[Derek Bruce]

Hi Floh,

Thanks for your response. My set up is very straight forward (out of SDI2 of Media100 to SDI ‘in’ on the deck)- most of my work is DVCAM using a Sony DSR1500AP with the SDI option fitted. I have in the past gone through internal menu’s on the decks and tried various settings with no success. I have also tried various options within Media100HD as suggested by my Media100 reseller without any success. My reseller actually has an identical deck to mine and have claimed that on some of their other clients Media100HD systems it masters correctly every time! I know that some of their Media100 customers also have the same problem as me as well as many users on the cow. I could be wrong but I can’t imagine it is a deck issue as other users using everything from DVCAM, DVCPRO, DigiBeta etc are all having this issue with their mastering. I am sure most of us have a lot of experience handling and setting up decks, and its not something I have experienced before in other edit suites. My guess is that its a Media100HD software/hardware board issue, maybe only on some boards??? I am out of my depth here, so far I have worked around the problem like everyone else with the timeline adjustment – although this is not ideal so far it works, so as long V11 solves this then I am happy. If you have any ideas Floh please let me know – if there are particular deck/Media100 settings you think I should try then I’ll give it a go. Well done for answering all our questions! Regards,

Derek Bruce
25th Frame Productions

Media100 HD v10.1.4
Dual 2.7 GHz Mac
6 Gig RAM
OS 10.4.5
Quicktime 7.0.4

[Derek Bruce]

Hello all,

I have had the same problem ever since I have owned Media100 HD. Have tried everything I can think of in the past – different decks, Media100 settings, Mac OS’s, different Mac’s, different Media100 HD boards – even my Media100 reseller spent some time with my Mac and after changing boards, macs, OS’s, decks they still couldn’t solve the problem. Everytime I master (mostly SD using 10bit HD setting) Media100 HD always masters 1 frame late on the tape (have obviously tried mastering using other compression settings as well). Spent a lot of time and money trying to solve this problem and it is still my biggest problem with Media100 HD (originally Media100 never acknowledged that there was a problem!). I remember using the early Media100 suites many years ago on Macs that had the same performance as today’s Palm’s! – they had their issues but never such a basic mastering problem. So far I have continued mastering by changing the Media100 timelines by a frame to get the correct timecode mastered on the tapes. My biggest fear with this is coming back to an edit in the future with a new timeline and trying to insert edit onto an old master – the risks of inserting a frame wrong are very high!

Hopefully the next generation (or update for the current board???) of Media100HD will solve this – and also the colour problem when exporting stills frames the timeline, and also the rendering problem when trying to render Boris title fx tracks manipulating video on the timeline – renders black! (I’m sure there are more issues I can’t think of at the moment!) I don’t want to put down Media100 because I am a ‘born and raised’ Media100 editor and I love the interface and don’t want to have to go down the Final Cut route. These issues though are fundamental to any form of editing and need to be resolved.
Regards,

Derek Bruce
25th Frame Productions

Media100 HD v10.1.4
Dual 2.7 GHz Mac
6 Gig RAM
OS 10.4.5
Quicktime 7.0.4

[Derek Bruce]

Easiest way is in the Media100 timeline using Boris title track. Create new text title, drop-down following: Text / Face / Text / Transformations / Generator, under ‘Generator Type1’ choose ‘Timecode’ – you should now see a 00:00:00:00 timecode on screen that will run frame acurate to whatever length track you create, and you can scale it etc as any other graphic (be sure to go to ‘Generator’ in the Controls window and select your timecode type: Drop Frame/PAL/NTSC – been caught out before!). Of course you still need to render it – its not perfect! I have seen this ‘burning timecode’ question many times – I wonder if a ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ section could be compiled in the COW – I am sure we would all benefit! Regards,

Derek

25th Frame Productions

[Derek Bruce]

Have been experiencing the same problems. In Media100 v8 you could export video clips from the timeline at any resolution (offline/online, by reference/self contained) and import them into Boris Red to create your multiscreen sequences, etc. In Media100HD you have to export using the options setting and choose ’10bit uncompressed’ to see the video files in Boris Red – can’t even see the clips when using the ‘Media100 HD’ export option! I am working offline at 60kb and this is the only way I can export clips and see/render them in Boris – obviously this means more time needed to export the clips if you are working offline and creates much larger file sizes. With any luck this will be looked at soon!

Derek

Derek Bruce
25th Frame Productions
Dual G5/Media 100HD (Boris Red 3.04)