and best quality

OR

Use a tool like RED (engine) or AE and to do the scale/conversion – not real time by any stretch, but most likely better quality than the m100 software conform.

HTH
A.D.