Arthur Dent
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Hi Steve,
Seems like a no-brainer to me – but to make you choice a little easier, the new Media 100 systems actually use hardware from AJA which may also run FCP, so you can have your cake and eat it too.
Frankly the new media 100 systems are getting better – they are MUCH faster because the computer does the rendering now, not the p6000 board – they support video layers finally – and now that Media 100 is part of Boris FX they are much more responsive to user feed back. I believe P2 support was added at user request, going into NAB ’06 it wasn’t very high on the M100 to-do list, so things will only get better with the new media 100 products.
My $.02
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The ifinish Transcoder is here:
https://www.support.media100.com/KBSearch/kbDocument.aspx?id=201
As flow mentioned, the iFinish transcoder will allow a PC with quicktime 6.5.1 or older READ media 100 media files. Quick Time 7+ broke the transcoder, I doubt media 100 has plans to fix that on the PC as Media 100 no longer offers any type of PC Product.
If the PC you are sending this to has QT 7 or later, you must export out of Media 100 to an ‘intermediary’ codec, such as the Animation codec (great quality, reasonable file sizes).
to do this, Export from edit suite as you have been, instead of self containted, choose ‘other’ and click options, in the codec drop down find the animation codec, move the quality slider to best (if there is one, i don’t recall and i’m not in front of my system) then click export. Exporting from Media 100 will take longer this way, but it should work on your other computer just fine.
HTH
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You can download the media 100 tutorial here:
https://www.support.media100.com/KBSearch/kbDocument.aspx?id=341
it’s for a slightly older version, by the basics will apply across the product line.
~A.D.
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If you’re doing SD work, you can also pull the bars and tone of an old media 100 i installer you might have laying around.
~A.D.
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How are you moving them? Via Network or via ‘sneaker-net’?
I suspect the ‘resource’ info is being stripped in the move. Floh’s suggestion to ‘stuff’ the files will ‘protect’ the resource info durring the move.
If you’re using a firewire drive, was it formated under OS 9, OS X or under Windoze? Try reformatting the drive (backing up essential data first) under OS X.
~A.D.
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Hey Jim,
How about a little more detail on your system configurations? (i.e. Machine, OS version, QT version, Other app installed).
I think if the problems you’re seeing were more wid-spread, we’d be seeing more posts here… So let see if we Cow people can help you solve your problems.
Are you capturing in Media 100 i or Producer? If your capturing in Producer, what Codec are you capturing into?
When you export from Producer, how are you doing this (i.e., reference, self contained, other, if other, what codec?)
I assume you’re going to ethernet/sneaker-net the exported files over to your Media 100 i machine? If how are you accomplishing this? What version of m100 i are you running?
~A.D.
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Chris,
The DV output on P6000 hardware is only active when in Capture or Master mode. It’s not like the output on your JB and constantly spitting out a signal, so you really cannot expect to get a video out via M100 Firewire while simply editing, only when mastering.
Hope this helps.
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No, Media 100 i will not work in a Mac Pro… The P6000 hardware physically will not fit, and the application will not work on an Intel Mac.
Media 100 has announced planned support for Mac Pro with their NEW AJA based systems for Jan/Feb of 2007.
Media 100 Producer might work on an intel machine under rosetta, but I haven’t heard for sure from any one doing this yet…
~A.D.
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I’ve only ever used a Cow converter with m100 HDx hardware.
A colleague of mine tried AJA’s converter with M100 HDx and it does NOT work. It seems like it’d be a great solution, but media 100 hdx and the AJA audio A/D/A converter do NOT work together.
~A.D.
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“How’s the towel? ”
Couldn’t tell ya, I’ve long since retired from Hitchhiking.
~A.D.